Deadlife shell

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

Technical

defName

Shell_Deadlife

thingCategories

MortarShells

tradeTags

MortarShell

The deadlife shell is a type of mortar shell that, upon exploding, releases a cloud of deadlife dust ~5 tiles in radius. Deadlife dust raises 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

The various approximate radii of a deadlife shell explosion. White tiles represent the radius of a shell fired from a mortar. Gold tiles represent the radius of one or more shells cooking off. Gas emission will vary, it may not fill the entirety of a given range.

When fired from a mortar, deadlife shells will linger and emit deadlife dust for ? ticks ^[Duration?], releasing a cloud in a ~5 tile radius around itself. Deadlife dust 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.

When damaged beyond 20% of its health, it will explode after 30 ticks (0.5 secs) to 60 ticks (1 sec), releasing a cloud of deadlife dust in a ~9 tile radius around itself. Unlike other items which explode when damaged, but similar to smoke and tox shells, stack size does not have an effect on explosion radius.

They are also used in the construction of IED deadlife traps.

Gallery

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  One Shell

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  Partial stack

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  Full stack

Version history

• Anomaly DLC Release - Added.

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Architect

Security

Barricade • Sandbags • Spike trap

(research)

Autocannon turret • Foam turret • Mini-turret • Rocketswarm launcher • Uranium slug turret • Mortar • Hunter trap

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