Carving Fork at a glance

Cooking Weapon Melee weapons
As a weapon it hits for 0.2–0.4 damage with 0.9 reach and a maximum condition of 6. It weighs 0.5.
Carving Fork is a cooking weapon item in Project Zomboid. As a weapon it hits for 0.2–0.4 damage with 0.9 reach and a maximum condition of 6. Build 42.21 data, November 2026.

Cooking Weapon Melee weapons
As a weapon it hits for 0.2–0.4 damage with 0.9 reach and a maximum condition of 6. It weighs 0.5.
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.CarvingFork2 | Cooking Weapon |
Carving Fork is on 9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grill Acessories | Barbecue Store (cupboard, shelves); Barbecue store (second list) (cupboard, shelves); Butcher (shelves); and 2 more places | 17% | 4 |
| Crate Black BBQ | Garage storage (box, crate); Shed (crate) | 14% | 4 |
| Crate Red BBQ | Garage storage (box, crate); Shed (crate) | 13% | 4 |
| Store Shelf BBQ | Special spawn (vehicles, events or zombies) | 7.6% | 4 |
| Butcher Tools | Butcher (box, cupboard, shelves); Butchery (box, cupboard, shelves); Knox butcher (box, cupboard, shelves) | 5.4% | 4 |
| Gigamart Pots | Department storage (shelves); General Store (shelves); GigaMart (shelves); and 2 more places | 4.8% | 4 |
| Gigamart BBQ | GigaMart (shelves); Grocers (shelves); Grocery (shelves) | 4.6% | 4 |
| Diner Back Room Counter | Diner back room (cupboard) | 2.6% | 4 |
It is on 1 more table with smaller shares.
Inside bags and cases: Tool Roll - Fabric, Garbage Bag.
Town by town: loot locations.
It weighs 0.5 in Build 42.
Base.CarvingFork2.
0.2–0.4 per hit, with 0.9 reach.
Stats and item IDs from the Build 42 game data as listed on pzfans.com. Item art is from Project Zomboid.