Hand cannon

For this item's augmented variant, see augmented hand cannon.

Hand cannon
Release	9 September 2009 (Update)
Members	Yes
Members	Yes
Quest item	No
Quest item	No
Tradeable	Yes
Tradeable	Yes
Equipable	Yes
Equipable	Yes
Stackable	No
Stackable	No
Disassembly	Yes
Disassembly	Yes
Noteable	Yes
Noteable	Yes
Value	20,000 coins
Value	20,000 coins
High Alchemy	12,000 coins
High Alchemy	12,000 coins
Low Alchemy	8,000 coins
Low Alchemy	8,000 coins
Destroy	Drop
On death	Reclaimable
On death	Reclaimable
Reclaim	2500
Reclaim	2500
Sacrifice	10000
Sacrifice	10000
Exchange	804,514 coins (info)
Buy limit	50
Weight	3.628 kg
Examine	A miniature dwarven cannon.
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The hand cannon is a two-handed Ranged weapon that requires a Ranged level of 75, a Firemaking level of 61, and the completion of the Forgiveness of a Chaos Dwarf quest to wield. The hand cannon and its proprietary ammo, hand cannon shot, were developed by the Red Axe, and used and dropped by chaos dwarf hand cannoneers in the Chaos Dwarf Battlefield.

Unlike other weapons, this weapon has a chance to explode when attacking. This includes the use of abilities; a higher Firemaking level will reduce this chance. If a cannon explodes, it will damage the player and be destroyed. Because a Lava titan gives an invisible 10+ boost to Firemaking, having the familiar summoned will decrease the risk of the cannon exploding.

It counts as a two-handed crossbow in between Karil's crossbow and the royal crossbow in terms of strength. It can prove to be a viable alternative to the above two crossbows when killing monsters weak to bolts, such as waterfiends and warped tortoises.

Combat Stats

Requirements
75 61
Class			Slot
Ranged
Tier
75
Weapons		Main		Off
Damage		956		-
Accuracy		1694		-
Style		Bolts
Range		9
Speed		Average (3.6s)
Attributes						Damage reduction
Armour				0		PvM: 0%			PvP: 0%
Life points				0		Style bonuses
Prayer				0		0		0		0
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Disassembly

Disassembly XP	22.5
Item quantity required	1
Material count	12
Base junk chance	?  4.2% Your actual junk chance depends on your junk chance reduction researched. See the table below for all values, and Junk for more information. Reduction Junk chance None 1 4.2% 1 34 4.2% 2 49 4.1% 3 64 4.0% 4 69 4.0% 5 78 3.9% 6 83 3.7% 7 91 3.7% 8 95 3.5% 9 105 3.4%
Possible materials
Special
7 × Explosive components	100%
Often
Connector parts	35%
Tensile parts	30%
Crafted parts	30%
Rarely
Stunning components	3%
Dextrous components	2%

Defined properties:

All Junk chance: 4.2 Junk chance: 4.2

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Special attack

Hand cannon's special attack, Aimed Shot

The special attack, Aimed Shot, uses 50% Adrenaline, firing a shot that has 30-200% weapon damage, with 75% additional accuracy, taking longer to fire. However, it has a greater chance of exploding when using this attack.

Drop sources

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Source	Combat level	Quantity	Rarity
Chaos dwarf hand cannoneer	70; 101	1	Rare

