Craft-only versus a drop
The 1.0 notes add ten weapons: Crowbar, Machete, LMG, Tommy Gun, Brass Knuckles, Flamethrower, Desert Eagle, Mega Shotgun, Crossbow, and The Grinder. The last five do not drop. You build them. Katana damage went up 25%. Super Knife went from 280 to 224. Tooltips now show crit chance and crit damage. Ranged fire rate no longer follows the frame rate. Merged projectiles keep full damage. Those are the official lines. Per-weapon damage beyond the Grinder screenshot is not in the notes, so most number cells stay empty.
The searches that are really recipes
Rocket launcher, minigun, P.I.Z.Z.A. launcher, railgun, lightsaber, and spear are the names people type. Their recipes live on the German Early Access wiki: grenade + bike pump + rifle; AK47 + SMG + extended mag; rocket launcher + pizza; rifle + battery + laser pointer; katana + laser pointer + battery; bat + knife. P.I.Z.Z.A. is also described there as +30 health and a pizza drop every 1,500 hits, capped at five a day. A 1.0 tier list still files Rocket Launcher at B, which tells me the name survived in that author’s list. It does not retell the recipe. The filter under the table groups by type. Rows without a 1.0 source say so in the status column.
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| Rocket Launcher | Fires a powerful rocket; area damage with a slow cadence | Craft at the workbench (EA-era recipe) | two sources (EA recipe + 1.0 tier) |
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| P.I.Z.Z.A. Launcher | +30 max HP; every 1500 hits drops a pizza slice, max 5 per day | Craft at the workbench (EA-era recipe) | single source (EA wiki) |
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| Minigun | Very high fire rate; the 'minigun fork' query is this weapon plus the Fork item (+1 projectile) | Craft at the workbench (EA-era recipe) | single source (EA wiki) |
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| Katana | Large sweeping attack; 5% melee damage falloff per enemy hit | Loot drop | two sources |
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| Lightsaber | Blade length and damage scale with empty backpack slots above the sword; 5% melee falloff per enemy hit | Craft at the workbench (EA-era recipe) | single source (EA wiki) |
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| Railgun | Fires high-penetration projectiles | Craft at the workbench (EA-era recipe) | single source (EA wiki) |
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| Spear | Long-range blade; 5% melee damage falloff per enemy hit | Craft at the workbench (EA-era recipe) | single source (EA wiki) |
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| The Grinder | 240 damage, 5/s, 4.5 m, medium weight; applies 1 Bleed stack per hit (1 dmg/s and +3% damage taken per stack, max 75, decays 1 per 2 s); each hit +5% attack rate and crit chance up to 100%, decays over 1.5 s; 5% melee falloff per enemy hit | Craft-only (1.0 workbench) | four sources (incl. tooltip screenshot) |
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| Flamethrower | Shoots a stream of flames and leaves fires that deal a share of the damage every second; fires apply Burn | Craft-only (1.0 workbench) | three sources |
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| Crossbow | Bolts stick in enemies and repeat on-hit effects when triggered | Craft-only (1.0 workbench) | three sources |
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| Desert Eagle | High damage; pierces one extra enemy | Craft-only (1.0 workbench) | three sources |
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| Mega Shotgun | Very high damage and many pellets at close range | Craft-only (1.0 workbench) | three sources |
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| LMG | Fast fire rate and a heavy footprint | Loot drop | two sources |
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| Tommy Gun | Faster than the LMG but less accurate | Loot drop | two sources |
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| Shotgun | Reliable mid-game burst weapon | Loot drop | single source | |
| Rifle | Accurate, moderate rate of fire, good at range | Loot drop | single source | |
| Uzi | Fast, cheap to fire; strong early, fades when enemy health scales | Craft (rare) | two sources |
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| Super Knife | Fast melee with a small footprint | Loot drop | two sources |
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| Chainsaw | High melee damage and a committed attack | Loot drop | two sources |
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| Revolver | Slow, accurate, high per-shot damage | Loot drop | single source | |
| Pistol | Default starting weapon; a placeholder, not a build | Default start | single source | |
| Crowbar | Melee with a looting-speed bonus | Loot drop | two sources |
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| Machete | Small sweeping attack with a small footprint | Loot drop | two sources |
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| Brass Knuckles | Fast, short-range punches; almost no space and almost no damage | Loot drop | two sources |
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Questions
Where is the minigun?
The Early Access wiki crafts it from an AK47, an SMG, and an spare magazine (Reservemagazin). That recipe was not repeated in the 1.0 notes.
What is minigun fork?
A search for two things. Minigun is the gun. Fork (Gabel) adds one projectile to a marked ranged weapon. There is no weapon named Minigun Fork.
Is the lightsaber in 1.0?
Only the Early Access wiki lists Katana + laser pointer + battery. No 1.0 page I read confirms it still crafts. The row stays labeled EA.
Sources
- Steam news — 1.0 weapons — checked 2026-11-02
- Fandom — Raketenwerfer — checked 2026-11-02
- Fandom — Minigun — checked 2026-11-02
- deadlydayroadtrip.wiki weapon tier — checked 2026-11-02
Limitation: public sources can omit conditions or change after the date shown; source counts and disagreements are recorded below.