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 pistol in that when you miss you often don't alert any enemies, so you can feel pretty safe setting up several long range 50% V.A.T.S. shots, even if the first one misses it won't alert the enemy and ruin your sneak attack for the next.


 * When sneaking around, as a result of it being a silent weapon, double or triple darting a single enemy often won't result in attracting attention. The enemy himself doesn't know what happened, so it doesn't go into attack mode, instead it searches for you in [CAUTION] mode, then drops dead from poison effects a few seconds later. Upon its death you go right back to [HIDDEN] status because the only thing looking for you just died. Remember if it doesn't find you and go into [DANGER] mode, it will never send out the *area alert* that sends enemies into a frenzy, so if you stay a good distance back they'll never find you, they can't get far with crippled legs.


 * Great for players with a stealth boy, or the silent running perk.


 * 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 or more.


 * The only weapon Ninja enough to let a hidden player silently kill multiple Raiders in one batch of V.A.T.S. (without giving away his position). Starting characters can kill three, but as many as five silent kills in one V.A.T.S. can be performed (through the use of an actionboy +25 AP and ledoux's hockey mask +25 AP).


 * Well equipped humans (NPCs, Brotherhood, Enclave) may 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