Melee Weapons

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Anything that can be considered a credible weapon for melee/throwing purposes. Remember, though, that absolutely anything that can be picked up can be wielded, and thereby pressed into service as a melee weapon.

Attributes

• 1 volume is about the size of fist, maybe a little smaller or larger.
• A weapon's speed is calculated from its volume and weight, according to the formula:

moves per attack = 65 + (4 per each 250ml of volume) + (1 per 60 grams of weapon weight), with a penalty the less stamina you have.

Item is considered two-handed if its weight divided by 113 is 4 times more that current character's strength, or if it has the ALWAYS_TWOHAND flag. All non-pistol firearms are two-handed, regardless of their other attributes.

Some weapons can have reach attacks.

Missing and You

Total to-hit bonus is calculated as follows:

accuracy = (dexterity / 4) + (weapon skill / 3) + (melee skill / 2)

Unstable ground reduces hit chance by 25%.

Torso encumbrance actually multiplies the to-hit bonus, and not the attack roll itself. Though it still massively affects attack speed.

With some weapons, the heavier they are, the more likely they are to cause you to stumble when you miss. You can recognize a stumble by the "You miss and stumble with the momentum." or, "You swing wildly and miss." messages. The former is a stumble that adds more than 60 time units, and the latter is between 10 and 60 time units. The Deft trait can prevent stumbles. The time added by a stumble is capped at heavy weapons, it will never by more than 60.

Item Browser

The Item Browser has an index of some items that could be used as Melee weapons.

List of weapons

• Green weight means that item is one-handed for a character with 8 strength.

	Name	Price	Material	Vol	Wt	Bash	Cut	Hit
*	rock	0	stone	1	3	12	0	-2
/	heavy stick	0	wood	6	10	12	0	3
/	broom	24	plastic	10	8	6	0	1
/	sledge hammer	120	wood / iron	18	38	40	0	0
;	hatchet	95	iron / wood	6	7	12	12	1
/	nail board	80	wood	5	1.4	10	6	1
/	nail bat	160	wood	12	10	28	6	3
)	pot	45	iron	8	6	9	0	1
)	frying pan	50	iron	6	6	14	0	2
;	butter knife	15	steel	1	2	2	1	-2
/	two by four	80	wood	6	6	14	0	1
/	muffler	30	iron	20	20	19	0	-3
/	pipe	75	steel	4	10	13	0	3
/	baseball bat	160	wood	12	10	28	0	3
/	aluminum bat	160	steel	10	6	24	0	3
/	wood spear	40	wood	5	3	4	18	1
/	expandable baton	175	steel	1	4	12	0	2
,	bee sting	70	flesh	1	0	0	18	-1
,	wasp sting	90	flesh	1	0	0	22	-1
/	walking cane	160	wood	8	7	10	0	2
/	mace	1000	iron / wood	10	18	36	0	1
/	morningstar	1200	iron / wood	11	20	32	4	1
/	pool cue	80	wood	14	5	12	0	3
*	pool ball	30	stone	1	3	12	0	-3
;	spike	0	steel	2	2	2	10	-2
/	blade	280	iron	8	10	6	10	-2
/	rebar	75	iron	6	10	13	0	2
/	wooden javelin	40	wood	5	3	6	22	2
;	crowbar	130	iron	4	9	16	3	2
/	hoe	90	iron / wood	14	14	12	10	3
/	shovel	100	iron / wood	16	18	15	5	3
/	chainsaw	350	iron / plastic	12	40	10	0	-4
;	jackhammer	890	iron	13	54	20	6	-4
;	X-Acto knife	40	iron / plastic	1	0	0	14	-4
,	scalpel	40	steel	1	0	0	18	-4
/	machete	280	iron	8	14	6	28	2
/	katana	980	steel	16	16	4	45	1
/	knife spear	140	wood / steel	6	6	2	28	1
/	rapier	980	steel	6	9	5	28	2
/	awl pike	2000	iron / wood	14	18	8	50	2
/	broadsword	1200	iron	7	11	8	35	2
/	makeshift machete	100	iron	7	12	4	15	1
/	makeshift glaive	100	iron	13	17	4	15	2
;	steak knife	25	steel	1	2	2	10	-3
;	butcher knife	80	steel	3	6	4	18	-3
;	combat knife	100	steel / plastic	2	2	2	22	-2
;	wood saw	40	iron / wood	7	3	-6	1	-2
/	wood axe	105	wood / iron	17	15	24	18	1
;	hacksaw	65	iron	4	2	1	1	-1
{	Bionic claws (weapon)	0	steel	2	0	8	16	4