Meat Cleaver

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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: 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	XP gained	Skill(s)	Recipe	Ingredient 1	Ingredient 2	Ingredient 3	Ingredient 4
Fishing Rod	0 XP	none		One of: Hunting Knife Kitchen Knife Machete Meat Cleaver Stone Knife (keep)	Sturdy Stick (consumed)	One of: Fishing Line Twine (2 units) (consumed)	One of: Nails Paperclip (consumed)
Watermelon Slice x10	0.75 Cooking	none		One of: Kitchen Knife Hunting Knife Saw Axe Stone Axe Hand Axe Wood Axe Meat Cleaver Stone Knife Machete (keep)	Watermelon (consumed)
Bread Slices x3	0.75 Cooking	none		One of: Kitchen Knife Hunting Knife Butter Knife Bread Knife Meat Cleaver Stone Knife Machete (keep)	Bread (consumed)
Pie Slice x5	0.75 Cooking	none		One of: Kitchen Knife Hunting Knife Butter Knife Bread Knife Meat Cleaver Stone Knife Machete (keep)	Pie (Cooked) (consumed)
Cake Slice x5	0.75 Cooking	none		One of: Kitchen Knife Hunting Knife Butter Knife Bread Knife Meat Cleaver Stone Knife Machete (keep)	Cake (Cooked) (consumed)
Fish Fillet x2	10 Cooking	none		One of: Kitchen Knife Hunting Knife Meat Cleaver Stone Knife Machete (keep)	One of: Bass Catfish Crappie Perch Pike Sunfish Trout (consumed)
Ham Slice x6	0.75 Cooking	none		One of: Kitchen Knife Hunting Knife Meat Cleaver Stone Knife Machete (keep)	Ham (consumed)
Small Bird Meat	2.5 Cooking	none		One of: Kitchen Knife Hunting Knife Meat Cleaver Stone Knife Machete (keep)	Dead Bird (consumed)
Rabbit Meat	2.5 Cooking	none		One of: Kitchen Knife Hunting Knife Meat Cleaver Stone Knife Machete (keep)	Dead Rabbit (consumed)
Crafted Spear	1.25 Carpentry	Starting condition scales with player's carpentry.		One of: Tree Branch Plank (consumed)	One of: Chipped Stone Hunting Knife Kitchen Knife Machete Meat Cleaver Stone Knife (keep)
Rodent Meat	2.5 Cooking	none		One of: Kitchen Knife Hunting Knife Meat Cleaver Stone Knife Machete (keep)	One of: Dead Mouse Dead Rat Dead Squirrel (consumed)

Distribution

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

Containers
Building/Room	Container	Rolls	Chance
bakerykitchen	counter	4	4
	counter	4	4
burgerkitchen	counter	4	4
butcher	counter	4	1
	counter	4	2
cafeteriakitchen	counter	4	4
chinesekitchen	counter	4	4
	counter	4	4
deepfry_kitchen	counter	4	4
	counter	4	4
departmentstorage	metal_shelves	4	4
dinerbackroom	counter	4	4
italiankitchen	counter	4	4
knifefactory	crate	4	1
	crate	4	1
	crate	4	2
	crate	4	2
	crate	4	5
mexicankitchen	counter	4	4
pizzakitchen	counter	4	4
seafoodkitchen	counter	4	4
westernkitchen	counter	4	4

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

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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