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Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead

A practical guide to what matters across CDDA’s scavenging, crafting, equipment, and specialist systems.

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.22 pipe rifle

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A home-made rifle. It is simply a pipe attached to a stock, with a hammer to strike the single round it holds.

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.44 Magnum pipe rifle

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A home-made rifle. It is simply a pipe attached to a stock, with a hammer to strike the single round it holds.

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12 gauge pistol

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A single shot pistol that loads 12 gauge shotgun shells, handcrafted from scrap.

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12-gauge Gatling gun

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An electrically driven six barrel Gatling shotgun, fed from handmade cloth belts. Even properly mounted, this seems like an unwieldy beast, and the six separate barrels make for difficult zeroing. The externally driven action means this is much less likely to jam.

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2-by-sword

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A plank with a handle and a whittled-down point. Not much good for slashing, but much better than your bare hands.

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adjustable wrench

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An adjustable crescent wrench. It is used in many mechanics crafting recipes.

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atlatl

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Although spear throwing contraptions were used throughout the entire world, this design in particular hails from Mesoamericas. It was especially popular among Peruvian natives, despite the Nahuatl origin of the name. It is essentially a carved piece of wooden shaft with a hollowed space to place the projectile of the same name. It'll also do well as a melee weapon in a pinch.

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barbed wire bat

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A baseball bat wrapped with barbed wire. A brutal melee weapon.

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baseball bat

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A sturdy wooden bat used to play the great American pastime. Makes for a great melee weapon too.

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basic pipe spear

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Three pipes tightly fit together with one end cut down to a point.

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blunderbuss

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A homemade version of a crude precursor to the shotgun.

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bō

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A wooden staff weapon used in Okinawan martial arts. Finely sanded and treated with oil for integrity.

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bokken

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A solid wood 'training' katana, exactingly crafted to mimic the weight and balance of the real thing. Despite its lack of a sharp metal edge, it's still quite capable of inflicting deadly wounds.

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bolt studded bat

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A baseball bat with bolts drilled into it, concentrating the force of an impact onto a smaller point like a real mace.

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bronze bill

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A long, slightly curved and hooked bronze blade on the end of a sturdy shaft. Could be used to thoroughly ruin something's day, or cut branches and small trees.

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bronze hammer

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A simple crude bronze hammer. It is not as sophisticated or useful as its steel alternative but it does get the job of hammering in nails well enough.

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bronze hoe

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A farming implement made from bronze. The added heft and durability should let you till soil for farming more easily as well.

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bronze mace

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While nothing more than a bronze sphere on a stick, it is still surprisingly effective.

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bronze pickaxe

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A heavy-headed cast and worked tool with a pointed wedge on one side for breaking stone and a flat wedge on the other for prying it out. You could mine with this.

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bronze pike

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A medieval weapon consisting of a very long wooden shaft tipped with a bronze spearhead.

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bronze shears

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A set of forged single-piece bronze shears for cutting fabrics. Made of two painstakingly sharpened blades connected by a carefully tempered twisted bridge.

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bronze sickle

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A handheld grass-cutting tool with a cast bronze blade, fastened to a wood handle wrapped with leather.

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bronze spear

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A forged spear with a bronze head.

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bronze sword

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An imitation of a sword made from bronze. It is a capable weapon, but it cannot compare to actual swords.

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cleaver

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generic item template

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coilgun

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A homemade gun, using electromagnets to accelerate a ferromagnetic projectile to high velocity. Powered by UPS.

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copper hatchet

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A primitive axe made from a small wedge of copper affixed to a short haft.

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crude rocket launcher

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An improvised, direct ignition launcher for home-made rockets. Essentially, a thick-walled steel pipe, equipped with a pilot light, several batteries and a simple circuit board. Effective only at medium range, barely.

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crude steel spear

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A stout wooden pole with a misshapen metal spike seated into the end and bolted into place.

