Silver Knife
| Silver Knife | |
|---|---|
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| A savage piece of pain. | |
| Type | Knife |
| Damage | |
| Stamina | 10 primary |
| Block |
- |
| Weight | - |
| Durability | 200 |
| Crafting Station | Forge |
| Station Level | 3 |
| Crafting Materials |
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| Biome | Mountain |
| Spawn ID | spawn KnifeSilver
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The Silver Knife is the blade you bring to anything already dead, since the undead cannot stomach silver, and silver only comes from the Mountain. It deals 25 slash, 25 pierce and 12 spirit. Its 62 total damage ranks 3rd among knives, so it is a step on the ladder rather than the top of it. Pierce and spirit damage hurt Bats, Ghosts and Trolls more than most things, and that is what to carry it for.
How to Craft
You craft it at a level 3 Forge from:
- 2x Wood: chopped from any tree.
- 10x Silver: smelted from Silver Ore in a Smelter.
- 3x Leather Scraps: dropped by Boars and Bats, and dug out of muddy scrap piles.
- 2x Iron: smelted from Scrap Iron in a Smelter.
| Name | Image | Biome | Crafting Station | Spawn ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wood | 
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All biomes | - | spawn Wood
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| Silver | 
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Mountain | Smelter | spawn Silver
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| Leather Scraps | 
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Meadows | - | spawn LeatherScraps
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| Iron | 
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Swamp | Smelter | spawn Iron
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When to Use It
This is a mid game knife. Silver lies under the Mountain snow and you need a Wishbone to find it, so this comes after Bonemass.
Upgrades
You can upgrade it 3 times after crafting, and each level needs the station built one step higher than the last. The stats quoted elsewhere are all quality 1, so this table shows the ladder your own copy sits on:
| Quality | Crafting Station | Pierce | Slash | Spirit | Durability | Resources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Forge (Level 3) | 25 | 25 | 12 | 200 |
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| 2 | Forge (Level 4) | 26 | 26 | 12 | 250 |
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| 3 | Forge (Level 5) | 27 | 27 | 12 | 300 |
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| 4 | Forge (Level 6) | 28 | 28 | 12 | 350 |
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Properties
It is 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.
A backstab multiplies all of that by 6. 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 any knife has until the Ashlands.
Notes
- A knife's 6x sneak attack bonus only applies to an enemy that has not noticed the player yet. Hitting an enemy from behind while it fights someone else does not count.
- The primary combo hits twice for normal damage and then once for double damage, and the whole combo takes 1.74 seconds.
- Its primary attack has the weakest knockback in the game, at 10, so enemies stay in reach for the whole combo instead of being pushed away.
- Upgrades raise its slash and pierce damage from 25 to 28 each, but its spirit damage stays at 12 at every quality level.
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*stats displayed are item's base values. See upgrades under each item for item stats per level.