Metal Bar

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Metal Bar

General

Category

Weapon

Encumbrance

1.5

Equipped

One-Handed

Function

Metalworking

Skill

Short Blunt

Properties

Max condition

8

Performance

Damage

0.7–1.1

Door damage

1

Range

0.61–1.2

Attack speed

0.95

Knockback

0.3

Knockdown

0

Technical

Item ID

Base.MetalBar

A metal bar is a material required in metalworking and an improvised short blunt weapon.

Usage

Metal bars are required in constructing metal bar barricades and metal wall frames. This barricade provides a strong transparent structure that can be put on windows and doors.

Weapon

The metal bar can hit up to 2 enemies at a time (with multi-hit enabled), dealing a maximum of 1.1 damage to enemies (unless a critical hit) from up to 1.2 tiles away at an attack speed of 0.95.

Condition

The metal bar has a maximum condition of 8. Its rate of degradation is influenced by the short blunt 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 blunt and maintenance skills.
Below is an example of the chance of losing durability at varying levels of the maintenance and short blunt 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
Barricade (Metal Bars)	1.5 Metalworking	none		Propane Torch (1 units) (keep)	Welder Mask (keep)	One of: Door Window	Metal Bar x3 (consumed)
Metal Wall Frame	5 Metalworking	Metalworking 3		Propane Torch (2 units) (keep)	Welder Mask (keep)	Welding Rods (1 units) (consumed)	Metal Bar x3 (consumed)

Distribution

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

Containers
Building/Room	Container	Rolls	Chance
SafehouseLoot	counter	4	1
bedroom	crate	1	0.6
factory	crate	4	1
	crate	4	2
garagestorage	counter	4	1
	counter	4	2
toolstorestorage	metal_shelves	4	6
	metal_shelves	4	6

Buildings

Metal bars can be found in garages, sheds, storage units, tool stores and logging factories.

Vehicles

Metal bars can be found in the trunk of metalworker, or construction worker's vehicles.

Code

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Source: ProjectZomboid\media\scripts\items_weapons.txt

Retrieved: Build 41.78.16

item MetalBar
    {
        DisplayCategory = Weapon,
        MaxRange	=	1.2,
        WeaponSprite	=	LeadPipe,
        MinAngle	=	0.72,
        Type	=	Weapon,
        MinimumSwingTime	=	2,
        KnockBackOnNoDeath	=	FALSE,
        SwingAmountBeforeImpact	=	0.02,
        Categories	=	Improvised;SmallBlunt,
        ConditionLowerChanceOneIn	=	15,
        Weight	=	1.5,
        SplatNumber	=	1,
        PushBackMod	=	0.3,
        SubCategory	=	Swinging,
        ConditionMax	=	8,
        MaxHitCount	=	2,
        DoorDamage	=	1,
        SwingAnim	=	Bat,
        DisplayName	=	Metal Bar,
        MinRange	=	0.61,
        SwingTime	=	2,
        KnockdownMod	=	0,
        SplatBloodOnNoDeath	=	FALSE,
        Icon	=	MetalBar,
        RunAnim	=	Run_Weapon2,
        IdleAnim	=	Idle_Weapon2,
        BreakSound  =   MetalBarBreak,
        DoorHitSound = MetalBarHit,
		HitSound = MetalBarHit,
		HitFloorSound = MetalBarHit,
		SwingSound = MetalBarSwing,
        TreeDamage  =   0,
        CriticalChance	=	30,
        CritDmgMultiplier = 2,
        MinDamage	=	0.7,
        MaxDamage	=	1.1,
        BaseSpeed = 0.95,
        WeaponLength = 0.35,
        AttachmentType = BigWeapon,
   }

See also

• Propane Torch
• Welder Mask
• Metal Pipe