Club

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 Stuff (Metallic/Woody/Stony, 400 for SMVs) and 1,200 ticks (20 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

Steel club vs.	Unarmored	Flak	Marine
Fists	81.35%	83.85%	83.11%
Wood	68.87%	69.47%	72.25%
Steel knife	43.45%	67.60%	84.95%
Steel mace	38.95%	39.90%	39.85%
Uranium club	25.70%	25.10%	20.90%

Uranium club vs.	Unarmored	Flak	Marine
Fists	94.65%	95.60%	96.65%
Wood	89.00%	91.00%	91.40%
Plasteel knife	52.50%	71.95%	90.20%
Uranium mace	43.90%	39.40%	40.68%
Jade club	57.15%	58.65%	59.10%
Steel club	74.30%	74.90%	79.10%