Metal Bar

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A metal bar is a material required in metalworking and an improvised short blunt weapon.

Usage

Metal bars are required in constructing metal bar barricades and metal wall frames. This barricade provides a strong transparent structure that can be put on windows and doors.

Weapon

The metal bar can hit up to 2 enemies at a time (with multi-hit enabled), dealing a maximum of 1.1 damage to enemies (unless a critical hit) from up to 1.2 tiles away at an attack speed of 0.95.

Condition

The metal bar has a maximum condition of 8. Its rate of degradation is influenced by the short blunt and maintenance skills. The chance of losing durability can be simplified to the following formula: 1 in (15 + maintenanceMod × 2). Where "maintenanceMod" is calculated using the short blunt and maintenance skills.
Below is an example of the chance of losing durability at varying levels of the maintenance and short blunt skills.

*For how this is calculated, see: Durability*
Maintenance skill	Weapon skill	Durability lower chance
0	0	1/15 (7%)
0	4	1/17 (6%)
0	8	1/19 (5%)
4	0	1/19 (5%)
8	0	1/23 (4%)
4	4	1/21 (5%)
4	8	1/23 (4%)
8	8	1/27 (4%)
10	10	1/29 (3%)

Crafting

Product	Ingredients	Tools	Requirements	Workstation	XP
Barricade (Metal Sheet)	One of: Door ×1 Window ×1 Metal Sheet ×1	Propane Torch 1 unit(s) (and) Welder Mask	none	none	1.5 Metalworking
Metal Wall Frame	Metal Bar ×3	Propane Torch 2 unit(s) (and) Welder Mask (and) Welding Rods 1 unit(s)	Metalworking 3 (and) The Metalwork Magazine Vol.1	none	5 Metalworking

Distribution

The loot distributions can be found in the table(s) below.

Containers
Building/Room	Container	Rolls	Chance
SafehouseLoot	counter	4	1
bedroom	crate	1	0.6
factory	crate	4	1
factory	crate	4	2
garagestorage	counter	4	1
garagestorage	counter	4	2
toolstorestorage	metal_shelves	4	6
toolstorestorage	metal_shelves	4	6

Buildings

Metal bars can be found in garages, sheds, storage units, tool stores and logging factories.

Vehicles

Metal bars can be found in the trunk of metalworker, or construction worker's vehicles.

Code

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Source: ProjectZomboid\media\scripts\items_weapons.txt

Retrieved: Build 41.78.16

item MetalBar
    {
        DisplayCategory = Weapon,
        MaxRange	=	1.2,
        WeaponSprite	=	LeadPipe,
        MinAngle	=	0.72,
        Type	=	Weapon,
        MinimumSwingTime	=	2,
        KnockBackOnNoDeath	=	FALSE,
        SwingAmountBeforeImpact	=	0.02,
        Categories	=	Improvised;SmallBlunt,
        ConditionLowerChanceOneIn	=	15,
        Weight	=	1.5,
        SplatNumber	=	1,
        PushBackMod	=	0.3,
        SubCategory	=	Swinging,
        ConditionMax	=	8,
        MaxHitCount	=	2,
        DoorDamage	=	1,
        SwingAnim	=	Bat,
        DisplayName	=	Metal Bar,
        MinRange	=	0.61,
        SwingTime	=	2,
        KnockdownMod	=	0,
        SplatBloodOnNoDeath	=	FALSE,
        Icon	=	MetalBar,
        RunAnim	=	Run_Weapon2,
        IdleAnim	=	Idle_Weapon2,
        BreakSound  =   MetalBarBreak,
        DoorHitSound = MetalBarHit,
		HitSound = MetalBarHit,
		HitFloorSound = MetalBarHit,
		SwingSound = MetalBarSwing,
        TreeDamage  =   0,
        CriticalChance	=	30,
        CritDmgMultiplier = 2,
        MinDamage	=	0.7,
        MaxDamage	=	1.1,
        BaseSpeed = 0.95,
        WeaponLength = 0.35,
        AttachmentType = BigWeapon,
   }