Hunting Knife

Note: this page covers the Standalone version of DayZ; for information on the Mod, see Mod:Hunting Knife.

Hunting Knife
General
Category	Weapons > Melee
Type	Blade
Repairable With	Sharpening Stone
Characteristics
Size	1x3 (3 Slots)
Weight	200 g (0.44 lb)
Fragility	0.1%
Absorbency	0%
Damage
Type Normal Heavy Health 15 20 Blood 100 100 Shock 17 25 Standing Sprinting Range 1.2 3.3 Bleed Chance 100%
Occurrence
Locations	Hunting
Rarity	Common
Variants	None

This hunting knife is used during hunting to skin animals and cut up the meat. — In-game description

The Hunting Knife is a bladed melee weapon and multipurpose tool in DayZ Standalone. The Hunting Knife, along with the Combat Knife and the Steak Knife, has the distinctive ability to be stored inside of Military Boots, saving inventory space or, if used as the primary melee weapon, making the player's profile smaller. This ability, combined with its solid damage output and multiple uses as a tool, make the Hunting Knife one of the best melee weapons in the game.

Uses

Action	Details
Cut Rags	Cut various articles of clothing into rags
Open Can	Open canned food. Spills 0% - 20% of the food
Cut Sticks	Chop down shrubs and bushes for sticks
Cut Bark	Cut bark from trees
Remove Restraints	Remove certain types of restraints from players
Shave	Shave facial hair
Skinning	Skin and quarter dead animals or players for meats, pelts and other resources
Suicide	Commit suicide by stabbing one's throat.

Trivia

• The knifes in game model is based off the British Army "MOD" pattern survival knife
• The Hunting Knife was mentioned in the changelog of 0.49 but wasn't introduced into the game until 0.52.