Weapon

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In addition to using your fists and feet for defence or to kill your prey - be it man or beast - you may choose from a wide range of weapons. Additionally, most tools double as weapons (and vice versa).

Quality Modifier Weapons have a quality modifier as follows: 

crude: -1 impact, -10% skill

rough: -1 impact

decent (no change - standard 'nonamed type')

fine: +1 impact

masterwork: +1 impact, +10% skill

(What is impact?)= Damage value maybe?

Educated guess : Think of impact as a number of dice. When you hit with a weapon with 2 impact, you roll 2d2. When you hit with a weapon with 6 impact, you roll 6d2. The result is the number of delivered damage. Protection gets subtracted from that number, and you end up with another, usually smaller number. That new number is applied to a table that includes hit location and damage type. That is how you get minor puncture, serious puncture, deep puncture etc.

Type of Damage

Weapons can cause differing amounts of damage according to the aspect (blunt, edge etc) selected and to the target's armour. In general 'point' attacks do better against targets wearing furs, cloth and leather, naturally including animals, and blunt attacks do better on targets wearing metallic armour. The tables below describe the base damage associated with each type of weapon/aspect.

(These tables are based on version 3.18 stable)

Axes

Image	Item	Blunt	Edge	Point	Attack Bonus	Defense Bonus	One-handed penalty	Throwing accuracy	Weight	Value	Val/lbs	Comments
	Battleaxe	5	9	N/A	4	2	15	0	3.5 lbs.	640	182.85	Two-handed
File:Warhammer.png	Warhammer	6	N/A	5	Decent	VLittle	?	?	5 lbs.	360	72	Two-handed, DEPRECATED BEFORE VERSION 3.32
	Broad Axe	5	6	N/A	3	1	0	0	8.5 lbs.	240	28.23	Best for carving logs and wall building
	Throwing Axe	3	5	N/A	1	1	0	3	2 lbs.	200	100
	Splitting Axe	5	5	N/A	2	1	15	0	6 lbs.	200	33.33	Two-handed,Best tool for splitting boards
	Woodsman's Axe	4	7	N/A	3	1	25	0	6 lbs.	160	26.66	Two-handed,Best for felling trees
	Carving Axe	3	3	4	2	2	0	0	4.5 lbs.	144	32	Best crafting and carving axe
	Sickle	1	4	3	1	1	0	0	1 lbs.	136	136
	Handaxe	3	6	5	1	1	0	0	3 lbs.	112	37.33	(Only one set of stats found in 3.32 anymore)
	Stone Axe	5	2	N/A	0	0	0	0	4 lbs.	0.8	0.2	A very unhandy tool, can be crafted

UPDATE 2016-09-27: Values revised with version 3.32 using Simon's object reader.

Swords

Image	Item	Blunt	Edge	Point	Attack Bonus	Defense Bonus	One-handed penalty	Weight	Value	Val/lbs	Comments
	Battlesword	5	8	4	5	2	30	8 lbs.	1400	175	Two-handed
	Bastard Sword	4	6	4	4	2	10	5 lbs.	1200	240	Two-handed
	Broadsword	3	5	3	3	2	0	3 lbs.	920	306.66
	Njerpeziläis Scimitar	3	5	0	3	2	0	3 lbs.	640	213.33	Cultural item of Njerpez, causes bleeding
	Scimitar	2	5	0	2	2	0	2 lbs.	480	240
	Shortsword	2	4	4	2	1	0	2 lbs.	600	300

Note: All swords have a throwing accuracy of 0.

Daggers

Image	Item	Blunt	Edge	Point	Attack Bonus	Defense Bonus	Weight	Value	Val/lbs	Comments
	Skramasaksi	2	3	4	2	1	1.2 lbs.	344	286.66	Cultural item of Sartolaiset
	Northern Knife	2	2	5	2	1	0.39 lbs.	320	805.33	Cultural item of Northern tribes
	Kaumolais Knife	2	2	5	2	1	0.35 lbs.	200	566.25	Cultural item of Kaumolaiset
	Hunting Knife	2	2	5	1	1	0.35 lbs.	160	453
File:Dagger.png	Dagger	0	2	4	VLittle	VLittle	? lbs.	160	?	DEPRECATED in version 3.32
	Broad Knife	1	2	4	1	1	0.3 lbs.	136	440.05	Best hideworking tool (In the period of tanning)
File:Throwing Knife.png	Throwing Knife	0	N/A	3	0	0	? lbs.	120	?	DEPRECATED in version 3.32
	Fisher's Knife	1	2	4	1	0	0.28 lbs.	120	418.15
	Knife	0	1	3	1	0	0.28 lbs.	6	20.09
	Small Knife	0	1	2	0	0	0.24 lbs.	24	98.83	Best crafting knife

Note: All knives have a throwing accuracy of 0 and no one-handed penalty.

