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Baseball Bat

General

Category

Sports

Encumbrance

2

Equipped

Two-handed

Slot attached

Back

Skill

Long Blunt

Properties

Max condition

15

Performance

Damage type

Blunt

Damage

0.8–1.1

Range

0.61–1.5

Attack speed

1

Knockback

0.5

Knockdown

2

Technical

Item ID

Base.BaseballBat

“

Hell, if you lose your gun then use a bat. Just burst their heads like a fuckin' balloon.

— Mike on KnoxTalk

A baseball bat is a blunt melee weapon.

Usage

Weapon

The baseball bat is particularly effective against lone zombies. It usually won't kill a standing zombie in one hit, but it has a high chance to knock them down, allowing players to follow up with a killing blow.

The baseball bat also has a long range (for a melee weapon), and is capable of keeping a small group of zombies at a distance while delivering killing blows. It is capable of hitting up to 2 zombies at once with Multi-Hit enabled. The baseball bat has a decent durability with 15 Max Condition and a low chance to lose durability when used. It's one of the better melee weapons in the game, and a great starter weapon.

Breaking doors

The baseball bat is not too effective at bashing down doors, dealing 5 damage per hit. For comparison, an axe deals 35 damage.

Chopping trees

The baseball bat is not recommended to cut trees, as it will only deal 1 damage to a tree per hit. For comparison, an axe deals 35 damage.

Condition

The baseball bat has a maximum condition of 15. Its rate of degradation is influenced by the long blunt and maintenance skills. The chance of losing durability can be simplified to the following formula: 1 in (20 + maintenanceMod × 2). Where "maintenanceMod" is calculated using the long blunt and maintenance skills.
Below is an example of the chance of losing durability at varying levels of the maintenance and long blunt skills.

For how this is calculated, see: Condition

Maintenance skill	Weapon skill	Condition lower chance
0	0	1/20 (5%)
0	4	1/22 (5%)
0	8	1/24 (4%)
4	0	1/24 (4%)
8	0	1/28 (4%)
4	4	1/26 (4%)
4	8	1/28 (4%)
8	8	1/32 (3%)
10	10	1/34 (3%)

Repairing

Materials that can be used to repair the baseball bat, based on first time repairing.

Repair Baseball Bat
Wood Glue Potentially repairs: 20% Chance of success: 35% Needs: Wood Glue (2 units) Carpentry Level 2
Duct Tape Potentially repairs: 10% Chance of success: 95% Needs: Duct Tape (2 units)
Glue Potentially repairs: 10% Chance of success: 95% Needs: Glue (2 units)
Adhesive Tape Potentially repairs: 10% Chance of success: 95% Needs: Adhesive Tape (4 units)

• Each level up to carpentry level 7 will increase the wood glue repair chance up to 75%
• Each successive repair will reduce the chance of success.
• It should be noted that upgrading the baseball bat to the spiked baseball bat will reset the repair count to 0.

Distribution

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

BaseballBat distribution Show / Hide

Effective chance calculations are based off of default loot settings, and median zombie density. The higher the density of zombies in an area, the higher the effective chance of an item spawning. Chance is also influenced by the lucky and unlucky traits.

Containers

Building/Room	Container	Effective chance
Bag_WeaponBag	Bag_WeaponBag	10.15%
SafehouseLoot	counter	23.28%
SafehouseLoot	crate	23.28%
SafehouseLoot	metal_shelves	23.28%
SafehouseLoot	wardrobe	23.28%
SurvivorCache1	counter	23.28%
SurvivorCache2	counter	23.28%
all	dresser	1.87%
all	wardrobe	1.87%
baseballstore	shelves	23.28%
batfactory	crate	23.28%
batfactory	crate	41.14%
batfactory	crate	76.55%
batfactory	metal_shelves	23.28%
batfactory	metal_shelves	41.14%
batfactory	metal_shelves	76.55%
batstorage	crate	23.28%
batstorage	crate	41.14%
batstorage	crate	76.55%
batstorage	metal_shelves	23.28%
batstorage	metal_shelves	41.14%
batstorage	metal_shelves	76.55%
bedroom	crate	0.53%
bedroom	dresser	1.87%
bedroom	wardrobe	1.87%
closet	crate	0.53%
closet	crate	6.29%
closet	crate	23.28%
closet	metal_shelves	1.87%
drugshack	counter	23.28%
drugshack	crate	23.28%
garagestorage	crate	0.53%
garagestorage	crate	6.29%
garagestorage	crate	23.28%
livingroom	wardrobe	1.87%
livingroom	wardrobe	6.29%
schoolstorage	crate	23.28%
schoolstorage	crate	41.14%
schoolstorage	crate	76.55%
sportstorage	crate	23.28%
sportstorage	crate	41.14%
sportstorage	crate	76.55%
sportstorage	metal_shelves	23.28%
sportstorage	metal_shelves	41.14%
sportstorage	metal_shelves	76.55%
sportstorage	shelves	23.28%
sportstorage	shelves	41.14%
sportstorage	shelves	76.55%
sportstore	shelves	23.28%
sportstore	shelves	41.14%
sportstore	shelves	76.55%
storageunit	crate	0.53%
storageunit	crate	6.29%
storageunit	crate	23.28%
storageunit	metal_shelves	0.53%
storageunit	metal_shelves	6.29%

