Spear with Plunger
| Spear with Plunger | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Class | Improvised Weapon |
| Skill | Spear |
| Damage | 0.3-0.6 |
| Range | 0.98-1.55 |
| Crit | 0% x1 |
| Condition | 6 |
| Weight | 2.5 |
| Hands | Two-handed |
| Crafting Skill | Maintenance: 0 |
| Crafting | See How to Craft |
| Location | Crafted only |
| Spawn ID | /additem Base.Spear_Plunger
|
| Crafting XP | 5 XP (Maintenance) |
The Spear with Plunger is a two-handed novelty weapon made by binding a Plunger to a long shaft. It trains the Spear skill. It looks like a spear and swings like one, but the rubber cup does very little harm.
Its one real strength is reach. It has the longest reach of any spear, so it can touch a zombie from further away than any other. Its damage is a fraction of a normal spear's, and its hits are always plain hits. The Spear with Plunger is never found as loot. It is crafted from a Plunger and a Long Stick or a Sapling.
Combat
The Spear with Plunger pokes from the longest range in the spear class. Each hit deals very low damage, well under half of what a kitchen knife spear deals. Killing even a single zombie takes many hits.
Both hands stay on the shaft. A shove with it pushes a zombie back but leaves it standing. The weapon is best kept for a laugh, for training the Spear skill on a quiet day, or as a last resort. Any knife, stone or metal spear is a better choice for real fighting.
The Spear skill still raises attack speed and damage as it levels. Even so, the gap to a real spear stays wide at every skill level.
Uses
Taking the spear apart needs no tool. It returns the Plunger and a Long Stick, so neither part is wasted.
How to Craft Spear with Plunger
Each recipe that makes the Spear with Plunger is listed with its materials and the tools it keeps.
Bind Spear Head
The Bind Spear Head recipe makes the Spear with Plunger. It needs Maintenance level 1. The recipe has to be learned first.
| Name | Image | Amount | Kept | Spawn ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plunger | 
|
1x | No | /additem Base.Plunger
|
| Long Stick | 
|
1x | No | /additem Base.LongStick
|
| Zip Ties | 
|
2x | No | /additem Base.Zipties
|
Bind Spear Head With Duct Tape
The Bind Spear Head With Duct Tape recipe makes the Spear with Plunger. It needs Maintenance level 0.
| Name | Image | Amount | Kept | Spawn ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plunger |
|
1x | No | /additem Base.Plunger
|
| Long Stick |
|
1x | No | /additem Base.LongStick
|
| Duct Tape | 
|
2x | No | /additem Base.DuctTape
|
Bind Spear Head With Wire
The Bind Spear Head With Wire recipe makes the Spear with Plunger. It needs Maintenance level 1. The recipe has to be learned first.
| Name | Image | Amount | Kept | Spawn ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plunger |
|
1x | No | /additem Base.Plunger
|
| Long Stick |
|
1x | No | /additem Base.LongStick
|
| Wire | 
|
2x | No | /additem Base.Wire
|
| Pliers | 
|
1x | Yes | /additem Base.Pliers
|
Used in Crafting
These recipes take the Spear with Plunger as an ingredient or a part.
| Recipe | Output | Image | Station | Skill | Spawn ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dismantle Knife/Tool Spear | Plunger |
|
- | None | /additem Base.Plunger
|
Repair
The Spear with Plunger has 6 condition and loses a point on about 1 hit in 2. The Spear and Maintenance skills both lower that chance. It 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
- A shove with the Spear with Plunger pushes zombies back but leaves them on their feet, unlike a shove with any other weapon.
- 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.
- The spear can be taken apart at any time to recover the Plunger and the Long Stick.
- Researching the spear can teach the recipes for binding spears with cord, tape or wire.
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