Broken Glass

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Broken Glass
broken bottle - shard - shiv
Stats
broken bottle
Value (at 100%):	$0.00
Weight:	0.29 kg
Stack Size:	1
shard
Value (at 100%):	$0.00
Weight:	0.05 kg
Stack Size:	5
shiv
Value (at 100%):	$5.00
Weight:	0.15 kg
Stack Size:	3
broken bottle (melee)
Damage Potential:
Reach:	1
shard (melee)
Damage Potential:
Reach:	1
shiv (melee)
Damage Potential:
Reach:	1

Broken glass exists in two forms, broken bottles and shards. Shards are commonly used as a crafting material, due to their sharpness and ease with which they can be found. They can be used to make shivs, spears, and arrowheads.

All varieties of broken glass cause minor bleeding wounds and possible bruising, when used as a melee weapon. Their primary advantage over your fists in combat is the additional bloodloss, which NPCs can keep track of better than a player without Medic, reducing their morale. Their fragile nature means they will break after only a few hits.

Shards can be used as improvised melee weapons, although very fragile and posing the threat of wounding the user. Shards can be used to craft a shiv, which is less likely to hurt the person wielding it. Near ruins and the DMC sprawl, shards are often abundant enough to use as the sharp component in recipes instead of more valuable tools.

Broken bottles are sometimes better at warding off foes than actually damaging them since they have an extremely low durability; a single use in battle or crafting is enough to shatter them permanently (this is an exception to the usual way tools work in recipes). Shards degrade 25% per use, while shivs degrade 20% per use.

Crafting

Broken Bottle (1 Broken Bottle, 2 Shards)	0.01	Medium Brittle, Rigid Container (1) Glass Bottle
Shards (2 Shards)	0.01	Medium Brittle, Non-Flexible, Rigid Object (1) Broken Bottle Glass Bottle
Glass Shiv (R)	0.05	Small Brittle Rigid Sharp Handheld Sheet Object (1) Glass Shiv Shard Plastic Shard Small or Medium Flexible Non-Food Object (1) Backpack Blue Jeans Bronze Talisman Copper Beads on a String Hospital Wrist Strap Hoodie Makeshift Rag Shoes Medium Chunks of Meat (Spoiled) Medium String and Twine Newspaper Patchwork Hide Glove Plastic Bag Rags Rifle Shoulder Strap Scrap of Paper Shirts Sling Small Animal Hide Small Chunk of Hide Small Chunk of Fur Small Chunks of Meat (Spoiled) Small String and Twine Squirrel Corpse Strangler's Hood Tactical Glove

Properties and recipe uses

All kinds of glass

• Sharp Edge:
  • Arrow: Crude Broadhead (1, R, T)
  • Arrow: Crude Piercing (1, R, T)
  • Bow: Greenwood (1, R, T)
  • Broad Spear (1, R, T)
  • Cryo Lighting (1, R, T)
  • Hardened Spear (1, T)
  • Meat and Hide from Dogman Corpse (1, T)
  • Meat and Hide from Medium, Furry Corpse (1, T)
  • Meat and Hide from Small, Furry Corpse (1, T)
  • Meat from Large Corpse (1, T)
  • Meat from Large, Furry Corpse (1, T)
  • Meat from Medium, Furry Corpse (1, T)
  • Meat from Small Corpse (1, T)
  • Sharpened Spear (1, T)

Broken bottles

• Medium, Brittle, Rigid Object:
  • Shards (1)

Shards and shivs

• Sharp Point:
  • Patchwork Hide Glove (1, R, T)
  • Patchwork Hide Tunic (1, R, T)

• Small, Brittle, Rigid, Sharp, Handheld Sheet Object:
  • Glass Shiv (1, R)

• Small, Rigid Parts:
  • Noise Trap (1, R)

• Small, Rigid, Sharp Edge with Point:
  • Arrow: Crude Broadhead (1, R)
  • Broad Spear (1, R)

Trivia

Crafting shivs can be a good way to make money (and requires no special traits to do so). Shivs can yield more profit than whiskey bottles, broken bottles, and clothes with low durability.

See also

• Bottles
• Combat