Griddle Pan
| Griddle Pan | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Class | Improvised Weapon |
| Skill | Short Blunt |
| Damage | 0.25-0.45 |
| Range | 0.61-1.1 |
| Crit | 30% x1.7 |
| Condition | 10 |
| Weight | 1.5 |
| Hands | One-handed |
| Crafting Skill | None |
| Crafting | See How to Craft |
| Location | Containers |
| Spawn ID | /additem Base.GridlePan
|
The Griddle Pan is a flat 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, but it holds up well and it is easy to find.
The griddle pan is a cooking tool first, used for stir fries. It turns up in restaurant kitchens, home kitchens and fast food kitchens. It is a close cousin of the Frying Pan and hits a little softer.
Combat
The Griddle Pan swings at base speed and reaches about 1.1 tiles. Each hit deals between 0.25 and 0.45 damage, so an ordinary zombie takes several blows. The crit chance starts at 30 percent, and a crit adds a little under double the damage.
A swing hits only one zombie, even with multi-hit turned on. That makes groups dangerous. The pan suits a single zombie in a kitchen or at a door. The Short Blunt skill raises damage, crit chance and swing speed as it levels. The Frying Pan hits slightly harder with the same reach. Either pan is a stop-gap until a hammer or a bat turns up.
Uses
The Griddle Pan is a cooking utensil for stir fries. 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 Griddle Pan
Each recipe that makes the Griddle Pan is listed with its materials and the tools it keeps.
Empty Pan (Destroy Contents)
The Empty Pan (Destroy Contents) recipe makes the Griddle Pan. It needs no skill level.
| Name | Image | Amount | Kept | Spawn ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stir Fry | 
|
1x | No | /additem Base.PanFriedVegetablesForged
|
Used in Crafting
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 Griddle 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, another pan is easy to loot from the nearest kitchen.
Locations
The Griddle Pan is a common find. Restaurant kitchen shelves and ice cream counters give the best odds. Living room counters and home kitchen counters hold one fairly often. Diner back rooms, cafeteria kitchens and most fast food kitchens hold one at a lower rate. Pizza, Mexican, Chinese and seafood restaurant kitchens are all worth a look.
The places where it spawns, with the rough chance per container. Each tab shows one kind of place.
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Icecream | Counter | 39.2% |
| Restaurant kitchen | Metal shelves | 39.2% |
| Restaurant kitchen | Shelves | 39.2% |
| Fancy restaurant kitchen | Metal shelves | 39.2% |
| Fancy restaurant kitchen | Shelves | 39.2% |
| Houseware store | Shelves | 19% |
| Restaurant kitchen | Counter | 15.7% |
| Fancy restaurant kitchen | Counter | 15.7% |
| Dinerback room | Counter | 13.2% |
| General store | Shelves | 11.4% |
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Kitchenware shop | Other | 19% |
| Kitchenware shop | Shelves | 19% |
| Living room | Counter | 17.4% |
| Kitchen | Counter | 14% |
| Catfish kitchen | Counter | 7.8% |
| Deepfry kitchen | Counter | 7.8% |
| Fishchips kitchen | Counter | 7.8% |
| Italian kitchen | Counter | 7.8% |
| Mexican kitchen | Counter | 7.8% |
| Western kitchen | Counter | 7.8% |
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Department storage | Metal shelves | 11.4% |
Notes
- Reading the griddle pan in the crafting menu can teach the Forge Frying Pan recipe.
- Keep one pan for cooking even after a better weapon turns up.
- Smelt spare pans for steel once an Advanced Furnace is running.
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