Wooden Spade is a gardening weapon item in Project Zomboid. As a weapon it hits for 0.4–0.8 damage with 1.6 reach and a maximum condition of 8. Build 42.21 data, November 2026.
Gardening Weapon Melee weapons
As a weapon it hits for 0.4–0.8 damage with 1.6 reach and a maximum condition of 8. It weighs 2.
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.SpadeWood | Gardening Weapon |
| Recipe | Ingredients (used up) | Tools (kept) | Requirements |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carve Wooden Spade In hand | Large Branch or Plank | any sharp knife or any meat cleaver | Carving 4. Read: Pioneering Carvers or reach Carving 6 |
Needed as a tool in 8 recipes (it is not used up): Charcoal Burning Pile, Fix With Adhesive Tape, Fix With Duct Tape, Fix With Epoxy, Fix With Epoxy And Rags, Fix With Glue, Fix With Wood Glue, Fix With Zipties.
Made with:
Used in 7 recipes (as an ingredient or tool):
Counts as: any clearashes, any diggrave, any digplow, any takedirt, any takedung, any repairwithglue, any repairwithtape.
It weighs 2 in Build 42.
Base.SpadeWood.
0.4–0.8 per hit, with 1.6 reach.
Stats and item IDs from the Build 42 game data as listed on pzfans.com. Item art is from Project Zomboid.