Tools - Melee
Weapon pageThe heavy knife is honed for close quarters combat, its iconic silhouette carves out its home in the American pantheon of armaments.
- Price
20- Acquisition
- Store
- Added in
- 1.2
Item figures
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
Attacks
Light attack
- Damage
- 48
- Damage type
- Melee Slash
- Cleave cap
- 1 body
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 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
Leech BodyDoctor Grunt HeadGrunt HeadLantern or Torch Grunt HeadHive HeadFirebreather Head
Two hits
Hellhound HeadMuzzled Hellhound Jaw
Four hits
Water Devil Body
Five or more
Armored HeadImmolator HeadConcertina Armored HeadBrute WeakspotUrsa Mortis WeakspotMeathead Upper torsoRotjaw WeakspotAssassin HeadSpider HeadHellborn HeadButcher Upper torsoScrapbeak HeadBloodskin Weakspot
Computed from each creature's own hit-zone table against this attack's damage type.