A crafted long blade weapon made from scrap metal. Where to find it and how to use it below. Updated for Build 42.21, November 2026.
Long Blade Melee weapons
A crafted long blade weapon made from scrap metal.
Crafted from scrap metal; it does not spawn as loot.
Town by town: loot locations.
Scrap weapons are cheap to remake, so use them hard and replace them.
The Scrap Metal Chopper is a one-handed Long Blade weapon. It hits for 1–2 damage with a reach of 1.23 and weighs 2. Its maximum condition is 10. Critical hits land 10% of the time.
One-handed
It does not spawn as loot: you craft it.
Build 42 scrap weapon.
Scrap Metal Chopper is on 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Melee Weapons Mid | Survivor safehouse (mid game) (box, cupboard, crate, …) | under 0.1% | 4 |
| Melee Weapons Late | Survivor safehouse (late game) (box, cupboard, crate, …) | under 0.1% | 4 |
Town by town: loot locations.
| Recipe | Ingredients (used up) | Tools (kept) | Requirements |
|---|---|---|---|
| Make Scrap Metal Chopper On any surface | Steel Rod or Iron Pipe or Broken Iron Pipe or 1 more; 8 × Welding Torch; Steel Sheet; Rag or Denim Strips or Leather Strips; Nuts and Bolts | any welding mask; any file; any wrench; a metal drill; any sheet metal snips or any metal saw | Welding 5 |
Used up as an ingredient in 3 recipes: Smelt Iron From Large Item, Smelt Large Iron Item, Smelt Steel From Large 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.
Crafted from scrap metal; it does not spawn as loot.
A crafted long blade weapon made from scrap metal. Scrap weapons are cheap to remake, so use them hard and replace them.
Scrap Metal Chopper damage is 1–2 per hit in Build 42.21, with 1.23 reach and a maximum condition of 10.
It is one-handed and uses the Long Blade skill.
Item data from the ProjectZom item database, with stats from the Build 42 game data as published by pzfans.com and pindrop.gg.