Glue Sprayer

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Glue Sprayer
Unique Weapon
2-Handed
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Spray a sticky foam that slows down enemies!

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Glue Sprayer is a tier 2 unique weapon that is available for purchase from tier 2 and higher Peacekeeper Stores in Peacekeeper Stations. While equipped, it is a two-handed weapon, however, it has no secondary fire ability. Its primary fire shoots 10 blobs of glue per second. Glue blobs pass through any entities they hit while flying, and stick to any solid surface they contact. They do no damage, however, the slow status effect is applied to any entity that comes into contact with a glue blob, whether flying or stuck to a surface, and remains in effect as long as the entity is in contact with any glue. Glue blobs are indiscriminate, so any entity, including friendly entities or the player, can become slowed by them. Glue blobs disappear a few seconds after sticking to a surface.

Internally, the glue status effect uses similar logic to tar, and entities that are immune to tar (currently only the Taroni) are also immune to glue.

Relation to Bounty Hunting

In early unreleased builds demonstrating the bounty hunter concept, the player was not supposed to kill bounty criminals, but was supposed to capture them using a slow-acting handcuffing device called the Long Arm[1]. The glue sprayer, which could slow the criminal without harming them, seemed to have been designed with that context in mind. With the released bounty hunter mechanic, in which criminals are captured by reducing their health to 0, the glue sprayer has inadvertently been rendered less useful.


  1. https://playstarbound.com/1st-september-stop-right-there-criminal-scum/

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File Details

Spawn Command /spawnitem gluesprayer
File Name gluesprayer.activeitem
File Path assets\items\active\weapons\ranged\unrand\gluesprayer