Ham Bat

The Ham Bat is a Melee Weapon that inflicts 59.5 points of damage. It has unlimited uses within a 10-day period, after which it spoils. Despite being made from meat, it cannot be consumed by the player or other creatures in the game, and it won't provoke a hostile reaction from Bunnymen when carried by the player.
The Ham Bat requires 1 Pig Skin, 2 Twigs, and 2 Meat to craft and an Alchemy Engine to prototype.
== Downloadable Content ==
In DLCs and DST, the Ham Bat's damage will now decrease as the weapon spoils. The highest damage is 59.5 when fresh, and the damage decreases by about 0.37 per minute or 2.975 per day until it reaches its lowest damage of 29.75, just before turning into Rot. It becomes weaker than a Tentacle Spike after 2.86 days, weaker than a Battle Spear after 5.71 days, and after 8.67 days it is about as powerful as a Spear.
The Ham Bat will last longer when put into an Ice Box, Insulated Pack, Sea Sack, Chef Pouch and Snow Chester.
== Skins ==
In Don't Starve Together, Skins can be applied to certain items to change their appearance. Information on how to obtain specific skins can be found on the Belongings page.
Pot Roastbat Icon.png|Woven - ElegantPot RoastbatDelicious, delicious murder.See ingame
Pugna's Ham Bat Icon.png|Woven - ElegantPugna's Ham BatThis ham bat was fashioned after the scepter of the great Battlemaster Pugna.See ingame
Fishy Bat Icon.png|LoyalFishy BatThis portly pufferfish is trying to pass itself off as pork.See ingame
== Tips ==
* Having four spare Monster Meat, feeding them to a Pig (resulting in it turning into a Werepig) and then slaying the Werepig can result in the player receiving all of the necessary ingredients needed for crafting, excluding the Twigs. One alternative is to feed meat to a single Pig and select a neutral Pig as an attack target; this will cause surrounding neutral Pigs to become aggressive towards the player's Pig follower and kill it, causing it to drop resources.
* The unlimited uses make it ideal for dealing damage to mobs and entities that don't fight back, like Spider Dens and Snurtles. 
** It is also an efficient weapon against Bosses due to their large Health pools.
* It's more effective to craft the Ham Bat in Winter because during that season spoilage rate is reduced by 25%.
* The Ham Bat can be crafted from spoiled meat and will be fully fresh when crafted. This makes it handy to be crafted right before a fight.
* Player can use a Bundling Wrap to contain and preserve large amounts of Meat for indefinite time, allowing them to always have the possibility of crafting Ham Bats without the need of hunting for Meat beforehand
== Trivia ==
* The Ham Bat was added in the A Little Rain Must Fall update.
* The Ham Bat makes an appearance as the in the popular online first-person shooter Team Fortress 2 to promote Don't Starve shortly before its release (along with the Wilson weave). It was awarded in Genuine quality to those who pre-purchased Don't Starve before April 23, 2013.
* The Ham Bat was the second renewable melee-weapon in the game, after the Dark Sword.
* Before the first "Bugfix/Performance" update, the Ham Bat used to be an edible Monster Food item and had 100 uses, in addition to spoiling over time.
* A Ham Bat can be used as a Steam chat emoticon.
* On the Reign Of Giants promotion picture for Winter, Wilson is seen cooking a piece of meat that resembles the Ham Bat.
== Gallery ==
Ham Bat Held.jpg|Wolfgang wielding the Ham Bat.
Toy Spider.png|A Spider figurine by a Ham Bat.
Don't Starve Banner.png|Wilson's Weave along with the Ham Shank on the promotional banner for Don't Starve.
Snowgangmanyhambats.png|Wolfgang caroling with the default Ham Bat and the two Ham Bat skins.
Ham Bat in Terraria.png|Ham Bat in Terraria
Klei Office Photo3.jpg|Big Ham Bat in Klei Office
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Category:Science
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Category:Weapons
Category:Melee Weapons
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Category:Non-Flammable
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