Silver Knife

Silver Knife

A savage piece of pain.
Type	Knife
Damage	25 Slash 25 Pierce 12 Spirit
Stamina	10 primary
Block	-
Weight	-
Durability	200
Crafting Station	Forge
Station Level	3
Crafting Materials	2x Wood 10x Silver 3x Leather scraps 2x Iron
Biome	Mountain
Spawn ID	`spawn KnifeSilver`

The Silver Knife is a knife in Valheim, dealing 25 slash, 25 pierce and 12 spirit. At 62 total damage it is 3rd of the 7 knives, so it is a step on the ladder rather than the top of it. Pierce and spirit damage hurts Bat, Ghost and Troll more than most things, which is what to carry it for.

How to Craft

Crafted at Forge, station level 3.
Costs 2x Wood, 10x Silver, 3x Leather scraps, 2x Iron at quality 1.
Materials can be found in the Mountain biome.

When to Use It

Mid game. Silver is under the Mountain snow and needs a Wishbone to find, so this follows Bonemass.

Upgrades

Upgraded 3 times after crafting, each level wanting the station built one step further up than the last. Every figure quoted elsewhere on this wiki is quality 1, so this is the ladder your own copy is somewhere on:

Quality	Crafting Station	Pierce	Slash	Spirit	Durability	Resources
1	Forge (Level 3)	25	25	12	200	2x Wood 10x Silver 3x Leather scraps 2x Iron
2	Forge (Level 4)	26	26	12	250	1x Wood 5x Silver 1x Leather scraps 1x Iron
3	Forge (Level 5)	27	27	12	300	2x Wood 10x Silver 2x Leather scraps 2x Iron
4	Forge (Level 6)	28	28	12	350	3x Wood 15x Silver 3x Leather scraps 3x Iron

Properties

The only knife with an element. 12 spirit on top of 25 slash and 25 pierce, and spirit is the type nothing in the game resists. It only lands on undead and demons, which is exactly what a Frost Cave and a Burial Chamber are full of.

And 6 times that on a backstab. The sneak multiplier applies to the whole hit, so the spirit is multiplied too. Against a Draugr that has not turned round this is the hardest opening blow the class has until the Ashlands.

Notes

The 6x applies to an enemy that has not noticed you, not to one attacking someone else, so it is a Sneaking mechanic rather than a positional one.
The primary combo lands 1x, 1x and then 2x, so the third hit is where the damage is, at 1.74 seconds for the whole thing.
Knockback of 10 on the primary is the lowest in the game, which keeps a target inside the combo instead of pushing it out of reach.
Upgrading does not raise spirit: it is 12 at quality 1 and 12 at quality 4. The ladder buys slash 25 to 28 and pierce 25 to 28.

All Knives

*stats displayed are item's base values. See upgrades under each item for item stats per level.

Name	Slash	Pierce	Spirit	Stamina	Block	Durability	Materials	Crafting Station	Spawn ID
Butcher Knife	-	-	-	5	2	-	2x Wood 4x Tin	Forge	`spawn KnifeButcher`
Flint Knife	5	5	-	4	-	200	2x Wood 4x Flint 2x Leather scraps	Workbench	`spawn KnifeFlint`
Copper Knife	12	12	-	6	-	200	2x Wood 8x Copper	Forge	`spawn KnifeCopper`
Abyssal Razor	20	20	-	8	-	200	4x Finewood 20x Chitin 2x Leather scraps	Workbench	`spawn KnifeChitin`
Silver Knife	25	25	12	10	-	200	2x Wood 10x Silver 3x Leather scraps 2x Iron	Forge	`spawn KnifeSilver`
Black Metal Knife	34	34	-	12	-	200	4x Finewood 10x Black metal 5x Linen thread	Forge	`spawn KnifeBlackMetal`
Skoll and Hati	45	45	-	14	-	200	4x Finewood 10x Iron 10x Black metal	Black forge	`spawn KnifeSkollAndHati`

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