While theCaves Of Qudtutorial does go over combat, it only covers basic back-and-forth melee. If you’re going to survive the vast, living world of this game, you’re going to need to be able to do more than just run at hostiles and engage them in hand-to-hand combat.

Ranged combat in Caves Of Qud is simple, but since it’s one of the many things that isn’t explicitly laid out for players, it’s easy to find yourself stuck when you need to throw a grenade or fire a bow. Here’s everything you need to know about ranged attacks in Caves Of Qud.

How To Fire A Bow, Pistol, Or Rifle In Caves Of Qud

Before you can fire a ranged weapon, it needs to beboth equipped and loaded.Equipping the weapon is the easy part; just go to your inventory screen anddrag the weapon to the ranged weapon slotin the lower-right corner.

Ranged weapons have their own equipment slot, so you don’t need to unequip your melee weapon; you’re able to have both at the same time.

You get one ranged weapon slot for every hand that you have;rifles and bows require two hands, while pistols only need one.If you have multiple ranged weapons equipped, they’llalternate firewith each ranged attack you make unless you have theAkimboskill, in which case they’llfire simultaneously.

Weaponsstart unloaded, so you need to reload a newly-equipped weapon bypressing the R key.Bows use arrows, and firearms use bullets or shells. Ammo is loadeddirectly from your inventory; it doesn’t itself need to be equipped.

As long as a ranged weapon has at least one shot available, you canmake a ranged attack by pressing the F key(for Fire). you’re able to click on the object or creature you’d like to shoot, oruse the arrow keys or numpad to cycle through available targets, then press spacebar to confirm your choice.

You can cancel your attack by right-clicking or pressingthe Escape key.

How To Throw Grenades And Objects In Caves Of Qud

The lower-left section of your equipment screen includes a slot forthrown weapons.You can have one object in this slot at a time, but if you have any identical objects in your inventory they willautomatically reloadwhen thrown.

Throwing items works the same as firing a ranged weapon; justpress T instead of Fto start the attack.