Weapons changes in Project Zomboid

Fixed holsters unequipping weapons and changing positions on the hotbar after relogging

Fixed being able to fire weapons without ammo when the player has a high ping

Fixed being unable to get up quickly while holding a weapon

Fixed weapon magazines disappearing after reloading

Fixed weapon condition desync when an item is transferred

Ranged weapons now work out point-blank shots correctly.

Fixed point-blank calculations for ranged weapons

Fixed emotes not being performed when character holding a non-weapon item in their offhand

Weapon attachments are repositioned so they line up correctly on the guns.

Fixed weapons unequipping when character is climbing through windows

Non-weapon items equipped from the hotbar now go in your secondary slot, or in the primary slot if the secondary is taken and the primary is free.

When an item is equipped from the hotbar and it’s not a weapon, it will be placed in the secondary slot.

• When an item is equipped from the hotbar and it’s not a weapon, it will be placed in the secondary slot. If the slot is already occupied and the primary slot is free, it'll be equipped there.

Jaw stabs with the Carving Fork now show the hand raise indicator again.

Fixed missing hand raise indicator for jaw stabs with the Carving Fork weapon.

Fixed error when equipping weapons while wearing an unstowed backpack sprayer.

Guns now use body part damage the same way melee does, so head shots deal 3x damage and shots to arms and legs deal far less.

Ranged weapon damage can now make use of specific body part damage modifiers.

• Ranged weapon damage can now make use of specific body part damage modifiers. This brings ranged damage into line with how melee combat works, head shots will receive 3x damage, legs and arms get dealt far less.

Loaded ranged weapons now lose condition when fired.

Fixed ranged weapon condition bug.

• Fixed ranged weapon condition bug. Loaded ranged weapons check for condition wear when fired.

Non-weapon items that have a sharpness quality, such as detached knife blades, will display their current sharpness value in their item tooltip just as weapons with sharpness do.

Fixed ranged weapons targeting, hitting and damaging vehicles

Swapping weapons no longer briefly takes away the Nimble bonus for stepping backward.

Fixed player temporarily losing backward-stepping Nimble bonus when swapping weapons

Several modified Baseball Bats are now lighter and have better critical stats.

Several modified Baseball Bat weapons had their weight decreased and critical characteristics increased.

Long and Short Spearheads and Crude/Simple Blades are no longer weapons and lose the Sharp Knife and several other crafting qualities, which makes some menus less cluttered.

Long and Short Spearheads and Crude/Simple Blades are no longer weapons, and don't have the Sharp Knife and several other qualities for crafting and interactions.

• Long and Short Spearheads and Crude/Simple Blades are no longer weapons, and don't have the Sharp Knife and several other qualities for crafting and interactions. This is to make some interfaces less confusing/spammy.

Weapons and other items that spawn as clutter now get a random condition and sharpness, where those values matter.

Weapons and other items with conditions that "matter", or have sharpness values, will have those values randomized when they spawn as clutter.

Several modified Long Branch Cudgels now have better critical stats.

Several modified Long Branch Cudgel weapons had their critical characteristics increased.

The Large Branch and several Maul and Scrap heavy weapons now have a higher critical chance.

Increased the Critical Chance of the Large Branch and several Maul and Scrap-type heavy weapons.

Some items that are not weapons may now turn up as loot with random condition, so some may already be worn.

Certain non-weapon items may have their condition randomized when spawned as loot.

Weapon parts such as Sledgehammer Heads found in the trash can also spawn with random condition, and so can items that wear down when used as tools or tool parts.

This includes items that are weapon parts, such as Sledgehammer Heads in the trash, as well as items that are intended to have their condition reduced from being used as tools/tool parts.

Several crafted weapons based on the Baseball Bat are more durable, so they last longer before breaking.

Increased the durability of several Baseball Bat derived crafted weapons.

Several crude weapons such as Shivs and Stone Axes can now use Burlap Pieces in place of Rags, Denim Strips, Leather Strips or Twine, but Spears cannot.

Several crude/improvised type weapons that could use Rags, Denim Strips, Leather Strips, or Twine, and an ingredient can now also use Burlap Pieces instead.

• Several crude/improvised type weapons that could use Rags, Denim Strips, Leather Strips, or Twine, and an ingredient can now also use Burlap Pieces instead. This does not apply to Spears, but items such as Shivs and Stone Axes.

