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The Recurve bow is a light, single-shot ranged weapon in RimWorld which deals a moderate amount of damage per shot; slightly longer time between shots; moderate range and slightly higher accuracy.

Overview

The recurve bow has the highest armor penetration out of all neolithic-tier ranged weapons, even being somewhat higher than the greatbow's. Projectile velocity is also good, roughly matching that of pistols and shotguns; arrows fired from a recurve bow stab instead of cut due to this, which results in heavier bleeding which is comparable to a greatbow's projectile. Range is also good for a neolithic weapon, as well as overall accuracy and a stopping power that's high enough to stagger humans. Recurve bows are also somewhat easy to acquire due to their low technology requirement and resource costs, as well as the cheapest weapons that can stagger humans.

Despite being good for a neolithic weapon though, caution is still advisable when engaging enemies with basic firearms such as autopistols and revolvers. Medium-distance accuracy is good enough that the recurve bow's DPS towards 25 cells is actually comparable to that of the revolver's, though the latter will still handily beat this weapon if much closer than that distance.

Overall damage output for the recurve bow is still lower than the greatbow's though, and the greatbow will still fare better against armored targets than the recurve bow despite the armor penetration advantage.

Since the recurve bow's accuracy is somewhat consistent overall and projectile velocity is good, it's somewhat of a jack-of-all-trades and is thus usable with effect at all distances within its range. Regarding combat roles, the recurve bow can do well as both a damage-dealing weapon as well as a support weapon. This weapon's also good for hunting due to its respectable per-shot damage as well as range.

Against an unarmored human, a recurve bow can kill with 3 hits to the torso, 2-3 hits to the head, 2 hits to the neck, or 1 hit to the brain; cripple limbs in 2 hits; and cripple or destroy eyes and digits with a single hit. It'll generally take around 5 hits (~21.5 seconds average) to incapacitate that human from pain shock.

Overall, the recurve bow is best paired with a careful shooter up to level 11, and with a trigger-happy shooter beyond that point.

Melee Combat

Tool	Attack	Damage Type	Power	Cooldown	Likelihood	Base DPS
Overall	-	-	9	2.00s	-	4.50
Limb	Blunt	Blunt	9	2.00s	50.00%	4.50
Limb	Poke	Blunt	9	2.00s	50.00%	4.50

Obtaining

Recurve bows can be purchased from neolithic war merchants and orbital combat suppliers, tribal and outlander settlements, or obtained from the following raider kinds:

Raider Kind	Chance	Average Quality	Health
Hunter	92.89%	Normal	50-180%

Recurve bows can also be manufactured at any smithy or crafting spot once the recurve bow research has been completed; from 40 wood and 5,000 ticks (1.39 mins) of work. Do note that you start with the required research project already completed with the lost tribe scenario. A crafting skill of at least 5 is required.

Graphs

The graphs assume a normal quality recurve bow against an adult human that's out in the open in clear weather. For DPS, projectile speed has also been factored into the equation, with the weighting based on the base amount of attacks that it'll take to put the aforementioned target into pain shock.

Weapons

Melee | Neolithic: Breach axe • Club • Ikwa • Knife (Jade) • Spear

Medieval: Gladius • Longsword • Mace • Axe • Warhammer

Ultra: Eltex staff • Monosword (Persona) • Plasmasword (Persona) • Zeushammer (Persona)

Improvised: Beer • Elephant tusk • Thrumbo horn • Wood

Ranged | Neolithic: Greatbow • Pila • Recurve bow • Short bow • Flamebow

Industrial: Assault rifle • Autopistol • Bolt-action rifle • Chain shotgun • Heavy SMG • Launcher (EMP, Incendiary, Smoke, Toxbomb ) • LMG • Machine pistol • Minigun • Pump shotgun • Revolver • Sniper rifle

Spacer: Charge lance • Charge rifle

Consumables: Doomsday rocket launcher • Triple rocket launcher

Throwables: EMP grenades • Frag grenades • Molotov cocktails • Tox grenades

Mechanoid: Heavy charge blaster • Inferno cannon • Needle gun • Thump cannon • Beam graser • Charge blaster turret • Hellsphere cannon • Mini-flameblaster • Mini-shotgun • Slugthrower • Spiner • Toxic needle gun

