Sushi Knife is a cooking weapon item in Project Zomboid. As a weapon it hits for 0.3–0.7 damage with 0.9 reach and a maximum condition of 15. Build 42.21 data, November 2026.
Cooking Weapon Melee weapons
As a weapon it hits for 0.3–0.7 damage with 0.9 reach and a maximum condition of 15. It weighs 0.7.
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.KnifeSushi | Cooking Weapon |
Sushi Knife is on 8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Knife Factory Sushi Knife | Knife shipping (box, crate, shelves) | 100% | 4 |
| Sushi Kitchen Butcher | Sushi kitchen (cupboard) | 21% | 4 |
| Sushi Kitchen Cutlery | Sushi kitchen (cupboard) | 21% | 4 |
| Sushi Kitchen Baking | Sushi kitchen (cupboard) | 13% | 4 |
| Sushi Kitchen Sauce | Sushi kitchen (cupboard) | 3.8% | 4 |
| Knife Store Cutlery | Knife Store (display case, shelves) | 2.4% | 4 |
| Chef Tools | Chef (box, cupboard, crate, …) | 1.5% | 3 |
| Food Gourmet | Any building (cabinet) | 0.24% | 4 |
Inside bags and cases: Tool Roll - Fabric.
Town by town: loot locations.
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.
Used in 200 recipes (as an ingredient or tool):
And 170 more.
Where to find it (loot tables with the highest weight first):
Counts as: any cutplant, any sharpknife, any butcheranimal, any sharpenable, any ignorezombiedensity, any killanimal, any hasmetal.
It weighs 0.7 in Build 42.
Base.KnifeSushi.
0.3–0.7 per hit, with 0.9 reach.
Stats and item IDs from the Build 42 game data as listed on pzfans.com. Item art is from Project Zomboid.