| Mass | 8 |
|---|---|
| Health | 90 |
| Shield capacity | 200 |
| Minimum length | 3 blocks, or it can't fire |
| Rod length | A third of the gun's length, plus one |
| Rod speed | The square root of 2500 times the gun's extensions |
| Rod damage | 4.5 per unit of speed for each intact block of the rod; a rod erodes as it goes |
| Reload | 1 s |
The coilgun, or Gauss rifle, is a railgun: it reloads between shots and fires a solid metal rod at great speed. The rod punches through blocks one after another, losing a little of itself with each, until it is spent.
It needs length to work at all: a coilgun too short to fire does nothing. A longer gun throws its rod faster, and a much longer one throws a longer rod. The recoil is real and pushes the ship back.