Heavy Knife family
Heavy Knife
The heavy knife is honed for close quarters combat, its iconic silhouette carves out its home in the American pantheon of armaments.
- Cycle
- -
- Velocity
- -
- Drop
- -
- Falloff
- -
- Ammo
- -
- Heavy
- 120
- Light
- 72
Damage
The damage model
- Raw projectile
- 80
Handling
Swinging it
A melee weapon records none of the firing stats. What it records is the trade between the two swings - a heavy costs stamina and time for the damage it adds.
- Light 72
- Heavy 120
Once your stamina is spent the cooldown stretches to 1.6s - 3.6× the rested heavy swing.
Against monsters, and who hears it
Attacks
Light attack
- Damage
- 48
- Damage type
- Melee Slash
- Cleave cap
- 1 body
Swing cadence
- Light attack
- 0.7s before the next light attack
- Heavy attack
- 0.45s before the next heavy attack
- Tired
- 1.6s - the delay once you are out of stamina
Against a hunter, by hit zone
- Head 144
- Upper torso 72
- Torso 48
- Left arm 48
- Right arm 48
- Left leg 34
- Right leg 34
Against a hunter's 150 health, from the game's own hunter hit-zone table. Melee carries no falloff, so these do not change with distance.
Against the bestiary
Light attack
Deals Melee Slash damage. It hits Firebreather hardest (4.4x) and Bloodskin softest (0.44x).
Killed outright by one hit
Bileweaver HeadBloodweaver Head
One hit
Hive HeadFirebreather Head
Four hits
Water Devil Body
Five or more
Armored HeadImmolator HeadConcertina Armored HeadMeathead Torso UpperRotjaw WeakspotAssassin HeadSpider HeadHellborn HeadButcher Torso UpperScrapbeak HeadBloodskin Weakspot
Computed from each creature's own hit-zone table against this attack's damage type.
Traits and perks
Traits that apply
Every trait this weapon's own data references. A recommendation is the game's own; the numbers above are the ones we can prove from the weapon's attribute presets.
Silent Killer Recommended 3 pts Reduce noise when performing melee attacks.
A few perks carve out exceptions in their own description - Crack Shot excludes shotguns and sawed-off variants - so read the perk text, not just the listing.