Saucepan
| Saucepan | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Class | Improvised Weapon |
| Skill | Short Blunt |
| Damage | 0.2-0.7 |
| Range | 0.61-1 |
| Crit | 30% x2 |
| Condition | 5 |
| Weight | 0.7 |
| Hands | One-handed |
| Crafting Skill | None |
| Crafting | See How to Craft |
| Location | Containers |
| Spawn ID | /additem Base.Saucepan
|
The Saucepan is a metal cooking pot that can be swung as a one-handed club. It trains the Short Blunt skill. As a weapon it is light and crits often, but its damage swings widely and it wears out fast.
Its main jobs are cooking and holding water. The Saucepan boils pasta and rice, cooks many dishes, collects rain outside and purifies tainted water on a stove. Many survivors keep it in the kitchen and fight with something sturdier. The Saucepan is a common find in restaurant kitchens, ice cream shops and home kitchens.
Combat
The Saucepan swings at normal speed and reaches about 1 tile. Each hit deals between 0.2 and 0.7 damage, so an ordinary zombie takes several swings. The critical chance starts at 30 percent, and a crit doubles the damage.
The pan is one-handed and weighs only 0.7. Each swing costs little endurance, and the other hand stays free for a flashlight or a bag. The Short Blunt skill raises damage, attack speed and crit chance with each level, and it lowers wear.
The Saucepan has 5 condition, and each hit has a 1 in 10 chance of taking a point off. It lasts only a few fights, and losing it means losing a cooking pot. It suits an emergency in a kitchen when nothing else is in reach.
Uses
The Saucepan holds 600 mL of fluid. It can be refilled with water, and a survivor drinks from it automatically when thirsty. Placed on the ground outside, it collects rainwater. Heating it purifies tainted water from rain or a lake. It also boils pasta or rice with water, and it cooks other dishes as an evolved recipe. A pan of pasta or rice can be split into two or four bowls, which returns the empty pan. A worn-out pan can be smelted into a Steel Chunk at an Advanced Furnace.
How to Craft Saucepan
Each recipe that makes the Saucepan is listed with its materials and the tools it keeps.
Divide Food into 4 Bowls
The Divide Food into 4 Bowls recipe makes the Saucepan. It needs no skill level.
| Name | Image | Amount | Kept | Spawn ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bowl | 
|
4x | No | /additem Base.Bowl
|
| Rice | 
|
1x | No | /additem Base.SugarBeetPulpPot
|
Divide Food into 2 Bowls
The Divide Food into 2 Bowls recipe makes the Saucepan. It needs no skill level.
| Name | Image | Amount | Kept | Spawn ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bowl |
|
2x | No | /additem Base.Bowl
|
| Rice |
|
1x | No | /additem Base.SugarBeetPulpPot
|
Used in Crafting
These recipes take the Saucepan as an ingredient or a part.
| Recipe | Output | Image | Station | Skill | Spawn ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Put Pasta in Saucepan | Saucepan with Pasta | 
|
- | None | /additem Base.WaterSaucepanPasta
|
| Put Rice in Saucepan | Saucepan with Rice |
|
- | None | /additem Base.WaterSaucepanRice
|
Any recipe that asks for a smeltablesteelsmall accepts it as the tool, such as Smelt Steel From Small Steel Item and Smelt Small Steel Item.
Repair
The Saucepan has 5 condition. Each hit has a 1 in 10 chance of taking a point off. The Short Blunt and Maintenance skills lower that chance. Fighting with it gives no Maintenance experience. Using it only for cooking keeps it in good shape.
Locations
The Saucepan is a common find. Restaurant kitchen shelves, fancy restaurant kitchens and ice cream shop counters give the best odds. Living room and kitchen counters in homes hold one often. Diner back rooms, break rooms and offices keep one at a lower rate. The kitchens of cafeterias, diners, fast food places and other restaurants hold one as well.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Living room | Counter | 21.8% |
| Kitchenware shop | Other | 19% |
| Kitchenware shop | Shelves | 19% |
| Kitchen | Counter | 17.4% |
| 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% |
| Break room | Counter | 8.1% |
| Break room | Overhead cupboard | 8.1% |
| Detective office | Counter | 8.1% |
| Nolans office | Overhead cupboard | 8.1% |
| Office | Overhead cupboard | 8.1% |
Notes
- Keep a Saucepan for water, since it boils tainted water clean.
- Leave one outside in the rain to collect drinking water.
- Splitting pasta or rice into bowls gives the pan back for the next meal.
- Researching it can teach the saucepan forging recipe.
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