Combat Knife

The knife worth a blueprint: a Level 1 bench, one high quality metal, top harvesting yield and a stab you can throw mid-sprint. Most players stop here.

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Characteristics

Category: Weapon

Stack size: 1

Durability: 100

Workbench: Level 1

Craftable: Yes

Researchable: Yes · 30 Scrap

Damage: 35

Swing time: 0.7 s

Overview

In-game description

Combat knife designed for close combat engagements, can attack while sprinting. Best in class at harvesting flesh.

Learn it once and it covers two jobs for the rest of the wipe. On a hunt it gets the most out of a body; the game itself calls it best in class at harvesting flesh. In a fight it attacks while you sprint, so a half-dead roamer who turns to run is still in reach.

The other knives each lose on something. The bone one is free but weaker, the butcher knife cannot be researched, and the skinning knife is for people building a trophy wall. So this is the one that ends up in most hotbars.

Pros

Cons

Researchable, so it stays in your blueprints all wipe
Attacks mid-sprint, which suits a chase
Top yield of meat, fat and leather per carcass

Needs a Level 1 workbench and a piece of high quality metal
Still a knife: short reach against a spear, hopeless against a gun

The usual loop: a bear has been circling your farm, you put it down with a bow or a rifle, then switch to this and strip it. One bear fills your pockets with raw bear meat and hide.