Blunt Bone Knife is a cooking weapon item in Project Zomboid. As a weapon it hits for 0.1–0.4 damage with 0.8 reach and a maximum condition of 1. Build 42.21 data, November 2026.
Cooking Weapon Melee weapons
As a weapon it hits for 0.1–0.4 damage with 0.8 reach and a maximum condition of 1. It weighs 0.25.
Melee weapons use one of the weapon skills. Condition drops as you fight, a broken weapon is useless until repaired, and heavy two-handed weapons drain endurance faster.
More: Melee weapon stats · Weapons and ammo.
Use the item ID in sandbox loot settings, admin tools and mods.
| Item ID | Game category |
|---|---|
Base.DullBoneKnife | Cooking Weapon |
Blunt Bone Knife is on 2 loot tables in the game files. Share is how much of a table's total weight this item takes, before your sandbox loot settings. Each container rolls its table several times, so a bigger share and more rolls both mean you see it more often.
| Loot table | Where that table is used | Share | Rolls |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anthropology Display Tools | Anthropology classroom (display case) | 6.9% | 4 |
| University Storage Anthropology | University storage (shelves) | 4.7% | 4 |
Town by town: loot locations.
| Recipe | Ingredients (used up) | Tools (kept) | Requirements |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carve Blunt Bone Knife In hand | Sharp Bone Fragment | any whetstone or any file; any sharp knife | Carving 1 |
Needed as a tool in 11 recipes (it is not used up): Carve Pumpkin, Collect Seeds, Drill Plank, Make Jar of Preserved Food, Scutch Fibre, Slice Animal Head, Slice Baloney, Slice Bread, Slice Cake/Pie, Slice Pizza, Slice Tortilla.
It weighs 0.25 in Build 42.
Base.DullBoneKnife.
0.1–0.4 per hit, with 0.8 reach.
Stats and item IDs from the Build 42 game data as listed on pzfans.com. Item art is from Project Zomboid.