Paring Knife is a cooking weapon item in Project Zomboid. As a weapon it hits for 0.3–0.4 damage with 0.8 reach and a maximum condition of 10. Build 42.21 data, November 2026.
Cooking Weapon Melee weapons
As a weapon it hits for 0.3–0.4 damage with 0.8 reach and a maximum condition of 10. It weighs 0.3.
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.KnifeParing | Cooking Weapon |
Paring Knife is on 13 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 Factory Cutlery | Kitchenwares Store (box); Knife shipping (box, crate, shelves) | 33% | 4 |
| Knife Store Cutlery | Knife Store (display case, shelves) | 18% | 4 |
| Chef Tools | Chef (box, cupboard, crate, …) | 15% | 3 |
| Bakery Kitchen Cutlery | Bakery kitchen (cupboard) | 9.2% | 4 |
| Store Kitchen Potatoes | Cafeteria kitchen (cupboard); Restaurant (cupboard); Diner kitchen (cupboard); and 7 more places | 6.1% | 4 |
| Burger Kitchen Cutlery | Arena kitchen (cupboard); Arena kitchen storage (cupboard); Burger kitchen (cupboard) | 5.1% | 4 |
| Hotdog Stand Toppings | Hotdog stand (cupboard) | 4.8% | 4 |
| Kitchen Dishes | House kitchen (cupboard, shelves); Kitchen (cupboard, shelves); Living room (cupboard) | 3.2% | 4 |
It is on 5 more tables with smaller shares.
Inside bags and cases: Tool Roll - Fabric, Garbage Bag.
Town by town: loot locations.
Used up as an ingredient in 3 recipes: Smelt Iron From Small Item, Smelt Small Iron Item, Smelt Steel From Small Iron 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.
It weighs 0.3 in Build 42.
Base.KnifeParing.
0.3–0.4 per hit, with 0.8 reach.
Stats and item IDs from the Build 42 game data as listed on pzfans.com. Item art is from Project Zomboid.