Butcher Knife

A sharp butcher knife. Extremely good at harvesting flesh from both dead or alive bodies.

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How to get it

  • Found in loot
  • Worn by NPCs Scarecrow

Repair

At a repair bench, fully worn: 10 Metal Fragments. A half worn one costs half as much.

Condition lost per repair
20% of maximum
Blueprint needed
No

Rust stores no repair cost. The bench builds one from the crafting recipe: components are swapped for the first ingredient of their own recipe, then everything is charged at 20% and rounded up.

Recycling

RecyclerReturnsTime
Recycler50% back25 Metal Fragments5s
Barrel recycler40% back20 Metal Fragments8s
Powered recycler75% back37 to 38 Metal Fragments4s

A range means the last unit is a coin flip rather than a guarantee: half the recipe rarely divides evenly, and the recycler rolls for the remainder.

Stats

Category
Weapon
Stack size
1
Durability
100
Repairable
Yes
Despawns after
5 min
Item id
-194509282
Has skins
No

The chance that a freshly spawned container, or a killed NPC, gives you at least one Butcher Knife. Best chance first.

SourceChance of at least oneAmount
ScarecrowNPC29.4%1
ScarecrowNPC29.4%1
ScarecrowNPC29.4%1

Values read from the Rust dedicated server files, build 24613624.