Structures: Autocannon • Mini-turret gun • Mortar (Weapon) • Uranium slug cannon • Auto-mortar • Inferno cannon (Turret) • Light charge blaster • Mini-slugger • Tactical turret gun

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 |name = Recurve bow
 |image = RecurveBow.png|Recurve bow
-|description = An advanced recurve bow. Its construction behaves like a tuned spring, storing energy more efficiently and delivering a faster shot.
+|description = A recurve bow. Its construction behaves like a tuned spring, storing energy more efficiently and delivering a faster shot.
 |type = Equipment
 |type2 = Weapons
 |class = Neolithic
 |damage = 14
-|range = 32
+|armorPenetration = 21
-|accuracyTouch = 90
+|range = 25.9
+|accuracyTouch = 70
 |accuracyShort = 78
 |accuracyMedium = 65
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 |mode = Single-Shot
 |warmup = 87
-|cooldown = 100
+|cooldown = 99
 |burst = 1
 |DPS = DPS
 |velocity = 56
 |buy = {{icon|wood|40}}
-|sell = {{icon|silver|91}}
+|sell = {{icon|silver|66}}
 |mass base = 0.85
+|stoppingPower = 1
 }}
 </onlyinclude>
-{{info|The Recurve bow is a light, single-shot ranged weapon in RimWorld which deals a moderate amount of damage per shot; slightly longer time between shots; slightly higher accuracy and slightly longer range.}}
+{{info|The Recurve bow is a light, single-shot ranged weapon in RimWorld which deals a moderate amount of damage per shot; slightly longer time between shots; moderate range and slightly higher accuracy.}}
-Unlike other bows in RimWorld, recurve bow arrows actually stab their victim rather than cut, owing to the higher velocity arrows having deeper penetration. As a result, targets struck by a recurve bow arrow will actually bleed out almost as quickly as if they were stuck by a [[great bow]]'s arrow.
-=== Combat performance ===
+==Overview==
+The recurve bow has the highest armor penetration out of all neolithic-tier ranged weapons, even being somewhat higher than the [[greatbow]]'s. Projectile velocity is also good, roughly matching that of pistols and shotguns; arrows fired from a recurve bow stab instead of cut due to this, which results in heavier bleeding which is comparable to a greatbow's projectile. Range is also good for a neolithic weapon, as well as overall accuracy and a stopping power that's high enough to stagger [[human]]s. Recurve bows are also somewhat easy to acquire due to their low technology requirement and resource costs, as well as the cheapest weapons that can stagger humans.
-It'll take 3 shots to the torso to kill an unarmored human with a recurve bow, or around 6-7 against a human with a normal armor vest. The recurve bow can also instantly remove digits, cripple eyeballs, and cause lethal brain damage if the victim's skull is unprotected. Limbs will be crippled in 2 shots against an unarmored human.
+Despite being good for a neolithic weapon though, caution is still advisable when engaging enemies with basic firearms such as [[autopistol]]s and [[revolver]]s. Medium-distance accuracy is good enough that the recurve bow's DPS towards 25 cells is actually comparable to that of the revolver's, though the latter will still handily beat this weapon if much closer than that distance.
-Having a comparatively long time between shots, being single-shot in nature and having a fairly long range, the recurve bow is best used in the hands of a skilled archer. A healthy level 8 traitless shooter, level 4 careful shooter or level 10 trigger-happy can somewhat efficiently use the recurve bow up to 22 tiles. However, a level 13 traitless shooter, level 10 careful shooter or level 15 trigger-happy is advisable to efficiently use the recurve bow up to its maximum range of 32 cells. Any less than the aforementioned skill/trait combinations, and you'll probably want to look to other weapons such as [[pila]].
+Overall damage output for the recurve bow is still lower than the greatbow's though, and the greatbow will still fare better against armored targets than the recurve bow despite the armor penetration advantage.
