Fingerless Gloves - Scrap Metal is an accessory item in Project Zomboid. It gives 70 bite and 80 scratch defence where it covers you, with 0.25 insulation. Build 42.21 data, November 2026.
Accessory Clothing & armour
It gives 70 bite and 80 scratch defence where it covers you, with 0.25 insulation. It weighs 1.
Clothing only protects the body parts it covers. Bite and scratch defence stop wounds, insulation keeps you warm, and wind and water resistance matter in storms. Heavy or bulky pieces can slow your running.
Use the item ID in sandbox loot settings, admin tools and mods.
| Item ID | Game category |
|---|---|
Base.Gloves_MetalScrapArmour | Accessory |
Fingerless Gloves - Scrap Metal is on 1 loot table 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Safehouse Armor Late | Survivor safehouse (late game) (box, crate, drawer, …) | under 0.1% | 3 |
Town by town: loot locations.
| Recipe | Ingredients (used up) | Tools (kept) | Requirements |
|---|---|---|---|
| Make Scrap Metal Gloves On any surface | Welding Torch; Fingerless Gloves or Fingerless Gloves - Leather or Fingerless Gloves - Leather or 3 more; Leather Strips; Steel Sheet - Small | any welding mask; any sheet metal snips or any metal saw; any metalworking punch or a metal drill; any hammer | Welding 4, Tailoring 1 |
Used up as an ingredient in 2 recipes: Smelt Small Steel Item, Smelt Steel From Small Steel Item.
It weighs 1 in Build 42.
Base.Gloves_MetalScrapArmour.
Bite defence 70 and scratch defence 80.
Stats and item IDs from the Build 42 game data as listed on pzfans.com. Item art is from Project Zomboid.