Tools - Melee
Heavy Knife
The heavy knife is honed for close quarters combat, its iconic silhouette carves out its home in the American pantheon of armaments.
Item figures
These are the game's own stat-card figures - the same numbers the in-game store shows.
Item figures
- Light stamina
- 9
- Heavy stamina
- 25
This item overrides the generic bash every tool and consumable inherits - these figures are its own.
Melee
- Melee
- 72
- Heavy melee
- 120
- Light stamina
- 9
- Heavy stamina
- 25
Swing and reach
How quickly you can swing again, and how far the blow lands. Two tools with the same damage are not the same trade.
- Light swing this tool's own 0.70 s
- Heavy swing family default 0.45 s
- Out of stamina family default 1.60 s
- Reach 1.5 m
Traits that suit it
The game's own suggestions for this item.
Against the bestiary
Computed the same way a firearm's page is: against every catalogued creature's own hit-zone table, per attack.
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.
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. This carries no falloff, so the figures do not change with distance.
Variants and skins
Legendary skins
Legendary skins: 6 - cosmetic only, none changes a figure on this page.
Algiers Phoenix
Reaper's Hand
Skeleton Key
Yuchang
Pride's Death
Tastemaker
Where these figures come from
Every figure on this page is read from the game's own files at build time - nothing is measured in-game or entered by hand.
Item definition
- game_hunt/livedata/libs/gamedatabase/metaitems/tools/knives.xml
- game_hunt/livedata/libs/gamedatabase/equipment/player/tools/2e_tool_slash_wt0016_heavy_knife.xml
Display text
- localization/english_xml/english_xml/text_ui_equipment.xml
- localization/russian_xml/russian_xml/text_ui_equipment.xml
- localization/chineses_xml/chineses_xml/text_ui_equipment.xml