Hand Fork

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Hand Fork

General

Category

Tool/Weapon

Encumbrance

0.5

Equipped

One-handed

Slot attached

Belt

Function

Farming

Skill

Short Blade

Properties

Max condition

6

Performance

Damage

0.2–0.4

Door damage

5

Range

0.61–0.9

Attack speed

N/A

Knockback

0.3

Knockdown

2

Special ability

Jaw_Stab

Technical

Item ID

Base.HandFork

A hand fork is a one-handed, short blade melee weapon. It can be attached to a spear.

Usage

Farming

The hand fork can be used similar to a shovel or trowel as a way of tilling grass for farming.

Weapon

Pros	Cons
Fast attack rate. Capable of dealing a one shot kill on zombies when the player performs a jaw stab animation. The player can carry a bag in the other hand because it is a one-handed weapon.	Short attack range, low damage. Can only hit one target at a time. Can get stuck in a zombie after a jaw-stab animation.

Condition

The hand fork has a maximum condition of 6. 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 (9 + 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: Condition

Maintenance skill	Weapon skill	Condition lower chance
0	0	1/9 (11%)
0	4	1/11 (9%)
0	8	1/13 (8%)
4	0	1/13 (8%)
8	0	1/17 (6%)
4	4	1/15 (7%)
4	8	1/17 (6%)
8	8	1/21 (5%)
10	10	1/23 (4%)

Repairing

Materials that can be used to repair the hand fork, based on first time repairing.

Repair Hand Fork
Duct Tape Potentially repairs: 50% Chance of success: 100% Needs: Duct Tape (1 units)
Glue Potentially repairs: 20% Chance of success: 100% Needs: Glue (1 units)
Adhesive Tape Potentially repairs: 10% Chance of success: 100% Needs: Adhesive Tape (2 units)

Crafting

The hand fork can be attached to the end of a spear. The condition of the hand fork will be carried over to the spear.

Product	Ingredients	Tools	Requirements	Workstation	XP
Spear with Hand Fork	Crafted Spear ×1 Hand Fork ×1 Duct Tape ×2 unit(s)	none	none	none	none
Hand Fork	Spear with Hand Fork ×1	none	none	none	none

Distribution

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

Containers
Building/Room	Container	Rolls	Chance
all	toolcabinet	4	1
bedroom	crate	1	0.1
closet	crate	4	2
	crate	4	2
garagestorage	counter	4	2
gardenstore	metal_shelves	4	1
generalstore	metal_shelves	4	2
pawnshop	counter	4	2
toolstorestorage	metal_shelves	4	2

NPCs

Zombies

There is a chance zombies have a hand fork stuck into their body.

Trivia

• The hand fork was added to the game in build 41, also known as animation build.

Gallery

• 

  Hand Fork Held by a Player

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 HandFork
    {
        DisplayCategory = ToolWeapon,
        MaxRange	=	0.9,
        WeaponSprite	=	HandFork,
        MinAngle	=	0.65,
        Type	=	Weapon,
        MinimumSwingTime	=	4,
        KnockBackOnNoDeath	=	FALSE,
        SwingAmountBeforeImpact	=	0.02,
        Categories	=	SmallBlade,
        ConditionLowerChanceOneIn	=	9,
        Weight	=	0.5,
        SplatNumber	=	2,
        PushBackMod	=	0.3,
        SubCategory	=	Stab,
        CloseKillMove = Jaw_Stab,
        ConditionMax	=	6,
        MaxHitCount	=	2,
        DoorDamage	=	5,
        SwingAnim	=	Stab,
        DisplayName	=	Hand Fork,
        MinRange	=	0.61,
        SwingTime	=	4,
        KnockdownMod	=	2,
        SplatBloodOnNoDeath	=	FALSE,
        Icon	=	GardeningFork,
        BreakSound  =   HandForkBreak,
        TreeDamage  =   0,
        CriticalChance	=	10,
        CritDmgMultiplier = 10,
        MinDamage	=	0.2,
        MaxDamage	=	0.4,
   		WeaponLength = 0.2,
        DamageCategory = Slash,
        DamageMakeHole = TRUE,
        HitFloorSound	=	HandForkHit,
        ImpactSound	=	HandForkHit,
        DoorHitSound = HandForkHit,
		HitSound	=	HandForkHit,
		SwingSound = HandForkSwing,
		AttachmentType = Knife,
        Tags = DigPlow,
   }

Repair

Source: ProjectZomboid\media\scripts\fixing.txt

Retrieved: Build 41.78.16

fixing Fix Hand Fork
    {
       Require : HandFork,

       Fixer : DuctTape,
       Fixer : Glue,
       Fixer : Scotchtape=2,
    }

See also

• Garden Fork
• Shovel
• Short blade weapons
• Trowel