Rake Head weapons are more durable, so they last longer before breaking.

Increased the durability characteristics of Rake Head weapons.

The Mace and Stone Mace weigh less, so they are lighter to carry.

Reduced the weights of the Mace and Stone Mace weapons.

Bone-spiked branches now count as blunt weapons, not axes.

Fixed bone-spiked branches being Axe weapons; a previous version of there weapons were much more "pick like" and as picks are axes, they were axes.

• Fixed bone-spiked branches being Axe weapons; a previous version of there weapons were much more "pick like" and as picks are axes, they were axes. Now they are properly blunt.

The Spiked Short Bat is slightly more durable, so it lasts a little longer before breaking.

Slightly boosted the durability characteristic of the Spiked Short Bat weapon.

Fixed Dropping Weapons not playing drop sound.

Several higher-tier weapon and tool heads now need steel to craft, and you can melt those heads down to get steel back.

Several higher-tier weapon and tool head crafts require steel, and the weapon or tool heads can be melted down for steel.

Several nail-spiked and broken weapons have had their stats rebalanced.

Rebalanced several nail spiked and broken weapons.

The Sawblade Hatchet and Sawblade Axe are lighter to carry.

Reduced the weight of the Sawblade Hatchet and Sawblade Axe weapons.

Some improvised weapon recipes now also need nuts and bolts, matching their models and the wrench they already required.

Fixed some improvised weapon recipes not requiring nuts and bolts despite them having them on the model and requiring a wrench to craft.

Tinted items like open umbrellas now keep their colour when equipped, and filled containers like mugs or buckets now look filled during actions.

Non-weapon tinted models like open umbrellas are now tinted when equipped and filled fluid containers, like mugs or buckets, now use their filled models for timed actions.

Short Bat weapons are slightly weaker across the board.

Very light nerf to Short Bat weapons in general.

Hatchet weapons are lighter to carry, going from 2 to 1.5 weight.

Reduced the weight of the Hatchet weapon items from 2 to 1.5 as part of general axe-balancing for crafting.

Nail-spiked weapons now drop one nail on the ground when they break, so you get a little back.

Nail-Spiked weapons will drop 1 unit of Nails on the ground when they break.

Spiking smaller weapons now takes fewer nails through a new separate recipe, while the existing recipe for larger weapons still uses a fair amount.

Smaller weapons require less Nails to spike than larger weapons; this require adding a second recipe to handle the smaller weapons, but the existing recipe also uses a fair amount of Nails.

Fixed several crafted weapons having the wrong Display Category.

Ranged weapons no longer divide their damage among several targets.

Ranged weapons no longer split damage across multiple targets.

Walking and sneaking speeds no longer change depending on which weapon you have equipped.

Weapons made from table legs have been rebalanced.

Rebalanced Tableleg weapons.

Welded weapons now lose much more durability, and they deal a bit less damage and land fewer criticals.

Rebalanced the weapons that can be produced by welding, generally strong reductions in durability, and lesser reductions in damage and criticals.

Several cudgel-type weapons now have rebalanced damage and critical hits.

Rebalanced several Cudgel type weapons in regards to their damage and criticals.

Welded weapons have rebalanced skill requirements, so fewer of them are packed into the lowest skill levels.

Rebalanced the skill level requirements for the welded weapons as they were too "bottom heavy".

Taking the blade off a weapon now carries over its times repaired count, though repair counts on weapon parts may still have bugs.

Fixed times repaired not transferring from the weapon to the blade when dismantling blades.

• Fixed times repaired not transferring from the weapon to the blade when dismantling blades. The times repaired inheritance for weapon parts is probably going to have more gremlins to flush out.

Some knapped weapons have rebalanced durability and damage.

Rebalanced some weapons produced by knapping in regards to durability and damage output.

Animal Bone club-type weapons have been rebalanced, so their stats may differ from before.

Rebalanced Animal Bone club-type weapons.

Aluminum Scrap now works in the Scrap Sheet Metal weapon recipes, giving you another material option for them.

Aluminum Scrap can be used for the Scrap Sheet Metal Weapon craftRecipes.

Spiked Clubs and Maces made from Short Bats keep their damage, because the Short Bat nerf does not apply to these endgame Blacksmithing weapons.

