Ancient Weapon

Ancient Weapon
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Statistics
Ammunition	Alien Power Cell
Ammo Capacity	1
Crafting
Constructible?	No
Technical Identifier Categories

The Ancient Weapon is a powerful weapon of alien design that can be very rarely found within the Alien Ruins. It takes up both hands when equipped. It is the best handheld weapon in Barotrauma in terms of sheer damage output and destructive capability.

Function

When activated, the weapon will fire a long range beam. The beam itself does low damage, but the fact that it is constantly applying said damage makes it rapidly build up to massive damage in seconds, decimating humans, creatures and submarine hulls alike.

It can also be used as ammunition for the Railgun, dealing as much damage as a nuclear railgun shell to creatures and 5 times that to structures, although due to the extreme rarity of the weapon this is inadvisable.

Damage Values

Item	Attack Damage	Structure Damage
Beam	2	5

As Railgun Ammunition

Main article: Railgun#Damage Values

Item	Attack Damage	Bleeding Damage	Structure Damage	Damage Type
Ancient Weapon	1,000	10	500	Blunt

Audio

• Ancient Weapon firing

Trivia

• Internally, the Ancient Weapon is not a weapon at all, but rather a Tool that does damage to structures instead of repairing them as a Welding Tool would. Due to this, it is essentially an upgraded version of the Plasma Cutter.
  • However, unlike the Plasma Cutter it cannot be used to unseal doors.

Gallery

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  The Ancient Weapon being fired.