Bread Knife

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A bread knife is a short blade melee weapon and cooking utensil.

Usage

Pros	Cons
Back-stab and jaw-stab special abilities. Very low weight. Easy to find. Longer range compared to other knives. A good attachment for spears due to its long range. Uses barely any stamina.	Very low damage. Can get stuck inside of zombies. Very low durability. Carrying backup weapons is recommended. Cannot be repaired.

Weapon

The bread knife can hit 1 enemy at a time (even with multi-hit enabled), dealing a maximum of 0.4 damage to enemies (unless a critical hit or execution) from up to 1 tile away at an attack speed of 2. It can be attached to the character's belt for quick access and weight reduction.

Special abilities: back-stab and jaw-stab

Most knives have the ability to silently back-stab an unsuspecting zombie. First, you must sneak up behind the zombie by crouching, aim and attack. If a zombie has detected you and turns their head around to look behind, you can still back-stab them. Back-stabbing can be risky due to it requiring you to get up close to a zombie and the zombie could turn around at any time and ruin the back-stab attempt. Back-stabs can cause the knife to get stuck inside of the zombie, resulting in you having to loot the knife off of it's corpse. Carrying a knife is recommended for players focusing on stealth.
Most knives have the ability to jaw-stab a zombie, which results in a one-hit kill. Jaw-stabs are very risky to attempt due to it being quite random and requiring you to let an attacking zombie get very close to your character. Jaw-stabs result in your character performing the jaw-stab animation which can leave your character vulnerable to other threats. Jaw-stabs can also cause the knife to get stuck inside of the zombie.

Condition

The bread knife has a maximum condition of 5. 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 (5 + 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	1/5 (20%)
0	4	1/7 (14%)
0	8	1/9 (11%)
4	0	1/9 (11%)
8	0	1/13 (8%)
4	4	1/11 (9%)
4	8	1/13 (8%)
8	8	1/17 (6%)
10	10	1/19 (5%)

Repairing

The bread knife cannot be repaired.

Crafting

Survivalist

The bread knife can be attached to a spear.

Product	Ingredients	Tools	Requirements	Workstation	XP
Notched Wooden Plank	One of: Screwdriver ×1 Kitchen Knife ×1 Butter Knife ×1 Bread Knife ×1 Hunting Knife ×1 Chipped Stone ×1 Stone Knife ×1 One of: Plank ×1 Log ×1	none	none	none	none
Spear with Bread Knife	Crafted Spear ×1 Bread Knife ×1 Duct Tape ×2 unit(s)	none	none	none	none
Bread Knife	Spear with Bread Knife ×1	none	none	none	none

Cooking

Main article: Cooking

Product	Ingredients	Tools	Requirements	Workstation	XP
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
Jack-o'-lantern	One of: Kitchen Knife ×1 Butter Knife ×1 Bread Knife ×1 Hunting Knife ×1 Meat Cleaver ×1 Stone Knife ×1 Machete ×1 Each of: Pumpkin ×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
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

Distribution

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

BreadKnife distribution Show / Hide

Containers
Building / Room	Container	Rolls	Chance
bakerykitchen	counter	4	8.0
bakerykitchen	counter	4	6.0
chinesekitchen	counter	4	8.0
deepfry_kitchen	counter	4	8.0
departmentstorage	metal_shelves	4	8.0
dinerbackroom	counter	4	8.0
italiankitchen	counter	4	8.0
kitchen	counter	4	8.0
kitchen_crepe	counter	4	8.0
knifefactory	crate	4	20.0
knifefactory	crate	4	10.0
mexicankitchen	counter	4	8.0
pizzakitchen	counter	4	8.0
westernkitchen	counter	4	8.0

Buildings

Bread knives can be found in kitchen counters inside of houses, restaurants etc.

Zombies

Bread knives can sometimes be found impaled in zombies.

Gallery

Bread Knife held by a survivor

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 BreadKnife
	{
	    DisplayCategory = Cooking,
		MaxRange	=	1,
		WeaponSprite	=	BreadKnife,
		MinAngle	=	0.65,
		Type	=	Weapon,
		MinimumSwingTime	=	2,
		KnockBackOnNoDeath	=	FALSE,
		SwingAmountBeforeImpact	=	0.02,
		Categories	=	SmallBlade,
		ConditionLowerChanceOneIn	=	5,
		Weight	=	0.3,
		SplatNumber	=	2,
		PushBackMod	=	0.3,
		SubCategory	=	Stab,
		AimingMod	=	0.8,
		CloseKillMove = Jaw_Stab,
		ConditionMax	=	5,
		MaxHitCount	=	1,
		IsAimedHandWeapon	=	TRUE,
		DoorDamage	=	1,
		SwingAnim	=	Stab,
		DisplayName	=	Bread Knife,
		MinRange	=	0.61,
		SwingTime	=	2,
		KnockdownMod	=	0,
		SplatBloodOnNoDeath	=	FALSE,
		Icon	=	KnifeButter,
		RunAnim	=	Run_Weapon2,
        IdleAnim	=	Idle_Weapon2,
        BreakSound  =   BreadKnifeBreak,
        TreeDamage  =   0,
        EnduranceMod = 0.5,
        MetalValue = 8,
        CriticalChance	=	15,
        CritDmgMultiplier = 10,
        MinDamage	=	0.1,
        MaxDamage	=	0.4,
		WeaponLength = 0.17,
		HitFloorSound	=	BreadKnifeHit,
        ImpactSound	=	BreadKnifeHit,
        DoorHitSound = BreadKnifeHit,
		HitSound	=	BreadKnifeHit,
		SwingSound = BreadKnifeSwing,
		AttachmentType = Knife,
		Tags = DullKnife,
 	}