Comparison with other Ranged weapons

Two-handed

Name		Reqs	Cost	Accuracy (Tier)	Notes
	Seren godbow	92	923,416,219	2577 (92)	Has a special attack, Crystal Rain, which deals damage depending on the target's size in Game squares Supplies its own ammunition, disallowing the use of Bane ammunition Has a 9 square attack range, which decreases the distance a player needs to move in order to attack targets Degrades: has 60,000 charges of combat, and costs 4,800,000 coins to repair via a Repair NPC, or discounted at an armour stand
	Noxious longbow	90	163,230,298	2458 (90)	Has a special attack, Mirrorback, that summons a mirrorback spider which reduces and reflects damage for ten seconds Has a 9 square attack range, which decreases the distance a player needs to move in order to attack targets Degrades: has 30,000 charges of combat (a minimum of 5 hours), and costs 4,500,000 coins to repair via a Repair NPC, or discounted at an armour stand
	Decimation	87	65,339,204	2287 (87)	Has a special attack, Locate, all of your attacks hit all available targets within 3 tiles of your main target (i.e. all of your attacks become area-of-effect attacks) for 10 seconds Supplies its own ammunition, disallowing the use of Bane ammunition Has a 9 square attack range, which decreases the distance a player needs to move in order to attack targets Degrades: has 60,000 charges of combat (a minimum of 10 hours), and costs 4,500,000 coins to repair via a Repair NPC, or discounted at an armour stand
	Wyvern crossbow	85	24,191,474	2178 (85)	Passive effect: damage-over-time effect that ramps up in damage the longer it is in combat against a specific foe that is treated as a poison Has a 9 square attack range, which decreases the distance a player needs to move in order to attack targets Degrades: has 30,000 charges of combat (a minimum of 5 hours), and costs 4,125,000 coins to repair via a Repair NPC, or discounted at an armour stand
	Strykebow	85 85	13,534,872	2178 (85)	Passive effect: stores damage received in combat (must remain equipped) Has a special attack, Deep burn which traps the target in a column of fire using the stored damage from the passive effect As a shieldbow, it allows the use of defence abilities at a cost to damage dealt Has a 9 square attack range, which decreases the distance a player needs to move in order to attack targets Degrades: has 60,000 charges of combat (a minimum of 5 hours), and costs 5 dark bows (387,220 coins) to repair
	Hexhunter bow	80	169,376,270	1924 (80)	Passive effect: +12.5% damage and +10% hit chance boost against magic-classed enemies. Has a 7 square attack range. Degrades: has 60,000 charges of combat, and costs 2,000,000 coins to repair via a Repair NPC, or discounted at an armour stand
	Royal crossbow	80 70 60 Song from the Depths	357,584	1924 (80)	Must reach the Queen Black Dragon's fourth phase and brandish it when she uses her extremely hot flames to initially obtain one Has a 9 square attack range, which decreases the distance a player needs to move in order to attack targets Degrades: has 30,000 charges of combat (a minimum of 5 hours), and is repaired using royal crossbow parts (25% per part)
	Attuned crystal bow	80 50 90 Plague's End The Eyes of Glouphrie	Attuned crystal weapon seed, 2000 harmonic dust	1924 (80)	Has a chance (up to 12%, based on Agility level) to deal +25% damage Supplies its own ammunition, disallowing the use of Bane ammunition Has a 7 square attack range. Degrades: has 50,000 charges of combat (double charges used outside of Prifddinas; a minimum of about 8 hours inside), and can be repaired by Eluned/Islwyn for a minimum of 200,000 coins
	Zaryte bow	80	8,816,585	1924 (80)	Supplies its own ammunition, disallowing the use of Bane ammunition Can be wielded in the God Wars Dungeon to protect from the four central factions Has a 7 square attack range. Degrades: has 60,000 auto-attacks, and costs 2,000,000 coins to repair via a Repair NPC, or discounted at an armour stand
	Sunspear (ranged)	78 River of Blood	Free after River of Blood quest, 600,000 to reclaim	1829 (78)	Can switch combat styles to Sunspear (melee) or Sunspear (magic) Has a 7 square attack range. Degrades: has 15,000 charges of combat, and costs 600,000 coins to repair via a Repair NPC, or discounted at an armour stand.
	Hand cannon	75 61 Forgiveness of a Chaos Dwarf	804,514	1694 (75)	Uses hand cannon shot as its ammunition Can also explode and do damage to the player using it (the higher the Firemaking level the lower the chance) Has a 9 square attack range, which decreases the distance a player needs to move in order to attack targets

