Improvised Weapons

This is a list of improvised weapons that you can build. Keep in mind that most of these are contraband.

Ranged

Powered crossbow

Crossbows can fire metal rods or bolts.

• Make a crossbow frame using 5 wooden planks.
• + Attach 3 metal rods.
• + Use a welding tool.
• + Attach 5 lengths of cable coil.
• + Attach 3 sheets of plastic.
• + Attach another 5 lengths of cable coil.
• + Use a screwdriver to finish.
• + Optionally, add a power cell to heat any metal rods you put in the crossbow. (To remove it, use a screwdriver)

Pneumatic cannon

Pneumatic cannons can fire anything you can fit in it!

• Make a cannon frame using 10 metal sheets.
• + Install a length of straight atmospherics piping.
• + Use a welding tool.
• + Attach 5 metal sheets.
• + Use a welding tool again.
• + Install a tank transfer valve.
• + Use a welding tool once again to finish.
• + Add a gas tank (right-click -> eject tank to remove).

Pipe gun

Pipe guns fire 5.56 caliber bullets. You can create makeshift 5.56 magazines for them using 5 steel sheets.

Pipe guns will become dirtier the more you use them and jam more often the more dirty they are. Use a rag from a custodial closet to clean them.

When a pipe gun jams, repeatedly use toggle firing mode to clear it.

• Make a firearm receiver using 15 metal sheets.
• + Install a length of atmospherics piping.
• Make a rifle stock using 10 wooden planks.
• + Attach the rifle stock.
• + Attach duct tape.
• + Attach 10 lengths of cable coil to create a sling.

Improvised pistol

Improvised pistols fire .45 caliber bullets using standard .45 magazines.

Unlike the pipe gun, the improvised pistol does not require cleaning, but it does still periodically jam.

When an improvised pistol jams, repeatedly use toggle firing mode to clear it.

• Make a firearm receiver using 15 metal sheets.
• Make a rifle stock using 10 wooden planks.
• + Carve the rifle stock into the shape of a pistol handle using a hatchet.
• + Attach the receiver to the pistol handle.
• + Install a length of straight atmospheric piping.
• + Shorten the barrel with a welding tool.

Melee

Wired rod

Wired rods are used in the construction of two melee weapons, the spear and the cattle prod.

• Make a set of cable restraints from cable.
• + Use a metal rod on the cable restraints.

Spear

• Break a window to get a shard of glass or create a spearhead using 6 sheets of any other material.
• + Attach the shard of glass or spearhead to a wired rod.

Cattle prod

An improvised stun baton.

• + Attach a pair of wirecutters to a wired rod.
• + Add a power cell. (To remove it, use a screwdriver).

Stun gloves

A cheap, concealable, one-use weapon. Attacking someone with these knocks them down for a couple of seconds. After each use, the power cell has to be recharged.

• + Attach 2 lengths of cable coil to any pair of gloves except force, latex, nitrile or boxing gloves.
• + Attach a power cell.

Using wirecutters will remove the power cell and then the cable coil.

Pike

Just like a spear, but with an attack range of two tiles!

• Make a shaft using 5 wooden planks.
• Make a spear head using 6 sheets of any material.
• + Attach the spear head to the shaft.

Buckler

• Make a Buckler donut using 20 wood planks.
• Make shield fittings using 10 steel sheets.
• + Use the shield fittings on the donut.

Handmade sword

• Make a sword hilt using 10 sheets of any material but glass.
• Make a sword blade using 15 sheets of any material but glass.
• + Attach the blade to the hilt.

Armour

Improvised Chestplate

• Make two armour platings using 3 sheets of steel, plastic, plasteel or wood.
• + Add 20 lengths of cable coil to one of the armour platings.
• + Use the wired armor plate on the other.

Improvised Helmet

• + Use wirecutters on an empty bucket (plastic or wooden.)
• + Attach 2 sheets of Steel, Plasteel, Glass, Plastic or Wood.

Armored Trenchcoat

• + Use a trenchcoat on an improvised chestplate. The chestplate can't fit in the trenchcoats issued to investigators or idris security units.

Other

Improvised Radio Jammer

Unlike its more sophisticated variant, this only has a limited battery life.

• + Use a screwdriver on two remote signalers so they can be attached.
• + Attach them to each other.
• + Attach a power cell by using the signaler assembly on it.

Soda can bomb

Use a lighter, a match, or a welding tool to light the fuse. The explosion isn't big enough to cause much station damage, but it sends out shrapnel.

• + Use a sharp object on at least 5 steel sheets to carve steel wool from it.
• + Insert steel wool in a soda can to create a fuse.
• + Fill the can with welding fuel. You can fill it with other chemicals, but it won't do much, even if the chemical is usally explosive.
• + Optionally, use wirecutters to shorten the length of the fuse. Long fuses have a higher chance to fizzle out early, but short fuses have a chance to blow up prematurely.

Pipe bomb

A soda can bomb upgrade that sends out more shrapnel.

• Print a large grenade casing from a protolathe.
• + Attach the grenade casing to a soda can bomb.
• + Use a screwdriver.