BlockFactory:Weapons and Armor

You fight the steppe creatures and War Golems yourself, with weapons from a flintlock pistol up to a rocket launcher, and you protect yourself with armor. Every epoch brings better gear. All weapons, ammunition and armor are crafted by hand or in a Fabricator once research unlocks them; only Batteries and Fuel Canisters come from the Chemical Plant. For the creatures see Enemies.

Magazines

Firearms keep their loaded shots in the weapon itself. The shots stay loaded when you switch items, put the weapon in a chest or log out.

• A new weapon is empty. Press Ability 3 (Hytale's third ability key, see your control settings) to reload. The weapon takes one ammunition item from your inventory per shot, round by round, until the magazine is full or you run out. Firing interrupts reloading.
• Pulling the trigger with an empty magazine starts reloading as well.
• 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 (2 units, see Enemies).
• In Creative mode, reloading costs nothing.

You get a Flintlock Pistol the first time you enter a world.

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 per beam	explosion, 20 to creatures within 5 blocks
Time between shots	0.4 s	1 s	0.12 s	0.25 s	1 s
Notes	one shot per click	short range, wide spread	hold the trigger for automatic fire	hold the trigger; fast beam that 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

Flamethrower

	Epoch	Unlocked by	Magazine	Ammunition	Recipe
Flamethrower	3	Flamethrower	10 bursts	Fuel Canister, one per burst	5 Steel Plate + 10 Iron Gear + 2 Pipe T2

Hold the trigger to keep firing, one burst every 0.25 seconds. Fuel Canisters come from the Chemical Plant (10 Light Oil + 1 Iron Plate → 5, see Oil Processing).

Explosives

Both come with the research Explosives (Epoch 3).

	Grenade	TNT
Use	right-click throws it	place it, then Use it to light it (3 second fuse)
Radius	3 blocks	4 blocks
Damage to nests and attack groups	60	400 (to every creature of a group)
Other effects	hurts creatures near the blast; breaks no blocks and no buildings	blasts away mountain wall in the radius (never the ground layer), deals 100 damage to players in the radius, damages other teams' buildings where the raid rules allow it
Stack	20
Recipe	1 Explosives + 2 Iron Plate	2 Explosives + 1 Iron Plate

TNT is used up when it explodes. Use it to open 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	Epoch	Unlocked by	Recipe	Used by
	Cartridge	0	Start	2 Iron Plate + 1 Coal → 5	Flintlock Pistol, Assault Rifle, Gun Tower, Armored Car
	Steel Cartridge	2	Steel Ammunition	1 Cartridge + 1 Steel Plate	same as Cartridge
	Uranium Cartridge	5	Uranium Ammunition	1 Steel Cartridge + 1 U-238	Gun Tower, Armored Car
	Shotgun Shell	1	Firearms	2 Copper Plate + 2 Iron Plate → 5	Shotgun
	Steel Shotgun Shell	2	Steel Ammunition	1 Shotgun Shell + 1 Steel Plate	Shotgun
	Rocket	4	Rocketry	1 Explosives + 2 Iron Plate + 1 Electronic Circuit	Rocket Launcher, Rune Tank
	Battery	3	Batteries	20 Sulfuric Acid + 1 Iron Plate + 1 Copper Plate (Chemical Plant)	Rune Rifle
	Fuel Canister	3	Flamethrower	10 Light Oil + 1 Iron Plate → 5 (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 and Vehicles.

Light and Heavy Armor

Each set has four pieces: helmet, chest, gloves and legs. Each piece reduces physical and projectile damage by a percentage and adds health. Left- or right-click a piece in your hand to put it on.

	Light Armor	Heavy Armor
Epoch	1	2
Unlocked by	Light Armor	Heavy Armor
Helmet	3 % less damage, +5 health	7 % less damage, +10 health
Chest	6 % less damage, +10 health	12 % less damage, +20 health
Gloves	2 % less damage, +3 health	5 % less damage, +6 health
Legs	4 % less damage, +7 health	9 % less damage, +15 health
Full set	+25 health	+51 health

Recipe	Light Armor	Heavy Armor
Helmet	3 Hide + 2 Iron Plate	4 Steel Plate + 2 Hide
Chest	6 Hide + 4 Iron Plate	8 Steel Plate + 3 Hide
Gloves	2 Hide + 1 Iron Plate	2 Steel Plate + 1 Hide
Legs	4 Hide + 3 Iron Plate	6 Steel Plate + 2 Hide

You get Hide from hunting (see Hunting and Farming).

Modular Armor

	Epoch	Unlocked by	Slot	Protection	Module slots	Recipe
Modular Armor	4	Modular Armor	chest	20 % less damage, +30 health	6	1 Heavy Armor (Chest) + 10 Processing Unit + 20 Steel Plate

Putting it on and adding modules

• Left-click with the armor in your hand to put it on.
• Right-click with the armor in your hand to open its window. It shows your energy, your shield, the 6 module slots and your inventory. Click a module in your inventory to insert it, left-click a slot to insert the modules from your inventory, and right-click a slot to take its module out.
• Right-click a block with a module in your hand to put it straight into the armor you are wearing.
• /armor shows the modules, energy and shield of the armor you wear. /armor --remove takes the last module out.

You can install the same module more than once. Energy and shield belong to you, not to the armor item: they are kept when you log out. Without a Modular Armor on, your shield drops to 0.

Modules

All modules are unlocked by the research Modular Armor (Epoch 4).

	Module	Effect	Power	Recipe
	Shield Module	25 shield points that take damage before your health. Recharges 3 s after the last hit, 5 points per second.	50 kW while recharging	5 Advanced Circuit + 10 Steel Plate
	Exoskeleton Module	you move 30 % faster	100 kW	5 Processing Unit + 10 Electric Engine + 20 Steel Plate
	Night Vision Module	a light around you and a green residual-light view; at night the sky around you gets brighter	10 kW	5 Advanced Circuit + 10 Steel Plate + 5 Glass
	Battery Module	stores 20 MJ for the other modules	none	5 Battery + 10 Steel Plate
	Solar Module	charges the armor by daylight	makes up to 30 kW in full sun	1 Solar Panel + 2 Advanced Circuit + 5 Steel Plate
	Goblin Backpack	a goblin in your backpack builds the nearest ghost within 8 blocks from the parts you carry, one every two seconds	20 kW	1 Trapped Goblin + 5 Processing Unit + 10 Hide

Energy

• The armor stores 1 MJ on its own, plus 20 MJ per Battery Module.
• Only the Solar Module charges it, depending on daylight. Without one, the armor does not recharge.
• Every second the shield recharges first. Then the Exoskeleton, the Night Vision and the Goblin Backpack get power, in that order. A module that does not get enough power stops working until there is enough again.
• Several Shield Modules add up: two give 50 points and recharge 10 per second.
• Drowning, suffocation and falling out of the world go through the shield.

The Goblin Backpack builds the same ghosts that Goblins build from their huts, for example ghosts placed with the Goblin Planner.

Repair Kit

	Epoch	Unlocked by	Effect	Recipe
Repair Kit	0	Start	restores 100 health of a damaged building, uses up one kit	2 Iron Gear + 2 Electronic Circuit

Right-click a damaged building with a Repair Kit in your hand. A message tells you how far the building is repaired. Kits stack to 50. Building health is listed on Buildings and Defense.

See also

• Enemies
• Defense
• Vehicles
• Death and Respawn