Steel Bar Half is a material weapon item in Project Zomboid. As a weapon it hits for 0.5–1.0 damage with 1.1 reach and a maximum condition of 8. Build 42.21 data, November 2026.
Material Weapon Melee weapons
As a weapon it hits for 0.5–1.0 damage with 1.1 reach and a maximum condition of 8. It weighs 1.
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.SteelBarHalf | Material Weapon |
Steel Bar Half is on 9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Welding Workshop Metal | Welding storage (shelves); Welding workshop (shelves) | 7.4% | 4 |
| Garage Metalwork | Garage storage (cupboard, shelves); Shed (cupboard, shelves) | 3.6% | 4 |
| Knife Factory Tools | Knife Factory (tool cabinet) | 2.7% | 4 |
| Crate Blacksmithing | Garage storage (box, crate); Storage Unit (box, crate, shelves) | 2.4% | 4 |
| Tool Factory Tools | Factory (cupboard) | 2.4% | 4 |
| Wire Factory Tools | Wire Factory (shelves, tool cabinet) | 2.1% | 4 |
| Crate Metalwork | Garage storage (box, crate); Shed (crate); Storage (box, crate); and 3 more places | 2.0% | 4 |
| Crate Mechanics | Closet (box, crate); Garage (crate); Garage storage (box, crate); and 3 more places | 1.9% | 4 |
It is on 1 more table with smaller shares.
Town by town: loot locations.
Used up as an ingredient in 26 recipes: Cut Bar, Cut Bar, Forge Bar, Forge Bar Into Rod, Forge Carpentry Chisel, Forge File, Forge Fleshing Tool, Forge Gardening Hoe Head, Forge Handguard Dagger, Forge Hunting Knife Blade, Forge Large Knife Blade, Forge Long Simple Blade, Forge Long Spear Head, Forge Masonry Chisel and 12 more.
Made with:
Used in 26 recipes (as an ingredient or tool):
Where to find it (loot tables with the highest weight first):
Counts as: any hasmetal, any steelmaterial, any barstockhalf, any nomaintenancexp, any smeltablesteelmedium.
It weighs 1 in Build 42.
Base.SteelBarHalf.
0.5–1.0 per hit, with 1.1 reach.
Stats and item IDs from the Build 42 game data as listed on pzfans.com. Item art is from Project Zomboid.