Knife

Knife

Stackable	No
Size ↕	Small
Weight ⚖	Medium
ItemID	terrafirmacraft:item.16929 - 16937, 16954

Obtaining

Stone Knife

Main article: Rock

Unlike most stone tools, stone knives have the same durability regardless of the type of stone used to make them. Stone Knives can only be crafted with a stick as the handle.

Knapping out the Knife Blade.	Finishing the Knife.
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Metal Knife

Metal Knives can only be made from tool metals. They can be cast in ceramic molds, or worked on a metal anvil.

Casting

Main article: Casting

Bismuth Bronze, Black Bronze, Bronze, and Copper Knives can be cast using a Vessel or a Ceramic Mold instead of working on an anvil.

Ceramic Mold

Making the Clay Tool Mold	Firing the Mold

Vessel

Place an empty or partially filled Knife mold into the slot to fill it with metal from the vessel. It takes 100 units of metal to completely fill an empty Ceramic Mold. The text in the vessel's GUI will be updated to show the amount of metal remaining in the vessel.

Copper
100 Units

Unshaped Ingot

To fill the Knife mold from a ceramic ingot mold, right click the liquid unshaped ingot to open the casting interface:

Put the ceramic Knife mold in the second input slot and wait for the filled mold to finished.

Removing the Blade from the Mold	Finishing the Knife

Smithing

Main article: Working

Knife Blades can also be crafted by using ingots on an anvil with a hammer. This is the only option for higher tier metals that cannot be cast. The durability depends both on the metal used and the skill of the smith forging the tool.

Smithing the Knife Blade

Working Rules
Hit, Last	Draw, Second From Last	Draw, Third From Last

Finishing the Knife

Usage

Knives can be utilized as a weak melee weapon inflicing piercing damage, though their best use is in a crafting table to remove decay, process cereal crops, cut food into smaller pieces, and scrape sheepskin and soaked hide. Knives are also used to collect straw from tall grass, to create a meal prep area, to shear sheep, and to open the leather working interface.

Decay Removal & Splitting

Cereal Grains

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Wool from Sheepskin

Small sheepskin will give 1 wool, medium sheepskin will give 2 wool, and large sheepskin will give 3 wool.

Raw Hide will drop as well.

Scraped Hide

When a Soaked Hide is placed on a Leather Rack, a knife is used to scrape it and produce a Scraped Hide.

Achievements

Main article: Achievements

Icon	Achievement	In-game description	Prerequisites	Actual requirements (if different)
	Paleolithic!	Knap a stone tool to enter the Stone Age	Definitely a rock
	Chalcolithic!	Cast something in metal to enter the Copper Age	No stone unturned	Fill a tool mold in a ceramic vessel filled with liquid metal.

History

Beta
v2 Build 40		Added Knives (No use as of yet. Added as a favor.)
v2 Build 46		Buffed Knife damage as a weapon. Weaker than an axe but better than fighting bare handed.
v2 Build 47b		Added bowl recipe.
v2 Build 48		Added grain processing.
Build 53		Added meal prep area.
77.0		Added getting straw by breaking tall grass with a knife.
77.13		Reverse and double knife recipes added for knapping.
78.0		Nerfed stone knife damage. Use javelins instead!
78.8		Removed crafting of leather & knife to open leather working interface.

Trivia

• If the output slot is shift-clicked while splitting food, it will result in each piece having a weight of half the one before it. For example: Splitting a 160 oz piece of food with shift-click will result in an 80 oz piece, a 40 oz piece, a 20 oz piece, a 10 oz piece, a 5 oz piece, etc.

See Also

• Armor