Conan Exiles Development Update #23

The 23rd development update for Funcom’s survival RPG Conan Exiles deals with siege warfare and introduces the game’s first siege engine, the Trebuchet. Here’s a short trailer:

And a description:

The trebuchet fires heavy siege boulders which hit hard and can bring down any building. The boulder does damage both when it hits and when it bounces and rolls, so it can destroy several building pieces at once if you are clever and lucky when firing.

Under most circumstances it will still take two hits from a siege boulder to smash through a sandstone wall, and several more to bring down stonebrick or reinforced stone, so attacking enemy strongholds will take time even with a trebuchet.

This allows defenders to mount a counter-attack, because if they can rush the attackers the trebuchet itself is quite vulnerable. The trebuchet not only fires boulder but can also fire the brutal demon-fire barrage. This is a cluster of explosive jars which does heavy area of effect damage when it hits in an explosion of fire. The demon-fire barrage is of course very effective against fortifications, but it can wreak extreme havoc when lobbed over enemy walls where it can destroy clusters of crafting benches, thralls or even players, unsuspecting of their impending doom.

You can make the trebuchet after learning the Engineer feat which becomes available at level 15. It allows you to construct a siege foundation and trebuchet base at the carpenter’s bench, and gives you the recipes for the trebuchet frame, arm and boulder. The frame and arm are upgrades to the base and the boulders need to be made in the trebuchet. You get the recipe for demon-fire barrage when you learn the explosive jar feat at level 38.