How much damage does Butcher Knife do?

Butcher Knife deals 20 damage per swing and swings 86 times per minute.

What does Butcher Knife recycle for?

Recycling Butcher Knife at a powered monument recycler (60%) returns 30 Metal Fragments. Safe-zone recyclers pay 40%; the Power Plant red recycler pays 75%.

Butcher Knife: Damage, DPS & Where to Find

Damage

Damage: 20; Slash
DPS: 29; before reload
Swings a minute: 86; rounds a minute
Reach: 1.5 m

5 hits to kill a 100 HP player, 2.79 s to kill. Chest hits, point blank, no armour.

Throw: 10 · 20 m/s

By hit areaOne swing on a bare player

Head: 40 (highest); ×2, 3 hits
Chest: 20; ×1, 5 hits
Stomach: 20; ×1, 5 hits
Arm: 20; ×1, 5 hits
Leg: 15; ×0.75, 7 hits

Damage to buildings

Wall grade	Per hit	Hits to break
Twig	4	3
Wood	4	63
Stone	0.4	1,250
Sheet Metal	0.2	5,000
Armored	0.2	10,000

Hits to break a wall of each grade from the soft (inside) face. Guns count as rounds. The hard face takes more. All building blocks

Looted from
Container	Chance
Scarecrow	29%

Recycling

Recycler	Always	Chance of one more
Power Plant75%	×37	50%
Monument (powered)60%	×30	None
Monument50%	×25	None
Safe zone40%	×20	None

One item at full condition. Scrap is an average: the part after the point carries over to the next item.

Green recycler Safe zone recycler Power Plant recycler Recycle calculator

Wearing it

Survival

Farming & fishing

Tools & durability

Resource	Power per hit
Flesh	18

Power is the damage to the node per swing.

Compare gather speeds

What it farms

What the Butcher Knife gets from one full node, tree or corpse
Target	You get	Hits	Times	Tool lasts
Animals
Bear100 HP corpse	×20 ×150 ×100 ×100 ×50	8	5.6	No wear
Boar100 HP corpse	×8 ×50 ×40 ×20 ×10	8	5.6	No wear
Stag100 HP corpse	×4 ×50 ×10 ×50 ×25	7	4.9	No wear
Wolf100 HP corpse	×5 ×40 ×10 ×75 ×35 ×1	10	7.0	No wear
Chicken100 HP corpse	×2 ×12 ×6	6	4.2	No wear
Polar Bear100 HP corpse	×22 ×170 ×120 ×125 ×50	8	5.6	No wear

Each row is one full target, with the bonus the last hit adds. Gathering teas add to it. Hits assume you never hit the bonus marker. Compare every tool.

The Butcher Knife also skins 9 more animals and the bodies of 26 kinds of NPC
Animals: Bull, Cow, Crocodile, Horse, Panther, Shark, Sheep, Snake, Tiger.NPCs: Arctic Scientist, Bandit Camp Guard, Cargo Ship Scientist, Dive Master, Excavator Scientist, Fisherman, Heavy Scientist, Heavy Scientist With Flamethrower, Heavy Scientist With Minigun, Hunter, Lumberjack, Military Base Scientist, Military Tunnel Scientist, Miner, Naval Scientist, Newman, NVG Scientist, Outbreak Scientist, Outpost Scientist, Patrol Scientist, PT Boat Scientist, RHIB Scientist, Stablehand, Tunnel Dweller, Underwater Dweller, Vagabond. Each page says what its body gives.

Bench	Max repair cost	Condition loss	Blueprint needed	Repairs until destroyed
Repair Bench	×10	20%	No	14

A half-worn item costs about half and loses half as much.

Electrical & stations

Vehicles & mounts

Details

Methodology

Tested in game: we gave the Butcher Knife to a player on our own server and used it on every animal in the table above until it was empty, three times each, and counted the hits, the wear and every item it handed out. Time is the hits times the swing time. Tested on the current version of Rust.

Butcher Knife: common questions

How much damage does Butcher Knife do?: Butcher Knife deals 20 damage per swing and swings 86 times per minute.
What does Butcher Knife recycle for?: Recycling Butcher Knife at a powered monument recycler (60%) returns 30 Metal Fragments. Safe-zone recyclers pay 40%; the Power Plant red recycler pays 75%.