Recurve Bow (Primitive Plus)
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Recurve Bow | |
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Masters of the bow often become great conquerers. Requires arrows to fire. | |
Weapon | |
Type | Bow |
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Ranged damage | 110 / 40 / 60 / 150 / 320 |
Rate of fire | 0.4 RPS |
Reload time | 1.5 seconds |
DPS | 44 / 16 / 24 / 60 / 128 |
Item | |
Weight | 7.0 |
Durability | 80.0 |
Single use | No |
Added in | v1.4 (Primitive Plus) |
Spawn Command
cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/Mods/PrimitivePlusMod/Items/Weapons/PrimalItem_WeaponRecurveBow.PrimalItem_WeaponRecurveBow'" 1 0 0 | |
Crafting | |
Required level | Level 60 |
Engram Points | 35 EP |
Crafting XP | 4 XP |
Crafting Time | 5s |
Crafted in | ![]() |
Ingredients | |
The Recurve Bow is an advanced ranged Weapon in the Primitive+-DLC of ARK: Survival Evolved. It can be unlocked at level 65 and needs Beeswax to craft which makes it a late-game weapon. Once unlocked the Recurve Bow is the most powerful weapon that uses arrows as ammo. Its damage and rate of fire is slightly better than that of a Crossbow. Using stone arrows, it deals 110 damage with 100% weapon damage while a Crossbow deals 95 damage. When firing Obsidian Arrows the damage of an Recurve Bow is even twice as much as of Using a Crossbow (150 vs. 75). This makes the Recurve Bow the best choice for obsidian arrows, which are ineffective with Crossbows.
Usage[edit | edit source]
The Recurve Bow is used like a Bow and has to be loaded manually, but loading time is much shorter and even shorter than that of a Crossbow. Like other bows, the Recurve Bow cannot be used underwater. As usually, weapon damage depends on weapon quality and type of arrows. A Recurve Bow can fire all types of arrows and can therefore be used to tame creatures with Tranq Arrows.
Shooting a tranq arrow at a creature increases torpidity instantly by 2x of the weapon damage (40 for Trang Arrows) and gives additional torpor equal to 2.5x weapon damage over the course of the next 4 seconds. Taking this into account, a primitive Recurve Bow deals 180 torpor with one shot, while a Crossbow deals 157.5. After 4 seconds the torpidity bar immediately starts to drop. The effects of multiple shots in this 4-second interval are stacked instantly, so you don't have to wait between shots until the 4 seconds are over.
Flame Arrows deal an instant damage of about 100 and set the target on fire which deals additional damage. In total, a single Flame Arrow fired from a Recurve Bow deals 320 damage in a few seconds to most creatures.
Notes[edit | edit source]
- Does the most damage of current Bows in-game as of Prim+ v1.4 on PC.
- Many creatures take more damage from headshots. Flying creatures take an additional 50% damage. All of these bonuses also apply on the torpor effect from Tranq Arrows.
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