Is the slingshot something you find or something you craft?

[Oceansize]

Would like to know how to get access to the slingshot, TY

[WraithSquadronRebel]

craft, but the idiots forgot to put a survival weapons slot in there manuel....

[Oceansize]

SO....no slingshot until they fix? Or use dev console to spawn?

Or do I put a stick or something down on my crafting cloth and then hope there's a blueprint for the slingshot associated with the stick? I'm at work atm, can't look myself.

[Crappy]

Originally posted by Oceansize:

SO....no slingshot until they fix? Or use dev console to spawn?

Or do I put a stick or something down on my crafting cloth and then hope there's a blueprint for the slingshot associated with the stick? I'm at work atm, can't look myself.

They're not idiots. If you place sonething on the crafting nat and hover over the cog wheel, a list of all the items you are able to craft with that particular one will appear.

I believe a slingshot is stick, cloth, and electrical tape.

[jexxor]

It's something you craft, use once and then ignore.

[Sarkin]

Originally posted by Blazingskull76557:

It's something you craft, use once and then ignore.

Or....load it with molotives an shoot them at hostiles.

[Seriously Unserious]

Originally posted by Blazingskull76557:

It's something you craft, use once and then ignore.

I find it very useful to "tag" a cannibal who's being annoying and racing around me and taking cheap shots, but whenever I turn to face them, they keep running away and staying just out of range. Works like a charm, does a little damage, and gets them to charge most of the time so they stop the BS and just enguage in the fight.

Oh, and in a pinch, it's very useful for hunting birds, and other small game, which it 1-shots them and is a LOT easier to hit stuff with then the glitchy bow that sometimes does no damge on hits or hits pass through the target on a failed collision detection. I've had at least 50% of my bow and arrow shots go right through a deer or canibal, even at point blank range Legolas shots.

[[toj.cc]Abea]

slingshot is stick, cloth, and electrical tape.

[jexxor]

@sarkin & seriously unserious. Interesting uses for what I considered an underpowered basically useless weapon. You can actually shoot molotovs with it? Cool!

[Oceansize]

Thanks guys, I wasn't sure what to drop on the cloth to find the blueprint, I guess trying the stick should have been pretty obvious. Now I've got it.

[Seriously Unserious]

Originally posted by Blazingskull76557:

@sarkin & seriously unserious. Interesting uses for what I considered an underpowered basically useless weapon. You can actually shoot molotovs with it? Cool!

Here's a new development. Recently, while exploring the hanging caves, I managed to sneak attack a sleeping canibal with the slingshot. My intention was to agro him, but much to my surprose I managed to get a headshot with the stone and 1-shot him with the "useless" sling.

Seems to me like one of those useful items that gets a bad rep and people just don't look for the uses because of the hearsay.

I found a similar thing in They Are Billions with the Lookout/Radar towers. Word started circulated about them being "useless" just because they don't shoot anything, yet I won games from using them because they told me such valuable information about the layout of the map, where zombie hordes were coming from and where they'll have to hit.

I guess the takeaway from all this is keep your mind open, experiment and form your own opinion on things. Good advice for real life as well as for video games, IMO.

[Fokkas]

I like to hunt birds with the slingshot. Use stones to hunt birds for meat and feathers while you stock up to make feathers.