Fillet Knife in Build 42 — Kitchen Knife Weight, Half the Lifespan

The Trade in One Line

The fillet knife is the knife that pays full price for less goods: the kitchen knife’s 0.7 weight, but a 0.5 ceiling, the table’s 10% crit floor, and condition sliced in half to 5. It is not a compromise pick — it is the dominated one.

What the Numbers Mean in Play Cross-Verified

• Damage 0.3 – 0.5. Bottom half of the cutlery band; the ceiling of 0.5 sits under the steak/kitchen knives’ 0.7 and far under the hunting knife’s 1.2.
• Weight 0.7. The kitchen knife’s cost with none of its upside — more than double the paring knife’s 0.3.
• Condition 5. The fragile tier with the bread and steak knives; the crowbar runs 15. Maintenance gates the drain, not the cap — skill leveling guide.
• Knockback 0.01. Family none; only the meat cleaver at 0.3 pushes in this class.
• Crit 10%. The low tier (with paring, scalpels and hand fork) — and the table’s floor belongs to the letter opener and fishing rod at 5%.

When Not to Use It

• Whenever a kitchen knife is available. Same weight, strictly better on ceiling, crit and condition. This is the rare page where the recommendation is “the other drawer item.”
• Past one skirmish. Five condition on a 0.3–0.5 weapon is the definition of disposable; the bat’s 15 is a real tool by comparison.
• In a crowd. 0.01 knockback plus a 0.5 ceiling means you are trading several slow swings against zombies that keep walking — see the weapon tier list for why the blunt class holds lines.

How It Compares

Two comparisons settle it: against the kitchen knife the fillet loses on every stat that differs at the same 0.7 weight; against the paring knife it is heavier, more fragile, and barely better-damaging. The fillet knife beats only the bread knife, and only on weight and floor damage. That is the whole inventory of its case.

Sources & Verification

Every figure on this page is agreed by two independent sources we can read today, matched by the in-game item ID Base.KnifeFillet:

What this is not. Neither source is our own measurement, and PZwiki stamps most item pages against an older 42.10-era build while flagging that they may lag the current release. Treat these as 42.20-era agreement rather than 42.21-verified, and expect a patch note to change them eventually. Spawn locations are deliberately absent from this page: we could not source them twice, so we do not print them.