Difference between revisions of "Short bow"

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The short bow is a very light, single-shot ranged weapon in RimWorld which deals a moderate amount of damage per shot; slightly longer time between shots; slightly shorter range and moderate accuracy.

Overview

The short bow is a low-tier neolithic weapon, and also the easiest ranged weapon to acquire in the game thanks to its extremely low resource requirement, lack of a requirement for proper facilities and a complete lack of research requirements. With scenarios such as naked brutality, a short bow is essential to earlygame survival as a safe means of hunting and basic defense against hostile wildlife and raiders. Curiously, short bows also have a slightly higher armor penetration rating than the much more powerful greatbow.

However, shortbows are also the only neolithic ranged weapons that can't stagger humans, which puts them at a disadvantage against melee units. The short bow also has the 3rd lowest damage output out of all ranged weapons in the game, only beating the pila and incendiary launcher - the latter being a support weapon rather than straight-up aggro. Other weaknesses include low accuracy for a neolithic weapon, as well as a rather slow projectile velocity. Naturally, a short bow will be significantly overshadowed in terms of combat performance by even the most basic of firearms such as autopistols and revolvers, with two short bows being required to match a single one of the aforementioned firearms.

The short bow is best-suited for close-quarters engagements overall since it's most accurate up to short ranges, and because of its sub-par projectile velocity. It's also a somewhat viable hunting weapon for smaller and lower-risk game.

Against an unarmored human, a short bow can kill with 4 hits to the torso or 1 hit to the brain; cripple or destroy limbs in 3 hits; and cripple or destroy eyes and digits with a single hit. It'll generally take around 6 hits (~27.8 seconds average) to incapacitate that human from pain shock.

Overall, the short bow is best paired with a careful shooter until level 9, and with a trigger-happy shooter beyond that point.

Melee Combat

Tool	Attack	Damage Type	Power	Cooldown	Likelihood	Base DPS
Overall	-	-	9	2.00s	-	4.50
Limb	Blunt	Blunt	9	2.00s	50.00%	4.50
Limb	Poke	Blunt	9	2.00s	50.00%	4.50

Obtaining

Short bows can be purchased from neolithic war merchants and orbital combat suppliers, tribal and outlander settlements, or obtained from the following raider kinds:

Raider Kind	Chance	Average Quality	Health
Archer	92.27%	Poor	50-180%

Short bows can also be manufactured at any smithy or a crafting spot with no research required; from 30 wood and 2,400 ticks (40 secs) of work. A crafting skill of at least 2 is required.

You also start with two short bows with the lost tribe scenario, along with some pila, a wooden club, a steel ikwa and a jade knife (main article).

Graphs

The graphs assume a normal quality short bow against an adult human that's out in the open in clear weather. For DPS, projectile speed has also been factored into the equation, with the weighting based on the base amount of attacks that it'll take to put the aforementioned target into pain shock.

Weapons

Melee | Neolithic: Breach axe • Club • Ikwa • Knife (Jade) • Spear

Medieval: Gladius • Longsword • Mace • Axe • Warhammer

Ultra: Eltex staff • Monosword (Persona) • Plasmasword (Persona) • Zeushammer (Persona)

Improvised: Beer • Elephant tusk • Thrumbo horn • Wood

Ranged | Neolithic: Greatbow • Pila • Recurve bow • Short bow • Flamebow

Medieval: Nerve spiker

Industrial: Assault rifle • Autopistol • Bolt-action rifle • Chain shotgun • Heavy SMG • Launcher (EMP, Incendiary, Smoke, Toxbomb ) • LMG • Machine pistol • Minigun • Pump shotgun • Revolver • Sniper rifle • Hellcat rifle • Incinerator

Spacer: Charge lance • Charge rifle

Consumables: Doomsday rocket launcher • Triple rocket launcher

Throwables: EMP grenades • Frag grenades • Molotov cocktails • Tox grenades

Mechanoid: Heavy charge blaster • Inferno cannon • Needle gun • Thump cannon • Beam graser • Charge blaster turret • Hellsphere cannon • Mini-flameblaster • Mini-shotgun • Slugthrower • Spiner • Toxic needle gun

Structures: Autocannon • Mini-turret gun • Mortar (Weapon) • Uranium slug cannon • Auto-mortar • Inferno cannon (Turret) • Light charge blaster • Mini-slugger • Tactical turret gun

Related | Body part weapons: Prosthetic arm • Bionic arm • Archotech arm • Power claw • Field hand • Drill arm • Venom talon • Venom fangs • Knee spike • Elbow blade • Hand talon • Flesh whip

