Root Ripper

Root Ripper

If the bolt doesn't pin your foe in place, the roots surging up from the ground surely will.
Type	Crossbow
Damage	220 Pierce 10 Poison
Stamina	1 primary
Block	0 block force
Weight	-
Durability	50
Crafting Station	Black forge
Station Level	4
Crafting Materials	1x Ripper 8x Flametal 1x Jade
Biome	Ashlands
Spawn ID	`spawn CrossbowRipperNature`

The Root Ripper is a crossbow in Valheim, dealing 220 pierce and 10 poison. It carries the highest total damage of any crossbow in the game, 230 across all types. In the Ashlands that matters more than it sounds: Morgen shrug off blunt, fire, pierce and slash alike and not poison, so the poison half is the damage that actually lands. Pierce and poison damage hurts Cultist, Tick and Troll more than most things as well.

How to Craft

Crafted at Black forge, station level 4.
Costs 1x Ripper, 8x Flametal, 1x Jade at quality 1.
Materials can be found in the Ashlands biome.

When to Use It

Late game. Flametal is in the Ashlands, the furthest south the map goes and, until 1.0, the hardest biome in the game.

Upgrades

Upgraded 3 times after crafting, each level wanting the station built one step further up than the last. Every figure quoted elsewhere on this wiki is quality 1, so this is the ladder your own copy is somewhere on:

Quality	Crafting Station	Pierce	Poison	Durability	Resources
1	Black forge (Level 4)	220	10	50	1x Ripper 8x Flametal 1x Jade
2	Black forge (Level 5)	223	10	100	8x Flametal 1x Jade
3	Black forge (Level 6)	226	10	150	16x Flametal 2x Jade
4	Black forge (Level 7)	229	10	200	24x Flametal 3x Jade

Properties

Immobilise from outside the fight. Jade adds 10 poison and a 20% chance to immobilise for 10 seconds, which stops movement and turning. 10 seconds is most of the reload, so a successful proc buys back the class's one real weakness.

The poison contributes little: 26 creatures are immune to it, and the Ashlands is not where the rest live.

Notes

Loading takes 3.5 seconds and 4 stamina, and with the ready and firing animations the weapon can only be fired once every 6 seconds.
Jumping or sprinting resets loading progress, and bolts cannot be loaded while sprinting.
A loaded bolt is lost when you switch weapons: the crossbow reloads from empty whenever it is equipped again.
Upgrading does not raise poison: it is 10 at quality 1 and 10 at quality 4. The ladder buys pierce 220 to 229.

All Crossbows

*stats displayed are item's base values. See upgrades under each item for item stats per level.

Name	Pierce	Lightning	Poison	Stamina	Durability	Materials	Crafting Station	Spawn ID
Arbalest	200	-	-	1	50	10x Wood 8x Iron 4x Root (item)	Black forge	`spawn CrossbowArbalest`
Ripper	220	-	-	1	50	10x Ashwood 8x Flametal 2x Morgen sinew 4x Bonemaw tooth	Black forge	`spawn CrossbowRipper`
Wound Ripper	220	-	-	1	50	1x Ripper 8x Flametal 1x Bloodstone	Black forge	`spawn CrossbowRipperBlood`
Root Ripper	220	-	10	1	50	1x Ripper 8x Flametal 1x Jade	Black forge	`spawn CrossbowRipperNature`
Storm Ripper	220	10	-	1	50	1x Ripper 8x Flametal 1x Iolite	Black forge	`spawn CrossbowRipperLightning`

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