Sheet Metal Snips
| Sheet Metal Snips | |
|---|---|
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| Class | Improvised Weapon |
| Skill | Short Blunt |
| Damage | 0.4-0.8 |
| Range | 0.61-1.2 |
| Crit | 5% x2 |
| Condition | 8 |
| Weight | 1 |
| Hands | One-handed |
| Location | Containers |
| Spawn ID | /additem Base.SheetMetalSnips
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The Sheet Metal Snips are heavy shears for cutting thin metal. They are a one-handed tool that can be swung as a blunt weapon, training the Short Blunt skill. Their real value is in metalworking and welding.
As a weapon they are weak and wear out quickly. They are a key tool for scrap metal armour and several welded weapons. Sheet Metal Snips are an uncommon find in tool cabinets, sheds, warehouses, garages and metal shops.
Combat
The Sheet Metal Snips swing slightly slower than base speed and reach about 1.2 tiles. Each hit deals between 0.4 and 0.8 damage, so an ordinary zombie takes many swings. The crit chance is only 5 percent, and a crit only doubles the damage.
One hand stays free while they are equipped. They suit a lone zombie in an emergency, and little else. The Short Blunt skill raises damage, crit chance and swing speed as it levels. Compared with a Ball-peen Hammer, they hit softer and break sooner. Any real weapon is a better choice.
Uses
The Sheet Metal Snips cut a sheet of metal into four small Steel Sheets. They are a kept tool in the recipes for scrap metal armour, from the Scrap Metal Mask and Helmet to the Scrap Metal Body Armor. They are also needed for the Scrap Metal Cleaver, the Scrap Metal Chopper, the Scrap Metal Morningstar and the Metal Baseball Bat with Sawblade. They help reinforce a bat with sheet metal. They open canned food. At an Advanced Furnace they smelt into two Steel Chunks.
Used in Crafting
Any recipe that asks for a can opener or sheetmetalsnips accepts it as the tool, such as Smelt Steel From Medium Steel Item, Smelt Medium Steel Item and Make Scrap Metal Cleaver.
Repair
The Sheet Metal Snips have 8 condition. Each hit has a 1 in 10 chance of taking a point off. The Short Blunt and Maintenance skills both lower that chance. Using them as a weapon wastes a tool that many welding recipes need.
Locations
The Sheet Metal Snips are an uncommon find. The best odds are in the tool cabinets of knife factories and welding workshops, and in welding workshop lockers. Wire factories, sheds, studios and warehouses hold them fairly often. Garage storage, metal fabrication shops, metal shops and factories are worth a look too.
The places where it spawns, with the rough chance per container. Each tab shows one kind of place.
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Pawn shop | Other | 14.3% |
| Pawnshop storage | Other | 14.3% |
| Welding workshop | Military locker | 13.8% |
| Welding workshop | Tool cabinet | 13.8% |
| Warehouse | Small box | 10.4% |
| Metalshop | Counter | 7.9% |
| Metalshop | Tool cabinet | 7.9% |
| Construction site | Small box | 6.2% |
| Tool store storage | Other | 5.9% |
| Electronics store | Locker | 5.3% |
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Knife factory | Tool cabinet | 14.2% |
| Wire factory | Metal shelves | 11.2% |
| Wire factory | Tool cabinet | 11.2% |
| Studio | Metal shelves | 10.4% |
| Warehouse | Metal shelves | 10.4% |
| Metal fabrication | Counter | 7.9% |
| Metal fabrication | Tool cabinet | 7.9% |
| Metalfabrication storage | Tool cabinet | 7.9% |
| Golf factory | Metal shelves | 7.1% |
| Factory | Counter | 6.3% |
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Shed | Other | 10.4% |
| Garage storage | Crate | 8.4% |
| Garage storage | Counter | 7.3% |
| Garage storage | Metal shelves | 7.3% |
| Shed | Counter | 7.3% |
| Shed | Metal shelves | 7.3% |
| Shed | Shelves | 7.3% |
| Bedroom | Crate | 6.2% |
| Closet | Other | 6.2% |
| Garage storage | Locker | 5.5% |
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Survivor safehouse | Metal shelves | 2.1% |
| Survivor safehouse (late game) | Metal shelves | 2.1% |
| Survivor safehouse (mid game) | Metal shelves | 2.1% |
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Inside a bag or case | Toolbox | 1.3% |
| Inside a bag or case | Bag skill maintenance duffel bag | 1% |
Notes
- Snips open canned food without any knife.
- A metal saw can stand in for the snips in the Scrap Metal Cleaver and Scrap Metal Morningstar recipes.
- Keep a pair before starting scrap metal armour, since those recipes use them as a kept tool.
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