-On average, the recurve bow is best paired with a careful shooter until level 12, and with a trigger-happy shooter beyond that point.
+Since the recurve bow's accuracy is somewhat consistent overall and projectile velocity is good, it's somewhat of a jack-of-all-trades and is thus usable with effect at all distances within its range. Regarding combat roles, the recurve bow can do well as both a damage-dealing weapon as well as a support weapon. This weapon's also good for hunting due to its respectable per-shot damage as well as range.
-===Obtaining===
+Against an unarmored human, a recurve bow can kill with 3 hits to the torso, 2-3 hits to the head, 2 hits to the neck, or 1 hit to the brain; cripple limbs in 2 hits; and cripple or destroy eyes and digits with a single hit. It'll generally take around 5 hits (~21.5 seconds average) to incapacitate that human from pain shock.
-Recurve bows can be purchased from neolithic war merchants and orbital combat suppliers, or obtained from the following [[raider#Humanlike|raider]] kinds:
-'''Tribal:'''
+Overall, the recurve bow is best paired with a careful shooter up to level 11, and with a trigger-happy shooter beyond that point.
-* Hunter - 88.5% chance (normal [[quality]] on average, 50-180% health)
-Recurve bows can also be manufactured at [[fueled smithy|a]] [[electric smithy|smithy]] or crafting spot once the [[research#RecurveBow|recurve bow]] research has been completed; from 40 [[wood]] and {{ticks|12000}} of work.
+====Melee Combat====
+{| {{STDT| c_12 text-center}}
+!Tool
+!Attack
+!Damage Type
+!Power
+!Cooldown
+!Likelihood
+!Base DPS
+|-
+!Overall
+!-
+!-
+!9
+!2.00s
+!-
+!4.50
+|- newline
+|Limb
+|Blunt
+|Blunt
+|9
+|2.00s
+|50.00%
+|4.50
+|- newline
+|Limb
+|Poke
+|Blunt
+|9
+|2.00s
+|50.00%
+|4.50
+|}
-Being producible at a [[crafting spot]] and considering that you start with the required research to produce recurve bows with the 'Lost Tribe' scenario, the recurve bow is an easily-acquired weapon in any biome that isn't extreme (i.e. not extreme desert, ice sheet or sea ice).
+===Obtaining===
+Recurve bows can be purchased from neolithic war merchants and orbital combat suppliers, tribal and outlander settlements, or obtained from the following [[raider#Humanlike|raider]] kinds:
-===Conclusion & Comparison===
+{| class="wikitable sortable"
-The recurve bow has a faster projectile speed than any other neolithic ranged weapon: ~33.6 c/s versus ~29.4 c/s for the greatbow; ~26.4 c/s for the short bow and ~15.6 c/s for a pilum. In terms of sustained damage output, it's considerably better than the short bow, but also falls considerably behind the more powerful and harder-to-get greatbow. The recurve bow also isn't able to cripple limbs or sever heads as quickly or efficiently as pila.
+|-
+! Raider Kind !! Chance !! Average Quality !! Health
+|-
+| Hunter || 92.89% || Normal || 50-180%
+|}
-When stacking the recurve bow up against modern firearms, the bargain-basement [[revolver]] has a 46.5% better damage output than the recurve bow at 4 cells. However, this gap gradually narrows, with the DPS margin only being 17.6% in the revolver's favor at 26 cells. Still, both weapons get considerably overshadowed by better options by the later stages of the early game. However, like the great bow; the recurve bow has a better range than most modern firearms, only being surpassed by the [[bolt-action rifle]], [[doomsday rocket launcher]], [[triple rocket launcher]] and [[sniper rifle]].
+Recurve bows can also be manufactured at [[fueled smithy|any]] [[electric smithy|smithy]] or [[crafting spot]] once the [[research#RecurveBow|recurve bow]] research has been completed; from 40 [[wood]] and {{ticks|5000}} of work. Do note that you start with the required research project already completed with the lost tribe [[scenario system|scenario]]. A crafting skill of at least 5 is required.

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