Meat Cleaver

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A meat cleaver is a tool used in cooking and a one-handed short blade weapon.

Usage

Cooking

Main article: Cooking

As a cooking utensil it is mostly used for butchering and slicing food.

Weapon

It is a one-handed short blade weapon that deals slash damage, creating holes in clothing. It has a high attack speed compared to other short blade weapons and a low critical chance.

Breaking doors

It is decent at bashing down doors, dealing 20 damage per hit. For comparison, an axe deals 35 damage.

Tree chopping

It is decent at tree chopping, dealing 15 damage per hit, comparable with the Hand Axe. It does not have a cut down tree action so trees need to be attacked.

Condition

The meat cleaver has a maximum condition of 10. Its rate of degradation is influenced by the short blade 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 blade and maintenance skills.
Below is an example of the chance of losing durability at varying levels of the maintenance and short blade 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
Fishing Rod	One of: Hunting Knife ×1 Kitchen Knife ×1 Machete ×1 Meat Cleaver ×1 Stone Knife ×1 One of: Fishing Line ×1 Twine ×2 unit(s) One of: Nails ×1 Paperclip ×1 Each of: Sturdy Stick ×1	none	Angler USA Magazine Vol.1	none	none
Watermelon Slice ×10	One of: Kitchen Knife ×1 Hunting Knife ×1 Saw ×1 Axe ×1 Stone Axe ×1 Hand Axe ×1 Wood Axe ×1 Meat Cleaver ×1 Each of: Watermelon ×1	none	none	none	0.75 Cooking
Bread Slices ×3	One of: Kitchen Knife ×1 Hunting Knife ×1 Butter Knife ×1 Bread Knife ×1 Meat Cleaver ×1 Stone Knife ×1 Machete ×1 Each of: Bread ×1	none	none	none	0.75 Cooking
Pie Slice ×5	One of: Kitchen Knife ×1 Hunting Knife ×1 Butter Knife ×1 Bread Knife ×1 Meat Cleaver ×1 Stone Knife ×1 Machete ×1 Each of: Pie (Cooked) ×1	none	none	none	0.75 Cooking
Cake Slice ×5	One of: Kitchen Knife ×1 Hunting Knife ×1 Butter Knife ×1 Bread Knife ×1 Meat Cleaver ×1 Stone Knife ×1 Machete ×1 Each of: Cake (Cooked) ×1	none	none	none	0.75 Cooking
Fish Fillet ×2	One of: Kitchen Knife ×1 Hunting Knife ×1 Meat Cleaver ×1 Stone Knife ×1 Machete ×1 Sunfish ×1 Trout ×1	none	none	none	10 Cooking
Ham Slice ×6	One of: Kitchen Knife ×1 Hunting Knife ×1 Meat Cleaver ×1 Stone Knife ×1 Machete ×1 Each of: Ham ×1	none	none	none	0.75 Cooking
Small Bird Meat	One of: Kitchen Knife ×1 Hunting Knife ×1 Meat Cleaver ×1 Stone Knife ×1 Machete ×1 Each of: Dead Bird ×1	none	none	none	2.5 Cooking
Rabbit Meat	One of: Kitchen Knife ×1 Hunting Knife ×1 Meat Cleaver ×1 Stone Knife ×1 Machete ×1 Each of: Dead Rabbit ×1	none	none	none	2.5 Cooking
Crafted Spear	One of: Tree Branch ×1 Plank ×1 One of: Kitchen Knife ×1 Machete ×1 Meat Cleaver ×1 Stone Knife ×1	none	none	none	1.25 Carpentry
Rodent Meat	One of: Kitchen Knife ×1 Hunting Knife ×1 Meat Cleaver ×1 Stone Knife ×1 Machete ×1	none	none	none	2.5 Cooking

Distribution

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

MeatCleaver distribution Show / Hide

Containers
Building / Room	Container	Rolls	Chance
bakerykitchen	counter	4	4.0
burgerkitchen	counter	4	4.0
butcher	counter	4	10.0
butcher	counter	4	20.0
cafeteriakitchen	counter	4	4.0
chinesekitchen	counter	4	4.0
deepfry_kitchen	counter	4	4.0
departmentstorage	metal_shelves	4	4.0
dinerbackroom	counter	4	4.0
italiankitchen	counter	4	4.0
kitchen	counter	4	4.0
knifefactory	crate	4	20.0
knifefactory	crate	4	10.0
knifefactory	crate	4	50.0
mexicankitchen	counter	4	4.0
pizzakitchen	counter	4	4.0
seafoodkitchen	counter	4	4.0
westernkitchen	counter	4	4.0

It can be commonly found in kitchens, especially in restaurants. Meat cleavers can also be found on zombie corpses, and very rarely impaled on zombies.

Code

Code snippet! This section contains source code from Project ZomboidShow / Hide

Source: ProjectZomboid\media\scripts\items_weapons.txt

Retrieved: Build 41.78.16

item MeatCleaver
	{
	    DisplayCategory = Cooking,
		MaxRange	=	1,
		WeaponSprite	=	MeatCleaver,
		MinAngle	=	0.65,
		Type	=	Weapon,
		MinimumSwingTime	=	4,
		KnockBackOnNoDeath	=	FALSE,
		SwingAmountBeforeImpact	=	0.02,
		Categories	=	SmallBlade,
		ConditionLowerChanceOneIn	=	15,
		Weight	=	1,
		SplatNumber	=	3,
		PushBackMod	=	0.3,
		SubCategory	=	Swinging,
		ConditionMax	=	10,
		MaxHitCount	=	2,
		DoorDamage	=	20,
		SwingAnim	=	Bat,
		DisplayName	=	Meat Cleaver,
		MinRange	=	0.61,
		SwingTime	=	4,
		KnockdownMod	=	2,
		SplatBloodOnNoDeath	=	FALSE,
		Icon	=	Cleaver,
        BreakSound  =   MeatCleaverBreak,
        DoorHitSound = MeatCleaverHit,
		HitSound = MeatCleaverHit,
		HitFloorSound = MeatCleaverHit,
		SwingSound = MeatCleaverSwing,
        TreeDamage  =   15,
        CriticalChance	=	15,
        CritDmgMultiplier = 5,
        MinDamage	=	0.4,
        MaxDamage	=	0.8,
        BaseSpeed = 1.2,
      	WeaponLength = 0.2,
      	DamageCategory = Slash,
        DamageMakeHole = TRUE,
        AttachmentType = MeatCleaver,
  	}