Magazine: The Louisville Bruiser is a recipe resource item in Project Zomboid. It weighs 0.5. Build 42.21 data, November 2026.
Recipe Resource Building & survival
It weighs 0.5.
Crafting materials feed the Build 42 crafting menus. Right-click the item or open the crafting window to see every recipe it goes into.
More: Crafting in Build 42 · Base building.
Use the item ID in sandbox loot settings, admin tools and mods.
| Item ID | Game category |
|---|---|
Base.WeaponMag7 | Recipe Resource |
Magazine: The Louisville Bruiser is on 19 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Library Magazines | Library (shelves) | 2.0% | 4 |
| University Library Magazines | University library (shelves) | 1.8% | 4 |
| Melee Weapons Late | Survivor safehouse (late game) (box, cupboard, crate, …) | 1.3% | 4 |
| Melee Weapons Mid | Survivor safehouse (mid game) (box, cupboard, crate, …) | 0.70% | 4 |
| Bookstore Sports | Bookstore (shelves) | 0.58% | 4 |
| School Lockers Bad | Elementary hall (locker); Elementary school (locker); Secondary hall (locker) | 0.51% | 2 |
| Melee Weapons | Survivor safehouse (early) (box, cupboard, crate, …); Survivor cache 1 (cupboard); Survivor cache 2 (cupboard); and 1 more place | 0.38% | 4 |
| Living Room Side Table Redneck | Living room (drawer) | 0.12% | 4 |
It is on 11 more tables with smaller shares.
Town by town: loot locations.
Used up as an ingredient in 2 recipes: Make Magazine Body Armor, Make Magazine Limb Armor.
Used in 2 recipes (as an ingredient or tool):
Reading it teaches:
Where to find it (loot tables with the highest weight first):
Counts as: any magazine.
It weighs 0.5 in Build 42.
Base.WeaponMag7.
Stats and item IDs from the Build 42 game data as listed on pzfans.com. Item art is from Project Zomboid.