Simple Overhaul: Blades and Spears (SOBS)  

How often have you found yourself thinking that knives do too little damage, are short-lived, and feel like the weakest weapons in the game?
Or maybe you're tired of the endless crafting of Homemade spears that break quickly and wish that attaching a weapon to a spear made any real sense?

Then... you should definitely give SOBS a try!

GENERAL AND BRIEF INFORMATION
- Short. cutting weapons will finally be able to deal critical hits, become a little more powerful and durable.
- Homemade spears will become slightly weaker, but spears with attached weapons will become more effective and stronger. In addition, attaching a weapon to a spear will require less duct tape. The creation of copies will not be affected by the Build skill.

For PZ 41.78+, it is safe to add/remove in the current save, but the changes will only affect new items found/crafted.

You can read more about mod support and compatibility here.

MORE DETAILED INFORMATION:
About short. cutting, which is divided into two types:
- Stab weapons such as Hunting Knife, Kitchen Knife, Screwdriver, etc.
- Sweeping weapons like Meat Cleaver and Sickle.

Unlike other weapons, piercing weapons cannot critically hit in the game. As absurd as it may sound, it is a fact. The chance of a critical hit with a piercing weapon increases the chance of an instant kill (stab in the jaw). This mechanic works against a single zombie, but when you are in the field of view of two or more zombies, the instant kill simply turns off. This means that you get exactly zero benefit from Critical Strike Chance and Critical Strike Multiplier when fighting groups of zombies.

But with SOBS, knives will finally be able to deal critical attacks!

Based on this knowledge, piercing weapons are divided into several categories:
1. Superior: Hunting knife, Ice pick
Such weapons deal 50-100% of max. damage, has a 30% chance to crit and 60% instant kill chance.
2. Medium: Kitchen knife, Screwdriver, Garden fork, Bread knife,
Such weapons deal 50-100% of max. damage, has 20% chance to crit and 40% instant kill chance.
3. Low: Scissors, Envelope Knife, Scalpel, Wooden Stake, Broken Bottle, Stone Knife
Such weapons deal 25-100% of max. damage, has 10% chance to crit and 20% instant kill chance.
4. Improvised: Butter knife, Spoon, Fork, Pen, Pencil
Such weapons deal a fixed low damage and have a 0% instant kill chance.
Changes have also been made:
- The durability of all items has been increased. Now the knives will not break after a few hits.
- Stamina consumption per hit changed to 100% (previously 50% for piercing)
- Critical hit multiplier reduced to 2x, for balance.

About Spears:
- Homemade spears have always been more profitable than spears with attached weapons due to their availability, even despite their fragility. Spears with weapons attached require a lot of duct tape and are not very durable. This has been fixed: The Makeshift Spear now deals less damage, has a reduced critical strike chance, but has slightly increased durability and slightly reduced weight. Also fastening Short. spear cutting weapons now cost 1/4 of Electrical Tape (was 2/4).
- Spears, like Korotk. slashers do not have any bonuses from the critical strike multiplier, as they have an instant kill chance, which depends on the chance of a critical strike, but unlike Short. Cutting Spears can deal critical hits with regular hits (which are basically instant kills with no animations anyway).
- Fixed recipes. The creation of the spear is not affected by the Build skill.

Many thanks to DarkSlayerEX and his "Item Tweaker" API mod.
And of course, thanks to all of you for using my mods.