Crossbow
Weapon · WeaponCrossbow0★Sends an Arrow off with no effort at all. Loading eats time, but the shot lands hard.
Crossbow is an early crossbow: 13th of 15 by attack, so treat it as a stepping stone, at 280 against the 490 of Crossbow.
No recipe takes it as an ingredient. Whatever you build is the finished article, so there is no reason to hoard spares.
Details
At 13 weight each it eats carry capacity fast, so bring a mount or park a chest nearby.
Crossbow Crafting Recipe
Wood×50
Stone×40
Ingot×10
Nail×2
Ore×22Crafting it takes 102 materials across 4 types.
Where to Find Crossbow
Crossbow is not something you find lying around — you craft it, and the recipe is below.
Every Tier of Crossbow
The same piece exists at 5 rarities, and the gap is not cosmetic: attack runs 280 to 490, a 1.8x swing. Which one you end up with is decided by the rarity of the schematic you built from, not by the recipe — so a legendary copy of this is worth more than the next item up built from a common one.
Ammunition Crossbow Uses
Crossbow takes 3 kinds of ammunition — Arrow, Fire Arrow, Poison Arrow — so the damage you actually deal depends as much on what you loaded as on the weapon itself.
| Ammo | Yield | Craft cost |
|---|---|---|
 Arrow | ×10 | Wood ×2, Stone ×2 |
 Fire Arrow | ×10 | Wood ×2, Stone ×2, Flame Organ ×1 |
 Poison Arrow | ×10 | Wood ×2, Stone ×2, Venom Gland ×1 |
Alternatives and Upgrades
Step up from here and you get Poison Arrow Crossbow at 364 attack; step down and it is Fire Arrow Crossbow at 280. Weigh the jump against what the next tier costs you before committing the resources.
Other crossbows at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class:
