Fists family
Fists
Bare knuckles are the choice weapon of the backwoods' own homegrown martial arts.
- Cycle
- -
- Velocity
- -
- Drop
- -
- Falloff
- -
- Ammo
- -
- Price
- -
Damage
The damage model
- Raw projectile
- 30
Handling
Swinging it
A melee weapon records none of the firing stats. What it records is the trade between the two swings - a heavy costs stamina and time for the damage it adds.
- Light
- Heavy
Once your stamina is spent the cooldown stretches to 1.6s - 3.6× the rested heavy swing.
Against monsters, and who hears it
Attacks
Light attack
- Damage
- 15
- Damage type
- Melee Blunt
- Cleave cap
- 1 body
Swing cadence
- Light attack
- 0.5s before the next light attack
- Heavy attack
- 0.45s before the next heavy attack
- Tired
- 1.6s - the delay once you are out of stamina
Against a hunter, by hit zone
- Head 30
- Upper torso 13
- Torso 13
- Left arm 13
- Right arm 13
- Left leg 9
- Right leg 9
Against a hunter's 150 health, from the game's own hunter hit-zone table. Melee carries no falloff, so these do not change with distance.
Against the bestiary
Light attack
Deals Melee Blunt damage. It hits Immolator hardest (1.44x) and Water Devil softest (0.45x).
Five or more
Doctor Grunt HeadGrunt HeadLantern or Torch Grunt HeadMuzzled Hellhound JawImmolator HeadWater Devil BodyArmored HeadConcertina Armored HeadAssassin HeadRotjaw WeakspotHellborn HeadMeathead Torso UpperSpider HeadButcher HeadBloodskin WeakspotScrapbeak Head
Computed from each creature's own hit-zone table against this attack's damage type.