A weak long blunt weapon that makes a good spear shaft. Where to find it and how to use it below. Updated for Build 42.21, November 2026.
Long Blunt Melee weapons
A weak long blunt weapon that makes a good spear shaft.
Bathrooms, laundry rooms and cleaning cupboards.
Town by town: loot locations.
Too flimsy to fight with for long. Carve it into a spear instead.
The Broom is a two-handed Long Blunt weapon. It hits for 0.2–0.5 damage with a reach of 1.6 and weighs 2. Its maximum condition is 3, and each hit has a 1 in 2 chance of costing a point of condition. Critical hits land 5% of the time.
Two-handed
Input for Carve Spear.
Most often found in: bathroom, laundry, and 41 other room types.
Broom is on 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Laundry Cleaning | Laundromat (second list) (box, cupboard, crate, …); Laundromat (box, cupboard, crate, …); Laundry (box, cupboard, crate, …) | 9.3% | 4 |
| Janitor Cleaning | Bathroom (shelves); Gas storage (cupboard); Janitor (cupboard, shelves); and 2 more places | 5.8% | 4 |
| Gigamart Cleaning | Fossoil gas station (shelves); Gas-2-Go (shelves); Gas Station (shelves); and 6 more places | 4.3% | 4 |
| Mechanic Shelf Misc | Special spawn (vehicles, events or zombies) | 3.0% | 4 |
Inside bags and cases: Garbage Bag.
Town by town: loot locations.
Used up as an ingredient in 3 recipes: Barbed-Wire Wrap Weapon, Carve Spear, Get Long Stick.
Needed as a tool in 7 recipes (it is not used up): Fix With Adhesive Tape, Fix With Duct Tape, Fix With Epoxy, Fix With Epoxy And Rags, Fix With Glue, Fix With Wood Glue, Fix With Zipties.
Bathrooms, laundry rooms and cleaning cupboards.
A weak long blunt weapon that makes a good spear shaft. Too flimsy to fight with for long. Carve it into a spear instead.
Broom damage is 0.2–0.5 per hit in Build 42.21, with 1.6 reach and a maximum condition of 3.
It is two-handed and uses the Long Blunt skill.
Item data from the ProjectZom item database, with stats from the Build 42 game data as published by pzfans.com and pindrop.gg.