Spade

Spade

Class	Long Blunt Weapon
Skill	Long Blunt
Damage	0.8-1.9
Range	0.61-1.6
Crit	40% x2
Condition	10
Weight	2
Hands	Two-handed
Crafting Skill	Maintenance: 1
Crafting	See How to Craft
Location	Containers
Spawn ID	`/additem Base.Shovel` `/additem Base.SpadeForged`
Crafting XP	1 XP (Maintenance)

The Spade is a long digging tool with a flat metal blade. It doubles as a two-handed blunt weapon that trains the Long Blunt skill. Its main worth is as a tool for farming, graves and moving earth.

As a weapon it reaches very far and its hits are solid. Its crit chance is high, but a crit only doubles the damage. It swings slowly and wears out quickly. The Spade is a fairly common find in logging yards, fire stations, sheds and warehouses, and farmer zombies often carry one. It can also be assembled from a Spade Head and a Long Stick. The Construction Worker is the best occupation for long blunt. It starts with the most Long Blunt skill.

Combat

The Spade swings slower than base speed and reaches 1.6 tiles. Each hit deals between 0.8 and 1.9 damage. An ordinary zombie usually takes a few swings to drop. The crit chance starts at 40 percent, and a crit doubles the damage.

Both hands stay on the handle while it is equipped. The long reach lets it hit before a zombie closes in. That makes it good for keeping one zombie at bay at a fence or a doorway. The slow swing makes it a poor choice against a crowd. The Long Blunt skill raises damage, crit chance and swing speed as it levels.

Compared with the Baseball Bat, it reaches much farther and hits harder at the top end, but swings slower. The Shovel and the Snow Shovel fight exactly the same. The Spade is a handy weapon for a farmer who already carries one.

Uses

The Spade digs graves to bury corpses, along with everything they carry. A grave holds up to five corpses. It tills soil for farming and turns up worms like a trowel. With an empty sack in the main inventory, it fills the sack with dirt, sand or gravel. A filled sack can be spilled on another tile to change its ground. Sandbags and gravel bags also build protective walls. The Spade also collects dung, clears ashes and builds a Charcoal Burning Pit.

How to Craft Spade

Each recipe that makes the Spade is listed with its materials and the tools it keeps.

Assemble Very Long Implement

The Assemble Very Long Implement recipe makes the Spade. It needs Maintenance level 1.

Name	Amount	Kept	Spawn ID
Claw Hammer	1x	Yes	`/additem Base.Hammer`
Large Knife	1x	Yes	`/additem Base.LargeKnife`
Spade Head	1x	No	`/additem Base.SpadeHead_Forged`
Long Stick	1x	No	`/additem Base.LongStick`

Used in Crafting

These recipes take the Spade as an ingredient or a part.

Recipe	Output	Image	Station	Skill	Spawn ID
Dismantle Long Implement	Spade Head		-	None	`/additem Base.SpadeHead_Forged`

Any recipe that asks for a diggrave accepts it as the tool, such as Charcoal Burning Pile.

Repair

The Spade has 10 condition. Each hit has a 1 in 10 chance of taking a point off, so it wears out quickly in fights. The Long Blunt and Maintenance skills both lower that chance. Duct tape, adhesive tape and glue repair it with no skill needed. Zip ties need Maintenance 1, wood glue needs Carpentry 2, and epoxy needs Maintenance 3. Every repair restores less condition than the one before it. Taking it apart with a hammer returns the Spade Head for a fresh Long Stick.

Variants

The game holds the Spade under more than one item id. Each one is listed here.

Image	Damage	Condition	Weight	Spawn ID
	0.8-1.9	10	2	`/additem Base.Shovel`
	0.8-1.9	10	2	`/additem Base.SpadeForged`

Locations

The Spade is a fairly common find. The best odds are in logging factories and logging warehouses. Farmer zombies carry one about as often. Fire station garages and storage rooms also hold one often. Sheds, storage rooms, closets, studios, warehouses and survivor safehouses keep them on shelves and in crates. Construction sites and garage storage are good places to look too.

The places where it spawns, with the rough chance per container. Each tab shows one kind of place.

Location	Container	Chance
Garden store	Other	12.8%
Warehouse	Small box	8.2%
Construction site	Small box	6.6%
Tool store	Other	4.9%
Tool store	Shelves	4.9%
Tool store storage	Other	4.9%
General store	Metal shelves	4.5%
Generalstore storage	Other	4.5%
General store	Shelves	2.7%
Tool store	Small box	1.2%

Location	Container	Chance
Logging factory	Other	10.5%
Logging warehouse	Other	10.5%
Fire station storage	Metal shelves	9.5%
Fire station storage	Other	9.5%
Catwalk	Other	8.2%
Storage room	Other	8.2%
Studio	Metal shelves	8.2%
Warehouse	Metal shelves	8.2%
Drug shack	Counter	6.7%
Construction site	Other	6.6%

Location	Container	Chance
Farmer	Body	10%

Location	Container	Chance
Fire station garage	Other	9.5%
Closet	Crate	8.2%
Shed	Other	8.2%
Garage storage	Crate	6.6%
Bedroom	Crate	6.2%
Closet	Other	6.2%
Garage storage	Locker	5.5%
Shed	Metal shelves	5.5%
Shed	Shelves	5.5%
Attic	Cardboard box	4.9%

Location	Container	Chance
Survivor safehouse	Metal shelves	8.2%
Survivor safehouse (late game)	Metal shelves	8.2%
Survivor safehouse (mid game)	Metal shelves	8.2%
Survivor safehouse	Cardboard box	6%
Survivor safehouse	Crate	6%
Survivor safehouse	Small box	6%
Survivor cache	Counter	6%
Survivor cache	Counter	6%
Survivor safehouse	Counter	3.6%
Survivor safehouse	Wardrobe	2.4%

Notes

Two versions exist, a factory one and a forged one, and they work exactly the same.
The Assemble Very Long Implement recipe fits a Spade Head to a Long Stick with Maintenance 1.
That recipe keeps a hammer, a club hammer or a mallet, plus a sharp knife.
Gravel spread on the ground stops grass and saplings from growing back.
At a furnace the loose Spade Head smelts into two Iron Chunks.

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