Knife

Knife
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Durability	Copper: 300 Tin Bronze: 450 Bismuth Bronze: 500 Black Bronze: 550 Gold: 150 Silver: 175 Iron: 900 Meteoric Iron: 1200 Steel: 2250
Stackable	No
Tools

Knives are tools used to harvest grass, cattails, and wild foods including meat from animals. Knives are used to craft wood items and in leather working.

Creation

The raw material used to create the tool head determines the crafting process required:

• Knapping: Any tool-making stones.
• Smithing (1 ingot): crafted from any tool-appropriate metal.
• Assembly, with either Stick (for every blade) or Bone (for flint and stone blades only):

Tool Tier Table

Material	Durability	Tool Tier	Mining Speed (Plant)	Attack Power (HP)	Attack Tier
Other Stone	90	1	1x - 1.1x	0.75	1
Other Stone with Bone	110	1	1x - 1.1x	0.75	1
Flint	130	1	1.2x	1.0	1
Flint with Bone	150	1	1.3x	1.0	1
Obsidian	160	1	1.4x	1.5	1
Obsidian with Bone	180	1	1.5x	1.5	1
Gold	150	2	1.6x	2.5	2
Silver	175	2	1.6x	2.5	2
Copper	300	2	1.5x	1.5	2
Tin bronze	450	3	1.8x	2.5	3
Bismuth bronze	500	3	1.7x	2.0	3
Black bronze	550	3	1.9x	3.0	3
Iron	900	4	2.0x	3.5	4
Meteoric Iron	1200	4	2.2x	3.75	4
Steel	2250	5	2.4x	4	4

Usage

Harvesting

Knives can butcher dead animals and certain mobs, such as drifters. Players need to place the knife in an active hotbar slot and harvest the corpse until the butchering interface opens, displaying harvested items. Once all items are removed from the butchering menu, the corpse and the butchering menu can both be removed with the Esc key.

Knives can also be used to harvest plants, by placing the knife in an active hotbar slot and left-clicking on the target block. Plant resources that must be harvested with a knife are dry grass, reeds and papyrus. Some plants can be harvested faster by using a knife, such as mushrooms.

Combat

Knives can be used to attack mobs in melee combat, by equipping it in the hotbar and striking mobs with the knife. Knives have the shortest melee range of any weapon.

Crafting

Knives are sometimes used in grid-based crafting in order to create certain items, especially those that need to be scraped, sliced or cut. The knife is not consumed in the process but looses some durability, and can be removed from the grid after crafting. If the player does not remove the knife from the crafting grid when closing the crafting menu, the knife will go to the first available empty hotbar or inventory slot, in that order.

The knife is used to craft:

• Improvised body armor (Wood)
• Bamboo cone hat
• Bamboo cone hat (large)
• Rawhide mantle
• Rawhide trousers
• Fur coat
• Knee-high fur boots
• Fur gloves
• Wooden club
• Wooden pan for panning
• Rush matting

The knife is also used for:

• Scraping:
  • Scraped hide for leather working
  • Edible bamboo shoots
  • Cassava

• Slicing:
  • Pumpkin
  • Pineapple
  • Pie

• Cutting:
  • Linen and clothing pieces to make Clean bandage

• Turning back into Cattails:
  • Hand basket
  • Reed chest

• Turning back into Dry grass:
  • Hay bed
  • Thatch roofing (all types)

Storage

Knives can be placed against a wall, stored in containers and placed on tool racks.

History

• Prior to version 1.18.0-pre8, knapping stone blades would produce two knife blades, not one. Stone knives also had lower durability before this version.