Long Stick is a material weapon item in Project Zomboid. As a weapon it hits for 0.3–0.6 damage with 1.6 reach and a maximum condition of 5. Build 42.21 data, November 2026.
Material Weapon Melee weapons
As a weapon it hits for 0.3–0.6 damage with 1.6 reach and a maximum condition of 5. It weighs 2.
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.LongStick | Material Weapon |
Long Stick is on 15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crate Long Stick | Logging factory (crate); Logging truck (crate); Logging warehouse (crate); and 3 more places | 100% | 4 |
| Carving Workshop Materials | Whittler workshop (crate, shelves) | 37% | 4 |
| Tool Store Handles | Tool Store (crate, shelves) | 13% | 6 |
| Garage Carpentry | Garage storage (cupboard, shelves); Shed (cupboard, shelves) | 3.4% | 4 |
| Melee Weapons Late | Survivor safehouse (late game) (box, cupboard, crate, …) | 2.1% | 4 |
| Melee Weapons Mid | Survivor safehouse (mid game) (box, cupboard, crate, …) | 2.1% | 4 |
| Cabinet Factory Tools | Cabinet Factory (crate, shelves, tool cabinet); Cabinet shipping (shelves) | 1.8% | 4 |
| Melee Weapons | Survivor safehouse (early) (box, cupboard, crate, …); Survivor cache 1 (cupboard); Survivor cache 2 (cupboard); and 1 more place | 1.5% | 4 |
It is on 7 more tables with smaller shares.
Town by town: loot locations.
| Recipe | Ingredients (used up) | Tools (kept) | Requirements |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carve Long Stick In hand | any carvelongstick | any sharp knife or any meat cleaver | No skill needed |
| Get Long Stick In hand | any item that yields a long stick | None | No skill needed |
| Dismantle Knife/Tool Spear In hand | Spear with Small Knife or Spear with Large Knife or Spear with Scrap Knife or 8 more | None | No skill needed |
Used up as an ingredient in 35 recipes: Assemble Spear, Assemble Very Long Implement, Bind Spear Head, Bind Spear Head With Duct Tape, Bind Spear Head With Wire, Burn Large Wood into Charcoal, Carve 8 Small Handles, Carve Spear, Carve Stake, Carve Trowel, Crude Wooden Cross, Crude Wooden Fence, Large Plant Drying Rack, Lean To Shelter and 21 more.
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.
It weighs 2 in Build 42.
Base.LongStick.
0.3–0.6 per hit, with 1.6 reach.
Stats and item IDs from the Build 42 game data as listed on pzfans.com. Item art is from Project Zomboid.