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Mounted Ballista

Weapon
Mounted Ballista

A ballista mounted on wheels, designed for mobility and capable of firing bolts at distant targets. Can be towed by horses.

Shortname: ballista.mounted

Item ID: -759279626

Despawns after 40m on the ground

Craft recipe
Metal Fragments250xMetal FragmentsGears1xGearsSheet Metal2xSheet MetalMounted Ballista1xMounted Ballista
Workbench tier
T2
Craft time
30s
Recycling yields

Radtown Recycler

Metal Fragments150xMetal FragmentsGearsGears(+1 at 60%)Sheet Metal1xSheet Metal(+1 at 20%)

Safe Zone Recycler

Metal Fragments100xMetal FragmentsGearsGears(+1 at 40%)Sheet MetalSheet Metal(+1 at 80%)

Approximate — recyclers return a share of an item's crafting cost (60% at monument Recyclers, 40% at Safe Zone Recyclers), not a fixed table.

Placed entity
Health
150 HP
Decay delay
2h
Decays over
2h

Health once placed in the world — not to be confused with the item's own condition/durability while held.

Raid cost
ExplosiveDamage / chargeCharges needed
Timed Explosive ChargeTimed Explosive Charge5501
Satchel ChargeSatchel Charge4751
Beancan GrenadeBeancan Grenade1152
F1 GrenadeF1 Grenade2251
Molotov CocktailMolotov Cocktail355
FlashbangFlashbang208
Bee GrenadeBee Grenade208

Assumes no damage resistance — unlike building tiers, this entity has no separate protection multiplier, so raw HP is divided by raw damage per charge.

Loot sources
★Ballista100%Weapons Collection (Good Rolls)3.1%Workbench Experiment Tier 20.9%Lootbag Large Contents0.7%Gold Egg (Contents)0.6%Silver Egg (Contents)0.5%Radtown (Elite)0.2%Generic<0.1%

Chance the item is included whenever that container rolls, resolved through nested loot tables. Approximate — doesn't account for seasonal or event-restricted rotations.