0007874: Ballista arrows are blunt weapons - Dwarf Fortress Bug Tracker

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0007874	Dwarf Fortress	Dwarf Mode -- Combat	public	2014-08-06 07:26	2014-10-29 15:48

Reporter	UristDaVinci	Assigned To	Toady One
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	always
Status	resolved	Resolution	fixed
Product Version	0.40.06
Fixed in Version	0.40.15

Summary	0007874: Ballista arrows are blunt weapons
Description	Verified in 0.34.11 and in 0.40.06 Ballista arrows cause damage (bruising/shattering) that is indicative of blunt weapons and not an edged weapon. Ballista arrows do not cause severing. One would think that ballista arrows should be edged, as the dwarves can craft various types of weapon metal arrowheads for them.
Steps To Reproduce	Generate a pocket world with short history Embark with steel bars, wood, coke, an anvil, several dogs and generic stone Build a forge, crank out a few steel ballista arrowheads Build a siege workshop, create a few ballista parts and steel-tipped arrows Build the ballista, pointing at a meeting zone full of your dwarves and dogs Load and fire the ballista Observe results Elapsed time: 10 minutes
Additional Information	Player-built minecart weapons are more devastating than the default siege weapons at the moment, so it is probably OK to delay a fix until an overall siege weapon rewrite.
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Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2014-08-06 07:26	UristDaVinci	New Issue
2014-08-06 07:41	~~user6~~	Relationship added	related to 0000818
2014-08-18 11:04	~~user6~~	Assigned To	=> user6
2014-08-18 11:04	~~user6~~	Status	new => confirmed
2014-10-29 15:48	Toady One	Status	confirmed => resolved
2014-10-29 15:48	Toady One	Fixed in Version	=> Next Version
2014-10-29 15:48	Toady One	Resolution	open => fixed
2014-10-29 15:48	Toady One	Assigned To	user6 => Toady One