Club

Club

"A shaped stick, heavy at one end, for bashing enemies to death. This weapon is so old it's part of human biology. Evolutionary biologists say that a major reason humans can tilt our wrists side-to-side (instead of just forward-and-back like other primates) is to be able to better swing a club."

Base Stats

Type

Equipment – Weapons

Weapon Class

Neolithic

Mode

Melee

Melee Combat

Mode

Melee

Melee Attack 1

Handle
9 dmg (Poke)
13% AP
2 seconds cooldown

Melee Attack 2 

Head
14 dmg (Blunt)
21% AP
2 seconds cooldown

The club is a neolithic melee weapon that does a moderate amount of blunt damage and has a moderate-long cooldown. As a blunt weapon, it doesn't cause bleeding (unless a body part gets destroyed), and generally do more damage against armor when compared to sharp weapons.

Acquisition

Clubs can also be crafted at a crafting spot, fueled smithy, or electric smithy without any research required; with 40 of any metallic, wooden, or stony material and 500 ticks (8.33 secs) of work. They can also be purchased from any combat supplier or war merchant, or obtained from melee raiders drops.

Analysis

Clubs are generated without a quality level - in essence, all clubs are "normal." This makes them worth considering if you have no competent crafters yet. With underwhelming damage output, clubs only make sense as melee options in the early game; once you have craftsmen capable of reliably producing better than normal quality weapons, there is little reason to ever build a club again. Although uranium clubs are effective weapons for use against armored foes, maces are clearly superior (although more expensive) weapons, especially if they are high quality.

Material table

In the following table, clubs of different types along with their damage charts are displayed.

Material	Beauty	Market Value	Work To Make	Melee Damage Per Second	Melee Armor Penetration
Gold	17	$4005	18	6.27	19%
Granite	-3	$41.62	26	4.82	19%
Jade	7	$205	28	7.23	28%
Limestone	-3	$41.62	26	4.82	19%
Marble	-2	$40.97	23	4.82	19%
Plasteel	-3	$370	44	7.05	17%
Sandstone	-3	$40.75	22	4.82	19%
Silver	3	$405	20	6.27	19%
Slate	-3	$41.62	26	4.82	19%
Steel	-3	$80.32	20	6.27	19%
Uranium	-3	$250	38	8.55	28%
Wood	-3	$51.02	14	5.64	17%

Club vs. Comparable Weapons

This section goes over how well the club fares against comparable weapons (similar value, tech level or similar characteristics) in 1 vs. 1 combat.

Methodology

• All testing is semi-automated which allows for large sample sizes to be gathered per set of results with ease
• All pawns have a skill level of 8 in melee
• No pawns have any traits that affect combat performance
• All pawns are of 18 years of age and completely healthy

Results in the table below are the percentages of battles that clubs either won or tied against the weapon listed in the first column of said table, with a sample size of 2,000 battles per result. Higher percentages are better.

The following armor categories are:

• Unarmored - Plainleather button-down shirt and plainleather pants
• Flak - Steel simple helmet, flak jacket, flak vest, plainleather button-down shirt and flak pants
• Marine - Marine helmet, marine armor, plainleather button-down shirt and plainleather pants

Other Weapon	Unarmored	Flak	Marine
Fists	81.35%	83.85%	83.11%
Wood	68.87%	69.47%	72.25%
Knife	43.45%	67.60%	84.95%
Mace	38.95%	39.90%	39.85%

Version History

• Prior to Beta 18, clubs were generated with a quality value.

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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