Deadlife shell
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Deadlife shell
An artillery shell packed with a dust-like substance that, after exploding into a cloud, will settle on nearby human and animal corpses and raise them as shamblers. The shamblers will only attack your enemies. This can be fired from mortars or installed as a trap. Explodes when damaged.
Base Stats
- Type
- Crafted resources – Mortar shell
- Market Value
- 55
- Stack Limit
- 25
- Mass
- 1.25 kg
- Beauty
- -4
- HP
- 60
- Deterioration Rate
- 1.5
- Flammability
- 100%
- Path Cost
- 14 (48%)
Ranged Combat
- Velocity
- 41 (m/s)
- Blast Radius
- 4.1
Creation
- Crafted At
- Required Research
- Deadlife dust
- Skill Required
- Crafting 4
- Work To Make
- 800 ticks (13.33 secs)
- Resources to make
25
- defName
- Shell_Deadlife
- thingCategories
- MortarShells
- tradeTags
- MortarShell
The deadlife shell is a type of mortar shell that explodes into a cloud of dust, raising any nearby human or animal corpses as shamblers.
Acquisition
Deadlife shells can be crafted at a bioferrite shaper once the deadlife dust research project has been completed. Note that this research requires dark study to unlock. Each requires 25 Bioferrite, 800 ticks (13.33 secs) of work modified by the general labor speed of the crafter, and a crafting skill of 4.
Summary
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When fired from a mortar, deadlife shells explode in a radius of 4.1 tiles. The explosion raises nearby human, animal, and entity corpses as shamblers for 6 hours. Shamblers raised by player-fired deadlife shells are non-hostile towards the colony, but will attack enemies.
They are also used in the construction of IED deadlife traps.
Analysis
Deadlife shell give you an alternative for "corpse disposal". Instead of disposing corpses like a bunch of humans, you can build a pile of corpse at the entrance of your base and an IED deadlife trap in the middle. When raiders come, it will explode and unleash a wave of shamblers upon them. The corpses of these raider will further enlarge the corpse pile, making it even easier to fight the next raid
This works well with pawns with inhuman ideoligions, who don't mind the corpses at all.
Gallery
One Shell
Partial stack
Full stack
Version history
- Anomaly DLC Release - Added.
- Security
- Barricade • Sandbags • Spike trap
- (research)
- Autocannon turret • Foam turret • Mini-turret • Rocketswarm launcher • Uranium slug turret • Mortar
- IEDs
- IED trap • IED incendiary trap • IED EMP trap • IED firefoam trap • IED smoke trap • IED antigrain warhead trap • IED tox trap
• IED deadlife trap 
- Related
- Antigrain warhead • EMP shell • Firefoam shell • High-explosive shell • Incendiary shell • Smoke shell • Tox shell • Deadlife shell