Baseball Bat with Sawblade
| Baseball Bat with Sawblade | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Class | Axe |
| Skill | Axe |
| Damage | 1.2-1.9 |
| Range | 0.8-1.2 |
| Crit | 30% x5 |
| Condition | 10 |
| Weight | 2.5 |
| Hands | Two-handed |
| Crafting Skill | Carpentry: 5 |
| Crafting | See How to Craft |
| Location | Containers |
| Spawn ID | /additem Base.BaseballBat_Sawblade
|
| Crafting XP | 50 XP (Carpentry) |
The Baseball Bat with Sawblade is a crafted two-handed weapon made by bolting a Circular Sawblade onto a Baseball Bat. It counts as an axe and trains the Axe skill. It shares the top damage of the bat line, and a crit deals five times the damage.
The blade also makes it a working woodcutting tool. It can fell trees, cut plants and chop wood into firewood. The recipe needs Carpentry 5 and a full set of tools. The weapon is a very rare find in mid game and late game survivor safehouses. The Lumberjack is the best occupation for axes. It starts with the most Axe skill. The Firefighter also starts with some Axe skill.
Combat
The sawblade bat swings at base speed and reaches 1.2 tiles, a little short of the plain bat. Each hit deals between 1.2 and 1.9 damage. The crit chance starts at 30 percent, and a crit multiplies the damage by five, so a crit often kills outright.
Both hands stay on the bat while it is equipped. It weighs a little more than the plain bat, so each swing costs a little more endurance. Its minimum range is longer than most bats, so a zombie pressed right up close gets a shove instead of a swing. It suits a few zombies at a doorway or a fence line.
The Axe skill raises attack speed, damage and crit chance as it levels. A high Axe skill also raises the chance of pushing off a zombie that grabs from the front. The Baseball Bat with Railspike is the other axe bat. The railspike bat crits more often, while the sawblade bat lasts twice as long between points of wear and can cut wood. Compared with a real Axe, the sawblade bat hits a little softer at the top end and wears faster.
Uses
The sawblade bat counts as a woodcutting tool. It cuts down trees and clears plants. It chops a log into six Firewood or a large branch into four Firewood. It is a valid tool when building log furniture such as the Log Bench, Log Stool, Log Table and Log Stairs. It also serves as the tool for the Bone Spike Weapon recipe at Carving 3, and it can kill a caught animal.
How to Craft Baseball Bat with Sawblade
Each recipe that makes the Baseball Bat with Sawblade is listed with its materials and the tools it keeps.
Make Sawblade Wooden Bat
The Make Sawblade Wooden Bat recipe makes the Baseball Bat with Sawblade. It needs Carpentry level 5. The recipe has to be learned first.
| Name | Image | Amount | Kept | Spawn ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wrench | 
|
1x | Yes | /additem Base.Wrench
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| Hacksaw | 
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1x | Yes | /additem Base.Saw
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| Carpentry Chisel | 
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1x | Yes | /additem Base.CarpentryChisel
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| Hand Drill | 
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1x | Yes | /additem Base.HandDrill
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| Wooden Mallet | 
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1x | Yes | /additem Base.WoodenMallet
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| Baseball Bat | 
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1x | No | /additem Base.BaseballBat
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| Nuts and Bolts | 
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1x | No | /additem Base.NutsBolts
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| Circular Sawblade | 
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1x | No | /additem Base.CircularSawblade
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| Leather Strips | 
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2x | No | /additem Base.LeatherStrips
|
Used in Crafting
Any recipe that asks for a smeltableironsmall or tree-felling axe accepts it as the tool, such as Smelt Iron From Small Item, Smelt Steel From Small Iron Item and Smelt Small Iron Item.
Repair
The sawblade bat has 10 condition, and each hit has a 1 in 10 chance of taking a point off. The Axe and Maintenance skills both lower that chance. The blade can be sharpened with a whetstone, poorly with a file, or at a Grindstone. Duct Tape, Adhesive Tape and Glue repair it with no skill. Wood Glue needs Carpentry 2. 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. A spent bat can be smelted at a furnace for a small amount of iron or steel.
Locations
The Baseball Bat with Sawblade is a very rare find. It turns up only in mid game and late game survivor safehouses. There it can sit in cardboard boxes, crates, small boxes, metal shelves, counters or wardrobes, each with a tiny chance. Crafting one is far more reliable than looking for it.
The places where it spawns, with the rough chance per container.
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Survivor safehouse (late game) | Cardboard box | 0.1% |
| Survivor safehouse (late game) | Counter | 0.1% |
| Survivor safehouse (late game) | Crate | 0.1% |
| Survivor safehouse (late game) | Metal shelves | 0.1% |
| Survivor safehouse (late game) | Small box | 0.1% |
| Survivor safehouse (mid game) | Cardboard box | 0.1% |
| Survivor safehouse (mid game) | Counter | 0.1% |
| Survivor safehouse (mid game) | Crate | 0.1% |
| Survivor safehouse (mid game) | Metal shelves | 0.1% |
| Survivor safehouse (mid game) | Small box | 0.1% |
Notes
- The tools are a wrench, a saw, a carpentry chisel, a metal drill and a mallet.
- The parts are a Circular Sawblade, one Nuts and Bolts and two Leather Strips.
- A Field Hockey Stick or a Short Bat takes the same sawblade for other versions.
- Hits with it train Axe, not Long Blunt.
- Researching it can teach the Carve Bat, Carve Short Bat and garden fork head weapon recipes.
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