Knife family
Knife
An all-purpose tool and melee weapon that has saved many lives – and taken just as many.
- Cycle
- -
- Velocity
- -
- Drop
- -
- Falloff
- -
- Ammo
- -
- Heavy
- 105
- Light
- 52
Damage
The damage model
- Raw projectile
- 75
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 52
- Heavy 105
Once your stamina is spent the cooldown stretches to 1.6s - 3.6× the rested heavy swing.
Against monsters, and who hears it
Attacks
Its attacks are not one damage type - light attack deals Melee Slash, heavy attack deals Melee Stab - so which one you pick below changes what it is strongest and weakest against.
Light attack
- Damage
- 35
- Damage type
- Melee Slash
- Cleave cap
- 1 body
Swing cadence
- Light attack
- 0.5s 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 105
- Upper torso 53
- Torso 35
- Left arm 35
- Right arm 35
- Left leg 24
- Right leg 24
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
Two hits
Hive HeadFirebreather Head
Five or more
Water Devil BodyImmolator HeadArmored HeadConcertina Armored HeadMeathead Torso UpperAssassin HeadRotjaw WeakspotSpider 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.