Butcher Knife
| Butcher Knife | |
|---|---|
 | |
| A butcher's knife designed specifically for slaughtering tamed animals. | |
| Type | Knife |
| Damage |
- |
| Stamina | 5 primary |
| Block |
2 block armour |
| Weight | - |
| Durability | - |
| Crafting Station | Forge |
| Station Level | 1 |
| Crafting Materials | |
| Biome | Black Forest |
| Spawn ID | spawn KnifeButcher
|
The Butcher Knife never sees combat. Two sticks and a little tin at the forge buy you the only blade that can put down your own tame animals, and it does nothing at all to anything wild. It has 2 block armour. Its materials come from the Black Forest, and it is made at a Forge. It is the only item in the game that can damage a tamed creature, and the only one that cannot damage anything else. That makes it a tool for culling your own Boar without switching friendly fire on.
How to Craft
It is made at a level 1 Forge from:
- 2x Wood, chopped from any tree.
- 4x Tin, smelted from Tin Ore in a Smelter.
| Name | Image | Biome | Crafting Station | Spawn ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wood | 
|
All biomes | - | spawn Wood
|
| Tin | 
|
Black Forest | Smelter | spawn Tin
|
When to Use It
It is an early-game tool. It needs Black Forest materials, so it comes after Eikthyr and the Antler Pickaxe.
Properties
It is not a weapon. It is the only thing in the game that can hurt a tamed animal, and that is its entire purpose: culling your own Boar or Wolves without turning friendly fire on and risking everything else you have tamed.
It cannot hurt anything else either. A wild Greydwarf takes nothing from it, so it is no backup blade in any sense. It has no secondary attack.
That is why it reads as 1000 damage. The figure exists to kill a penned animal in one stroke, not to describe a weapon. It does not appear in the class table as damage, because against every creature in the game except your own livestock it deals zero.
Notes
- The 6x bonus applies to an enemy that has not noticed you, not to one that is attacking someone else, so it is a Sneaking mechanic rather than a positional one.
- The primary combo hits for 1x, 1x and then 2x, so the damage is in the third hit, and the whole combo takes 1.74 seconds.
- Its primary knockback of 10 is the lowest in the game, which keeps a target inside the combo instead of pushing it out of reach.
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*stats displayed are item's base values. See upgrades under each item for item stats per level.
