Ballista Turret

Ballista Turret
Mount this to fire large piercing Spear Bolts, useful for bringing down large dinos and structures.
Weapon
Type	Emplacement
Ammo used	Spear Bolt Chain Bola
Ranged damage	600
Rate of fire	0.77 RPS
DPS	462
Structure
Health	7,000.0
Item
Weight	4.0
Stack size	1
Added in	Patch 214.0
Spawn Command cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/CoreBlueprints/Items/Structures/Misc/PrimalItemStructure_TurretBallista.PrimalItemStructure_TurretBallista'" 1 0 0 or cheat GFI TurretBall 1 0 0
Crafting
Required level	Level 29
Engram Points	25 EP
Crafting XP	240 XP
Unlocks	Catapult Turret Harpoon Launcher
Crafted in	Smithy Argentavis Saddle Castoroides Saddle Thorny Dragon Saddle  Tek Replicator
Required Stations	Refining Forge
Ingredients
Resources breakdown [Expand] 500 × Wood 300 × Metal Ingot 600 × Metal 250 × Stone 200 × Fiber 100 × Thatch 100 × Hide Total Base Ingredients 250 × Stone 100 × Hide 500 × Wood 100 × Thatch 200 × Fiber 600 × Metal

The Ballista Turret is a stationary turret used for firing Spear Bolts and Chain Bolas. Players must mount the turret to control and fire it.

Notes

• The weight of the materials is incredible and will quickly encumber even the largest of dinos that aren't designed to take the load, even encumbering low level brontosauruses. The Ballista Turret is much lighter once assembled.

• The Ballista Turret is treated as a stone structure and can only be damaged by:
  • Metal Weapons (5%)
  • Tek Sword (~218%)
  • Explosives (150%)
  • Ballista Turret (40%)
  • Cannon (~137%)
  • Therizinosaur (Headbutt only, ~2%)
  • Arthropluera
  • Chalicotherium
  • Dunkleosteus (15%)
  • Deathworm
  • Alpha Predators (10%)
  • DodoRex (300%)
  • Dodo Wyvern (300%)
  • Bosses (10%)
  • Titanosaur (~462%)
  • Defense Unit (~462%)
• These can damage stone, but can not damage auto turrets:
  • Giganotosaurus (15%)
  • Tek Rifle (~50%)
  • Rock Elemental

Painting and Color Regions

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