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Meat Cleaver

General

Category

Cooking

Encumbrance

1

Equipped

One-handed

Slot attached

Belt

Function

Cooking

Skill

Short Blade

Properties

Max condition

10

Performance

Damage

0.4–0.8

Door damage

20

Tree damage

15

Range

0.61–1

Attack speed

1.2

Knockback

0.3

Knockdown

2

Technical

Item ID

Base.MeatCleaver

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: Condition

Maintenance skill	Weapon skill	Condition 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

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
bakerykitchen	counter	10.78%
burgerkitchen	counter	10.78%
butcher	counter	23.28%
butcher	counter	41.14%
butcher	metal_shelves	23.28%
butcher	metal_shelves	41.14%
cafekitchen	counter	10.78%
cafeteria	counter	10.78%
cafeteriakitchen	counter	10.78%
chinesekitchen	counter	10.78%
deepfry_kitchen	counter	10.78%
departmentstorage	metal_shelves	10.78%
dinerbackroom	counter	10.78%
dinerkitchen	counter	10.78%
donut_kitchen	counter	10.78%
fishchipskitchen	counter	10.78%
generalstore	shelves	10.78%
generalstorestorage	shelves	10.78%
gigamart	shelves	10.78%
gigamartkitchen	counter	10.78%
housewarestore	shelves	10.78%
italiankitchen	counter	10.78%
jayschicken_kitchen	counter	10.78%
kitchen	counter	10.78%
kitchen	overhead	10.78%
kitchen	shelves	10.78%
kitchen_crepe	counter	10.78%
kitchenwares	shelves	10.78%
knifefactory	crate	23.28%
knifefactory	crate	41.14%
knifefactory	crate	76.55%
knifefactory	metal_shelf	23.28%
knifefactory	metal_shelf	41.14%
knifefactory	metal_shelf	76.55%
knifeshipping	crate	23.28%
knifeshipping	crate	41.14%
knifeshipping	crate	76.55%
knifestore	shelves	23.28%
knifestore	shelves	41.14%
knifestore	shelves	76.55%
livingroom	counter	10.78%
livingroom	overhead	10.78%
mexicankitchen	counter	10.78%
pizzakitchen	counter	10.78%
restaurantkitchen	counter	10.78%
seafoodkitchen	counter	10.78%
spiffoskitchen	counter	10.78%
westernkitchen	counter	10.78%

Zombie

Outfit	Days survived	Chance
All	0	5

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,
  	}

See also

• Bread Knife
• Butter Knife
• Hunting Knife
• Kitchen Knife
• Stone Knife