Weapons

You fight the steppe creatures and War Golems yourself. Every epoch brings a better weapon. Firearms are real items: you hold them in the hotbar, and the loaded shots stay in the weapon, even when you switch items, put it in a chest or log out.

How magazines work

• A new weapon is empty. Press Ability 3 (Hytale's "Use Ability 3" key; check your controls settings) to reload. It takes one ammunition item from your inventory per shot, round by round, until the magazine is full. Firing interrupts reloading.
• Pulling the trigger with an empty magazine also starts reloading.
• The ammo counter shows the loaded shots.
• Where a weapon takes two kinds of ammunition, it loads the steel kind first and falls back to the plain kind. In hand weapons both deal the same damage.
• Every shot makes a little noise (see Noise and Unrest).
• In Creative mode, reloading costs nothing.

You get a Flintlock Pistol when you first enter the world, and the lockers in the bunker hold ammunition.

Firearms

	Flintlock Pistol	Shotgun	Assault Rifle	Rune Rifle	Rocket Launcher
Epoch	0	1	2	4	4
Unlocked by	Start	Firearms	Steel Ammunition	Rune Rifle	Rocketry
Magazine	6	2	20	10	1
Ammunition	Steel Cartridge, then Cartridge	Steel Shotgun Shell, then Shotgun Shell	Steel Cartridge, then Cartridge	Battery	Rocket
Damage	10 per bullet	7 pellets × 5	8 per bullet	30, pierces	Explosion
Notes		Short range, spread	Hold the trigger for automatic fire	Fast beam, barely drops	Explodes on impact
Recipe	5 Iron Plate, 5 Copper Plate	15 Iron Plate, 5 Iron Gear, 10 Copper Plate, 5 Wood	10 Iron Gear, 5 Copper Plate, 10 Iron Plate	1 Assault Rifle, 5 Rune Slate, 5 Processing Unit	5 Iron Gear, 5 Steel Plate, 5 Advanced Circuit

The rocket's explosion hurts creatures around the impact and deals 60 damage to nests and groups within 3 blocks. It does not break blocks. Rockets are the answer to Brutes, War Golems and nests.

Flamethrower

	Flamethrower
Epoch	3
Unlocked by	Flamethrower
Magazine	10 bursts
Ammunition	Fuel Canister, one per burst
Damage	Fire damage 12 plus burning, about 6 blocks range, hits everything in the flame
Recipe	5 Steel Plate, 10 Iron Gear, 2 Pipe T2

The flames also set blocks on fire. Fuel Canisters come from the Chemical Plant (Light Oil and Iron Plate, see Oil Processing).

Explosives

Both come with the research Explosives (epoch 3).

	Grenade	TNT
Use	Right-click throws it	Place it, then Use lights it (3 s fuse)
Radius	3 blocks	4 blocks
Damage to nests and groups	60	400
Other effects	Hurts creatures near the blast. Does not break blocks or buildings.	Blasts mountain walls in the radius (never the ground layer), hurts players in the radius, damages foreign buildings where raids are allowed
Stack	20
Recipe	1 Explosives, 2 Iron Plate	2 Explosives, 1 Iron Plate

TNT is used up when it explodes. Use it to clear a mountain wall that blocks your way, or against a nest. Stand back: it hurts you too. For raids see Teams and Raids.

Ammunition

Ammunition	Unlocked by	Recipe	Used by
Cartridge	Start	2 Iron Plate + 1 Coal → 5	Flintlock Pistol, Assault Rifle, Gun Tower, Armored Car
Steel Cartridge	Steel Ammunition	1 Cartridge + 1 Steel Plate	Same as Cartridge
Uranium Cartridge	Uranium Ammunition	1 Steel Cartridge + 1 U-238	Gun Tower, Armored Car
Shotgun Shell	Firearms	2 Copper Plate + 2 Iron Plate → 5	Shotgun
Steel Shotgun Shell	Steel Ammunition	1 Shotgun Shell + 1 Steel Plate	Shotgun
Rocket	Rocketry	1 Explosives + 2 Iron Plate + 1 Electronic Circuit	Rocket Launcher, Rune Tank
Battery	Batteries	see Power	Rune Rifle, Rune Tank
Fuel Canister	Flamethrower	Chemical Plant	Flamethrower

In a Gun Tower and in the Armored Car's machine gun, better cartridges hit harder: 5 damage per shot for a Cartridge, 8 for a Steel Cartridge, 16 for a Uranium Cartridge. See Defense.

All weapons and ammunition (except Batteries and Fuel Canisters) are crafted by hand or in a Fabricator. Research unlocks the recipes (see Research and Crafting).

See also

• Enemies
• Armor
• Defense
• Vehicles