Weapons



Weapons are tools used to quickly, but gruesomely, eliminate a person in Yandere Simulator.

When the protagonist kills a person with any weapon, her uniform and weapon will be splattered with blood. Her sanity will decrease with each kill, although wearing the Tiny Thong Panties or increasing Yandere-chan's numbness level lowers the amount lost. To avoid getting arrested, the player must at least dispose of the uniform and the weapon via the incinerator. In future updates, different weapons may result in different amounts of blood, but this will be determined in the balance phase. One way to balance the weapons would be to make non-suspicious weapons less lethal and have longer killing animations.

Currently, there are seven weapons the player can use. All the available weapons can be seen on the Challenges Menu. More weapons are a low priority until an animator creates new animations. All weapons (except for the syringe and circular saw) can be found to the right of the school gate. For the sake of a debug build, the weapons are easily accessible. They will be scattered across the school in the final game. The syringe is located on the desk in the Nurse's Office and the circular saw was located in the shed before its removal.
 * Knife
 * Scissors
 * Box cutter
 * Screwdriver
 * Katana
 * Syringe
 * Circular Saw (temporarily removed)
 * Poison

If students see Yandere-chan carrying a weapon, they will see her as suspicious, thus damaging her reputation by ten points (fifteen points if School Atmosphere is medium, and twenty points if School Atmosphere is low). Apologizing gains back 50% of the lost reputation (75% if wearing the Kawaii Moe Shimapan) and Yandere-chan will say that she was bringing the weapon to a teacher because she found it suspicious. If a friend or a student that is being seduced by her sees her with a weapon, her reputation will be affected by eight points. If the player is in the Occult Club, it will take longer for students to notice the player carrying a dangerous weapon.

If Senpai sees Yandere-chan with a weapon, he'll freak out, resulting in a Heartbroken ending. If a teacher sees her with a weapon, she will be expelled. If the teacher sees her holding a weapon after a student has been murdered, she will assume Yandere-chan killed the student and pin her down, before expelling her from the school, which results in a Game Over. In the future, being seen with a weapon by a teacher will cause Yandere-chan to get sent to the Counselor's Office.

The scissors, box cutter, and screwdriver are classified as non-suspicious weapons. The player will not be considered "Visibly Armed" when carrying these weapons. In the final game, the only weapons will be ones found in a school environment, unless the player asks Info-chan to deliver a weapon at the back of the school.

Some weapons can be concealed, while others cannot. The player can check if a weapon is concealable by pressing 1 (PC). If the weapon is not hidden, then it can't be concealed, and the player must be careful that students do not see the weapon. The box cutter, knife, screwdriver, and scissors can be concealed, but the katana and circular saw cannot.

As of the December 1st, 2015 Update, the game will track whose blood is on each weapon. If the player forgets to dispose of a bloody weapon, a teacher will find it and call the police. The police will try to trace the weapon back to Yandere-chan. If the player wears gloves, the police will not find any fingerprints on the weapon. Because of this, the player is able to frame Kokona Haruka after she uses the knife in the Cooking Club. Since Kokona's fingerprints are the only ones on the knife, she will be arrested for the murder.

In earlier builds, the player automatically dropped their weapon when the day ended. This was troublesome, as a player who forgot to dispose of a weapon would leave it on the ground when they left school. A teacher would then find it and call the police, and the police could automatically trace the weapon to the player. As of the January 2nd, 2015 Update, the player will instead take the weapon home and dispose of it. If the police arrive at school, however, they will search the students and find the bloody weapon on Yandere-chan's body, so she will be arrested.

In the final game, each weapon will have four killing animations, dependent on sanity, as shown in a blog post comment : Low sanity kill animations will last longer than high sanity ones.
 * High sanity kill: Efficient, but not as fast as a stealth kill. Produces some extra noise and blood.
 * Medium sanity kill: The victim struggles a little bit. The kill is sloppy and messy, thus taking more time.
 * Low sanity kill: Very prolonged killing animation that is unnecessarily brutal and sadistic. Victim screams and struggles. The player has the option to make Yandere-chan continue to stab her victim indefinitely by mashing the "attack" button, causing a segment of the animation to loop until the player stops mashing.
 * Stealth kill: Performed from behind, with victim unaware. Quick, quiet and clean.

More animations, as seen here, could show additional kill techniques that vary depending on weapon type and current sanity level. Ideally, every weapon will eventually have a unique animation set. If this cannot happen, a less ideal scenario would be that each weapon type (short, stabbing, long, and bludgeoning) has its own animation set. At worst, all weapons will have the same animation.

YandereDev won't implement katana animations until he has a set of knife animations for stealth, high sanity, low sanity, etc.

Possibly Planned Weapons
Weapons that might be added in future updates: Blunt weapons are planned and some models are already prepared, but there are no animations for them yet. YandereDev does not want to add guns to the game so it is unlikely that any of the thirty planned weapons will include that. There will be different types of weapons, like two-handed, swinging, stabbing, and strangling weapons.
 * Butcher knife
 * Hammer
 * Axe
 * Chainsaw (animations needed)
 * Bat
 * Gardening sickle
 * Painting knife
 * Crowbar
 * Soda cans - Yandere-chan can get them from a vending machine. In the future, she may be able to put them into a sack and hit students with it, but animations are needed.
 * Rena's axe
 * Gardening shears

Screwdriver
Found by the school entrance. Can be used to unscrew the light switch in the bathrooms so that a student can be electrocuted. Seen as non-suspicious.

Box Cutter
Found by the school entrance. Seen as non-suspicious.

Scissors
Found by the school entrance. Seen as non-suspicious.

Syringe
Found in the Nurse's Office. If not used in the storage room for kidnapping (the tranquilizer is needed for this), the syringe can be used to stab a student. Seen as suspicious.

Circular Saw
Found in the shed. May be used for dismemberment. Seen as suspicious. Removed as of the January 2nd, 2015 Build.

Knife
Found on the rooftop, inside the Cooking Club, and by the school entrance. Can be used to frame rivals. Usually seen as suspicious, but not if the holder is standing inside the Cooking Club.

Katana
Found by the school entrance. Cannot be put into inventory. Seen as suspicious, but not if the user is in the Martial Arts Club room.

Trivia

 * It is theoretically possible for a pencil to become a weapon, but YandereDev does not find it cool enough. He wants all weapons to be cool.
 * If a small town is implemented, more weapons will be available.
 * YandereDev has stated in an interview that the katana might be something that the principal confiscated and just never got rid of.
 * Ranged weapons will most likely not be in the game.
 * At the moment, there is only one regular animation with a murder weapon: a sideways stab to the neck. There is also a stab in the head whenever Yandere-chan wins a fight against a Heroic student and another when brainwashed, kidnapped victims finish a murder-suicide.
 * The protagonist intends to kill when the player presses the "attack" button. There is no chance of knocking the victim unconscious.
 * There is a possibility that a sniper mini-game will be added purely for fun.
 * It is very important to YandereDev that there's a cheat code or Easter Egg which unlocks a giant sci-fi energy scythe.
 * In the future, it is possible that if students see a certain weapon lying around they will give it to a teacher.