Harpoon Gun

Harpoon Gun
Stats
Type	Weapon
Item Cost	70 / 100 Credits
Ammunition	Spear
Ammo Cost	50 Credits
Ammo Capacity	5
Skill Requirements
Weapons	30%
Insufficient Skill Handicap	Spread/Inaccuracy of the weapon is increased by 10x.
Crafting
Constructible?	Yes
Deconstructible?	Yes
Materials	Steel Plastic

The Harpoon Gun is a handheld weapon that can be acquired in Barotrauma.

Function

Harpoon guns act as short-to-medium-range weaponry by firing spears at a high velocity. The Harpoon gun is effective both on board of the submarine and underwater, and upon striking another crew member, creature or wall, the spear may become lodged in the target (does not apply to the Explosive Spear) and can usually be recovered and reused. This property (plus the small material cost of the Ammunition) makes the Harpoon Gun a very reliable weapon.

Fired spears deliver a moderate amount of Damage and Bleeding, and are pretty effective at stopping the smaller denizens of Europa, such as Crawlers and Mud Raptors.

It should be noted that Characters with inadequate Weapons skill (less than 30) will suffer from a greatly increased spread, greatly reducing the effective accuracy of the gun.

Usage

The harpoon gun requires both hands to be equipped and must be manually loaded with individual Spears before firing. By default, the right mouse button aims the harpoon gun toward the cursor. Left-clicking will then fire a spear in the corresponding direction.

Fired Spears may be picked up as any other item with Left Mouse Button by default, and reloaded into the Harpoon gun.

Damage Values

Item	Afflictions	Structure Damage	Projectile Speed	Is Sticky?	Is Fragile?	Price	Raw materials
Spear	Strength: 30 Strength: 30 Duration: 0.2	10	20	True	False	30 / 50 / 75	Steel Bar
Explosive Spear	Strength: 30 Explosion, Radius 200 Strength: 40 Strength: 50	15	20	False	True	175 / 200	Spear C-4 Block
Physicorium Spear	Strength: 50 Strength: 30 Duration: 0.2	10	20	True	False	N/A	Physicorium

Item	Spear	Explosive Spear	Physicorium Spear
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Structure Damage	10	15	10
Projectile Speed	20	20	20
Stick to Entities?	True	False	True
Can be Recovered?	False	True	False
Price	30 / 50 / 75	175 / 200	N/A
Raw materials	Steel Bar	Spear C-4 Block	Physicorium

Trivia

• Pre-release videos for Barotrauma showed that spears were originally going to have a rope attached between them and the harpoon gun. This would allow the player to retract a spear back into the barrel of the gun after launching it.

Gallery

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  Example of a spear sticking through a player's head.

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  The harpoon gun striking another player as seen in a pre-release video. Note the rope attached to the spear.

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  The harpoon gun being shot.