Revolver

The revolver is a light, single-shot firearm in RimWorld which deals a moderate amount of damage per shot, has a short time between shots, a moderate range and moderate overall accuracy.

Acquisition

Revolvers can be purchased from outlander and orbital combat suppliers, outlander settlements, or obtained from the following raider kinds:

Raider Kind	Chance	Average Quality	Health
Scavenger Gunner	25.83%	Normal	40-110%
Pirate Gunner	14.09%	Normal	70-230%
Villager	19.91%	Poor	20-200%
Town Councilman	43.10%	Good	100%
Town Guard	10.18%	Normal	60-200%
Mercenary Gunner	6.50%	Normal	70-320%
Ancient Soldier	5.38%	Normal	100%

Revolvers can also be crafted at a machining table once the gunsmithing research has been completed; from 30 steel, 2 components and 4,000 ticks (1.11 mins) of work. A crafting skill of at least 3 is required.

A revolver is also one of the three starting weapons in the standard crashlanded scenario, along with a bolt-action rifle and plasteel knife.

Analysis

The revolver has a fairly good damage output for a single-shot weapon, only slightly trailing the autopistol in this aspect. Thanks to its fairly short time between shots and its good close-up accuracy, the revolver's a good weapon for low-skilled shooters. It also has a high enough stopping power to stagger advancing humans or human-sized mechanoids. The revolver is also very easy to acquire because earlygame raiders often use it, and because of its low manufacturing costs and technology requirements.

However, like the autopistol (though to a lesser extent), the revolver isn't particularly suited to medium-range engagements despite having the range to do so due to its fairly poor accuracy at those distances; even the recurve bow can keep up in those engagements, while the greatbow and bolt-action rifle easily surpass it.

The revolver is best suited as a close-quarters weapon overall owing to its accuracy profile, although it can be used as a support weapon to slow down enemies that are attempting to close distance (melee units, shotgunners etc.). This weapon's also a somewhat viable hunting weapon for lower-risk game, but the bolt-action rifle will still net better results.

Against an unarmored human, a revolver can kill with 4 hits to the torso, 3 hits to the head, 2 hits to the neck 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 (~16.7 seconds average) to incapacitate that human from pain shock.

Overall, the revolver is best paired with a careful shooter up to the equivalent of a level 21, then with a trigger-happy shooter beyond that point.

Melee Combat

Tool	Attack	Damage Type	Power	AP	Cooldown	Likelihood	Base DPS
Overall	-	-	9	13%	2.00s	-	4.50
Grip	Blunt	Blunt	9	13%	2.00s	50.00%	4.50
Barrel	Blunt	Blunt	9	13%	2.00s	25.00%	4.50
Barrel	Poke	Blunt	9	13%	2.00s	25.00%	4.50

Revolver vs. Comparable Weapons

This section goes over how well the revolver 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 skill levels of 14 in ranged and melee
No pawns have any traits that affect combat performance
All pawns are of at least 18 years of age and completely healthy
Pawns are divided by walls to prevent stray shots from skewing results in any way
Weather is always kept clear
No cover is used for either team

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

Unarmored

For the unarmored testing, all pawns were completely naked.

Other Weapon	3	7	12	18	25	32	40
Autopistol	34.35%	36.35%	42.38%	43.55%	42.35%	-	-
Pump Shotgun	33.28%	32.65%	29.64%	-	-	-	-
Bolt-Action Rifle	72.00%	64.80%	56.60%	41.95%	24.50%	-	-
Greatbow	83.71%	74.36%	65.70%	54.72%	39.98%	-	-

Armored

For the armored testing, all pawns wore normal quality flak vests, flak pants, flak jackets and steel simple helmets.

Other Weapon	3	7	12	18	25	32	40
Autopistol	38.50%	44.16%	44.43%	45.75%	46.25%	-	-
Pump Shotgun	40.85%	37.01%	34.50%	-	-	-	-
Bolt-Action Rifle	68.75%	57.75%	51.90%	34.75%	19.35%	-	-
Greatbow	84.15%	75.00%	68.40%	57.00%	44.36%	-	-

Graphs

The graphs assume a normal quality revolver 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.