Plastic Knife
| Plastic Knife | |
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| Class | Cooking |
| Weight | 0.1 |
| Location | Containers |
| Spawn ID | /additem Base.PlasticKnife
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The Plastic Knife is a disposable table knife found in office kitchens. It weighs only 0.1 and counts as a dull knife. That tag lets it stand in for a real blade in a handful of kitchen and farm recipes.
Its value is in light jobs like slicing bread and cake, filling jars and pulling seeds from fruit. For a survivor without a kitchen knife, it is a cheap way into those recipes.
It turns up in break rooms and offices, usually in a counter or an overhead cupboard. The Chef is the best occupation for cooking. It starts with the most Cooking skill. The Burger Flipper also starts with some Cooking skill.
Cooking
As a dull knife, the Plastic Knife is kept after each recipe. Slice Bread turns a loaf into three Bread Slices. Slice Cake/Pie cuts a whole cake or pie into five slices and returns the Baking Pan.
The Make Jar of Preserved Food recipe also accepts it. That recipe puts vegetables or Fish Roe into a jar with vinegar, salt and water. The jar keeps far longer than the fresh food.
Around the farm, the Plastic Knife works for Collect Seeds, which takes seeds from a Pumpkin, Tomato, Watermelon or similar fruit. It can carve a Pumpkin into a Jack-o'-lantern. It can also scutch flax or hemp on a Scutching Board, and it slices skulls from animal heads.
Used in Crafting
Any recipe that asks for a dull knife accepts it as the tool, such as Scutch Fibre, Slice Animal Head and Slice Bread.
Locations
The Plastic Knife is an office find. Break rooms hold it on the counter and in the overhead cupboard. Office cupboards, detective office counters and the cupboards in Nolans office carry it too. Each of these containers has about a one in five chance to hold one.
The places where it spawns, with the rough chance per container.
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Break room | Counter | 20.2% |
| Break room | Overhead cupboard | 20.2% |
| Detective office | Counter | 20.2% |
| Nolans office | Overhead cupboard | 20.2% |
| Office | Overhead cupboard | 20.2% |
Notes
- The Plastic Knife counts as a dull knife, so it slices bread, cakes and pies.
- It can fill a jar of preserved food, which keeps far longer than fresh vegetables.
- It collects seeds from fruit like Pumpkin and Tomato, which helps start a farm.
- It is never used up by a recipe, so one knife keeps working.
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