Difference between revisions of "Knife"

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The knife is a primitive melee weapon, it that does a low amount of damage, has a short cooldown, and deals sharp damage. As is typical with any sharp weapon, knife attacks cause bleeding, and generally fares poorly against armor when compared to blunt weapons. Due to its low cooldown, knives are skill-friendly weapons; even if a pawn equipped with a knife misses their attack, another attack will follow not long after.

Acquisition

Knives can be crafted at the crafting spot, fueled smithy or smithy with 40 units of any metallic or wooden material, and 4,000 ticks (1.11 mins) of work. As well as purchased from any outlander and orbital combat suppliers, or from outlander and pirate raiders drops.

Analysis

Knives are lower-tier melee weapons with a slightly below average damage output, but knives are also cheap to produce. That being said, the gladius offers significantly better performance for little more in the way of resource costs, so you're better off making gladii than knives unless you're somehow in an exceptional circumstance where you urgently need melee weapons and can't obtain any more resources. Plasteel knives are somewhat better as melee weapons, handily out-DPSing a steel longsword.

Against armor, a steel knife actually performs slightly better than its gladius counterpart, probably owing to the shorter cooldown. That being said, a stone club still performs considerably better. When talking about plasteel, the knife continues to outperform its gladius equivalent, but the steel club is still better here.

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

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-The knife is a melee weapon in RimWorld that does a low amount of damage, has a short cooldown, and deals sharp damage.
+The knife is a primitive melee weapon, it that does a low amount of damage, has a short cooldown, and deals sharp damage. As is typical with any sharp weapon, knife attacks cause bleeding, and generally fares poorly against armor when compared to blunt weapons. Due to its low cooldown, knives are skill-friendly weapons; even if a pawn equipped with a knife misses their attack, another attack will follow not long after.
+== Acquisition ==
-As is typical with any sharp weapon, knife attacks cause bleeding, and generally fares poorly against armor when compared to blunt weapons.
+Knives can be crafted at the [[crafting spot]], [[fueled smithy]] or [[electric smithy|smithy]] with 40 units of any metallic or wooden [[materials|material]], and {{ticks|4000}} of work. As well as purchased from any outlander and orbital combat suppliers, or from outlander and pirate [[raider]]s drops.
+== Analysis ==
+{{stub}}
 Knives are lower-tier melee weapons with a slightly below average damage output, but knives are also cheap to produce. That being said, the [[gladius]] offers significantly better performance for little more in the way of resource costs, so you're better off making gladii than knives unless you're somehow in an exceptional circumstance where you urgently need melee weapons and can't obtain any more resources. [[Plasteel]] knives are somewhat better as melee weapons, handily out-DPSing a [[steel]] [[longsword]].
-Thanks to its low cooldown, knives are skill-friendly weapons; even if a pawn equipped with a knife misses their attack, another attack will follow not long after.
 Against armor, a steel knife actually performs slightly better than its gladius counterpart, probably owing to the shorter cooldown. That being said, a [[Materials#Stone_Blocks|stone]] [[club]] still performs considerably better. When talking about plasteel, the knife continues to outperform its gladius equivalent, but the steel [[club]] is still better here.
-===Obtaining===
-Knives can be purchased from any outlander and orbital combat suppliers, or obtained from outlander and pirate [[raider]]s. Knives can also be crafted at [[crafting spot]]s or [[fueled smithy|any]] [[electric smithy|smithy]]  from 40 of any metallic or wooden [[materials|material]], and {{ticks|4000}} of work.
-'''Scenarios that start with a knife:'''
-* Crashlanded (plasteel)
-* Lost Tribe (jade)
-===Combat Performance per Material===
-{{stub}}
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