Silver Butter Knife is a cooking weapon item in Project Zomboid. As a weapon it hits for 0.1–0.4 damage with 0.8 reach and a maximum condition of 2. Build 42.21 data, November 2026.
Cooking Weapon Melee weapons
As a weapon it hits for 0.1–0.4 damage with 0.8 reach and a maximum condition of 2. It weighs 0.25.
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.ButterKnife_Silver | Cooking Weapon |
Silver Butter 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dish Cabinet Generic | Any building (cabinet) | 0.51% | 4 |
| Gift Store Fancy | Gift storage (box, crate, shelves); Gift Store (box, crate, shelves); Toy Store (box, cupboard, shelves); and 1 more place | 0.46% | 4 |
| Antiques | Survivor safehouse (early) (box, crate); Survivor safehouse (late game) (box, crate); Survivor safehouse (mid game) (box, crate); and 6 more places | 0.23% | 4 |
| Junk Hoard | Attic (box, crate); Closet (box); Garage storage (box); and 4 more places | under 0.1% | 4 |
On zombies: zombies in these outfits can carry it: Bandit Late, Bandit Mid, Bandit Early, Bandit, Private Militia.
Town by town: loot locations.
Used up as an ingredient in 1 recipe: Scrap Small Silver Object.
Needed as a tool in 11 recipes (it is not used up): Carve Pumpkin, Collect Seeds, Drill Plank, Make Jar of Preserved Food, Scutch Fibre, Slice Animal Head, Slice Baloney, Slice Bread, Slice Cake/Pie, Slice Pizza, Slice Tortilla.
It weighs 0.25 in Build 42.
Base.ButterKnife_Silver.
0.1–0.4 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.