Nimbow | Nimble Crossbows 🏹

> Speed up the base reloading time and animation by approximately ~2.4x for weapons that use the common ammo reload system, such as crossbows.

What It Does

Nimbow significantly reduces the reload duration of stat-based ammo weapons by modifying the shared Common StatAmmoReload interaction files. Because these files are part of a common template, any weapon that inherits from them — primarily crossbows — will benefit automatically.

Combined Reload Speed

Phase	Vanilla	Nimbow	Change
Reload Entry (ready animation)	`0.80s`	`0.30s`	2.67× faster
Reload Effects (load animation)	`0.30s`	`0.15s`	2.0× faster
Total Reload Cycle	`1.10s`	`0.45s`	~2.4× faster

> [!NOTE] > Only the RunTime values are changed. All other behavior — sound effects, animations, ammo consumption, stat modifiers, and movement speed penalties — remain identical to vanilla.

Affected Weapons

Any weapon that uses the default Common_StatAmmoReload template chain will be affected. In the base game this includes:

🏹 Iron Crossbow — Weapon_Crossbow_Iron
🏹 Ancient Steel Crossbow — Weapon_Crossbow_Ancient_Steel
Any modded or future weapon inheriting from Template_Weapon_Crossbow

Modified File Values

`Common_StatAmmoReload_Entry.json`

The initial reload-ready phase, which plays the ready animation and sound before the actual reload loop begins.

 {
   "Type": "Simple",
-  "RunTime": 0.8,
+  "RunTime": 0.3,
   "Effects": {
     "ItemAnimationId": "ReloadReady",
     ...
   }
 }

`Common_StatAmmoReload_Effects.json`

The per-round reload phase, which plays the load animation and sound for each ammo unit consumed.

 {
   "Type": "Simple",
-  "RunTime": 0.3,
+  "RunTime": 0.15,
   "HorizontalSpeedMultiplier": 0.75,
   "Effects": {
     "ItemAnimationId": "Reload",
     ...
   }
 }

Mod File Structure

These override the vanilla files located at:

Server/Item/Interactions/Weapons/Common/StatAmmoReload/

Install

Place the Nimbow mod into your Mods/ directory. No dependencies required.


Version	`2.0.0`
Author	GiggleJade
Server Version	`2026.02.19-1a311a592`