Railroad Spike Knife is a weapon item in Project Zomboid. As a weapon it hits for 0.3–0.7 damage with 0.9 reach and a maximum condition of 10. Build 42.21 data, November 2026.
Weapon Firearms
As a weapon it hits for 0.3–0.7 damage with 0.9 reach and a maximum condition of 10. It weighs 0.5.
Every gunshot is loud and draws zombies from a long way off. Ammunition, magazines and attachments are separate items, and the Aiming skill decides how often you hit.
More: Firearms and aiming · Weapons and ammo.
Use the item ID in sandbox loot settings, admin tools and mods.
| Item ID | Game category |
|---|---|
Base.RailroadSpikeKnife | Weapon |
Railroad Spike Knife is on 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drug Shack Tools | Drug lab (cupboard); Drug shack (cupboard, crate, box) | 0.42% | 4 |
| Derelict House Crime | Derelict (other); Derelict steel factory (other) | under 0.1% | 1 |
| Melee Weapons Late | Survivor safehouse (late game) (box, cupboard, crate, …) | under 0.1% | 4 |
| Antiques | Survivor safehouse (early) (box, crate); Survivor safehouse (late game) (box, crate); Survivor safehouse (mid game) (box, crate); and 6 more places | under 0.1% | 4 |
Town by town: loot locations.
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 0.5 in Build 42.
Base.RailroadSpikeKnife.
0.3–0.7 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.