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Log

General

Category

Material

Encumbrance

9

Properties

Material

Wood

Technical

Item ID

Base.Log

A log is a renewable material required in various carpentry recipes.

Usage

Transportation

Logs are very heavy, with an encumbrance of 9. The player can combine logs using rope or sheet-rope to reduce the weight to just a third. Up to 4 logs can be combined in this way.

Product	Ingredients	Tools	Requirements	Workstation	XP
Log Stack	One of: Rope ×2 Sheet Rope ×2 Each of: Log ×2	none	none	none	none
Log Stack	One of: Rope ×2 Sheet Rope ×2 Each of: Log ×3	none	none	none	none
Log Stack	One of: Rope ×2 Sheet Rope ×2 Each of: Log ×4	none	none	none	none

Carpentry

Using a saw, one log can be converted into three wooden planks, providing carpentry experience and being useful in crafting. Logs can also be used to create log walls, which are slightly stronger than the variety crafted using planks, with the added benefit of requiring neither nails nor a saw to craft.

Product	Ingredients	Tools	Requirements	Workstation	XP
Plank ×3	Log ×1	Saw (tag)	none	none	0.75 (0.25 above Carpentry 3) Carpentry
Log Wall	One of: Ripped Sheets ×4 Twine ×4 Rope ×2 Each of: Log ×4	Hammer (tag)	none	none	1.25 Carpentry

Fuel

Logs are a valuable fuel source for campfires and antique stoves, as they last six (6) hours and are sustainable. As logs can be cut into three planks which last 2 hours each, logs intended to be used as fuel can be cut into planks first to collect carpentry experience with no fuel loss. Logs can also be used to make charcoal with help of the metal drum.

Cooking

A log has a secondary purpose of crushing watermelons, though it is not as effective as slicing it with a saw.

Product	Ingredients	Tools	Requirements	Workstation	XP
Watermelon Chunks ×5	One of: Baseball Bat ×1 Hammer ×1 Log ×1 Plank ×1 Sledgehammer ×1 Spiked Baseball Bat ×1 Stone Hammer ×1 Each of: Watermelon ×1	none	none	none	0.75 Cooking

Other recipes

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
Campfire Materials	One of: Twigs ×1 Sheet ×1 Ripped Sheets ×1 Dirty Rag ×1 Book ×1 Magazine ×1 Newspaper ×1 Each of: Log ×2	none	none	none	0.75 Carpentry

Location

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

Log distributionShow / Hide

Effective chance calculations are based off of default 'apocalypse' loot settings, with no luck modifier, and average 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. Duplicate entries do exist, but have been removed for clarity.

Containers

Building/Room	Container	Effective chance
all	logs	60.53%
all	logs	6.53%

Vehicle

Type	Container	Effective chance
McCoy	Trunk	60.53%

Foraging

Amount	Skill level	Biome: chance	Weather modifiers %				Month modifiers
			Snow	Rain	Day	Night	Months available	Bonus months	Malus months
1	0	DeepForest: 3 Forest: 2 Vegitation: 1	-	-	-	-	-	September to November	-

The log is the resulting product when a tree is chopped down, which is done most effectively with an axe. It can be found while foraging and inside log stacks.

History

Base.Log

Version	Description
Build 41.65	DisplayCategory added with value Material.
Build 41.50	WorldStaticModel added with value Log.
RC2.9.9.10	Weight changed from 7 to 9.
RC2.9 - Build 0008	Weight changed from 5 to 7.
RC2.9 - Build 0007	Weight changed from 10.0 to 5.
0.2.0a	Released on this version.

Code

Code snippet! This section contains source code from Project ZomboidShow / Hide

Source: ProjectZomboid\media\scripts\items.txt

Retrieved: Build 41.78.16

item Log
	{
	    DisplayCategory = Material,
		Weight	=	9,
		Type	=	Normal,
		DisplayName	=	Log,
		Icon	=	Logs,
		WorldStaticModel = Log,
	}

See also

• Axe
• Carpentry
• Two-logs Stack
• Lumberjack
• Plank