Butterfly Knife
| Butterfly Knife | |
|---|---|
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| Class | Short Blade |
| Skill | Short Blade |
| Damage | 0.3-0.6 |
| Range | 0.61-0.9 |
| Crit | 20% x3 |
| Condition | 10 |
| Weight | 0.3 |
| Hands | One-handed |
| Location | Containers |
| Spawn ID | /additem Base.KnifeButterfly
|
The Butterfly Knife is a folding pocket knife with a sharp blade. It is a one-handed stabbing weapon that trains the Short Blade skill. It is very light and quick to draw. Its hits are weak and its reach is short, but it is a full sharp knife for every crafting job.
It earns its slot as a tool. It butchers animals, cuts plants, opens cans and works in a long list of carving and assembly recipes. Survivor safehouses and caches are the best places to find one, and it also turns up in drug labs and living rooms. The best occupations for short blades are the Burger Flipper, the Chef and the Doctor. Each starts with the same Short Blade skill.
Combat
The Butterfly Knife stabs at very close range. A normal hit does little damage, so an ordinary zombie takes many stabs. The critical chance is 20 percent, and a crit triples the damage.
It draws faster than most weapons, so it is ready the moment a zombie appears. It weighs almost nothing, which makes it an easy backup to carry. Higher Short Blade skill raises damage and crit chance. Compared with the Butter Knife it hits harder, crits more often and lasts much longer. It suits a hidden backup weapon for finishing a single zombie.
Uses
The Butterfly Knife counts as a sharp knife in crafting. It butchers animals and cuts plants. It opens canned food and water rations with its blade. It cuts leather into strips and halves, twists dogbane into Rope and makes Twine. It carves wood into Stakes, a Long Stick, Small Handles and many small tools. It carves bone into beads, needles, hooks and other items. It also serves in the assembly recipes that fit heads and blades onto handles.
Used in Crafting
Any recipe that asks for a sharp knife or smeltableironsmall accepts it as the tool, such as Cut Up Large Leather, Cut Up Medium Leather and Cut Up Small Leather.
Repair
The Butterfly Knife has 10 condition. At low skill it loses a point on about 1 hit in 2, so heavy fighting dulls it fast. The Short Blade skill and the Maintenance skill both lower that chance. A dull blade can be sharpened with a whetstone, on a Grindstone, or poorly with a file. A broken knife can be smelted down for a little iron or steel at a furnace.
Locations
The Butterfly Knife is an uncommon find. The best odds are in survivor safehouses, in cardboard boxes, crates, small boxes, counters and metal shelves. Mid game and late game safehouses carry it more often than early ones. Survivor cache counters hold one as well. Outside survivor spots it turns up in drug lab wardrobes, fishing storage lockers, and dressers and side tables in living rooms. Plank stashes under floors can hide one too.
The places where it spawns, with the rough chance per container. Each tab shows one kind of place.
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Fishing storage | Display case | 18.1% |
| Army surplus | Display case | 14.4% |
| Drug lab | Wardrobe | 7.4% |
| Fishing storage | Locker | 6.2% |
| Drug lab | Metal shelves | 2.8% |
| Farm worker dorm | Locker | 2.7% |
| Drug lab | Counter | 1.6% |
| Drug lab | Other | 1.6% |
| Drug lab | Overhead cupboard | 1.6% |
| Drug shack | Other | 1.6% |
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Outdoor supply store | Display case | 18.1% |
| Gun store | Display case | 10.8% |
| Tool store | Other | 9.9% |
| Tool store | Shelves | 9.9% |
| Tool store storage | Other | 9.9% |
| Pawn shop | Display case | 4.3% |
| Tool store | Small box | 2.5% |
| Pawn shop office | Locker | 1.3% |
| Tool store | Counter | 1.2% |
| Gas store | Counter | 0.8% |
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Survivor cache | Survivor crate | 17.9% |
| Survivor safehouse (mid game) | Cardboard box | 9% |
| Survivor safehouse (mid game) | Counter | 9% |
| Survivor safehouse (mid game) | Crate | 9% |
| Survivor safehouse (mid game) | Metal shelves | 9% |
| Survivor safehouse (mid game) | Small box | 9% |
| Survivor cache | Survivor crate | 8.9% |
| Survivor cache (large building) | Survivor crate | 8.9% |
| Survivor safehouse (late game) | Cardboard box | 6.8% |
| Survivor safehouse (late game) | Counter | 6.8% |
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Any building | Zombie wearing a private militia outfit | 10.4% |
| Any building | Zombie wearing a survivalist outfit | 7.4% |
| Any building | Zombie wearing a survivalist02 outfit | 7.4% |
| Any building | Zombie wearing a survivalist02 late outfit | 7.4% |
| Any building | Zombie wearing a survivalist02 mid outfit | 7.4% |
| Any building | Zombie wearing a survivalist03 outfit | 7.4% |
| Any building | Zombie wearing a survivalist03 late outfit | 7.4% |
| Any building | Zombie wearing a survivalist03 mid outfit | 7.4% |
| Any building | Zombie wearing a survivalist04 outfit | 7.4% |
| Any building | Zombie wearing a survivalist04 late outfit | 7.4% |
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Living room | Dresser | 4.9% |
| Living room | Side table | 4.9% |
| Any building | Wardrobe | 2.4% |
| Bedroom | Locker | 2.4% |
| Bedroom | Wardrobe | 2.4% |
| Bedroom | Side table | 2.3% |
| Bedroom | Dresser | 2.1% |
| Garage storage | Other | 1.9% |
| Closet | Other | 1% |
| Any building | Shelter | 0.7% |
Notes
- The fast draw makes it a good weapon to keep in hand while looting.
- It works in every recipe that asks for a sharp knife.
- Save it for crafting and use a heavier weapon for real fights.
- A worn-out knife still smelts into an Iron Chunk.
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