Also known as Short Scrap Metal Morningstar.
A crafted short blunt weapon made from scrap metal. Where to find it and how to use it below. Updated for Build 42.21, November 2026.
Short Blunt Melee weapons
A crafted short blunt 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 Short Scrap Metal Morningstar is a one-handed Short Blunt weapon. It hits for 0.7–1.4 damage with a reach of 1.1 and weighs 2.3. Its maximum condition is 10, and each hit has a 1 in 10 chance of costing a point of condition. Critical hits land 30% of the time and multiply damage by 5.
One-handed
It does not spawn as loot: you craft it.
Build 42 scrap weapon.
Scrap Metal Morningstar - Short is on 1 loot table 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 Late | Survivor safehouse (late game) (box, cupboard, crate, …) | under 0.1% | 4 |
Town by town: loot locations.
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 2 recipes (it is not used up): Fix With Epoxy, Fix With Epoxy And Rags.
Crafted from scrap metal; it does not spawn as loot.
A crafted short blunt weapon made from scrap metal. Scrap weapons are cheap to remake, so use them hard and replace them.
Short Scrap Metal Morningstar damage is 0.7–1.4 per hit in Build 42.21, with 1.1 reach and a maximum condition of 10.
It is one-handed and uses the Short Blunt skill.
Item data from the ProjectZom item database, with stats from the Build 42 game data as published by pzfans.com and pindrop.gg.