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cudgel

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A long, slender wooden rod. While traditionally intended as a training tool, it still makes a good melee weapon in a pinch.

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dao

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An ancient Chinese sword consisting of a curved blade and a guard with a cupped design. Existing since the Shang dynasty, this one is made of bronze. One of the four major weapons in folklore, alongside the jian sword, qiang spear, and gun staff.

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dive knife

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A short, sturdy knife with a serrated edge for cutting lines and straps, and a blunt tip for prying. Used primarily by divers, this knife has been fitted with cork to slow its descent if dropped underwater, so it takes up more space than usual.

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dory

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A well-made spear with a bronze head, Greek in origin. Despite its large size, it was frequently used one-handed.

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double barrel .38 pistol

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A crudely made double barrel pistol firing .38 Special ammo. Unfortunately, the name is less about the double barrels and more about the number of shots you'll get before it breaks down on you.

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double roller speargun

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Underwater fishing device, this speargun has set of two rubber bands. It doesn't make you able to load two spears, but it can put a bit more power into shot. While highly effective when used underwater, it is nearly useless on dry land.

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double slam-fire pipe shotgun

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A crude shotgun, composed of four thick steel pipes, two end caps, and two nails. The lack of sights make this weapon only useful at point-blank range.

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double-barrel pipe shotgun

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A home-made double-barreled shotgun. It is simply two pipes attached to a stock, with a pair of hammers to strike the two rounds it holds.

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dynamite

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Several sticks of explosives, bundled together with a fuse attached. Use this item to light the fuse. You will, of course, need a lighter or matches in your inventory to do this. Shortly after lighting the fuse, this item will explode, so get away!

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dynamite bomb

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Several sticks of explosives stuffed inside a metal container and surrounded with shrapnel. The fuse is sticking out through a small hole. Use this item to light the fuse. You will, of course, need a lighter or matches in your inventory to do this. Shortly after lighting the fuse, this item will explode, so get away!

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electrified épée

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The modifications made to this fencing épée may not be sporting, but they might give you an edge in this final competition. Extra effort has been made to insulate the grip and a high voltage stun gun has been attached to the guard, wired through the electronic scoring circuit to the tip. Thrusting the sharpened tip into a foe and activating the momentary switch will deliver a painful electric shock.

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electrified foil

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The modifications made to this fencing foil may not be sporting, but they might give you an edge in this final competition. Extra effort has been made to insulate the grip and a high voltage stun gun has been attached to the guard, wired through the electronic scoring circuit to the tip. Thrusting the sharpened tip into a foe and activating the momentary switch will deliver a painful electric shock.

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electrified saber

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The modifications made to this fencing saber may not be sporting, but they might give you an edge in this final competition. Extra effort has been made to insulate the grip and a high voltage stun gun has been attached to the guard, wired to the tip along the saber's groove. Thrusting the sharpened tip into a foe and activating the momentary switch will deliver a painful electric shock.

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EMP bomb

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This substantial device is a bomb that generates an electromagnetic pulse. When activated, the plutonium fuel cell is drained into a flux compression generator, the detonation of which creates a strong magnetic field. When this magnetic field is fed into the antenna, it creates a strong electro-magnetic pulse.

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fire-hardened wooden spear

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A stout wooden pole with a fire-hardened point.

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folding knife

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A small folding knife with a locking blade and a pocket clip. Not as good a weapon as a solid fixed-blade knife, but better than a penknife.

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full-auto varmint rifle

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A handy and lightweight rifle, modified to fire semi and full auto.

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glass bladed macuahuitl

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A flat wooden club with sharpened pieces of glass stuck to both sides. Somewhat accurate to the actual thing.

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glass bladed tepoztopili

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This is a long polearm with an oar-like oval head covered with glass. Its shape make it suitable for both thrusting and slashing. It resembles the Mesoamerican Tepoztopili, though the shaft is not very sturdy.

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