Throwing Axes family
Throwing Axes
Silent and deadly short-ranged projectile weapon. Can be retrieved and reused. Comes in a pack of three.
- Cycle
- -
- Falloff
- -
- Ammo
- 3/0=3
loaded / in reserve / total
- Spread
- 1.5
- Heavy
- 142
- Light
- 75
Damage
The damage model
- Raw projectile
- 95
Flight
- Bullet drop
- 5m before it starts falling
- Gravity
- -9.81m/s squared, downward
- Time of flight
- 3.33s to 100 m - computed from velocity
Handling
3 rounds.
Where the shot goes
- 3 Jumping ×2
- 2.25 Walking ×1.5
- 1.5 Shouldered
- 0.75 Crouched ×0.5
- Its shouldered cone is better than 69% of 34 special loadouts.
Against monsters, and who hears it
Attacks
Light attack
- Damage
- 50
- Damage type
- Melee Slash
- 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 150
- Upper torso 75
- Torso 50
- Left arm 50
- Right arm 50
- Left leg 35
- Right leg 35
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 Slash damage. It hits Firebreather hardest (4.4x) and Bloodskin softest (0.44x).
Killed outright by one hit
Bileweaver HeadBloodweaver Head
One hit
Hive HeadFirebreather Head
Four hits
Water Devil Body
Five or more
Armored HeadImmolator HeadConcertina Armored HeadMeathead Torso UpperRotjaw WeakspotAssassin HeadSpider HeadHellborn HeadButcher Torso UpperScrapbeak HeadBloodskin Weakspot
Computed from each creature's own hit-zone table against this attack's damage type.
Traits and perks
Traits that apply
Every trait this weapon's own data references. A recommendation is the game's own; the numbers above are the ones we can prove from the weapon's attribute presets.
Assailant Recommended 1 pts Increase melee effectiveness of Throwing Knives and Throwing Axes.
Blade Seer Recommended 1 pts While using Dark Sight, increases distance of highlighted Bolts, Arrows, Harpoons, Throwing Axes, and Throwing Knives to 75m. Also applies to Beetle View.
Silent Killer Recommended 3 pts Reduce noise when performing melee attacks.
Frontiersman 6 pts Use Tools one extra time.
A few perks carve out exceptions in their own description - Crack Shot excludes shotguns and sawed-off variants - so read the perk text, not just the listing.