Tools - Throwables
Throwing Knives
Silent, but short-ranged projectile weapon. Thrown knives can be retrieved and reused. Comes in a pack of eight.
Item figures
These are the game's own stat-card figures - the same numbers the in-game store shows.
Item figures
- Damage
- 150
- Throw
- 115m
- Velocity
- 35 m/s
- Drop
- 5m
- Spread
- 15
- Light stamina
- 10
- Heavy stamina
- 25
- Throw stamina
- 15
This item overrides the generic bash every tool and consumable inherits - these figures are its own.
Melee
- Melee
- 30
- Heavy melee
- 59
- Light stamina
- 10
- Heavy stamina
- 25
In flight
How this leaves your hand. A heavier, slower item drops away faster and is harder to place at range.
- Launch speed 35 m/s
- Mass 0.25 kg
- Cannot be defused -
No trait can defuse this once it is thrown - Dauntless does not work on it.
What traits change here
These figures are this item's own - the same trait moves another item by a different amount.
- Frontiersman 8 -> 9 uses
- Frontiersman - B 8 -> 10 uses
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.
Pulling this back out of a body is its own hit - retrieving it deals damage on top of the throw, not for free.
Against the bestiary
Throw
Deals Throwing Knife damage. It hits Hive hardest (2.1x) and Immolator softest (0.64x).
Killed outright by one hit
Firebreather Head
One hit
Bileweaver HeadBloodweaver HeadDoctor Grunt HeadGrunt HeadLantern or Torch Grunt HeadHellhound HeadMuzzled Hellhound JawHive Head
Two hits
Water Devil Body
Three hits
Armored HeadConcertina Armored Head
Four hits
Immolator Head
Five or more
Brute WeakspotBloodskin WeakspotMeathead Torso UpperUrsa Mortis Weakspot
Computed from each creature's own hit-zone table against this attack's damage type.
Against a hunter, by hit zone
- Head 1500
- Upper torso 195
- Torso 180
- Left arm 120
- Right arm 120
- Left leg 105
- Right leg 105
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: 9 - cosmetic only, none changes a figure on this page.
First Forge
Sideshow Judge
The Claw
Eye for an Eye
Shinbatsu
Swarm Cutter
Crowd Pleaser
Petticoat Spur
Splintered Dignity
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_throw_wt0005_throwing_knives.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