Throwing Knives family
Throwing Knives
Silent, but short-ranged projectile weapon. Thrown knives can be retrieved and reused. Comes in a pack of eight.
- Cycle
- -
- Falloff
- -
- Ammo
- 8/0=8
loaded / in reserve / total
- Spread
- 1
- Heavy
- 59
- Light
- 30
Damage
Damage by hit zone
The game files record no falloff curve for this weapon, so these do not change with distance.
- Head 1160
- Upper torso 151
- Torso 139
- Left arm 93
- Right arm 93
- Left leg 81
- Right leg 81
The damage model
- Per hit
- 116before falloff
- Raw projectile
- 116
Flight
- Bullet drop
- 5m before it starts falling
- Gravity
- -9.81m/s squared, downward
- Time of flight
- 2.86s to 100 m - computed from velocity
Handling
8 rounds, pistol sights.
Where the shot goes
- 2 Jumping ×2
- 1.5 Walking ×1.5
- 1 Shouldered
- 0.5 Crouched ×0.5
- Its shouldered cone is better than 87% of 34 special loadouts.
Against monsters, and who hears it
Attacks
Light attack
- Damage
- 20
- 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 60
- Upper torso 30
- Torso 20
- Left arm 20
- Right arm 20
- Left leg 14
- Right leg 14
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 Head
Three hits
Firebreather Head
Five or more
Water Devil BodyArmored HeadImmolator 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.
Assailant Recommended 1 pts Increase melee effectiveness of Throwing Knives and Throwing Axes.
Blade Seer Recommended 1 pts While using Dark Sight, increases distance of highlighted Bolts, Arrows, Harpoons, Throwing Axes, and Throwing Knives to 75m. Also applies to Beetle View.
Silent Killer Recommended 3 pts Reduce noise when performing melee attacks.
Frontiersman 6 pts Use Tools one extra time.
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.