0007874: Ballista arrows are blunt weapons - Dwarf Fortress Bug Tracker

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0007874

Dwarf Fortress

Dwarf Mode -- Combat

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2014-08-06 07:26

2014-10-29 15:48

Reporter

UristDaVinci

Assigned To

Toady One

Priority

normal

Severity

minor

Reproducibility

always

Status

resolved

Resolution

fixed

Platform

OS Version

Product Version

0.40.06

Target Version

Fixed in Version

0.40.15

Summary

0007874: Ballista arrows are blunt weapons

Description

Verified in 0.34.11 and in 0.40.06

Ballista arrows cause damage (bruising/shattering) that is indicative of blunt weapons and not an edged weapon. Ballista arrows do not cause severing.

One would think that ballista arrows should be edged, as the dwarves can craft various types of weapon metal arrowheads for them.

Steps To Reproduce

Generate a pocket world with short history
Embark with steel bars, wood, coke, an anvil, several dogs and generic stone
Build a forge, crank out a few steel ballista arrowheads
Build a siege workshop, create a few ballista parts and steel-tipped arrows
Build the ballista, pointing at a meeting zone full of your dwarves and dogs
Load and fire the ballista
Observe results

Elapsed time: 10 minutes

Additional Information

Player-built minecart weapons are more devastating than the default siege weapons at the moment, so it is probably OK to delay a fix until an overall siege weapon rewrite.