This doesn't affect Spiked clubs and Maces, both of which are made from Short Bats; these are endgame Blacksmithing weapons and as such should be meta weapons.

Welded weapons are meant to be crude, weaker versions of properly crafted weapons, and a skilled blacksmith should make the real versions instead.

The intent of these weapons is to be "crappier" crude versions of "properly crafted" weapons; under ideal circumstances a skilled blacksmith would produce properly crafted real weapons instead of the crude welded weapons.

Mace and morningstar weapons get minor balance tweaks.

Some minor rebalancing of mace and morningstar type weapons.

Short Bat class weapons do slightly less damage now because their minimum damage roll is lower.

Based on community feedback, mildly nerfed Short Bat class weapons; their minimum damage value was reduced by 0.1, which means that damage, before additional calculations, will be 0.05 less on average.

Bombs and bomb-type weapons can no longer spawn in a Worn state because of a change to their maximum condition.

• All bomb/bomb-type weapon items have a maximum condition of 1
• this is to prevent them from ever spawning in a "Worn" state from having a condition of less than 1/3rd maximum.

Brake-disc weapons get a slight buff because they were underperforming as heavy weapons.

Slight buff to brake-disc type weapons; as heavy-type weapons they were under performing.

Weapons that give no Maintenance XP now say so in their tooltip, so you can tell which ones will not train the skill.

Weapons that do not generate Maintenance XP now have a tooltip warning the player as such.

Select fire weapons can now switch fire modes by holding shift and pressing the rack key, which is x by default.

The Wooden Spade has new weapon stats and some tags and settings that did not fit it were removed or changed.

Adjusted the Wooden Spade item weapon values and removed/changed some inappropriate item tags and script fields.

Several recipes, mostly improvised weapons and carving, now have different skill requirements before you learn them automatically.

Adjusted the autoLearn requirements for several craftRecipes, mostly related to improvised type weapons and carving.

Two-handed and projectile weapons can still twist up to 70 degrees while aiming.

2handed and projectile weapons still allow a 70-degree max-twist.

The FlintNodule and Stone2 weapons no longer count as Short Blunt, so no weapon skill improves them anymore.

The FlintNodule and Stone2 weapons are no longer Short Blunt; they aren't a skill-associated weapon anymore, and no weapon skills provide any benefit when using them.

Several cudgel weapons have had their stats rebalanced.

Rebalanced several cudgel weapons.

Shivs now need at most 1 Maintenance skill to craft, so any shiv can be made with little or no Maintenance training.

Shiv weapons all require no more than 1 Maintenance to craft.

The Stone2 weapon now does less damage and has the same pushback as the FlintNodule.

The Stone2 weapon was given the same pushback mod and lower damage values as the FlintNodule weapon.

Safety and medical scissors now have a sharpness value and a condition bar, so you can see how sharp and worn they are.

Added sharpness property and condition bars to non-weapon scissors items (safety and medical).

Kettle Maul weapons do less damage to doors, so breaking doors down with them takes longer.

Reduced the DoorDamage of the Kettle Maul weapons from 40 to 30.

Some new weapons now count as Short Blunt instead of Long Blunt, so they use the Short Blunt skill.

Fixed some new weapons incorrectly being Long Blunt and not Short Blunt.

Some weapons now count as Long Blunt instead of Short Blunt, so they use the Long Blunt skill.

Fixed some weapons improperly being Short Blunt and not Long Blunt.

The sharp stone fragment now counts as a normal item instead of a weapon, so it no longer crashes the game when equipped.

Fixed the sharp stone fragment being, incorrectly, in the weapon item type; it's not, it's a normal-type item.

• Fixed the sharp stone fragment being, incorrectly, in the weapon item type; it's not, it's a normal-type item. This would cause crashes when equipped.

Weapons with a 0 base jam rate can no longer jam when you rack them.

Fixed weapons with 0 base rate from jamming on rack

Fixed incorrect weights of weapons with upgrade parts.

Fixed not being able to equip a weapon as secondary when a handgun is equipped as primary.

Fixed Weapon-part models (for scopes, etc) not being displayed for weapons on the ground.

Fixed weapon parts not appearing on equipped weapons on corpses or on the character-info avatar.