Hand Fork

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A hand fork is a one-handed, short blade melee weapon. It can be attached to a spear.

Usage

Farming

The hand fork can be used similar to a shovel or trowel as a way of tilling grass for farming.

Weapon

Pros	Cons
Fast attack rate. Capable of dealing a one shot kill on zombies when the player performs a jaw stab animation. The player can carry a bag in the other hand because it is a one-handed weapon.	Short attack range, low damage. Can only hit one target at a time. Can get stuck in a zombie after a jaw-stab animation.

Condition

The hand fork has a maximum condition of 6. Its rate of degradation is influenced by the short blade and maintenance skills. The chance of losing durability can be simplified to the following formula: 1 in (9 + maintenanceMod × 2). Where "maintenanceMod" is calculated using the short blade and maintenance skills.
Below is an example of the chance of losing durability at varying levels of the maintenance and short blade skills.

*For how this is calculated, see: Condition*
Maintenance skill	Weapon skill	Condition lower chance
0	0	1/9 (11%)
0	4	1/11 (9%)
0	8	1/13 (8%)
4	0	1/13 (8%)
8	0	1/17 (6%)
4	4	1/15 (7%)
4	8	1/17 (6%)
8	8	1/21 (5%)
10	10	1/23 (4%)

Repairing

Materials that can be used to repair the hand fork, based on first time repairing.

Repair Hand Fork
Duct Tape Potentially repairs: 50% Chance of success: 100% Needs: Duct Tape (1 units)
Glue Potentially repairs: 20% Chance of success: 100% Needs: Glue (1 units)
Adhesive Tape Potentially repairs: 10% Chance of success: 100% Needs: Adhesive Tape (2 units)

Crafting

The hand fork can be attached to the end of a spear. The condition of the hand fork will be carried over to the spear.

Product	Ingredients	Tools	Requirements	Workstation	XP
Spear with Hand Fork	Crafted Spear ×1 Hand Fork ×1 Duct Tape ×2 unit(s)	none	none	none	none
Hand Fork	Spear with Hand Fork ×1	none	none	none	none

Distribution

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

HandFork 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	1.01%
Farmer	crate	6.29%
Farmer	metal_shelves	6.29%
SafehouseLoot	crate	3.98%
SafehouseLoot	metal_shelves	3.98%
ToolsCache1	counter	3.98%
all	crate	0.53%
all	toolcabinet	3.98%
bedroom	crate	0.47%
closet	crate	0.47%
closet	crate	3.98%
closet	crate	6.29%
construction	crate	3.98%
factory	crate	3.98%
factory	crate	6.29%
factory	metal_shelves	3.98%
factory	metal_shelves	6.29%
farmstorage	crate	3.98%
farmstorage	crate	6.29%
farmstorage	metal_shelves	3.98%
farmstorage	metal_shelves	6.29%
garagestorage	counter	6.29%
garagestorage	crate	0.47%
garagestorage	crate	3.98%
garagestorage	crate	6.29%
garagestorage	locker	6.29%
garagestorage	metal_shelves	6.29%
gardenstore	metal_shelves	3.98%
gardenstore	shelves	3.98%
generalstore	metal_shelves	6.29%
generalstore	shelves	6.29%
generalstorestorage	metal_shelves	6.29%
generalstorestorage	shelves	6.29%
gigamart	shelves	6.29%
kitchen	crate	3.98%
loggingfactory	crate	3.98%
loggingfactory	metal_shelves	3.98%
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	3.98%
shed	crate	3.98%
shed	crate	6.29%
shed	locker	6.29%
shed	metal_shelves	6.29%
storageunit	crate	0.47%
storageunit	crate	3.98%
storageunit	crate	6.29%
storageunit	metal_shelves	0.47%
storageunit	metal_shelves	3.98%
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	3.98%
warehouse	crate	6.29%
warehouse	metal_shelves	3.98%
warehouse	metal_shelves	6.29%

Vehicles
Type	Container	Effective chance
Farmer	Trunk	6.29%

Zombie
Outfit	Days survived	Chance
All	0	30

NPCs

Zombies

There is a chance zombies have a hand fork stuck into their body.

Trivia

The hand fork was added to the game in build 41, also known as animation build.

Gallery

Hand Fork Held by a Player

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 HandFork
    {
        DisplayCategory = ToolWeapon,
        MaxRange	=	0.9,
        WeaponSprite	=	HandFork,
        MinAngle	=	0.65,
        Type	=	Weapon,
        MinimumSwingTime	=	4,
        KnockBackOnNoDeath	=	FALSE,
        SwingAmountBeforeImpact	=	0.02,
        Categories	=	SmallBlade,
        ConditionLowerChanceOneIn	=	9,
        Weight	=	0.5,
        SplatNumber	=	2,
        PushBackMod	=	0.3,
        SubCategory	=	Stab,
        CloseKillMove = Jaw_Stab,
        ConditionMax	=	6,
        MaxHitCount	=	2,
        DoorDamage	=	5,
        SwingAnim	=	Stab,
        DisplayName	=	Hand Fork,
        MinRange	=	0.61,
        SwingTime	=	4,
        KnockdownMod	=	2,
        SplatBloodOnNoDeath	=	FALSE,
        Icon	=	GardeningFork,
        BreakSound  =   HandForkBreak,
        TreeDamage  =   0,
        CriticalChance	=	10,
        CritDmgMultiplier = 10,
        MinDamage	=	0.2,
        MaxDamage	=	0.4,
   		WeaponLength = 0.2,
        DamageCategory = Slash,
        DamageMakeHole = TRUE,
        HitFloorSound	=	HandForkHit,
        ImpactSound	=	HandForkHit,
        DoorHitSound = HandForkHit,
		HitSound	=	HandForkHit,
		SwingSound = HandForkSwing,
		AttachmentType = Knife,
        Tags = DigPlow,
   }

Repair

Source: ProjectZomboid\media\scripts\fixing.txt