Spiked Plank

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A spiked plank is a crafted weapon. It's just a plank with nails hammered into it.

Usage

Weapon

The spiked plank has a very slow attack speed, but compensates with a longer range and damage than many other weapons. Its durability is similar to the kitchen knife, and is quite fragile in comparison to more sturdily built weapons.

The spiked plank, despite its flaws, is a multi-hit weapon, hitting 2 zombies at once (if multi-hit is enabled). It also has a good chance of knocking zombies down so they can be finished off.

Breaking doors

It can cause 8 door damage per swing. For comparison, an axe does 35 damage.

Condition

The spiked plank has a maximum condition of 10. Its rate of degradation is influenced by the long blunt and maintenance skills. The chance of losing durability can be simplified to the following formula: 1 in (2 + maintenanceMod × 2). Where "maintenanceMod" is calculated using the long blunt and maintenance skills.
Below is an example of the chance of losing durability at varying levels of the maintenance and long blunt skills.

*For how this is calculated, see: Condition*
Maintenance skill	Long blunt level	Condition lower chance	Average condition
0	0	1/2 (50%)	20
0	4	1/4 (25%)	40
0	8	1/6 (17%)	60
4	0	1/6 (17%)	60
8	0	1/10 (10%)	100
4	4	1/8 (13%)	80
4	8	1/10 (10%)	100
8	8	1/14 (7%)	140
10	10	1/16 (6%)	160

Repairing

A spiked plank cannot be repaired.

Crafting

Product	Ingredients	Tools	Requirements	Workstation	XP
Spiked Plank	Plank ×1 Nails ×5	Hammer (tag)	none	none	0.25 Carpentry

Location

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

PlankNail distributionShow / 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.

Zombie
Outfit	Days survived	Chance
Bandit	0	50

Trivia

Strangely, the spiked plank has 0.02 increased range from a regular Plank. This may be due to the nails at the end adding a little bit more reach.

History

Base.PlankNail

Version	Description
0.2.0q	Released on or before this version.

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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 PlankNail
	{
	    DisplayCategory = WeaponCrafted,
		MaxRange	=	1.32,
		WeaponSprite	=	NailedPlank,
		MinAngle	=	0.75,
		Type	=	Weapon,
		MinimumSwingTime	=	4,
		KnockBackOnNoDeath	=	FALSE,
		SwingAmountBeforeImpact	=	0.02,
		Categories	=	Improvised;Blunt,
		Weight	=	3.1,
		SplatNumber	=	2,
		ConditionLowerChanceOneIn	=	2,
		PushBackMod	=	0.3,
		SubCategory	=	Swinging,
		ConditionMax	=	10,
		MaxHitCount	=	2,
		DoorDamage	=	8,
		SwingAnim	=	Bat,
		MinRange	=	0.61,
        DisplayName	=	Spiked Plank,
		SwingTime	=	4,
		KnockdownMod	=	2,
		SplatBloodOnNoDeath	=	TRUE,
		Icon	=	PlankNail,
		RunAnim	=	Run_Weapon2,
        IdleAnim	=	Idle_Weapon2,
        BreakSound  =   SpikedPlankBreak,
        DoorHitSound = SpikedPlankHit,
		HitSound = SpikedPlankHit,
		HitFloorSound = SpikedPlankHit,
		SwingSound = SpikedPlankSwing,
        TreeDamage  =   0,
        MetalValue = 5,
        TwoHandWeapon = TRUE,
        CriticalChance	=	25,
        CritDmgMultiplier = 5,
        MinDamage	=	0.5,
        MaxDamage	=	0.8,
        BaseSpeed = 0.85,
        DamageCategory = Slash,
        DamageMakeHole = TRUE,
        AttachmentType = Shovel,
	}