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v0.31:Ballista arrow
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Ballista arrows are created at a siege workshop and used as ammunition by a ballista. Wooden ballista arrows are made using one log, and more powerful ones can be made using one log plus a metal ballista arrowhead from the forge.
Wooden ballista arrows are generally ineffective, dealing only minor amounts of blunt damage, but metal ballista bolts can be surprisingly lethal.
Additionally, ballista arrows can be destroyed by hitting too many targets in a row. Each arrow normally has a range of 200 tiles, but impacting a creature will subtract an amount from that range based on the weight of the arrow: arrows weighing 50Γ or less (i.e. adamantine and every type of wood) subtract 50 tiles per hit, arrows weighing 150Γ or more (i.e. every other vanilla weapons-grade metal) subtract just 5 tiles per hit, and everything in between would scale linearly.
See also: Siege engine