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Poison capsule

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Poison capsule

Recipe

8
+
10
+
3
+
3
1

Total raw

11.75
+
10
+
4.5
+
3
+
3

Stack size

100

Rocket capacity

100

Range

Normal quality 25
Uncommon 27.5 Rare 30
Epic 32.5 Legendary 37.5

Shooting speed

2/s

Damage

Normal quality 8
Uncommon 10.4 Rare 12.8
Epic 15.2 Legendary 20
(poison)

Area of effect size

11

Prototype type

projectile

Internal name

poison-capsule

Required technologies

3

Produced by

Object description

The poison capsule is a basic capsule that creates a large, long-lasting cloud of at the target area, dealing 8 poison damage twice a second, totaling to 320 poison damage over 20s. The damage from multiple poison capsules can stack. This is one of the most effective ways of removing trees.

Poison capsules can be used to effectively kill worms as they are stationary. This technique is a relatively safe and cheap way to eliminate clusters of worms - it takes 5 poison capsules to kill a big Worm and the capsules can be thrown from outside the big Worm's spitting range. Since spawners are not affected by poison damage, poison capsules are useless against them.

Poison capsules do not harm the player's structures, robots or vehicles, but do harm players themselves unless they are in a vehicle. Poison capsules are particularly effective when deployed from the tank, as the tank can park inside a cloud of poison to lure enemies to their death.

History

  • 2.0.7:
    • Default "use item" control changed from Left mouse button to Right mouse button.
  • 0.18.7:
    • New visuals for poison capsule effect.
  • 0.11.17:
    • Tooltips are now generated automatically for some items, including capsules.
  • 0.11.9:
    • Green coral is now affected by the poison capsule. This is controlled by the "breaths-air" entity flag.
  • 0.9.1:
    • Capsules can be used in god mode. (player without character)
  • 0.7.1:
    • Capsule is less expensive.

See also