Skinning Knife

Damage: 20
Swing time: 0.7s
Crafting: Workbench level 1

Skinning Knife

Crafting

Workbench
Craft time: 30s

Ingredients

How to get

Sources

Steam store or DLC

Recycle & repair

Recycling

Per item at full condition. Green’s 60% boost needs 4 heavy fuses at the Power Plant; red requires maximum power (18 fuses).

Returns	50% efficiency · 5s per cycle	60% efficiency · 5s per cycle 4.5s at maximum power	40% efficiency · 8s per cycle	75% efficiency · 4s per cycle
	37 to 38	45	30	56 to 57

How returns work

Component fractions are random rolls; Scrap fractions carry over between cycles. Worn items return less.

Repair

Repair bench cost when fully worn.

Condition lost per repair: 20% of maximum
Blueprint needed: No

Repair cost rules

A half worn item costs half as much to repair. 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.

Stats

Melee stats

Damage: 20
Swing every: 0.7s
Damage a second: 28.6
Reach: 1.5m
Damage type: Slash 20

Gameplay details

Stack size: 1
Durability: 100
Repairable: Yes
Despawns after: 5 min

Technical details

Category: Weapon
Item id: -2,073,432,256
Shortname: knife.skinning
Has skins: No

In-game description

A sharp skinning knife. Extremely good at harvesting flesh and can produce trophies that can be mounted on Hunting Trophies.

Game data: build 25083359, captured 4 Sept 2026. Sources and dates.