Stone

Stone
Class	Improvised Weapon
Skill	-
Damage	0.4-0.7
Range	0.61-0.8
Crit	20% x2
Condition	4
Weight	1
Hands	One-handed
Crafting Skill	Masonry: 0
Crafting	See How to Craft
Location	Crafted only
Spawn ID	/additem Base.Stone2
Crafting XP	10 XP (Masonry)

The Stone is a fist-sized rock that serves as an improvised one-handed weapon and as a basic crafting material. As a weapon it is weak and slow. It deals low damage from a very short reach.

Its value lies in crafting and building. Stones ring a campfire, build a forge and a furnace, and serve as the hammerstone for knapping stone tools. The Stone is never found in containers. It is gathered by foraging, picked up from the ground, or broken out of a Large Stone.

Combat

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The Stone swings a little slower than base speed and reaches only about 0.8 tiles. That puts the user within a zombie's grasp on every swing. Each hit deals low damage, so even one zombie takes many blows. The crit chance starts at 20 percent, and a crit doubles the damage.

The Stone is one-handed, so the other hand stays free. It is a last resort for a survivor caught with nothing else, such as at the very start of a game in the woods. Almost any club, tool or blade is a better weapon. A Tree Branch, for example, hits harder and reaches further.

Uses

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The Stone has many crafting and building uses. Three stones build a Campfire. Ten stones, concrete and a Stone Anvil build a Primitive Forge, and four stones, clay and concrete build a Primitive Furnace. Four stones turn a metal drum or a barrel into a Charcoal Burner. Stones also go into a Simple Cooking Pit, a Stone Cabinet, a Stone Cairn and the Lean-To, Leather and Tarp shelters. Two stones make an Improvised Whetstone, and a stone with a Tree Branch makes a Stone Hammer.

As a hammerstone, the Stone knaps flint and stone into tools without being used up. It knaps a Sharp Flint Flake, a Stone Awl, a Stone Chisel and a Stone Blade. With more Knapping skill it shapes a Stone-Blade Scythe, a Flint Saw, a Large Stone Axe Head, a Stone Maul Head and a Long Stone Blade. It also smashes bones and skulls and helps make Sinew Thread.

How to Craft Stone

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

Break Large Stone into Stones

The Break Large Stone into Stones recipe makes the Stone. It needs Masonry level 0.

Name	Image	Amount	Kept	Spawn ID
Club Hammer		1x	Yes	/additem Base.ClubHammer
Large Stone		1x	No	/additem Base.LargeStone

Used in Crafting

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

Recipe	Output	Image	Station	Skill	Spawn ID
Build Lean-To Shelter	Lean-To Shelter	-	-	None	-
Build Leather Shelter	Leather Shelter	-	-	None	-
Build Simple Cooking Pit	Simple Cooking Pit	-	-	Masonry: 1	-
Build Stone Cabinet	Stone Cabinet	-	-	Masonry: 0	-
Build Stone Cairn	Stone Cairn	-	-	None	-
Build Tarp Shelter	Tarp Shelter	-	-	None	-
Campfire	Campfire	-	-	None	-
Charcoal Burner	Charcoal Burner	-	-	None	-
Construct Primitive Forge	Primitive Forge	-	-	None	-
Construct Primitive Furnace	Primitive Furnace	-	-	None	-
Make Improvised Whetstone	Improvised Whetstone		-	Maintenance: 1	/additem Base.CrudeWhetstone
Make Stone Hammer	Stone Hammer		-	Maintenance: 1	/additem Base.HammerStone

Any recipe that asks for a hammerstone or stone accepts it as the tool, such as Make Stone Block from Stone, Knap Stone Awl and Knap Sharp Flint Flake.

Repair

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The Stone has 4 condition and loses a point on about 1 hit in 5. Hits with it give no Maintenance experience. A broken stone is easy to replace, since stones can be foraged or picked up from the ground.

Notes

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• Breaking a Large Stone with a club hammer, sledgehammer, stone maul or pickaxe yields ten Stones.
• Foraging finds Stones all year in forests, farmland, roads, towns and trailer parks, with a lower chance in snow.
• Small stone piles on the ground can be picked up for Stones.
• Dismantling a Stone Hammer returns its Stone.
• Knapping uses the Stone as a tool, so one Stone can shape many tools.

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