Spear with Fighting Knife
| Spear with Fighting Knife | |
|---|---|
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| Class | Improvised Weapon |
| Skill | Spear |
| Damage | 1.2-1.7 |
| Range | 0.98-1.48 |
| Crit | 20% x5 |
| Condition | 9 |
| Weight | 3 |
| Hands | Two-handed |
| Crafting Skill | Maintenance: 0 |
| Crafting | See How to Craft |
| Location | Crafted only |
| Spawn ID | /additem Base.SpearFightingKnife
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| Crafting XP | 5 XP (Maintenance) |
The Spear with Fighting Knife is a two-handed improvised spear made by lashing a Fighting Knife to a long shaft. It trains the Spear skill. It sits in the top group of the knife spears, matching the Spear with Hunting Knife and the Spear with Large Knife for damage and reach.
The blade is sturdy for a lashed head. It holds 9 condition and wears down slowly compared with most bound spears. The cost is weight, since it is one of the heavier spears in the class. The Spear with Fighting Knife is never found as loot. It is crafted from a Fighting Knife and a Long Stick or a Sapling.
Combat
The Spear with Fighting Knife is a reach weapon. Its long range lets it strike a zombie before the zombie can grab. Each hit deals solid damage for a spear, at the top of the improvised spear range. Its crit chance starts at 20 percent, and a crit multiplies the damage five times.
Both hands hold the shaft, so nothing else can be carried in the off hand. Spears can stab a zombie through a fence, which makes a fence line a safe place to fight from. The weapon suits a careful fighter who keeps distance and picks off one zombie at a time.
The Spear skill raises attack speed, damage and crit chance as it levels. Compared with the Spear with Metal Head, it hits a little harder and reaches slightly further. The forged metal spear lasts longer, though, and weighs less.
Uses
The spear also works as a fishing spear. With it, fish can be speared in the water without a rod or bait. Taking the spear apart returns the Fighting Knife and a Long Stick, so the blade is never lost to the build. That makes it easy to switch the knife back to cutting work.
How to Craft Spear with Fighting Knife
Each recipe that makes the Spear with Fighting Knife is listed with its materials and the tools it keeps.
Bind Spear Head
The Bind Spear Head recipe makes the Spear with Fighting Knife. It needs Maintenance level 1. The recipe has to be learned first.
| Name | Image | Amount | Kept | Spawn ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fighting Knife | 
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1x | No | /additem Base.FightingKnife
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| Long Stick | 
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1x | No | /additem Base.LongStick
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| Zip Ties | 
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2x | No | /additem Base.Zipties
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Bind Spear Head With Duct Tape
The Bind Spear Head With Duct Tape recipe makes the Spear with Fighting Knife. It needs Maintenance level 0.
| Name | Image | Amount | Kept | Spawn ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fighting Knife |
|
1x | No | /additem Base.FightingKnife
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| Long Stick |
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1x | No | /additem Base.LongStick
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| Duct Tape | 
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2x | No | /additem Base.DuctTape
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Bind Spear Head With Wire
The Bind Spear Head With Wire recipe makes the Spear with Fighting Knife. It needs Maintenance level 1. The recipe has to be learned first.
| Name | Image | Amount | Kept | Spawn ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fighting Knife |
|
1x | No | /additem Base.FightingKnife
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| Long Stick |
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1x | No | /additem Base.LongStick
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| Wire | 
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2x | No | /additem Base.Wire
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| Pliers | 
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1x | Yes | /additem Base.Pliers
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Used in Crafting
These recipes take the Spear with Fighting Knife as an ingredient or a part.
| Recipe | Output | Image | Station | Skill | Spawn ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dismantle Knife/Tool Spear | Fighting Knife |
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- | None | /additem Base.FightingKnife
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Repair
The Spear with Fighting Knife has 9 condition and loses a point on about 1 hit in 8. The Spear and Maintenance skills both lower that chance. The blade can be sharpened with a whetstone, a grindstone or, poorly, with a file. The head and shaft can be repaired with duct tape, adhesive tape, glue, zip ties, wood glue or epoxy. Zip ties need Maintenance 1, wood glue needs Carpentry 2, and epoxy needs Maintenance 3. Each repair restores less condition than the one before it.
Notes
- The spear can be bound with zip ties, leather strips or twine at Maintenance 1, with duct tape at any skill, or with wire and pliers at Maintenance 1.
- Dismantling the spear needs no tool and returns the Fighting Knife with a Long Stick.
- Researching the spear can teach the recipes for binding spears and for forging a crude blade and a small knife.
- The Spear with Hunting Knife, Spear with Large Knife and Spear with Scrap Knife match it in damage, reach and durability.
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