Can Opener - Old-Fashioned is a cooking weapon item in Project Zomboid. As a weapon it hits for 0.3–0.4 damage with 0.8 reach and a maximum condition of 10. Build 42.21 data, November 2026.
Cooking Weapon Melee weapons
As a weapon it hits for 0.3–0.4 damage with 0.8 reach and a maximum condition of 10. It weighs 0.6.
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.TinOpener_Old | Cooking Weapon |
Can Opener - Old-Fashioned is on 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hoarder Kitchen Food | Special spawn (vehicles, events or zombies) | 18% | 4 |
| Kitchen Canned Food | Survivor cache 1 (cupboard); Survivor cache 2 (cupboard); Survivor cache (big building) (cupboard); and 3 more places | 2.9% | 2 |
| Army Bunker Kitchen | Old army (cupboard) | 2.7% | 4 |
| Kitchen Dishes | House kitchen (cupboard, shelves); Kitchen (cupboard, shelves); Living room (cupboard) | 1.1% | 4 |
| Derelict House Squatter | Derelict (other); Derelict steel factory (other) | 0.63% | 1 |
| Break Room Counter | Break room (cupboard); Detective office (cupboard); Nolan's office (cupboard); and 1 more place | 0.50% | 4 |
Town by town: loot locations.
Needed as a tool in 4 recipes (it is not used up): Open Canned Food, Open Dented Unlabeled Can, Open Unlabeled Can, Open Water Ration Can.
It weighs 0.6 in Build 42.
Base.TinOpener_Old.
0.3–0.4 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.