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The Hunting Knife is a tool in The Long Dark for butchering, crafting and self defense.
Overview[]
The hunting knife has a number of uses: harvesting gut, hide and meat from animal carcasses, as well as cloth and tinder plugs. It may also serve as a makeshift can opener to avoid spillage, or to break through iced-over fishing holes for ice fishing.
- May be used to harvest frozen carcasses.
- Knives are faster harvesting carcasses 50% frozen or less, as well as guts and hides. Hatchets are faster harvesting carcasses 51-100% frozen.
- May be selected to defend oneself during wolf struggles.
- May be used for crafting Arrow Shafts.
- Unlike blunt tools, bladed tools like the hunting knife suffer increased condition loss when breaking fishing hut ice.
A hunting knife is required for some work bench crafting (and faster than the hatchet or improvised tools). These items are:
- bear skin bedroll
- bear skin coat
- moose hide-cloak
- wolf skin coat
- simple arrow
- arrow shaft
- survival bow
Obtaining[]
Hunting Knives may be found in all regions, usually near frozen corpses or structures. They may also be found inside structures atop/beneath furniture or in drawers.
In Interloper mode hunting knives will never spawn; requiring forging to create an improvised knife.
Repair[]
The hunting knife can be repaired using a whetstone and the bladed tool maintenance skill, restoring 3% condition to the hunting knife and for 5% condition damage to the whetstone.
The milling machine in Bleak Inlet may repair a non-ruined hunting knife to 100% condition for one scrap metal, during an active Aurora.
Game history[]
- Version 0.136 on 2 October 2014 introduced the ability to harvest using the hunting knife and hatchet, among other changes.
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