Spear

The spear is a deadly sharp weapon which can be used to kill just about anything, given the effort.

As it is both a basic and a powerful item, spears suffer a few restrictions: Slugcat cannot wield more than one spear (except the Hunter), and cannot swallow the spear due to its large size.

Most creatures such as lizards or vultures will take repeated hits before collapsing, but smaller enemies can be swiftly eliminated by a single thrown spear, as well as Slugcat.

It can be found lying about in all areas of the game, with a few exceptions like the tutorial area or specific rooms such as shelters. Any item appearing randomly in a room at the beginning of a cycle (i.e. rocks) has a 1/5 (20%) chance of being a spear instead - this chance is increased to 100% in Scavengers' stashes. Spears also appear non-randomly in a few locations - mostly places that require wall-spearing to progress.

Spears can become perpendicularly lodged into walls or floors on collision, allowing the slugcat to climb on it as if it were a pole, though it cannot be removed and reused once stuck. A spear stuck into a wall will however fall after a few cycles and can be used again. This works with downspearing as well.

Scavengers also wield spears - most of the time several - and can use them like Slugcat, being able even to angle them a little and to throw multiple spears at once.