Weapon

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.

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

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 confirmed on version 3.4 and produced using a modified version of Smilediver object dumper:[1])

Throwing weapons

Since at least 3.4, throwing weapons are not governed by the accuracy value (like bows, for example). So we don't have any information on thrown weapon accuracy. See forum post from developer Sami for details.

Axes

Image	Item	Blunt	Edge	Point	Attack Bonus	Defense Bonus	One-handed penalty	Weight	Value	Val/lbs	Comments
	Battleaxe	5	9	0	4	2	15	3.5 lbs.	640	182.85	Two-handed large axe, useful in combat.
	Broad Axe	5	6	0	1	1	0	5.5 lbs.	240	43.64	Best for carving logs and wall building
	Throwing Axe	3	5	0	1	1	0	2 lbs.	200	100	Throwing weapon. Note: Listed in OBJ file, but maybe not present in game? Can be found in Runaway slave -start Njerpitz Camp.
	Splitting Axe	5	5	0	2	1	15	6 lbs.	200	33.33	Two-handed, best for splitting boards.
	Woodsman's Axe	4	7	0	2	1	25	6 lbs.	160	26.66	Two-handed, best for felling trees.
	Carving Axe	3	3	4	2	1	0	4.5 lbs.	144	32	Best crafting and carving axe.
	Sickle	1	4	3	1	1	0	1 lbs.	136	136	Best for harvesting rye and barley. (Technically not an axe, but treated as one.)
	Handaxe	3/4	6	5/4	1	1	0	3 lbs.	112	37.33	Best for making wooden shovels, both sets of values in 3.4.
	Stone Axe	5	2	0	2 (v3.4), 1 (v3.5)	1	0	4 lbs.	0.8	0.2	A very unhandy tool, but can be crafted.

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 (to verify in 3.4)
	Shortsword	2	4	4	2	1	0	2 lbs.	600	300
	Scimitar	2	5	0	2	2	0	2 lbs.	480	240

Knives

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 (v3.4), 1 (v3.5)	1	0.39 lbs.	320	805.33	Cultural item of Northern tribes
	Kaumolais Knife	2	2	5	2 (v3.4), 1 (v3.5)	1	0.35 lbs.	200	566.25	Cultural item of Kaumolaiset
	Hunting Knife	2	2	5	1	1 (v3.4), 0 (v3.5)	0.35 lbs.	160	453
	Broad Knife	1	2	4	1	1 (v3.4), 0 (v3.5)	0.3 lbs.	136	440.05	Best hideworking tool (tanning and clothing)
	Fisher's Knife	1	2	4	1	0	0.28 lbs.	120	418.15
	Small Knife	0	1	2	0	0	0.24 lbs.	24	98.83	Best crafting knife
	Knife	0	1	3	1 (v3.4), 0 (v3.5)	0	0.28 lbs.	48	20.09
	Stone knife	0	1	1	1	0	0.66 lbs.	0	0	Barely better than nothing.

Note: All knives have zero one-handed penalty.

Bows

Image	Item	Power	Weight	Value	Val/lbs.	Comments
	Northern Bow	8	3 lbs.	176	58,66	Cultural item of the Northern tribes.
	Hunting Bow	7	4 lbs.	144	36
	Long Bow	8	4 lbs.	80	20	Can be crafted.
	Shortbow	6	2 lbs.	40	20	Can be crafted.
	Juniper Bow (Primitive Bow)	6	2 lbs.	16	8	Can be crafted (called Primitive Bow).

Crossbows

Image	Item	Power	Weight	Value	Val/lbs.	Reloading Time	Comments
	Crossbow	8	6 lbs.	320	53.33	30 sec	Governed by a separate skill.
	Heavy Crossbow	9	10 lbs.	400	40	1 min	Governed by a separate skill.

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" and "superior".
	Blunt arrow	6	0	0	0.44 lbs.	4	9.06	Can be crafted.
	Broadhead arrow	0	6	0	0.17 lbs.	14,4	81.54	Bladed iron arrowhead, causes bleeding. Needs to be traded.

Note: Archery equipment have no attack and defense bonus.

Shields

Image	Item	Blunt	Edge	Point	Attack Bonus	Defense Bonus	Weight	Value	Val/lbs.	Comments
	Roundshield	2	N/A	N/A	1	6	6 lbs.	96	16
	Buckler	1	N/A	N/A	0	0	3 lbs.	32	10.66	Object reader shows no defence bonus?

Spears

Image	Item	Blunt	Edge	Point	Attack Bonus	Defense Bonus	One-handed penalty	Weight	Value	Val/lbs.	Comments
	Ango	3	0	8	5	1	35	8 lbs.	480	60	Two-handed, generally found among Islanders
	Kaumolais Spear	4	4	8	5	2	30	7 lbs.	400	51.42	Two-handed, cultural item of Kaumolaiset
	Northern Spear	4	0	8	3	2	10	7 lbs.	360	57.14	Two-handed, skiing weapon, cultural item of Northern tribes
	Spear	4	0	7	4	2	20	5 lbs.	344	68.8	Two-handed
	Wide Trident	4	0	6	4	2	20	8 lbs.	200	25	Two-handed
	Trident	4	0	5	4	3	10	6 lbs.	160	26.66	Two-handed
	Small Trident	3	0	4	3	1	0	5 lbs.	120	24	One-handed
	Hard Staff	4	0	0	4	3	25	5 lbs.	16	3.2	Two-handed
	Javelin	2	0	6	3	1	0	3 lbs.	2	0.66	Throwing weapon. One-handed. Can be crafted from a staff.
	Staff	3	0	0	4	3	20	4 lbs.	2	0.5	Two-handed, can be crafted

NOTE: Considering fishing, spears are better than clubs, but still inferior to fishing rods.

Flails

Image	Item	Blunt	Edge	Point	Attack Bonus	Defense Bonus	One-handed penalty	Weight	Value	Val/lbs.	Comments
	Grainflail	6	0	0	3	2	30	2 lbs.	16	8	Two-handed, can be crafted, agricultural tool for threshing
	Small Flail	2	0	0	3	1	0	1 lbs.	8	8

Clubs

Image	Item	Blunt	Edge	Point	Attack Bonus	Defense Bonus	One-handed penalty	Weight	Value	Val/lbs.	Comments
	Mace	5	0	0	3	1	0	4 lbs.	400	100	One-handed
	Maul	5	0	0	4	1	30	7 lbs.	24	3.42	Two-handed
	Club	3	0	0	2	1	0	3 lbs.	2	0.66	Various usage, can be crafted
	Rock	1	0	0	0	0	0	1 lbs.	0	0	Various usage, no quality tags
	Stone	1	0	0	0	0	0	14 lbs.	0	0	Various usage, no quality tags