# A crossbow with a rubber hose as it's string is a slingshot

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/a-crossbow-with-a-rubber-hose-as-its-string-is-a-slingshot/1310>\
**Category:** The Drawing Board\
**Created:** [May 19, 2013, 3:54am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/a-crossbow-with-a-rubber-hose-as-its-string-is-a-slingshot/1310 "2013-05-19T03:54:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bladerock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f04885/32.png) [@Bladerock](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Bladerock)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 3:54am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/a-crossbow-with-a-rubber-hose-as-its-string-is-a-slingshot/1310/1 "2013-05-19T03:54:43Z")

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Well, technically a speargun. The crossbow in the game uses “rubber hose” to craft when a real crossbow derives it’s power from it’s arms in the same way a bow does. It should basically be the same recipe as the bow with some extra wood for the stock.

Additionally, i’d like to point out that someone messed up arrows and bolts by giving them 0 range in 0.5 and placing their usual range in the weapon’s range modifier. Although i guess whoever did this did so because these ammunitions receive their range from the weapon that fires them, this messes with the way the game usually works by doing things like making it impossible to fire crossbow bolts from rail mounted crossbows on guns.

More importantly!  
[Repeating](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDeAxTxzorE) [Crossbows](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAyCVTV8-lM) [when?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqterCJG_Uw)

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**Author:** ![Austupaio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5ac83/32.png) [@Austupaio](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Austupaio)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 6:38am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/a-crossbow-with-a-rubber-hose-as-its-string-is-a-slingshot/1310/2 "2013-05-19T06:38:15Z")

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I had forgotten to make a thread related to this.

Where the hell do you buy a crossbow that uses a rubber hose instead of a cable or string?

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**Author:** ![AerialK7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@AerialK7](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/AerialK7)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 6:40am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/a-crossbow-with-a-rubber-hose-as-its-string-is-a-slingshot/1310/3 "2013-05-19T06:40:22Z")

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At the back of a trailer park

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**Author:** ![Soron](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/soron/32/885_2.png) [@Soron](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Soron)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 9:25am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/a-crossbow-with-a-rubber-hose-as-its-string-is-a-slingshot/1310/4 "2013-05-19T09:25:33Z")

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There are rail mounted crossbows? _sigh_ Best get to fixing that, then.

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**Author:** ![Austupaio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5ac83/32.png) [@Austupaio](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Austupaio)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 9:43am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/a-crossbow-with-a-rubber-hose-as-its-string-is-a-slingshot/1310/5 "2013-05-19T09:43:51Z")

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Not really that bad of an idea.

Although, I’d love to see something like Sam Fisher’s M203 (I’m fairly certain) launcher that you could load with noisemakers, shockers and various other useful items.

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**Author:** ![ejseto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9dc877/32.png) [@ejseto](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/ejseto)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 12:10pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/a-crossbow-with-a-rubber-hose-as-its-string-is-a-slingshot/1310/6 "2013-05-19T12:10:30Z")

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> [@Soron](#):
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> There are rail mounted crossbows? _sigh_ Best get to fixing that, then.

Probably only if you wish for it or mod it into your game. I’ve never found one.

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**Author:** ![KA101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/278dde/32.png) [@KA101](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/KA101)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 6:50pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/a-crossbow-with-a-rubber-hose-as-its-string-is-a-slingshot/1310/7 "2013-05-19T18:50:00Z")

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I bought one from an NPC back in 02Feb. Probably not common in the spawning tables.

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**Author:** ![Weyrling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7bcc69/32.png) [@Weyrling](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Weyrling)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 7:38pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/a-crossbow-with-a-rubber-hose-as-its-string-is-a-slingshot/1310/8 "2013-05-19T19:38:28Z")

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> [@KA101](#):
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> I bought one from an NPC back in 02Feb. Probably not common in the spawning tables.

I found one in a gun store once, but I didn’t survive long enough to try it out.