“Batter Up” is a magazine (skill book) series in 7 Days to Die that covers bludgeon-type club weapons. As you can tell from its internal name bookBatterUpMetalChain, this volume focuses in particular on metal and chain upgrades — in other words, it steps into the stage of handling iron- and steel-class striking weapons that go a step beyond the wooden club.
What does it improve?
This is the type of skill book series where the more you read, the better your handling of clubs becomes, and the higher the Quality cap on the recipes and weapons you can craft. The basic flow is that the early volumes let you handle basic clubs, while the later volumes let you handle sturdier, higher-damage metal weapons. Volume 7 can be seen as a book that sits somewhere in the middle-to-later part of that progression.
How to get it and when to use it
Magazines are generally collected by looting them from containers such as bookshelves, mailboxes, and cardboard boxes scattered around, or by purchasing them from traders. If you want to make clubs your main weapon, we recommend reading the Batter Up series as soon as you find them. As a mainstay for melee-focused builds, or during the early-to-mid game when you can’t rely much on ammo, clubs are an extremely dependable choice.
*The specific recipes unlocked and stat increases may vary depending on the version or MOD configuration. Check the actual effects via the tooltip shown before reading when you pick one up, and judge accordingly.