Catapults

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Catapults icon.png Catapults
"Allows you to using Catapults"
Requirements:
Skill(s) required:
Proficiencies required:
2250 Cloak & Dagger icon.png Cloak & Dagger
2100 Hammer & Nail icon.png Hammer & Nail
1600 Sparks & Embers icon.png Sparks & Embers
Skills Unlocked:
Crafts Unlocked:
None
Builds Unlocked:
None
Others Unlocked:
None

In-Game Text

"He that is without sin among you, let him fist cast a stone at her"

-John 8.7

Allows for the use of catapults. please note that this skill does not enable the construction of catapults, only the firing.

About

The Catapults Skill must be learned in order to fire a Catapult icon.png Catapult.

Catapults

A Catapult icon.png Catapult is a ballistic device which can fire Boulder icon.png Boulders which deal damage to pilgrims, Creatures, and Trial by Fire icon.png Trial by Fires. Getting hit by a Boulder fired from a ballistic device will cause you to be briefly Stunned icon.png Stunned, deals a variable amount of Blood damage, and adds about 25 minutes of Concussion icon.png Concussion. Each subsequent hit will increase the length of your Concussion. The amount of Blood damage done is dependent of which Boulder you were hit with. A Catapult takes a long time to both build, load, and for the Boulder to land once fired.

How to Fire a Catapult

  1. With the skill Catapults learned, right-click the Catapult icon.png Catapult to begin slowly winding it back, this will drain Phlegm.
  2. Lift icon.png Lift a Boulder icon.png Boulder and right-click on the Catapult to begin loading it.
  3. Once your Boulder is loaded, right-click on the Catapult, this will bring up the target.
  4. Without moving your character, move the Target to the desired location.
  5. Clicking again will cause the Catapult to fire. The target cannot be clicked behind or to the sides of the Catapult and has a range of at least 71 tiles.

Concussion

A Concussion icon.png Concussion is received when getting hit by an object fired from a Catapult icon.png Catapult or Long Range Mortar icon.png Long Range Mortar. A Concussion your maximum Black Bile and prevents you from logging out or Sleeping. Different objects fired from them each have a different severity, additionally your Concussion can stack, so getting hit multiple times will increase the severity, and therefore the length, of your Concussion as well as the amount of Black Bile you lost. Concussions will go away on there own relative to the severity of the Concussion.

CAUTION: You cannot log out or go to Sleep while Concussed.

Ballistic Devices

Ballistic Device Skill to Fire Firing Range
Catapult icon.png Catapult Catapults icon.png Catapults All tiles in front of Catapult.
Long Range Mortar icon.png Long Range Mortar Long Range Bombardment icon.png Long Range Bombardment 360 degrees, all tiles.