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{{Infobox/Item
|name=
|image= Hunting Knife icon.png
|item type = tool
|weight= 0.50
|harvest= 1 × [[Scrap Metal]]
45 minutes
|repair= [[Whetstone]]
12-5 minutes<br>
3%-5%
|wintermute=yes|renewable=Yes ([[Beachcombing]])}}
{{Quote2|Good quality knife with a stainless steel blade and wooden handle.|In-game description}}

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: self-defense, harvesting gut, hide and meat from [[Wildlife|animal]] carcasses, as well as [[cloth]] and [[Tinder Plug|Tinder Plugs]]. It's used as a tool for [[Crafting]] varied equipment. It may also serve as a makeshift [[Can Opener]] to avoid spillage, or to break through iced-over fishing holes for [[Ice Fishing]].

Knives are repairable with a [[Whetstone|Whetsone]] or at the [[Milling Machine]].

Uses of Hunting Knife:
* Self Defense during a [[Struggle|Wolf Struggle]].
* May be used to [[Carcass Harvesting|harvest frozen carcasses]] (Knives have faster unfrozen meat, gut and hide harvesting speeds. Hatchets are only faster at harvesting frozen meat)
* Crafting [[Survival Bow|Survival Bows]], [[Simple Arrow|Simple Arrows]] and [[Arrow Shaft|Arrow Shafts]].
* Crafting animal hide clothing/tools: [[Bear Skin Bedroll]], [[Bearskin Coat]], [[Deerskin Boots]], [[Deerskin Pants]], [[Moose-Hide Cloak]], [[Travois]] and [[Wolfskin Coat]].
* Open or maintain holes in the ice for [[Ice Fishing]] (Bladed tools break ice faster, but take more condition loss when doing so).
* Harvesting textiles ([[Curtain|Curtains]], [[Old Bedroll|Old Bedrolls]], [[Pillow|Pillows]] or [[Towel|Towels]]) for [[Cloth]].
* Breaking down [[Cardboard Box|Cardboard Boxes]] for [[Tinder Plug|Tinder]]
* Open [[Cooking#Canned|canned foods]] without spillage

When carried and selected for self-defense at the start of a Wolf Struggle, Hunting Knives deal medium damage with a low chance per-hit to cause the wolf to flee, and a high chance to inflict puncture wounds, a fast form of [[Blood Loss]] (which is lethal to the Wolf over time). Hunting Knives are as effective at filling the Struggle Meter as [[Prybar]], and slightly more effective than [[Improvised Knife]] at ending struggles in this way, especially on difficulty modes other than [[Survival Mode|Interloper]]. Hunting Knives take low damage from being used in a struggle. For more information on Struggles, see: [[Struggle|Wildlife Struggles]].
== 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 [[Sharpening]] skill, restoring 3% condition to the hunting knife and for 5% condition damage to the whetstone.

The [[Milling Machine]] in [[Bleak Inlet]] or [[Blackrock]] may repair a non-ruined hunting knife to 100% condition for one [[Scrap Metal]], during an active [[Aurora]]. N.B. The knife has a breaking threshold at 15% condition, usage below this number risks ruining it for good.

=== Game history ===
*[[The_Long_Dark/Changelog#0.136|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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imported>Arsonistfromtownofsalem2 at 20:48, 21 February 2025