Knife

Knife

"One of humankind's oldest tools, the knife is both and everyday tool and a deadly weapon."

Base Stats

Type

Equipment – Weapons

"Modern Weapons" is not in the list (Neolithic Weapons, Medieval Weapons, Industrial Weapons, Spacer Weapons, Ultra Weapons, Mechanoid Weapons) of allowed values for the "Class" property.

Weapon Class

Modern

Market Value

35 

Ranged Combat

Mode

Melee

Damage

8 dmg

Warm-Up

0 ticks (0 secs)

Cooldown

100 ticks (1.67 secs)

Range

1 tile(s)

DPS

4.8

Mode

Melee

Slightly more damaging than the Shiv, but also slightly slower.

Gameplay Overview

The knife is a step up from the Shiv but still a relatively weak melee weapon with a faster cooldown and very low material cost. While the Plasteel Knife you start with in the Crashlanded scenario is decent in terms of damage output, you can make better weapons once you acquire a smithy at which point the knife is obsolete (unless you're in an extreme material crisis, then you can look at the knife as a very cheap and quick to make weapon, otherwise there are better options in even shortages such as the Gladius.)

As a smithy-only weapon, the Knife can be made out of all standard materials (except wood), and can't be made out of Stone Blocks or Jade. The table below compares damage outputs between all materials this weapon can be made from (assuming Normal quality and full durability)...

	Steel	Plasteel	Silver	Gold	Uranium
Damage	8	10	4	2	9
Cooldown	1.66s	1.33s	1.66s	1.83s	2.24s
DPS (to 3 dp)	4.819	7.519	2.41	1.093	4.018

DPS figures that are bold are those that are viable as they are greater than the base unarmed DPS (3.279), meaning those that aren't bold should generally be avoided as weapons.

---

Weapons

Melee | Neolithic

Breach axe • Club • Ikwa • Knife (Jade) • Spear

Medieval

Gladius • Longsword • Mace • Axe • Warhammer

Ultra

Eltex staff • Monosword (Persona) • Plasmasword (Persona) • Zeushammer (Persona)

Improvised

Beer • Elephant tusk • Thrumbo horn • Wood

Ranged | Neolithic

Greatbow • Pila • Recurve bow • Short bow • Flamebow

Medieval

Nerve spiker

Industrial

Assault rifle • Autopistol • Bolt-action rifle • Chain shotgun • Heavy SMG • Launcher (EMP, Incendiary, Smoke, Toxbomb ) • LMG • Machine pistol • Minigun • Pump shotgun • Revolver • Sniper rifle • Hellcat rifle • Incinerator

Spacer

Charge lance • Charge rifle

Consumables

Doomsday rocket launcher • Triple rocket launcher

Throwables

EMP grenades • Frag grenades • Molotov cocktails • Tox grenades

Mechanoid

Heavy charge blaster • Inferno cannon • Needle gun • Thump cannon • Beam graser • Charge blaster turret • Hellsphere cannon • Mini-flameblaster • Mini-shotgun • Slugthrower • Spiner • Toxic needle gun

Structures

Autocannon • Mini-turret gun • Mortar (Weapon) • Uranium slug cannon • Auto-mortar • Inferno cannon (Turret) • Light charge blaster • Mini-slugger • Tactical turret gun

Related | Body part weapons

Prosthetic arm • Bionic arm • Archotech arm • Power claw • Field hand • Drill arm • Venom talon • Venom fangs • Knee spike • Elbow blade • Hand talon • Flesh whip

Integrated weapons

Grenadier armor • Phoenix armor

Trivia

• Despite being unable to craft a knife using jade, a jade knife is given in the tribal scenario.