Frying Pan
| Frying Pan | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Class | Improvised Weapon |
| Skill | Short Blunt |
| Damage | 0.3-0.5 |
| Range | 0.61-1.1 |
| Crit | 30% x2 |
| Condition | 10 |
| Weight | 1.5 |
| Hands | One-handed |
| Crafting Skill | None |
| Crafting | See How to Craft |
| Location | Containers |
| Spawn ID | /additem Base.Pan/additem Base.PanForged
|
| Crafting XP | 20 XP (Blacksmithing) |
The Frying Pan is a cooking pan that also works as a one-handed blunt weapon. It trains the Short Blunt skill. Its damage is low and its reach is short. It holds up well in a fight, though, and it is easy to find.
The pan is a kitchen staple. It turns up in restaurant kitchens, home kitchens and next to wood stoves. A blacksmith can also forge one from a Steel Sheet. Most survivors pick it up for cooking first and swing it only when nothing better is at hand.
Combat
The Frying Pan swings at base speed and reaches about 1.1 tiles. Each hit deals between 0.3 and 0.5 damage, so an ordinary zombie takes several blows. A swing hits only one zombie, which makes groups dangerous. The crit chance starts at 30 percent, and a crit doubles the damage.
The pan tires the survivor faster than most other weapons. Long fights drain endurance quickly, and a tired survivor swings slower and hits softer. The pan suits a single zombie at a door or a stray in a kitchen.
The Short Blunt skill raises damage, crit chance and swing speed as it levels. The pan keeps one hand free while it is equipped. Compared with a hammer or a rolling pin, it is a stop-gap weapon. Its real value is that it is almost always in the first kitchen searched.
Uses
The Frying Pan is a cooking tool. It holds the eggs for the Prepare Omelette recipe and the food in stir fries and roasts. Emptying a cooked dish returns the clean pan. As a steel item it can be smelted at an Advanced Furnace. That yields Steel Chunks or a crucible of molten steel for blacksmithing.
How to Craft Frying Pan
Each recipe that makes the Frying Pan is listed with its materials and the tools it keeps.
Forge Frying Pan
The Forge Frying Pan recipe makes the Frying Pan. It needs Blacksmithing level 2. It is made at a Primitive Forge. The recipe has to be learned first.
| Name | Image | Amount | Kept | Spawn ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charcoal | 
|
4x | No | /additem Base.Charcoal
|
| Steel Sheet | 
|
1x | No | /additem Base.SheetMetal
|
| Ball-peen Hammer | 
|
1x | Yes | /additem Base.BallPeenHammer
|
| Metalworking Pliers | 
|
1x | Yes | /additem Base.MetalworkingPliers
|
| Stone Chisel | 
|
1x | Yes | /additem Base.StoneChisel
|
Empty Pan (Destroy Contents)
The Empty Pan (Destroy Contents) recipe makes the Frying Pan. It needs no skill level.
| Name | Image | Amount | Kept | Spawn ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stir Fry | 
|
1x | No | /additem Base.PanFriedVegetablesForged
|
Used in Crafting
These recipes take the Frying Pan as an ingredient or a part.
| Recipe | Output | Image | Station | Skill | Spawn ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prepare Omelette | Omelette | 
|
- | Cooking: 0 | /additem Base.EggOmelette
|
Any recipe that asks for a smeltablesteelmediumplus accepts it as the tool, such as Smelt Steel From Medium Plus Steel Item and Smelt Medium Plus Steel Item.
Repair
The Frying Pan has 10 condition. Each hit has a 1 in 12 chance of taking a point off. The Short Blunt and Maintenance skills both lower that chance. Hits with it give no Maintenance experience. When it wears out, a fresh pan is easy to loot. A blacksmith can forge a new one with Blacksmithing 2.
Variants
The game holds the Frying Pan under more than one item id. Each one is listed here.
| Image | Damage | Condition | Weight | Spawn ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
0.3-0.5 | 10 | 1.5 | /additem Base.Pan
|
|
0.3-0.5 | 10 | 1.5 | /additem Base.PanForged
|
Locations
The Frying Pan is one of the most common weapons in the game. Restaurant kitchen shelves and ice cream counters hold one most of the time. Some kitchens and living room fireplaces are close behind. Wood stoves in any building hold one fairly often. Home kitchen counters, diner kitchens, cafeteria kitchens and most fast food kitchens hold one at a lower rate. A search of almost any kitchen has a fair chance of turning one up.
The places where it spawns, with the rough chance per container. Each tab shows one kind of place.
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Icecream | Counter | 78.4% |
| Restaurant kitchen | Metal shelves | 78.4% |
| Restaurant kitchen | Shelves | 78.4% |
| Fancy restaurant kitchen | Metal shelves | 78.4% |
| Fancy restaurant kitchen | Shelves | 78.4% |
| Wild West general store | Shelves | 37.2% |
| Restaurant kitchen | Counter | 31.4% |
| Fancy restaurant kitchen | Counter | 31.4% |
| Houseware store | Shelves | 19% |
| Cafeteria kitchen | Counter | 15.7% |
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Wild West living room | Fireplace | 72.7% |
| Wild West kitchen | Counter | 60.4% |
| Wild West kitchen | Overhead cupboard | 60.4% |
| Wild West kitchen | Shelves | 60.4% |
| Any building | Woodstove | 37% |
| Living room | Counter | 21.8% |
| Wild West living room | Shelves | 20.4% |
| Wild West living room | Side table | 20.4% |
| Kitchenware shop | Other | 19% |
| Kitchenware shop | Shelves | 19% |
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Wild West sherrif | Woodstove | 14.5% |
| Department storage | Metal shelves | 11.4% |
| Storage unit | Other | 0.1% |
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Survivor cache | Survivor crate | 7.1% |
| Survivor cache | Survivor crate | 3.6% |
| Survivor cache (large building) | Survivor crate | 3.6% |
| Survivor safehouse (late game) | Stove | 3.4% |
Notes
- The forged Frying Pan is identical to the factory one in every number.
- Forging one needs a Steel Sheet, four pieces of charcoal, a ball-peen hammer, tongs or pliers and a chisel at a Primitive Forge or better.
- Reading the pan in the crafting menu can teach the Forge Frying Pan recipe.
- Keep it for cooking once a better weapon turns up, since it is needed for omelettes.
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