Dart Gun

The Dart Gun is a small guns craftable pistol in Fallout 3.

Strategy

 * The Dart Gun is silent, and functions the same as a Silenced 10mm, but is a much better choice for many targets as the Dart Gun has a huge critical bonus.


 * The Dart Gun is best used for sneak attacks. The critical damage bonus on the dart gun is +70 (6 + 64 poison), more with the Better Criticals Perk note: its only +6 for non-organic targets, so don't expect the full critical on robots.


 * Sneak attack critical headshots will silently 1-hit kill most Raiders and Ghouls, add in the 64poison/8sec effect that follows and one shot can total for 140 damage.


 * Well equipped humans (NPCs, Enclave) often use stimpaks when they're poisoned.


 * Darts seem to do full damage against Power Armor, the piddly 6pts of weapon damage is probably reduced, but the 64pts of poison still take effect. Yeah, who knew you could penetrate power armor with rubber tubing and children's toys!


 * Darts are typically sold by most weapons dealers, Lucky Harith outside of Megaton gate is always a good bet.

Schematics Locations
You will need to obtain schematics to build this gun.


 * A schematic can be obtained from Hannibal Hamlin for completing the Lincoln Memorial quest for the slaves.
 * A schematic is at the Boutique Le Chic in Tenpenny Tower.
 * A schematic can be found at the MDPL-05 Power Station.

Trivia
A quick note: it appears to be launched as a cross bow, not with pneumatics. The paint gun works as the trigger and as storage for the radscorpion venom.

Items Needed to Create
Once you have the schematics, you will need a workbench and one each of the following items:
 * Paint Gun
 * Toy Car
 * Surgical Tubing
 * Radscorpion Poison Gland