Poison Arrow
Ammo · ConsumeBullet0★Shafts for a bow that leave Poison on anything they hit. Made at a Primitive Workbench.
No recipe takes it as an ingredient. Whatever you build is the finished article, so there is no reason to hoard spares.
Details
It weighs almost nothing and stacks to 9,999, so there is no reason not to carry a full stack.
Poison Arrow Crafting Recipe
Wood×2
Stone×2
Venom GlandCrafting it takes 5 materials across 3 types. Each craft returns 10, so the real cost per unit is lower than the list suggests.
Where to Find Poison Arrow
If you would rather just buy it, the cheapest seller is Caravan Shop at 40 Gold, and 1 other shop stocks it too.
It also shows up as world loot — crates on the small oil rig, usually 25–50 at a time.
| How | Where | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Merchant | Caravan Shop | 40 Gold |
| Merchant | Dungeon Shop | 40 Gold |
| World loot | Crates on the small oil rig | Grade 5 · 14.5% chance · 25–50 at a time |
Using Poison Arrow Well
Every plain wooden bow and the base crossbow can load these. Old Bow, Three Shot Bow, Five Shot Bow, Recurve Bow and Crossbow all share one ammunition list — Arrow, Fire Arrow and Poison Arrow — and you pick which one is loaded from the weapon, so a stack in your bag serves whichever of those you happen to be carrying.
The upgraded bows cannot touch them. Compound Bow is locked to Reinforced Arrow, Advanced Bow to Advanced Arrow and Mechanical Bow to Mechanical Bow Ammo — none of the three carries the three-arrow list. Poison Arrows are an early- and mid-game tool, and the moment you move up a bow tier the stock you built stops being usable on your main weapon.
Poison Bow and Poison Arrow Crossbow have no ammunition menu at all — poison is the only thing they will chamber. Carry either one and your uptime is your Venom Gland supply, so keep a farm route or a ranch stocking glands before you commit to them as a main weapon.
One gland becomes ten arrows, and the wood and stone alongside it are free in practice. Buying the same ten from a merchant is 400 Gold, so the only reason to shop for these is convenience on the road — glands are the bottleneck, never the craft.
Weapons That Fire Poison Arrow
25 weapons take Poison Arrow, which makes it worth stockpiling — one crafting run supplies the whole class.
Crossbow280
Crossbow364Crossbow406Crossbow448Crossbow490
Fire Arrow Crossbow280
Fire Arrow Crossbow364Fire Arrow Crossbow406Fire Arrow Crossbow448Fire Arrow Crossbow490
Poison Arrow Crossbow280
Poison Arrow Crossbow364Poison Arrow Crossbow406Poison Arrow Crossbow448Poison Arrow Crossbow490
Five Shot Bow30
Fire Bow65
Poison Bow65Three Shot Bow40Recurve Bow40Old Bow65Old Bow130Old Bow169Old Bow208Old Bow247Alternatives and Upgrades
Other ammunitions at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class:
