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Crafted Spear

General

Category

Weapon - Crafted

Encumbrance

1.7

Slot attached

Back

Skill

Spear

Properties

Max condition

5

Performance

Damage

1–1.5

Range

0.98–1.4

Attack speed

N/A

Knockback

0.3

Knockdown

0

Technical

Item ID

Base.SpearCrafted

This article is about the wooden spear that can be crafted. For the wooden spear that can be found impapled on zombies, see Wooden Spear.

A crafted spear is a weapon and tool that is crafted by a player and cannot be randomly found in containers. Spears can be attached to the character's back for quick access and weight reduction.

Usage

Pros	Cons
Long reach, great for not getting too close to zombies. Spear charge ability. Easy to gather the resources required to craft it. Able to attach short blades to the spear, making it more powerful. Can be used to fish.	Weapon condition influenced by crafter's carpentry skill level. Weak durability. Carrying additional spears or backup weapons is recommended. Likely to break when fishing.

Critical bonus

Attacking a lone Zombie (no other Zombie within 1.7 tiles of the target) between the range of 1.25 and 1.40 yields a +20% chance to a critical strike. Like all critical damage, negative moodles do not affect the damage output of the strike: meaning this can often save a player who would otherwise not inflict lethal damage. When this is triggered, a special animation will occur to signal to the player that the critical was successful. Be warned, as the animation can be lengthy, and other zombies can cover the extremely small distance of 1.7 tiles, especially dangerous if fighting against a horde.

Spear charge

Every spear has the ability to use a unique spear charge attack. To use the spear charge ability, you must sprint (Left Alt key by default), after a few seconds of sprinting, the character will begin a spear charge and any zombie on the receiving end of the charge will be killed in one blow. Spear charges are best used against lone zombies due to your character being vulnerable during the kill animation. There are other risks such as nearby zombies being alerted by your sprinting, more difficult for your character to turn while sprinting and your character falling over if they sprint into a wall.

Spear-fishing

Fishing with a crafted spear.

Main article: Fishing

All crafted spears can be used in fishing instead of a fishing rod. Although crafted spear is easier to obtain, it is just as likely to break as a twine line on a crafted fishing rod.

A crafted spear has a lower chance of catching a fish, equal to the benefits gained when fishing during dawn or dusk, regardless of the player's fishing level. It also takes less time to complete a fishing cycle compared to any other fishing gear.

Condition

The spear suffers from a low maximum condition and takes damage at an exceedingly high rate until maintenance and spears is leveled. At level 0 maintenance and spear, it has a 50% chance of lowering its condition each attack.

Below is an example of the chance of losing durability at varying levels of the maintenance and spear skills.

For how this is calculated, see: Condition

Maintenance skill	Weapon skill	Durability lower chance
0	0	1/2 (50%)
0	4	1/4 (25%)
0	8	1/6 (17%)
4	0	1/6 (17%)
8	0	1/10 (10%)
4	4	1/8 (13%)
4	8	1/10 (10%)
8	8	1/14 (7%)
10	10	1/16 (6%)

Repairing

A spear can be repaired with the following:

• 2 × Wood Glue and level 2 Carpentry
• 2 × Duct Tape
• 2 × Glue
• 4 × Adhesive Tape

It should be noted that each time a spear is repaired, its probability of success is reduced.

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There is a workaround for maintaining a single upgraded spear, you can remove the attached weapon and re-attach it, this will reset the number of times repaired to 0, allowing it to be repaired effectively again, note that this consumes a good deal of duct tape in the process.

Crafting

A crafted spear is created by sharpening a tree branch or plank with a kitchen knife, hunting knife, chipped stone, stone knife, meat cleaver, or machete.
The crafted spear's starting condition is dependent on the player's carpentry skill. This is defined by a random number between 2 + carpentry and 4 + carpentry capped to the maximum condition of 5. A carpentry skill of 3 or above will therefore always produce a crafted spear with the full 5 condition. The tool used to craft the spear will then lose 1 condition, excluding the chipped stone. The chipped stone has a 1 in 3 chance of being consumed, where as making the chipped stone into a stone knife will allow for 13 uses.

