Hunting Knife

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Hunting Knife

General

Category

Weapon

Encumbrance

0.5

Equipped

One-handed

Function

Cooking

Properties

Max condition

10

Performance

Damage

0.6–1.2

Range

0.61–0.9

Knockback

0.3

Knockdown

0

Special ability

Jaw stab

Technical

Item ID

Base.HuntingKnife

A hunting knife is a blade melee weapon.

Usage

Weapon

The hunting knife has a 'Jaw Stab' attack which can kill a zombie instantly if close enough and timed correctly. It is also capable of performing backstabs on zombies that haven't noticed the player. There's a chance that after these attacks, the knife can get stuck in a zombie and will have to be looted back from the corpse, so beware of that. The hunting knife only hits one zombie at a time, so it is best if used in single combat or if zombies are relatively spread out when attacking.

Breaking doors

It is mostly ineffective at bashing down doors, dealing just 1 damage per hit. For comparison, an axe deals 35 damage.

Chopping trees

It is mostly ineffective at chopping trees, dealing 2 damage per hit. For comparison, an axe deals 35 damage.

Condition

The condition of the hunting knife is influenced by the maintenance skill. It has a maximum condition of just 5 and will be damaged depending on the player's maintenance skill. The chance of losing durability is: 1 in (15 + maintenance x 2)

Repairing

Materials that can be used to repair the hunting knife, based on first time repairing.

Repair Hunting Knife
Duct Tape Potentially repairs: 50% Chance of success: 95% Needs: Duct Tape (1 units)
Glue Potentially repairs: 20% Chance of success: 95% Needs: Glue (1 units)
Adhesive Tape Potentially repairs: 10% Chance of success: 95% Needs: Adhesive Tape (2 units)

Crafting

Product	XP gained	Skill(s)	Recipe	Ingredient 1	Ingredient 2	Ingredient 3	Ingredient 4
Notched Wooden Plank	0 XP	none		One of: Screwdriver Kitchen Knife Butter Knife Bread Knife Hunting Knife Chipped Stone Stone Knife (keep)	One of: Plank Log (consumed)
Fishing Rod	0 XP	none		One of: Hunting Knife Kitchen Knife Machete Meat Cleaver Stone Knife (keep)	Sturdy Stick (consumed)	One of: Fishing Line Twine (2 units) (consumed)	One of: Nails Paperclip (consumed)

Weapons

Product	XP gained	Skill(s)	Recipe	Ingredient 1	Ingredient 2	Ingredient 3
Stake	1.25 Carpentry	none		Tree Branch	One of: Stone Knife Hunting Knife Kitchen Knife Meat Cleaver Machete (keep)
Crafted Spear	1.25 Carpentry	Starting condition scales with player's carpentry.		One of: Tree Branch Plank (consumed)	One of: Chipped Stone Hunting Knife Kitchen Knife Machete Meat Cleaver Stone Knife (keep)
Spear with Hunting Knife	0 XP	none		Crafted Spear (consumed)	Hunting Knife (consumed)	Duct Tape (2 units) (consumed)

Cooking

Main article: Cooking

The hunting knife is used in various cooking recipes.

