Zombita Overhaul Melee Weapons (ZOMW)

Zombita Overhaul Melee Weapons (ZOMW)

63 new melee weapons for Project Zomboid Build 42 (42.21 or newer). Every one has its own 3D model, texture and icon, and every one plays by Build 42's own rules: crafting, breaking, sharpness, loot and skills all work the way vanilla does.

Full weapon guide: every weapon's stats, all recipes, parts and sandbox settings in one sheet: ZOMW Weapon Guide (Google Sheets)

For server owners

• Workshop ID: 3811410515
• Mod ID: ZombitaMeleeWeapons

The weapons

• Axes: Carpenter Axe, Camping Hatchet, Roofing Axe, Mountaineering Axe, Sapper Shovel, Shovel Axe
• Short blades: Tanto Knife, Military Knife, Combat Knife, Camping Knife, Balisong, Sharpened File, Sharp Trowel, Garden Shears
• Long blades: Military Machete, Billhook Machete, Kukri, Garden Shear Blade, Garden Scythe, Garden Brush Cutter
• Short blunts: Half Plank, Nailed Half Plank, Short Tree Branch, L-shaped Lug Wrench, Meat Tenderizer, Hearth Poker
• Long blunts: Aluminum Softball Bat, Cricket Bat, Spiked Cricket Bat, Wire, Barbed Wire and Screw-Studded Baseball Bats, Long Lead Pipe, Long Metal Bar, Long Metal Pipe, Walking Cane
• Spears: Improvised Metal Spears, Plank Spear, 8 spears with a blade lashed to a stick, and 15 Plank Spears with ZMW or vanilla blades (knives, machetes, screwdriver, ice pick, hand fork and more)

Legend weapons

Four very rare named weapons, one for each of the people behind the mod: Nin Nin's Pickaxe, Queen Arden's Spear, Nikki's Axe and Dawnie's Katana. Each is built on its vanilla weapon but has its own exclusive skin and icon, and:

• never needs sharpening
• very slightly more damage (+5 percent) and 30 percent more durability
• cannot be repaired: once it breaks, it is gone

They spawn where the vanilla weapon spawns but about ten times rarer, and roughly 1 in 10,000 zombies carries one. While you hold one, a special moodle shows the character it belongs to. Dawnie's Katana is carried in its own black lacquered sheath, and comes with Dawnie's Sheath to wear on your back. Right-click while holding a legend and choose Show off for each owner's own flourish.

Crafting

33 new recipes in the normal crafting menu, no recipe books needed:

• Turn a shovel into a Shovel Axe or an Improvised Metal Spear, a trowel into a Sharp Trowel, a file into a Sharpened File
• Take Garden Shears apart into two Garden Shear Blades
• Saw long pipes and bars down, break or saw planks and branches in half
• Nail a Half Plank or a Cricket Bat, wrap a baseball bat in wire or barbed wire, or stud it with screws
• Carve a Plank Spear, then tape, bind or wire a blade onto it or onto a long stick, and take the blade off again
• Damage carries over when you craft, and bigger jobs need a table or counter, just like vanilla

Breaking and repairing

Weapons break the way their closest vanilla weapon does:

• Axes have a separate head that wears on its own. When the handle breaks, the head drops and can be put on a new handle to get the same axe back
• Knives and machetes can be dismantled into blades and reassembled
• Spears drop their blade when they break, sometimes stuck in the zombie
• Bats, planks and pipes leave broken stumps, nails, wire or screws behind

Edged weapons go dull with use and can be sharpened with a whetstone.

Loot and zombies

Every weapon spawns where its closest vanilla weapon spawns: knives with hunting knives in gun stores and camping stores, long pipes with metal pipes, the Hearth Poker by fireplaces, and so on. Each family is exactly as common as the vanilla weapon it copies, so the world does not fill up with extra weapons. Zombies can carry ZMW weapons on their backs and belts, and edged ones can be found stuck in them. Loot lists added by other mods are covered too.

Skill bonuses

Short blade, long blade and short blunt weapons get stronger as your skill grows:

• Level 3 and up: +10 percent damage
• Level 7 and up: +20 percent damage and +20 percent reach
• Level 8 and up: 20 percent less endurance per swing

Sandbox options

A page called Zombita Overhaul Melee Weapons with 20 settings:

• Damage, durability and loot multipliers for each of the six categories (axes, short blades, long blades, short blunts, long blunts, spears). Loot at 0 turns a category off completely
• Skill bonuses on or off, and an option to give the same skill bonuses to vanilla weapons

Good to know

• Requires Build 42.21 or newer
• Vanilla items, recipes and loot chances are never changed. The mod only adds its own items next to them
• Safe to add to an existing save. New loot appears in areas you have not explored yet

Bugs and feedback

This is a brand new mod, so a few bugs are possible. If you run into one, please leave a comment here or send a message, ideally with the weapon or recipe involved, what happened, and any red errors from your console.txt. Every report helps, and fixes come quickly.

Credits

Inspired by Simple Overhaul: Melee Weapons by Hea. Same weapon line-up, but every model, texture, icon and line of code here is new and made for Build 42.

Big thanks to Karatena and Dawn for testing every weapon, recipe and system before release.

Named by Queen Arden.

Made for the State of Undead Purge server. Come play it there: stateofundeadpurge.site