Catapult

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Catapult
The catapult is a special machine which allows you fire all kinds of things into the World Beyond: very useful for preparing the ground for faraway expeditions!
Category	Buildings
Sub Category	Watchtower
Blueprints Blueprint	Construction Blueprint (common) common
Parent building	Watchtower Watchtower
Action Points cost	40
Resource cost	Twisted Plank×2 Wrought Iron×1 Patchwork Beam×1 Metal Support×1
Unlocks	See list

Once upon a time, some tinkerers decided to make a weapon to rain mass destruction on the incoming hordes. This resulted in a towering structure with a long stretchy handle and a cup at the end. Unfortunately, it took forever to crank up and tended to misfire, explode, break, or otherwise completely and utterly malfunction. And it wasn't a very good weapon either.

Use

Once the town has built the Catapult, a random Citizen Citizen will get a message from The Crow that they have been selected as the one to operate the town catapult, and that they should go to the catapult area.

• If you are the citizen that was selected a new icon will appear next to the area where you can find links for projects and the watchtower, workshop, etc.
• When you get to the Catapult area you will be given an option to enter (X,Y) coordinates to launch any item in your inventory.
  • This action will require 4 per item until a Calibrated Catapult Upgraded Catapult is built.

Notes

• In Season 3:
  • Primitive Catapult was renamed to Catapult.
  • The description changed slightly, the old one was:
    The catapult is a special machine which allows you fire all kinds of things into the World Beyond: very useful for preparing the ground for tomorrow's expeditions.
• Containers like Manbag Manbag or Shopping Trolley Shopping Trolley have been tested to not be transportable by the catapult.
• The Catapult has roughly 10%-20% chance to shoot imprecisely.
  • An imprecise projection causes the object to land 1 away from the targeted zone.
• Items sometimes break into Unrecognisable Remains Unrecognisable Remains on the zone they hit when catapulted.
  • Exploding Grapefruit Exploding Grapefruits always break.

External links

• die2nite.com help topic on catapult