Skinning Knife
A sharp skinning knife. Extremely good at harvesting flesh and can produce trophies that can be mounted on Hunting Trophies.
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
- 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
Crafting
Recycling
| Recycler | Always | Chance of one more |
|---|---|---|
 Power Plant75% | ||
 Monument (powered)60% | None | |
| Monument50% | ||
 Safe zone40% | None |
One item at full condition. Scrap is an average: the part after the point carries over to the next item.
Wearing it
Survival
Farming & fishing
Tools & durability
What it farms
| Target | You get | Hits | Times | Tool lasts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Animals | ||||
| 8 | 5.6 | No wear | ||
| 8 | 5.6 | No wear | ||
| 7 | 4.9 | No wear | ||
| 10 | 7.0 | No wear | ||
| 6 | 4.2 | No wear | ||
| 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 Skinning 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 Skinning 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.
The Skinning Knife also takes the head of an animal when its corpse is empty.
More Weapons
Skins
Apply with the Repair Bench. Prices are Steam Market USD.
Loading skinsSkinning Knife: common questions
- How much damage does Skinning Knife do?
- Skinning Knife deals 20 damage per swing and swings 86 times per minute.
- What does Skinning Knife cost to craft?
- Skinning Knife crafts for 75 Metal Fragments.
- What does Skinning Knife recycle for?
- Recycling Skinning Knife at a powered monument recycler (60%) returns 45 Metal Fragments. Safe-zone recyclers pay 40%; the Power Plant red recycler pays 75%.