Integrated weapons: Grenadier armor • Phoenix armor

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+|armorPenetration = 16
-|accuracyTouch = 89
+|range = 22.9
-|accuracyShort = 64
+|accuracyTouch = 75
-|accuracyMedium = 41
+|accuracyShort = 65
-|accuracyLong = 22
+|accuracyMedium = 45
+|accuracyLong = 25
 |mode = Single-Shot
 |warmup = 81
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+|sell = {{icon|silver|45}}
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+|stoppingPower = 0.5
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-{{info|The Short bow is a light, single-shot ranged weapon in RimWorld which deals a moderate amount of damage per shot; slightly longer time between shots; slightly longer range and moderate accuracy.}}
+{{info|The short bow is a very light, single-shot ranged weapon in RimWorld which deals a moderate amount of damage per shot; slightly longer time between shots; slightly shorter range and moderate accuracy.}}
-=== Combat performance ===
+==Overview==
+The short bow is a low-tier neolithic weapon, and also the easiest ranged weapon to acquire in the game thanks to its extremely low resource requirement, lack of a requirement for proper facilities and a complete lack of research requirements. With scenarios such as naked brutality, a short bow is essential to earlygame survival as a safe means of hunting and basic defense against hostile wildlife and raiders. Curiously, short bows also have a slightly higher armor penetration rating than the much more powerful [[greatbow]].
-It takes 4 shots to the torso to kill an unarmored human with a short bow, or around 7-8 shots against a human with a normal armor vest. The short bow can also instantly cripple digits and eyeballs, and cause lethal brain damage if the victim's skull is unprotected. Limbs can be crippled in 3 shots against an unarmored human.
+However, shortbows are also the only neolithic ranged weapons that can't stagger [[human]]s, which puts them at a disadvantage against melee units. The short bow also has the 3rd lowest damage output out of all ranged weapons in the game, only beating the [[pila]] and [[incendiary launcher]] - the latter being a support weapon rather than straight-up aggro. Other weaknesses include low accuracy for a neolithic weapon, as well as a rather slow projectile velocity. Naturally, a short bow will be significantly overshadowed in terms of combat performance by even the most basic of firearms such as [[autopistol]]s and [[revolver]]s, with two short bows being required to match a single one of the aforementioned firearms.
-The short bow, being a weak weapon, is best used in the hands of your worst shooters with short bows so that your good shooters have decent weapons for decent damage output, while the archers may occasionally get a hit in.
+The short bow is best-suited for close-quarters engagements overall since it's most accurate up to short ranges, and because of its sub-par projectile velocity. It's also a somewhat viable hunting weapon for smaller and lower-risk game.
-However, if you are lacking on better alternatives, since the short bow has a slightly longer than typical time between shots, is single-shot in nature and has a moderate-long range, it's best to pair the short bow with a competent shooter to make the most of it - not that it's worth pairing anything more than a mediocre shooter with such an underpowered weapon beyond the early game. A healthy level 7 traitless shooter, level 3 careful shooter or level 10 trigger-happy can somewhat efficiently use the short bow up to 20 cells. However, a level 12 traitless shooter, level 9 careful shooter or level 15 trigger-happy shooter is advisable to efficiently use the short bow up to its maximum range of 29 cells.
+Against an unarmored human, a short bow can kill with 4 hits to the torso or 1 hit to the brain; cripple or destroy limbs in 3 hits; and cripple or destroy eyes and digits with a single hit. It'll generally take around 6 hits (~27.8 seconds average) to incapacitate that human from pain shock.
-On average, the short bow is best paired with a careful shooter until level 10, and with a trigger-happy shooter beyond that point.
-===Obtaining===
+Overall, the short bow is best paired with a careful shooter until level 9, and with a trigger-happy shooter beyond that point.
-Short bows can be purchased from neolithic war merchants and orbital combat suppliers, or obtained from the following [[raider#Humanlike|raider]] kinds:
-'''Tribal:'''
+====Melee Combat====
-* Archer - 88.5% (normal [[quality]] on average, 50-180% health)
+{| {{STDT| c_12 text-center}}
+!Tool
+!Attack
+!Damage Type
+!Power
+!Cooldown
+!Likelihood
+!Base DPS
+|-
+!Overall
+!-
+!-
+!9
+!2.00s
+!-
+!4.50
+|- newline
+|Limb
+|Blunt
+|Blunt
+|9
+|2.00s
+|50.00%
+|4.50
+|- newline
+|Limb
+|Poke
+|Blunt
+|9
+|2.00s
+|50.00%
+|4.50
+|}
-Short bows can also be manufactured at [[fueled smithy|a]] [[electric smithy|smithy]] or [[crafting spot]] with no research required; from 30 [[wood]] and {{ticks|9000}} of work.
+===Obtaining===
+Short bows can be purchased from neolithic war merchants and orbital combat suppliers, tribal and outlander settlements, or obtained from the following [[raider#Humanlike|raider]] kinds:
-===Conclusion & Comparison===
+{| class="wikitable sortable"
-As mentioned several times in the main section of this page and will be plainly stated here: the short bow is the least powerful weapon in the game. However, it'll do in a pinch in very early-game scenarios where you have more shooters than there are ranged weapons to go around. If you're playing with the 'Lost Tribe' scenario or have researched '[[research#RecurveBow|recurve bow]]', then a [[recurve bow]] is going to deliver so much more combat performance than the short bow for only 10 more wood.
+|-
+! Raider Kind !! Chance !! Average Quality !! Health
+|-
+| Archer || 92.27% || Poor || 50-180%
+|}
-The only other possible strength that the short bow has is a fairly decent range of 29 cells, but its accuracy drops off very quickly so it won't be very effective beyond 24 cells.
+Short bows can also be manufactured at [[fueled smithy|any]] [[electric smithy|smithy]] or a [[crafting spot]] with no research required; from 30 [[wood]] and {{ticks|2400}} of work. A crafting skill of at least 2 is required.
-Compared to low-tier modern firearms, a normal quality short bow is comparable to an awful quality [[revolver]] with 40% health, or an awful [[autopistol]] with 30% health; the short bow may have vastly superior accuracy, but the firearms' significantly shorter time between shots more than compensate for said accuracy deficit. Even a legendary quality short bow is going to be consistently outperformed by said firearms at shoddy quality and in mint condition.
+You also start with two short bows with the lost tribe [[scenario system|scenario]], along with some [[pila]], a [[wood]]en [[club]], a [[steel]] [[ikwa]] and a [[jade]] [[knife]] ([[jade knife|main article]]).

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