Board Thread:Wiki Development/@comment-27582015-20160110023649/@comment-69.27.201.227-20161129144454

The main reason weapons were not implemented according to the lore of the game was that and quoting the pda "weapons were removed from standard fabricator blueprints following the massacre on obraxis prime" although there might have been weapons onboard they most likely would have been destroyed in the explosion or completely obliterated just like the sea moth and cyclops and prawn suit fragments were. And since the weapon blueprints were removed from fabricators, the only exception being the knife since it is a survival tool for thousands of years, the fabricator may not be able to produce any weapons or may reject you trying to create a weapon should you somehow come across a way to produce said weapons. Also this is a "survival horror game" most of these types of games do not want a player to have weapons as it will ruin the difficulty of survival against the predators if you can just kill them and be on your merry way.

TLDR: there are no weapon blueprints in the fabricator and devs have stated that weapons would ruin the immersion and fun of the game.