Dumbbell

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The dumbbell is a one-handed short blunt weapon and piece of exercise equipment.

Usage

Pros and cons

Pros	Cons
Decent durability. Can be used for exercise. Doubles as a weapon.	Extremely heavy

Fitness

For main article, see Exercise

While the player has a dumbbell in their inventory, they can perform two new exercises, the dumbbell press and the bicep curl. Both of these focus on the arms and are 80% more efficient as an arm exercise than their weightless counterpart, pushups.

Distribution

The loot distributions can be found in the table(s) below.

DumbBell distribution Show / Hide

Effective chance calculations are based off of default loot settings, and median zombie density. The higher the density of zombies in an area, the higher the effective chance of an item spawning. Chance is also influenced by the lucky and unlucky traits.

Containers
Building/Room	Container	Effective chance
bedroom	crate	1.01%
closet	crate	1.01%
closet	crate	23.28%
closet	crate	41.14%
garagestorage	crate	1.01%
garagestorage	crate	23.28%
garagestorage	crate	41.14%
gym	metal_shelves	23.28%
gym	metal_shelves	41.14%
storageunit	crate	1.01%
storageunit	crate	23.28%
storageunit	crate	41.14%
storageunit	metal_shelves	1.01%

Code

Code snippet! This section contains source code from Project ZomboidShow / Hide

Source: ProjectZomboid\media\scripts\items_weapons.txt

Retrieved: Build 41.78.16

item DumbBell
    {
        DisplayCategory = Sports,
        MaxRange	=	1,
        WeaponSprite	=	DumbBell,
        MinAngle	=	0.65,
        Type	=	Weapon,
        MinimumSwingTime	=	3,
        KnockBackOnNoDeath	=	TRUE,
        SwingAmountBeforeImpact	=	0.02,
        Categories	=	SmallBlunt,
        ConditionLowerChanceOneIn	=	25,
        Weight	=	5,
        SplatNumber	=	1,
        PushBackMod	=	0.5,
        SubCategory	=	Swinging,
        ConditionMax	=	10,
        MaxHitCount	=	1,
        DoorDamage	=	9,
        CanBarricade	=	TRUE,
        SwingAnim	=	Bat,
        DisplayName	=	DumbBell,
        MinRange	=	0.61,
        SwingTime	=	3,
        KnockdownMod	=	0,
        SplatBloodOnNoDeath	=	TRUE,
        Icon	=	Dumbbell,
        RunAnim	=	Run_Weapon2,
        IdleAnim	=	Idle_Weapon2,
        BreakSound  =   DumbBellBreak,
        DoorHitSound = DumbBellHit,
		HitSound = DumbBellHit,
		HitFloorSound = DumbBellHit,
		SwingSound = DumbBellSwing,
        TreeDamage  =   0,
        MetalValue = 25,
        CriticalChance	=	25,
        CritDmgMultiplier = 3,
        MinDamage	=	0.5,
        MaxDamage	=	1,
        BaseSpeed = 0.90,
        WeaponLength = 0.2,
     }