- "This weapon creates traps which detonate when the tripwire connecting two anchor points is broken. It is best used across enemy patrol routes or in narrow spaces."
- ―Inventory description
The Tripcaster is a stealth weapon in Horizon Zero Dawn. It is a type of weapon that creates tripwire-based traps specializing in three elemental ammo types: shock, fire, and blast. It is used to "trip" machines, while either shocking them, burning them, or dealing explosion damage. Like the Ropecaster, this weapon is more useful on larger machines.
Ammo
The Tripcaster's ammo pouch can hold a maximum of 12 rounds with all upgrades. Both ends of wire must be cast on valid surface to be properly set; missing either shot will waste the intended tripwire.
Shock Wire does no damage, but inflicts massive Electric severity that can instantly Shock many foes, making them vulnerable to Critical Strikes or other attacks.
Blast Wire explodes once it is triggered, dealing massive Impact damage to the victim and nearby foes.
Fire Wire explodes upon activation and burns targets in proximity.
Numbered damage value are of unmodded level and displayed from left to right following difficulty level from Story to Ultra Hard. Numbers in bold are of normal difficulty. Note that Elemental damage remains unchanged between Easy and Very Hard.
| Ammo Type | Variant | Damage 
|
Elemental Severity |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shock Wire | Basic / Carja Shadow / AdeptNG+ |
N/A |  240-160-80
|
| Blast Wire | Carja / Shadow / AdeptNG+ | 1,000-313-250-225-200-175 | N/A |
| Fire Wire | Shadow / AdeptNG+ | N/A |  240-160-80
|
Ammo Slots by Variant
| Variant | Shock Wire | Blast Wire | Fire Wire | Mod Slots |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | 
|
1 | ||
| Carja |
|
|
2 | |
| Shadow |
|
|
|
3 |
| AdeptNG+ |
|
|
|
4 |
Acquisition Details
| Variant | Sources | Regular Cost | Ultra Hard Cost | Sell Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic |  General Merchants
|
 90
|
450
|
25
|
| Carja | Tier 2-4 Merchants
|
180 10 Chillwater |
900 20 Chillwater |
50
|
| Shadow | Tier 3 & 4 Merchants
|
750 1 Scrapper Heart |
3,750 2 Scrapper Heart |
100
|
| AdeptNG+ | Tier 3 & 4 Merchants
|
1,500 1 Scrapper Heart 1 Grazer Heart |
7,500 2 Scrapper Heart 2 Grazer Heart |
100
|
Trivia
- The Tripcaster appears in Monster Hunter: World as a wrist-attached Slinger, a standard tool in the game. This variant of Tripcaster is part of the collaboration equipment with Horizon: Zero Dawn which apply Aloy's look to the player's character.
| Horizon Zero Dawn Weapons | |
|---|---|
| Ranged Weapons | Blast Sling - Forgefire - Hunter Bow - Icerail - Rattler - Ropecaster - Sharpshot Bow - Sling - Stormslinger - Tearblaster - War Bow |
| Melee Weapons | Spear - Sylens' Lance |
| Stealth Weapons | Traps - Tripcaster |
| Heavy Weapons | Deathbringer Gun - Disc Launcher - Firespitter - Firestriker - Mine Launcher - Oseram Cannon - Ravager Cannon |