Garden Hoe

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The garden hoe is a two-handed blunt melee weapon that can be used for farming.

Usage

Farming

The garden hoe's main purpose is as a farming tool, meaning it can be used to till dirt, allowing seeds to be sown.

Weapon

The garden hoe can also be used as a weapon, although it isn't particularly effective as one, making it best for farming. It has fairly long range though, meaning combat with it is safer than with shorter range weapons.

Attacks with the garden hoe will damage clothing on enemies.

Breaking doors

Garden hoes are somewhat effective at breaking down doors, dealing 10 damage per hit. For comparison, an axe deals 35 damage.

Chopping trees

The garden hoe only deals 1 damage to a tree per hit. For comparison, an axe deals 35 damage.

Condition

The garden hoe has a maximum condition of 10. Its rate of degradation is influenced by the long blunt and maintenance skills. The chance of losing durability can be simplified to the following formula: 1 in (10 + maintenanceMod × 2). Where "maintenanceMod" is calculated using the long blunt and maintenance skills.
Below is an example of the chance of losing durability at varying levels of the maintenance and long blunt skills.

*For how this is calculated, see: Condition*
Maintenance skill	Weapon skill	Condition lower chance
0	0	1/10 (10%)
0	4	1/12 (8%)
0	8	1/14 (7%)
4	0	1/14 (7%)
8	0	1/18 (6%)
4	4	1/16 (6%)
4	8	1/18 (6%)
8	8	1/22 (5%)
10	10	1/24 (4%)

Repairing

A garden hoe can be repaired with the following:

2 × Wood Glue and level 2 Carpentry
2 × Duct Tape
3 × Glue
4 × Adhesive Tape

Distribution

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

GardenHoe 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
Bag_ToolBag	Bag_ToolBag	1.61%
Farmer	crate	6.29%
Farmer	metal_shelves	6.29%
SafehouseLoot	counter	15.1%
SafehouseLoot	crate	6.29%
SafehouseLoot	crate	15.1%
SafehouseLoot	metal_shelves	6.29%
SafehouseLoot	metal_shelves	15.1%
SafehouseLoot	wardrobe	15.1%
SurvivorCache1	counter	15.1%
SurvivorCache2	counter	15.1%
all	crate	0.53%
all	toolcabinet	6.29%
bedroom	crate	0.53%
closet	crate	0.53%
closet	crate	6.29%
construction	crate	6.29%
factory	crate	6.29%
factory	metal_shelves	6.29%
farmstorage	crate	6.29%
farmstorage	metal_shelves	6.29%
garagestorage	counter	6.29%
garagestorage	crate	0.53%
garagestorage	crate	6.29%
garagestorage	locker	6.29%
garagestorage	metal_shelves	6.29%
gardenstore	metal_shelves	6.29%
gardenstore	shelves	6.29%
generalstore	metal_shelves	6.29%
generalstore	shelves	6.29%
generalstorestorage	metal_shelves	6.29%
generalstorestorage	shelves	6.29%
gigamart	shelves	6.29%
kitchen	crate	6.29%
loggingfactory	crate	6.29%
loggingfactory	metal_shelves	6.29%
pawnshop	counter	6.29%
pawnshop	crate	6.29%
pawnshop	metal_shelves	6.29%
pawnshop	shelves	6.29%
pawnshopstorage	crate	6.29%
pawnshopstorage	metal_shelves	6.29%
producestorage	metal_shelves	6.29%
shed	crate	6.29%
shed	locker	6.29%
shed	metal_shelves	6.29%
storageunit	crate	0.53%
storageunit	crate	6.29%
storageunit	metal_shelves	0.53%
storageunit	metal_shelves	6.29%
toolstore	counter	6.29%
toolstore	crate	6.29%
toolstore	metal_shelves	6.29%
toolstore	shelves	6.29%
toolstorestorage	crate	6.29%
toolstorestorage	metal_shelves	6.29%
warehouse	crate	6.29%
warehouse	metal_shelves	6.29%

Vehicles
Type	Container	Effective chance
Farmer	Trunk	6.29%
Ranger	Trunk	6.29%

Code

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

Item

Source: ProjectZomboid\media\scripts\items_weapons.txt

Retrieved: Build 41.78.16

item GardenHoe
    {
        DisplayCategory = Gardening,
        Type				=			Weapon,
        DisplayName			=		Garden Hoe,
        Icon				=		Hoe,
        Weight				=		2.0,
        SubCategory    		=     Swinging,
        MinAngle			=			0.85,
        MaxRange 			= 			1.6,
        MinRange 			= 			0.61,
        PushBackMod			=			0.5,
        HitAngleMod			=			-30.0,
        SwingAnim			=			Bat,
        MaxHitCount 		=			3,
        WeaponSprite	=	GardenHoe,
        IdleAnim			=			Idle_Weapon2,
        RunAnim				=			Run_Weapon2,
        Weight				=			1.5,
        DoorDamage			=			10,
        MinimumSwingTime 	= 			2.1,
        SwingTime			=			2.1,
        SwingAmountBeforeImpact = 		0.02,
        ConditionLowerChanceOneIn 	= 	10,
        ConditionMax 		= 			10,
        Categories 			=			Blunt,
        TwoHandWeapon = TRUE,
        BreakSound  =   GardenHoeBreak,
        DoorHitSound = GardenHoeHit,
		HitSound = GardenHoeHit,
		HitFloorSound = GardenHoeHit,
		SwingSound = GardenHoeSwing,
        KnockdownMod	=	2,
        KnockBackOnNoDeath	=	TRUE,
        MetalValue = 70,
        TreeDamage = 1,
        CriticalChance	=	35,
        CritDmgMultiplier = 2,
        MaxDamage			=			1.7,
        MinDamage			=			0.6,
        BaseSpeed = 0.85,
       	WeaponLength = 0.65,
        DamageCategory = Slash,
        DamageMakeHole = TRUE,
        AttachmentType = BigBlade,
        Tags = DigPlow,
      }

Repair

Source: ProjectZomboid\media\scripts\fixing.txt