Fillet Knife is a cooking weapon item in Project Zomboid. As a weapon it hits for 0.3–0.5 damage with 0.9 reach and a maximum condition of 5. Build 42.21 data, November 2026.
Cooking Weapon Melee weapons
As a weapon it hits for 0.3–0.5 damage with 0.9 reach and a maximum condition of 5. It weighs 0.7.
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.KnifeFillet | Cooking Weapon |
Fillet Knife is on 21 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Knife Store Cutlery | Knife Store (display case, shelves) | 18% | 4 |
| Chef Tools | Chef (box, cupboard, crate, …) | 15% | 3 |
| Jerky Factory Tools | Jerky factory (shelves) | 9.6% | 4 |
| Store Kitchen Butcher | Cafeteria kitchen (cupboard); Diner kitchen (cupboard); Dinner kitchen (cupboard); and 3 more places | 6.9% | 4 |
| Catfish Kitchen Butcher | Catfish kitchen (cupboard) | 5.9% | 4 |
| Crate Fishing | Closet (box, crate); Garage storage (box, crate); Shed (crate); and 1 more place | 5.6% | 4 |
| Fisherman Tools | Special spawn (vehicles, events or zombies) | 5.4% | 3 |
| Butcher Tools | Butcher (box, cupboard, shelves); Butchery (box, cupboard, shelves); Knox butcher (box, cupboard, shelves) | 5.4% | 4 |
It is on 13 more tables with smaller shares.
On zombies: zombies in these outfits can carry it: Fisherman.
Inside bags and cases: Tool Roll - Fabric, Fishing Satchel, Tacklebox, Toolbox, Garbage Bag.
Town by town: loot locations.
Used up as an ingredient in 2 recipes: Smelt Medium Steel Item, Smelt Steel From Medium Steel Item.
Needed as a tool in 200 recipes (it is not used up): Assemble Framepack, Assemble Long Implement, Assemble Mace, Assemble Medium Implement, Assemble Simple Framepack, Assemble Simple Tarp Framepack, Assemble Spear, Assemble Stone Mace, Assemble Very Long Implement, Bone Spike Weapon, Butcher Small Animal, Carve 12 Small Handles, Carve 2 Small Handles, Carve 4 Large Bone Beads and 186 more.
Used in 202 recipes (as an ingredient or tool):
And 172 more.
Where to find it (loot tables with the highest weight first):
Counts as: any sharpknife, any butcheranimal, any sharpenable, any smeltablesteelmedium, any hasmetal.
It weighs 0.7 in Build 42.
Base.KnifeFillet.
0.3–0.5 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.