Product	Ingredients	Tools	Requirements	Workstation	XP
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

Upgrading

A spear may have many different attachments, each can be applied with two units of duct tape.
The upgraded spear's max condition is dependent on the items used to craft it. If the tools are damaged, the spear will have a lower condition.
The initial condition of an upgraded spear is determined by a combination of the condition of the chosen Crafted Spear and Hand Weapon.
The formula is as follows:
condition = spearCondition - ((weaponConditionMax - weaponCondition) / 2)
If the final result is greater than the upgraded spear's maximum condition, the condition will be set to the upgraded spear's maximum condition. If the final result is less than 2, the upgraded spear's condition will be set to 2.

Product	Ingredients	Tools	Requirements	Workstation	XP
Spear with Bread Knife	Crafted Spear ×1 Bread Knife ×1 Duct Tape ×2 unit(s)	none	none	none	none
Spear with Butter Knife	Crafted Spear ×1 Butter Knife ×1 Duct Tape ×1	none	none	none	none
Spear with Fork	Crafted Spear ×1 Fork ×1 Duct Tape ×2 unit(s)	none	none	none	none
Spear with Letter Opener	Crafted Spear ×1 Letter Opener ×1 Duct Tape ×2 unit(s)	none	none	none	none
Spear with Scalpel	Crafted Spear ×1 Scalpel ×1 Duct Tape ×2 unit(s)	none	none	none	none
Spear with Spoon	Crafted Spear ×1 Spoon ×1 Duct Tape ×2 unit(s)	none	none	none	none
Spear with Scissors	Crafted Spear ×1 Scissors ×1 Duct Tape ×2 unit(s)	none	none	none	none
Spear with Hand Fork	Crafted Spear ×1 Hand Fork ×1 Duct Tape ×2 unit(s)	none	none	none	none
Spear with Screwdriver	Crafted Spear ×1 Duct Tape ×2 unit(s) Screwdriver ×1	none	none	none	none
Spear with Knife	Crafted Spear ×1 Kitchen Knife ×1 Duct Tape ×2 unit(s)	none	none	none	none
Spear with Hunting Knife	Crafted Spear ×1 Hunting Knife ×1 Duct Tape ×2 unit(s)	none	none	none	none
Spear with Machete	Crafted Spear ×1 Machete ×1 Duct Tape ×2 unit(s)	none	none	none	none
Spear with Ice Pick	Crafted Spear ×1 Ice Pick ×1 Duct Tape ×2 unit(s)	none	none	none	none

Stats of spear upgrades

Each of the upgraded spears mostly have different stats from the other, but will always be better than the normal spear in at least one stat.

Also see Weapons

Icon	Name		Attack Type	Damage				Range				Knockback	Knockdown		Base ID
	Crafted Spear	1.7	Spear	1	1.5	5	-	0.98	1.4	2	30	0.3	-	5	Base.SpearCrafted
	Spear with Bread Knife	2.0	Spear	1	1.6	5	-	0.98	1.55	2	30	0.3	-	6	Base.SpearBreadKnife
	Spear with Butter Knife	2.0	Spear	1	1.6	5	-	0.98	1.42	2	30	0.3	-	6	Base.SpearButterKnife
	Spear with Fork	2.0	Spear	1	1.6	5	-	0.98	1.42	2	30	0.3	-	6	Base.SpearFork
	Spear with Letter Opener	2.0	Spear	1	1.6	5	-	0.98	1.42	2	30	0.3	-	6	Base.SpearLetterOpener
	Spear with Scalpel	2.0	Spear	1	1.6	5	-	0.98	1.42	2	30	0.3	-	6	Base.SpearScalpel
	Spear with Spoon	2.0	Spear	1	1.6	5	-	0.98	1.4	2	30	0.3	-	6	Base.SpearSpoon
	Spear with Scissors	2.1	Spear	1	1.6	5	-	0.98	1.42	2	30	0.3	-	6	Base.SpearScissors
	Spear with Hand Fork	2.2	Spear	1.1	1.6	6	-	0.98	1.45	2	30	0.3	-	7	Base.SpearHandFork
	Spear with Screwdriver	2.1	Spear	1.2	1.6	7	-	0.98	1.45	2	30	0.3	-	7	Base.SpearScrewdriver
	Spear with Hunting Knife	2.2	Spear	1.2	1.7	7	-	0.98	1.48	2	30	0.3	-	9	Base.SpearHuntingKnife
	Spear with Machete	3.7	Spear	1.3	2	10	-	0.98	1.55	2	30	0.3	-	12	Base.SpearMachete
	Spear with Ice Pick	2.0	Spear	1	1.6	5	-	0.98	1.42	2	30	0.3	-	6	Base.SpearIcePick
	Spear with Knife	2.0	Spear	1	1.6	5	-	0.98	1.45	2	30	0.3	-	7	Base.SpearKnife

