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Firearm (flintlock)64 DMG · 3 OF 36 BY DAMAGE

Flintlock Pistol

Near-musket damage in a sidearm, rain-proof. The range is the trade — 4,000 against the musket's 6,000.

Last updated 2026-07-25 · Patch patch 1.01
Flintlock Pistol

Stats

Damage
64
Range
4,000
Shop price
35c
Rank required
3
Ammo
Charge
Category
Firearm (flintlock)

Where it sits on the Anvil ladder

The Weapon Upgrade Anvil runs two ladders: upgrading walks a piece up its own family, while trading jumps sideways into a different weapon — and trades can bypass rank locks the shop enforces.

Aged Flintlock Pistol upgrades into this for 20 tokens — and costs only 30c to buy in the first place.
Matchlock Pistol trades into this for 25 tokens
Aged Matchlock Pistol trades into this for 30 tokens — which reaches a rank-3 weapon with no rank requirement of its own.

The rest of the firearm (flintlock) rack

What else fills the same slot, ordered by damage.

Carrying it

Every shot feeds the forest's awakening timer, so a ranged kill is never free — see noise discipline. Being a flintlock, it fires in rain when every matchlock in the crew has gone quiet — that weather insurance is most of what the higher price buys. Ammunition economics are on the items page.

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Flintlock Pistol questions

How much damage does the Flintlock Pistol do in The Mound?

64 damage, with 4,000 range. That ranks it 3 of 36 among weapons with published figures. The game never shows you this number in-game, so it is a community measurement — we publish it only because two independent databases agree on it.

How much does the Flintlock Pistol cost?

35c in the shop, and it needs explorer rank 3 before it appears.