Are dart traps effective on bloodmoon?

[bobrpggamer]

Here is cut down clip from bloodmoon 36 or something like that (I started using bloodmoon every 2 days after bloodmoon 34)

I of course also have 2 shotgun turrets, 3 sets of electric fences and 3 SMG turrets in the same area of the dart traps, but you can see that the dart traps are really working.

I have 8 sets of 16 dart traps and it took me a week to make all the darts along with 3 trips to mine iron.

I would say they are helpful, and I believe you can make them earlier in game, before you can make turrets anyway.

As you can tell I sniped the cops, because I did not want them exploding and making a mess of the base. One of them exploded anyway ate the end.

 

[theFlu]

Well, they're doing a ton of work there - they can be useful, very much so. Just needs trip wires going along the path of the darts to not waste ammo Those trigger plates work fine too ofc, but they can be triggered from a position where the darts won't hit.

 

[8_Hussars]

I find my problem with dart traps is the grind for crafting dart ammo, as you cant loot it anywhere and the resources are better used for Iron and steel.

FWIW, It appeared to me that the Dart Trap that lost its trigger plate continued to fire with no target.

 

[bobrpggamer]

I find my problem with dart traps is the grind for crafting dart ammo, as you cant loot it anywhere and the resources are better used for Iron and steel.

FWIW, It appeared to me that the Dart Trap that lost its trigger plate continued to fire with no target.

You are right about that. It took close to a week on 120 minute days to make all the darts. But that was for 128 dart traps and I had them all full with 1500 darts, so 192,000 darts. Most people would not try this until later in the game. You could get by with 16 dart traps and 500 locked in instead of the 1500 I put in each dart trap, that would be 8000 darts total, not too hard to come up with that. I had this on my temp base, just 16 dart traps and 500 darts in them and they don't really use much in early game bloodmoon.

I turn off all my traps at about 4:10 after bloodmoon, so it probably wasted no more than 100 darts out of 1500.

To be honest I will not have to make more darts for 10 bloodmoons. I have a supply of about 3000 in a gun safe. They really don't lose much ammo like SMG turrets do. My SMG turrets use the full 900, 9mm bullets really, really fast. I have to make boatloads of 9mm ammo after each bloodmoon. And it is not easy to come up with brass, radiators are usually where I get my brass from, and this takes wrenching vehicles over and over just to get a good supply of radiators and them scrap all of them, feed the forge, make the bullet casings and then make the 9mm, then do it over again.

 

[vylmen]

I use dart traps mostly for guarding garage doors on non-blood moon bases. I find that they trigger the cop explosions and I don't really have a setup where I can snipe them effectively. But it's one of my goals to find a good setup where dart traps would be effective before you can use turrets on a horde base.

 

[Adam the Waster]

Waste of iron

 

[bobrpggamer]

I use dart traps mostly for guarding garage doors on non-blood moon bases. I find that they trigger the cop explosions and I don't really have a setup where I can snipe them effectively. But it's one of my goals to find a good setup where dart traps would be effective before you can use turrets on a horde base.

Yeah the cops do explode. I have noticed they explode anywhere and anytime, does not matter if they are near a electronic trap. I cut 3/4 of the video with the start of bloodmoon and I have decided to snipe the cops when I see them so I got most until the last one exploded on the pressure plates. They are worse than a demo, not in damage but they just explode for the heck of it and tear up a base. The exploding cop also triggers the demo's so I take them out if I see them.

This dart trap thing was a test to see how they work and I think if used properly they can be effective. This is all end game for me really, but it was fun to make the dart traps for my base. I have been level 300 for a while now, so I have no real goals to make, so I am just fooling around on bloodmoons seeing how far they can get to breaching the base. If I was fighting with my M60 and Rocket Launcher like I was doing a while back they would not get anywhere near the dart traps. The wall between the outer base and the inner base is 2 concrete blocks thick.

 

[vylmen]

Yeah the cops do explode. I have noticed they explode anywhere and anytime, does not matter if they are near a electronic trap.

From my experience they explode below a certain amount of HP (no access to mods on PS5, so no range/pct i could come up with) and since Dart traps are not heavy damage, they indirectly trigger the cop explosions, because they get them below the threshold HP and give them enough time to explode.