Small Knife
| Small Knife | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Class | Short Blade |
| Skill | Short Blade |
| Damage | 0.3-0.6 |
| Range | 0.61-0.9 |
| Crit | 20% x3 |
| Condition | 8 |
| Weight | 0.5 |
| Hands | One-handed |
| Crafting Skill | Blacksmithing: 1 |
| Crafting | See How to Craft |
| Location | Containers |
| Spawn ID | /additem Base.SmallKnife
|
| Crafting XP | 35 XP (Blacksmithing) |
The Small Knife is a short utility blade. It is a one-handed stabbing weapon that trains the Short Blade skill. It also counts as a sharp knife for crafting and butchering.
As a weapon it is light and weak, and it dulls quickly in a fight. Its real worth is as an everyday cutting tool. It is an uncommon find in fishing storage lockers, closets, camp dorm lockers, sheds and garages. A blacksmith can also forge one from a small scrap of iron or steel. 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 Small Knife stabs at close range, about 0.9 tiles. Each hit deals between 0.3 and 0.6 damage, so most stabs only wound. The crit chance starts at 20 percent, and a crit triples the damage. Its weight of 0.5 makes each stab cheap in endurance.
The short reach means the zombie must be very close before the blade lands. That makes it a poor choice against a group. It suits finishing a zombie on the ground. The Short Blade skill raises damage, crit chance and stab speed as it levels.
Compared with the Kitchen Knife, it hits a little softer and its crit is weaker, but it is lighter. The Large Knife and the Hunting Knife hit far harder. The Small Knife is best kept as a tool, with a stronger blade carried for fights.
Uses
The Small Knife counts as a sharp knife in crafting. It butchers and kills animals and cuts plants. It cuts leather into strips and twists twine and rope. It carves bone and wood into handles, spoons, beads, needles and other small tools. It opens canned food. It is also the knife for fitting heads onto many long implements, maces and hammers. Bound to a Long Stick, it becomes the Spear with Small Knife.
How to Craft Small Knife
Each recipe that makes the Small Knife is listed with its materials and the tools it keeps.
Forge Small Knife
The Forge Small Knife recipe makes the Small Knife. It needs Blacksmithing level 1. It is made at a Primitive Forge. The recipe has to be learned first.
| Name | Image | Amount | Kept | Spawn ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charcoal | 
|
2x | No | /additem Base.Charcoal
|
| Kitchen Knife Blade | 
|
1x | No | /additem Base.KitchenKnifeBlade
|
| Claw Hammer | 
|
1x | Yes | /additem Base.Hammer
|
| Metalworking Pliers | 
|
1x | Yes | /additem Base.MetalworkingPliers
|
Used in Crafting
These recipes take the Small Knife as an ingredient or a part.
| Recipe | Output | Image | Station | Skill | Spawn ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bind Spear Head | Spear with Small Knife | 
|
- | Maintenance: 1 | /additem Base.SpearKnifeSmall
|
| Bind Spear Head With Duct Tape | Spear with Small Knife |
|
- | Maintenance: 0 | /additem Base.SpearKnifeSmall
|
| Bind Spear Head With Wire | Spear with Small Knife |
|
- | Maintenance: 1 | /additem Base.SpearKnifeSmall
|
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 Small Knife has 8 condition. Each hit has only a 1 in 2 chance of taking a point off, so it dulls very quickly in fights. The Short Blade and Maintenance skills both lower that chance. A dull blade can be sharpened with a whetstone, on a Grindstone, or poorly with a file. A worn-out knife smelts into one Iron Chunk at a furnace.
Locations
The Small Knife is an uncommon find. The best odds are in fishing storage lockers. Closets, camp worker dorm lockers, garage storage crates and sheds hold one now and then. Survivor safehouses and survivor caches keep them in boxes, crates and counters. Pawnshop display cases hold one on occasion.
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% |
| Army surplus | Metal shelves | 11% |
| Army surplus | Shelves | 11% |
| Drug shack | Counter | 6.7% |
| Fishing storage | Locker | 6.2% |
| Camping store | Shelves | 6% |
| Camp worker dorm | Locker | 3.9% |
| Camping store | Other | 3% |
| Camping storage | Other | 3% |
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Outdoor supply store | Display case | 18.1% |
| Outdoorsupply storage | Other | 12% |
| Pawn shop office | Metal shelves | 11% |
| Pawn shop office | Other | 11% |
| Gun store | Display case | 10.8% |
| Outdoor supply store | Other | 6% |
| Pawn shop | Display case | 4.3% |
| Pawn shop | Counter | 2.2% |
| Pawnshop storage | Other | 1.1% |
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Closet | Other | 4.4% |
| Garage storage | Crate | 3.5% |
| Shed | Other | 3.5% |
| Any building | Military locker | 3.4% |
| Garage storage | Other | 1.9% |
| Garage storage | Locker | 0.7% |
| Attic | Cardboard box | 0.5% |
| Attic | Crate | 0.5% |
| Attic | Other | 0.5% |
| Closet | Locker | 0.5% |
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Survivor safehouse (mid game) | Cardboard box | 2.2% |
| Survivor safehouse (mid game) | Counter | 2.2% |
| Survivor safehouse (mid game) | Crate | 2.2% |
| Survivor safehouse (mid game) | Metal shelves | 2.2% |
| Survivor safehouse (mid game) | Small box | 2.2% |
| Survivor safehouse (late game) | Cardboard box | 1.7% |
| Survivor safehouse (late game) | Counter | 1.7% |
| Survivor safehouse (late game) | Crate | 1.7% |
| Survivor safehouse (late game) | Metal shelves | 1.7% |
| Survivor safehouse (late game) | Small box | 1.7% |
Notes
- The Forge Small Knife recipe needs Blacksmithing 1, two pieces of charcoal and a Primitive or better Forge.
- It takes an Iron Bar Quarter, a Steel Bar Quarter, a blade shard or a Kitchen Knife Blade.
- The forge recipe must be learned first, and it keeps a hammer and tongs or pliers.
- Dismantling a Spear with Small Knife returns the knife and a Long Stick.
- At an Advanced Furnace it smelts into one Steel Chunk instead of iron.
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