Spade Head Scrap Metal Weapon is a weapon crafted item in Project Zomboid. As a weapon it hits for 0.8–2.0 damage with 1.2 reach and a maximum condition of 10. Build 42.21 data, November 2026.
Weapon Crafted Melee weapons
As a weapon it hits for 0.8–2.0 damage with 1.2 reach and a maximum condition of 10. It weighs 4.
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.ScrapWeaponSpade | Weapon Crafted |
Spade Head Scrap Metal Weapon 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.
Needed as a tool in 13 recipes (it is not used up): Bone Spike Weapon, Chop Large Branch Into Firewood, Chop Log Into Firewood, Fix With Epoxy, Fix With Epoxy And Rags, Log Bench, Log Stairs, Log Stool, Log Stool, Log Table, Sharpen Blade, Sharpen Blade Poorly with File, Sharpen Blade with Grindstone.
Made with:
Used in 8 recipes (as an ingredient or tool):
Where to find it (loot tables with the highest weight first):
Counts as: any choptree, any cutplant, any killanimal, any sharpenable, any hasmetal, any repairwithepoxy.
It weighs 4 in Build 42.
Base.ScrapWeaponSpade.
0.8–2.0 per hit, with 1.2 reach.
Stats and item IDs from the Build 42 game data as listed on pzfans.com. Item art is from Project Zomboid.