Product	XP gained	Skill(s)	Recipe	Ingredient 1	Ingredient 2
Bread Slices x3	0.75 Cooking	none		One of: Kitchen Knife Hunting Knife Butter Knife Bread Knife Meat Cleaver Stone Knife Machete (keep)	Bread (consumed)
Ham Slice x6	0.75 Cooking	none		One of: Kitchen Knife Hunting Knife Meat Cleaver Stone Knife Machete (keep)	Ham (consumed)
Bacon Strips x4	0.75 Cooking	none		One of: Kitchen Knife Hunting Knife Stone Knife Machete (keep)	Bacon (consumed)
Bacon Bits x4	0.75 Cooking	none		One of: Kitchen Knife Hunting Knife Stone Knife Machete (keep)	Bacon Strips (consumed)
Fish Fillet x2	10 Cooking	none		One of: Kitchen Knife Hunting Knife Meat Cleaver Stone Knife Machete (keep)	One of: Bass Catfish Crappie Perch Pike Sunfish Trout (consumed)
Frog Meat	2.5 Cooking	none		One of: Kitchen Knife Hunting Knife Meat Cleaver Stone Knife Machete (keep)	Frog (consumed)
Small Bird Meat	2.5 Cooking	none		One of: Kitchen Knife Hunting Knife Meat Cleaver Stone Knife Machete (keep)	Dead Bird (consumed)
Rabbit Meat	2.5 Cooking	none		One of: Kitchen Knife Hunting Knife Meat Cleaver Stone Knife Machete (keep)	Dead Rabbit (consumed)
Rodent Meat	2.5 Cooking	none		One of: Kitchen Knife Hunting Knife Meat Cleaver Stone Knife Machete (keep)	One of: Dead Mouse Dead Rat Dead Squirrel (consumed)
Watermelon Slice x10	0.75 Cooking	none		One of: Kitchen Knife Hunting Knife Saw Axe Stone Axe Hand Axe Wood Axe Meat Cleaver Stone Knife Machete (keep)	Watermelon (consumed)
Cake Slice x5	0.75 Cooking	none		One of: Kitchen Knife Hunting Knife Butter Knife Bread Knife Meat Cleaver Stone Knife Machete (keep)	Cake (Cooked) (consumed)
Pie Slice x5	0.75 Cooking	none		One of: Kitchen Knife Hunting Knife Butter Knife Bread Knife Meat Cleaver Stone Knife Machete (keep)	Pie (Cooked) (consumed)

Distribution

Hunting knives can be found in bedrooms, police station storage, gun stores, in fishing storage and in a few other places in game. They can also rarely be found impaled into zombies after some time has passed, and also have a chance to be found in the inventories of the zombies that live in trailer parks and on zombies gang members and bikers.

Trivia

Upon closer inspection of the knife blade's general shape and relative size in the player's hand, the hunting knife looks like a crude version of a bowie knife.

Code

Item

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Source: ProjectZomboid\media\scripts\items_weapons.txt

Retrieved: Build 41.54

item HuntingKnife
{
  MaxRange                = 0.9,
  WeaponSprite            = HuntingKnife,
  MinAngle                = 0.65,
  Type                    = Weapon,
  MinimumSwingTime        = 2,
  KnockBackOnNoDeath      = FALSE,
  SwingAmountBeforeImpact = 0.02,
  Categories              = SmallBlade,
  ConditionLowerChanceOneIn = 15,
  Weight                  = 0.5,
  SplatNumber             = 4,
  PushBackMod             = 0.3,
  SubCategory             = Stab,
  AimingMod               = 0.8,
  ConditionMax            = 10,
  MaxHitCount             = 1,
  IsAimedHandWeapon       = TRUE,
  DoorDamage              = 1,
  SwingAnim               = Stab,
  DisplayName             = Hunting Knife,
  MinRange                = 0.61,
  CloseKillMove           = Jaw_Stab,
  SwingTime               = 2,
  KnockdownMod            = 0,
  SplatBloodOnNoDeath     = TRUE,
  Icon                    = HuntingKnife,
  RunAnim                 = Run_Weapon2,
  IdleAnim                = Idle_Weapon2,
  TreeDamage              = 2,
  EnduranceMod            = 0.5,
  BreakSound              = HuntingKnifeBreak,
  MetalValue              = 30,
  CriticalChance          = 50,
  CritDmgMultiplier       = 3,
  MinDamage               = 0.6,
  MaxDamage               = 1.2,
  WeaponLength            = 0.25,
  DamageCategory          = Slash,
  DamageMakeHole          = TRUE,
  HitFloorSound           = HuntingKnifeHit,
  ImpactSound             = HuntingKnifeHit,
  DoorHitSound            = HuntingKnifeHit,
  HitSound                = HuntingKnifeHit,
  SwingSound              = HuntingKnifeSwing,
  AttachmentType          = Knife,
  Tags                    = CutPlant,
}

Repair

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Source: ProjectZomboid\media\scripts\fixing.txt

Retrieved: Build 40.9

fixing Fix Hunting Knife
{
  Require : HuntingKnife,
  Fixer : DuctTape,
  Fixer : Glue,
  Fixer : Scotchtape=2,
}

See also

• Kitchen Knife
• Butter Knife
• Meat Cleaver
• Bread Knife