Badminton Racket
| Badminton Racket | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Class | Improvised Weapon |
| Skill | Short Blunt |
| Damage | 0.1-0.2 |
| Range | 0.61-1.25 |
| Crit | 0% |
| Condition | 4 |
| Weight | 1 |
| Hands | One-handed |
| Location | Containers |
| Spawn ID | /additem Base.BadmintonRacket
|
The Badminton Racket is a piece of sports gear that can be swung as an improvised one-handed weapon. It trains the Short Blunt skill. It is light and quick, but it is one of the weakest weapons in the game.
Each hit deals between 0.1 and 0.2 damage, so the racket is more a shove than a club. It is best kept for the very first minutes of a run, or for training Short Blunt on a lone zombie. The Badminton Racket is found mostly in school gym storage rooms, with closets and pawnshops as the other main spots.
Combat
The Badminton Racket swings faster than the base speed and reaches 1.25 tiles. The quick swing makes it easy to land hit after hit. The damage is so low that an ordinary zombie can take a long string of swings before it falls.
The racket is one-handed, which leaves the other hand free for a flashlight or a bag. It is light to carry. A long fight still drains endurance, because each kill takes so many swings.
The Short Blunt skill raises damage and swing speed as it levels. Nearly any other short blunt weapon is a step up. A hammer, a pan or a short pipe all hit far harder. The racket is best used as a training tool or a last resort, then dropped for the first real weapon.
Repair
The Badminton Racket has 4 condition, and each hit has a 1 in 3 chance of taking a point off. The Short Blunt and Maintenance skills both lower that chance. Duct Tape and Adhesive Tape repair it with no skill at all. Zip Ties need Maintenance 1, Epoxy needs Maintenance 3, and Epoxy with Rags needs Maintenance 4. Every repair restores less condition than the one before it.
Locations
The Badminton Racket turns up most in school gym storage rooms, where both the metal shelves and the loose spots give strong odds. Closets in homes and loose spots in pawnshops are the next best places. Pawnshop shelves and display cases hold one less often. Attics, halls, living rooms, storage units and survivor safehouses turn one up only rarely.
The places where it spawns, with the rough chance per container. Each tab shows one kind of place.
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Schoolgym storage | Metal shelves | 28.8% |
| Schoolgym storage | Other | 28.8% |
| Gym storage | Cardboard box | 17.8% |
| Gym storage | Metal shelves | 17.8% |
| Sports storage | Other | 17.8% |
| Storage unit | Other | 0.5% |
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Closet | Other | 9.5% |
| Closet | Metal shelves | 0.5% |
| Attic | Cardboard box | 0.4% |
| Attic | Crate | 0.4% |
| Attic | Other | 0.4% |
| Closet | Locker | 0.4% |
| Hall | Other | 0.4% |
| Living room | Locker | 0.4% |
| Living room | Other | 0.4% |
| Garage storage | Other | 0.2% |
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Pawn shop | Other | 9.5% |
| Sports store | Other | 5.2% |
| Pawn shop | Metal shelves | 1.9% |
| Pawn shop | Shelves | 1.9% |
| Pawn shop | Display case | 1.8% |
| Any building | Small box | <0.1% |
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Survivor safehouse | Cardboard box | 0.2% |
| Survivor safehouse | Crate | 0.2% |
| Survivor safehouse | Small box | 0.2% |
| Survivor safehouse (late game) | Cardboard box | 0.2% |
| Survivor safehouse (late game) | Crate | 0.2% |
| Survivor safehouse (late game) | Small box | 0.2% |
| Survivor safehouse (mid game) | Cardboard box | 0.2% |
| Survivor safehouse (mid game) | Crate | 0.2% |
| Survivor safehouse (mid game) | Small box | 0.2% |
Notes
- The racket can be burned as fuel in a fire once it is no longer needed.
- Its quick swing makes it a cheap way to train Short Blunt on a single zombie.
- Tape repairs need no skill, so a roll of Duct Tape keeps it going.
- A school gym storage room is the surest place to look for one.
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