Distribution

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

SpearCrafted 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
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%

Zombie

Outfit	Days survived	Chance
All	30	5

Any spear may be randomly generated inside a zombie's stomach after having survived for 30 days. Approximately 0.16% of zombies will have a spear or spear with attachments on them. It is also possible to obtain a wooden spear this way, which acts like a spear while having the old inventory icon, name and can't be upgraded or used for fishing.

Gallery

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  Survivor wielding the crafted spear

• 

  Survivor spear charging a zombie

Code

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Item

Source: ProjectZomboid\media\scripts\items_weapons.txt

Retrieved: Build 41.78.16

item SpearCrafted
    {
        DisplayCategory = WeaponCrafted,
        MaxRange	=	1.4,
        WeaponSprite	=	SpearCrafted,
        MinAngle	=	0.8,
        Type	=	Weapon,
        MinimumSwingTime	=	2,
        KnockBackOnNoDeath	=	FALSE,
        SwingAmountBeforeImpact	=	0.02,
        Categories	=	Improvised;Spear,
        ConditionLowerChanceOneIn	=	2,
        Weight	=	1.7,
        SplatNumber	=	1,
        PushBackMod	=	0.3,
        SubCategory	=	Spear,
        ConditionMax	=	5,
        MaxHitCount	=	2,
        DoorDamage	=	5,
        SwingAnim	=	Spear,
        DisplayName	=	Crafted Spear,
        MinRange	=	0.98,
        SwingTime	=	2,
        KnockdownMod	=	0,
        SplatBloodOnNoDeath	=	FALSE,
        Icon	=	SpearStick,
        RunAnim	=	Run_Weapon2,
        IdleAnim	=	Idle_Weapon2,
        TreeDamage  =   0,
        TwoHandWeapon = TRUE,
        CriticalChance	=	30,
        CritDmgMultiplier = 10,
        MinDamage	=	1,
        MaxDamage	=	1.5,
        DamageCategory = Slash,
        DamageMakeHole = TRUE,
        BreakSound  =   SpearCraftedBreak,
        HitFloorSound	=	SpearCraftedHit,
        ImpactSound	=	SpearCraftedHit,
        DoorHitSound = SpearCraftedHit,
        HitSound	=	SpearCraftedHit,
        SwingSound	=	SpearCraftedSwing,
        SoundMap = SpearStab SpearCraftedStab,
		AttachmentType = Shovel,
        Tags = FishingSpear,
    }

Finding spear in stomach

Source: ProjectZomboid\media\lua\shared\Definitions\AttachedWeaponDefinitions.lua

Retrieved: Build 41.78.16

-- random spear in the stomach
AttachedWeaponDefinitions.spearStomach = {
	chance = 5, -- chance is total, we'll get the chance of every definition and take one from there
	weaponLocation = {"Stomach"}, -- defined in AttachedLocations.lua
	bloodLocations = {"Torso_Lower","Back"}, -- we add blood & hole on this part
	addHoles = true, -- if true, you need at least one bloodLocation
	daySurvived = 30, -- needed day of survival before seeing this one
	weapons = { -- list of possible weapons, we'll take one randomly from there
		"Base.SpearKnife",
		"Base.SpearCrafted",
		"Base.SpearHuntingKnife",
		"Base.SpearScrewdriver",
		"Base.SpearScissors",
		"Base.SpearScalpel",
		"Base.SpearButterKnife",
		"Base.SpearHuntingKnife",
	},
}

See also

• Fishing
• Wooden Spear