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Cleaver

A big, heavy, sharp knife. Designed to slash through thick raw meat. It can also crack bones easily. Mostly used by butchers.

Cleaver

Classname

Cleaver

Heavy attack

28

Health per hit

Light attack

18

Health per hit

reach

1.4 m

Weight

500 g

Light attack
18 health · 100 blood · 8 shock · 1.4 m reach
Heavy attack
28 health · 100 blood · 14 shock · 1.4 m reach
Sprint attack
28 health · 100 blood · 14 shock · 3.3 m reach

Where to find it on Nasdara

Where you find it
Town, Village
Spread
Scattered across the whole mapShow on the map

Values from the vanilla types.xml of each map. Community servers often change them.

ChernarusLivoniaSakhalNasdara
Nominal (target on the map)55404036
Min (respawns below this)45303730
Lifetime (untouched)4 h4 h4 h4 h
Restock (wait before respawn)0000
Quantity when spawned––––
PlacesTown, VillageTown, VillageTown, VillageTown, Village
Tiers––Tier1, Tier2–
Spots–shelvesshelves–
Countedon the groundon the groundon the groundon the ground

Tier 1 is near the coast, Tier 4 deep inland. A nominal of 0 means the item does not spawn as loot on that map.

Repaired with

Used for crafting

Recipes that take this item as one of their two ingredients.

Sell it in your server's trader shop

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Data from the game files: DayZ 1.30 (Experimental server, 2026-10-16), DayZ-Central-Economy f220b29 (Chernarus, Livonia, Sakhal), Nasdara from the 1.30 server. Updated 2026-10-17.

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