Bows

Image	Item	Accuracy	Blunt	Edge	Point	Weight	Value	Comments
	Northern Bow	5	N/A	N/A	8	3 lbs.	176	Cultural item of Northern tribes
	Hunting Bow	5	N/A	N/A	7	4 lbs.	144
	Long Bow	7	N/A	N/A	8	4 lbs.	80
	Shortbow	6	N/A	N/A	6	2 lbs.	40	Can be crafted
	Juniper Bow (Primitive Bow)	5	N/A	N/A	6	2 lbs.	16	Can be crafted (called Primitive Bow)

Crossbows

Image	Item	Accuracy	Blunt	Edge	Point	Weight	Value	Reloading Time	Comments
	Heavy Crossbow	8	N/A	N/A	9	10 lbs.	400	1 min
	Crossbow	8	N/A	N/A	7	6 lbs.	320	30 sec

Arrows

Image	Item	Blunt	Edge	Point	Weight	Value	Val/lbs	Comments
	Arrow	0	0	8	0.1 lbs.	8	80	Can be crafted up to fine, superior can be bought
	Blunt arrow	6	0	0	0.44 lbs.	4		Can be crafted
	Broadhead arrow	0	6	0	0.17 lbs.	14,4

Note that archery equipments have no attack and defense bonus.

Shields

Image	Item	Blunt	Edge	Point	Attack Bonus	Defense Bonus	Weight	Value	Comments
	Roundshield	2	N/A	N/A	VLittle	Superior	6 lbs.	336
	Buckler	1	N/A	N/A	Little	Modest	3 lbs.	240

Spears

Image	Item	Blunt	Edge	Point	Attack Bonus	Defense Bonus	Weight	Value	Comments
	Ango	3	N/A	8	Remarkable	VLittle	8 lbs.	480	Two-handed,Generally found among Islanders
	Kaumolais Spear	4	4	8	Good	Little	7 lbs.	400	Two-handed,Cultural item of Kaumolaiset
	Northern Spear	4	N/A	8	Decent	Little	7 lbs.	360	Two-handed, Skiing weapon,Cultural item of Northern tribes
	Spear	4	N/A	7	Decent	Little	5 lbs.	344	Two-handed
	Wide Trident	4	N/A	6	Good	Good	8 lbs.	200	Two-handed
	Trident	4	N/A	5	Good	Decent	6 lbs.	160	Two-handed
	Small Trident	3	N/A	4	Decent	Little	5 lbs.	120
File:Light Spear.png	Light Spear	1	4	2	Little	Little	4 lbs.	48
	Hard Staff	4	N/A	N/A	Good	Decent	5 lbs.	16	Two-handed
	Javelin	2	N/A	6	Decent	VLittle	3 lbs.	2	Best throwing spear, can be crafted from a staff
	Staff	3	N/A	N/A	Good	Decent	4 lbs.	2	Two-handed,Can be crafted

Consider fishing, spears are better than clubs, but still inferior to fishing rods.

Flails

Image	Item	Blunt	Edge	Attack Bonus	Defense Bonus	Point	Weight	Value	Comments
File:Warflail.png	Warflail	8	N/A	Remarkable	Little	N/A	5 lbs.	480	Two-handed
File:Ball & Chain.png	Ball & Chain	6	N/A	Good	Little	N/A	4 lbs.	320
	Grainflail	6	N/A	Good	VLittle	N/A	2 lbs.	16	Two-handed, can be crafted,Agricultural tool for threshing
	Small Flail	2	N/A	Decent	VLittle	N/A	1 lbs.	8

Clubs

Image	Item	Blunt	Edge	Point	Attack Bonus	Defense Bonus	Weight	Value	Comments
	Mace	5	N/A	N/A	Decent	VLittle	4 lbs.	400
	Maul	5	N/A	N/A	Good	VLittle	7 lbs.	24	Two-handed
	Club	3	N/A	N/A	Decent	VLittle	3 lbs.	2	Various usage,can be crafted
	Rock	1	0	0	0	0	1 lbs.	0	Various usage,no quality tags
	Stone	1	0	0	0	0	14 lbs.	0	Various usage,no quality tags

A good weapon, and enough skill with it, can save your life. Unless your character is a complete pacifist you should invest a skill point into at least one weapon skill of your choice(Spears and bows are recommended for new players). Generally, weapons that weigh more do more damage, and some weapons have additional abilities.

Different cultures have their advantage and disadvantage for a certain kind of weapon. Note that different NPCs have their inherent level of weapon skills, pay attention to it when you are going to hire a companion or fight with someone.