Vehicles

Type	Container	Effective chance
Carpenter	Trunk	3.98%
Clothing	Trunk	1.01%
Distillery	Trunk	1.01%
Electrician	Trunk	1.01%
Fisherman	Trunk	1.01%
Fossoil	Trunk	1.01%
Groceries	Trunk	1.01%
Heralds	Trunk	1.01%
Mass Gen Fac	Trunk	1.01%
Metal Welder	Trunk	1.01%
Painter	Trunk	1.01%
Police	Trunk	1.01%
Postal	Trunk	1.01%
Radio	Trunk	1.01%
Ranger	Trunk	1.01%
Spiffo	Trunk	1.01%
Survivalist	Trunk	6.41%
Taxi	Trunk	1.01%
Transit	Trunk	1.01%
Heavy	Trunk	1.01%
Sports	Trunk	1.01%
Standard	Trunk	1.01%

Zombie

Outfit	Days survived	Chance
Bandit	0	50

Crafting

The baseball bat can be upgraded to a spiked baseball bat or be used to smash open a watermelon.

Product	Ingredients	Tools	Requirements	Workstation	XP
Spiked Baseball Bat	Baseball Bat ×1 Nails ×5	Hammer (tag)	none	none	none
Watermelon Chunks ×5	One of: Baseball Bat ×1 Hammer ×1 Log ×1 Plank ×1 Sledgehammer ×1 Spiked Baseball Bat ×1 Stone Hammer ×1 Each of: Watermelon ×1	none	none	none	0.75 Cooking

Trivia

• The baseball bat is a popular weapon used in various zombie apocalypse material, including: The Walking Dead, Zombieland, DayZ and 28 Days Later.

Gallery

• 

  WIP Baseball Bat swing animation, teased before build 41

Code

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

Item

Source: ProjectZomboid\media\scripts\items_weapons.txt

Retrieved: Build 41.78.16

item BaseballBat
	{
	    DisplayCategory = Sports,
		MaxRange	=	1.25,
		WeaponSprite	=	BaseballBat,
		MinAngle	=	0.75,
		Type	=	Weapon,
		MinimumSwingTime	=	3,
		KnockBackOnNoDeath	=	TRUE,
		SwingAmountBeforeImpact	=	0.02,
		Categories	=	Blunt,
		ConditionLowerChanceOneIn	=	20,
		Weight	=	2,
		SplatNumber	=	1,
		PushBackMod	=	0.5,
		SubCategory	=	Swinging,
		ConditionMax	=	15,
		MaxHitCount	=	2,
		DoorDamage	=	5,
		IdleAnim	=	Idle_Weapon2,
		SwingAnim	=	Bat,
		DisplayName	=	Baseball Bat,
		MinRange	=	0.61,
		SwingTime	=	3,
		HitAngleMod	=	-30,
		KnockdownMod	=	2,
		SplatBloodOnNoDeath	=	FALSE,
		Icon	=	BaseballBat,
		RunAnim	=	Run_Weapon2,
        TwoHandWeapon = TRUE,
        BreakSound  =   BaseballBatBreak,
        DoorHitSound = BaseballBatHit,
		HitSound = BaseballBatHit,
		HitFloorSound = BaseballBatHit,
		SwingSound = BaseballBatSwing,
        TreeDamage  =   1,
		CriticalChance	=	40,
		critDmgMultiplier = 2,
		MinDamage	=	0.8,
		MaxDamage	=	1.1,
		BaseSpeed = 1,
		WeaponLength = 0.5,
		AttachmentType = Shovel,
	}

Repair

Source: ProjectZomboid\media\scripts\fixing.txt

Retrieved: Build 41.78.16

fixing Fix Baseball Bat
    {
       Require : BaseballBat,

       Fixer : Woodglue=2; Woodwork=2,
       Fixer : DuctTape=2,
       Fixer : Glue=2,
       Fixer : Scotchtape=4,
    }

See also

• Chair Leg
• Golf Club
• Pickaxe Handle
• Spiked Baseball Bat