Item drop probability

[0nline]

How likely is it that a zombie spawns with an axe stuck in its body?

[skunkmonkey]

99.5% of all probabilities are just pulled out of the air, so I'll just say that it happens, and it's not super rare. I see zombies with weapons sticking out of them fairly commonly. The weapons can be anything from kitchen utensils, to axes.

[Armagenesis]

Some said loot rarity setting affects the chance of finding special loot in zombies' inventory, but I played Builder mode for a good amount of time and found a lot of stuff in there.

There's no visible metric for the chance of zombies having a weapon stuck on them afaik. But based on my own eyeballing with standard apocalypse population, I'd wager the rate is somewhere between 10%-20%. And that is shared between an axe and other, more mundane things like a scissor or letter opener.

Based on my longest save file, I'd say you'll come across somewhere around 10 hand axes after a year of zombie slaying. The other types of axes may have a chance to spawn, but hand axe is the most common among the axe category.

[Ittrix]

Yeaah, the weapons in zombies goes up with time. Eventually you'll even start seein crowbars in 'em. Guess you can earlier, but it's pretty improbable.

[Armagenesis]

Originally posted by Bender24k:

Chances of a zombie having an axe, fire axe, katana etc stuck in them grow the longer time passes.

Care to share how likely on estimate? Said save file of mine has reached 1 year mark recently and I've explored all four starting towns. But I've never seen any high tier loot like fire axe or katana. The best I've found were those hand axes.

[0nline]

How lucky haha, was looking for an axe the whole time after two months and some days in builder mode. After continuing the save, having a zombie spawn one right away (after aprx. 600-700 "kills"). Great game! Already 99,9 h playtime now. Even the 14y.?!-old friend of the neighbour who was collecting him today, waking me up with zombienoises, haha.