Dual-wield

Name		Reqs	Cost	Accuracy (Tier)	Notes
	Blightbound crossbow and off-hand	92	496,358,591 (main hand) 592,343,565 (off-hand)	2577 (92)	Has a 7 square attack range Degrades: has 60,000 charges of combat (but loses 2 charges per hit, so has a minimum duration of 5 hours of combat), and costs 4,500,000 coins to repair via a Repair NPC, or discounted at an armour stand
	Ascension crossbow and off-hand	90	125,758,405 (main hand) 125,985,380 (off-hand)	2458 (90)	Has a 7 square attack range Degrades: has 30,000 charges of combat (a minimum of 5 hours), and costs 4,000,000 coins total to repair via a Repair NPC, or discounted at an armour stand
	Superior Morrigan's throwing axe	88	11,498,028 (main hand)	2343 (88)	Thrown weapon, disallowing the use of Bane ammunition Has a 5 square attack range Has a special attack, Hamstring, which deals 20% extra damage and increases opponent's run energy drain rate Degrades: has 100,000 charges of combat, and degrades to dust No off-hand equivalent
	Superior Morrigan's javelin	88	11,529,528 (main hand)	2343 (88)	Thrown weapon, disallowing the use of Bane ammunition Has a 5 square attack range Has a special attack, Phantom Strike, which inflicts damage over time to the opponent Degrades: has 100,000 charges of combat, and degrades to dust No off-hand equivalent
	Elite Death Lotus dart and off-hand	88 92	25 Death Lotus dart (or off-hand), Death lotus extract	2343 (88)	Untradeable, requires significant progress in the player-owned port to obtain and 5,000 Dungeoneering tokens to buy the extract (one-time use) or obtain with a Lucky charm Thrown weapon, disallowing the use of Bane ammunition Has a 6 square attack range
	Shadow glaive and off-hand	85	12,797,611 (main hand) 12,196,398 (off-hand)	2458 (90)	It has the accuracy of a tier-90 weapon, but the damage of a tier-80 weapon. Thrown weapon, disallowing the use of Bane ammunition Has a 7 square attack range Degrades: has 60,000 charges of combat (a minimum of 10 hours), and costs 3,000,000 coins total to repair via a Repair NPC, or discounted at an armour stand
	Death Lotus dart and off-hand	85 92	Ancient bones, 25 Ascension shards	2178 (85)	Untradable, requires significant progress in the player-owned port to obtain Thrown weapon, disallowing the use of Bane ammunition Has a 6 square attack range
	Attuned crystal chakram and off-hand	80 50 90 Plague's End The Eyes of Glouphrie	2 attuned crystal weapon seeds, 2000 harmonic dust	1924 (80)	Has a chance (up to 12%, based on Agility level) to deal +25% damage Thrown weapon, disallowing the use of Bane ammunition Has a 7 square attack range Degrades: has 50,000 charges of combat (double charges used outside of Prifddinas; a minimum of about 8 hours inside), and can be repaired by Eluned/Islwyn for a a minimum of 200,000 coins
	Chaotic crossbow and off-hand	80 80	200,000 (main hand) 100,000 (off-hand)	1924 (80)	Has a 7 square attack range Degrades: has 30,000 charges of combat (a minimum of 5 hours), and costs (total) 3,000,000 coins, or 300,000 coins and 30,000 Dungeoneering tokens to repair
	Armadyl crossbow and off-hand	75	5,594,315 (main hand) 5,598,386 (off-hand)	1694 (75)	Has a 7 square attack range Does not degrade Offers a prayer bonus No ammunition of the corresponding tier

Trivia

• When cutting wood and using certain emotes, your hand cannon will not disappear if you're wielding it.
• Upon the release of Evolution of Combat, hand cannons no longer had a chance of exploding when using abilities. They could have only blown up on auto-attacks. However, an update of 6 October 2014 gave them a chance to explode again.
• It is one of only two weapons requiring a certain Firemaking level to wield, along with the inferno adze.
• When fired, the hand cannon appears to be partly inside the player's head. It is likely this is an oversight by Jagex.
• For a long time, hand cannons have sold for slightly under high-alch value until it gradually climbed in anticipation of Invention. With the elite skill's release, players discovered it can be disassembled for 7 Explosive components, which yields an extremely high experience rate, causing a huge jump in price peaking at around 1 to 1.2 million gold each.