Type a few letters of a name: an item, a skin, a monument, a CCTV code, an animal or a tool. Player names work too, like AK, C4 or HQM.
EN
Language
EN
PT
ES
FR
DE
PL
TR
JA
RU
ZH
UA
IT
CS
KO
SV
NL
DA
AR
Press Ctrl+D (Cmd+D on a Mac) to bookmark this page. Open your browser's menu (⋮, or Share on an iPhone) and choose Add bookmark or Add to Home Screen to keep this page.
The Butcher Knife takes 8 swings to strip a boar carcass, keeping 100% of the yield.
Keeps is the share of what the tool breaks off that reaches your inventory. The rest is destroyed with the swing.
What the Butcher Knife brings back from each animal
| Animal | You get | Swings | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crocodile | 19 Raw Crocodile Meat, 170 Bone Fragments, 120 Animal Fat, 170 Leather, 30 Cloth | 8 | 4.9s |
| Polar bear | 22 Raw Bear Meat, 170 Bone Fragments, 120 Animal Fat, 125 Leather, 50 Cloth | 8 | 4.9s |
| Bear | 20 Raw Bear Meat, 150 Bone Fragments, 100 Animal Fat, 100 Leather, 50 Cloth | 8 | 4.9s |
| Panther | 19 Raw Big Cat Meat, 150 Bone Fragments, 100 Animal Fat, 100 Leather, 50 Cloth | 8 | 4.9s |
| Tiger | 19 Raw Big Cat Meat, 150 Bone Fragments, 100 Animal Fat, 70 Leather, 70 Cloth | 8 | 4.9s |
| Bull | 20 Raw Beef, 100 Bone Fragments, 40 Animal Fat, 100 Leather, 30 Cloth | 7 | 4.2s |
| Cow | 20 Raw Beef, 100 Bone Fragments, 40 Animal Fat, 100 Leather, 30 Cloth | 7 | 4.2s |
| Shark | 40 Leather, 50 Bone Fragments, 40 Animal Fat, 20 Cloth, 18 Raw Fish | 8 | 4.9s |
| Wolf | 5 Raw Wolf Meat, 40 Bone Fragments, 10 Animal Fat, 75 Leather, 35 Cloth, 1 Wolf Skull | 10 | 6.3s |
| Horse | 5 Raw Horse Meat, 50 Bone Fragments, 10 Animal Fat, 50 Leather, 25 Cloth | 7 | 4.2s |
| Stag | 4 Raw Deer Meat, 50 Bone Fragments, 10 Animal Fat, 50 Leather, 25 Cloth | 7 | 4.2s |
| Boar | 8 Raw Pork, 50 Bone Fragments, 40 Animal Fat, 20 Leather, 10 Cloth | 8 | 4.9s |
| Sheep | 12 Raw Mutton, 50 Bone Fragments, 20 Animal Fat, 20 Leather, 10 Cloth | 7 | 4.2s |
| Chicken | 2 Raw Chicken Breast, 12 Bone Fragments, 6 Cloth | 6 | 3.5s |
| Snake | 4 Snake Venom, 10 Animal Fat | 6 | 3.5s |
Swings are counted once the animal is down.
A repair bench charges 20% of the item’s recipe to fix a broken item, less when it is only worn.
What the Butcher Knife gives back in each recycler
| Recycler | Efficiency | You get |
|---|---|---|
| Red recycler | 75% | 37 + 50%  Metal Fragments |
| Green recycler (powered) | 60% | 30 Metal Fragments |
| Green recycler | 50% | 25 Metal Fragments |
| Yellow recycler | 40% | 20 Metal Fragments |
The Butcher Knife breaks down into Metal Fragments.
A recycler takes one at a time.
Figures are for one item in perfect condition. Each recycler’s name opens its full table at this item. “37 + 50%” means 37 every time and a 50% chance of one more.
In Rust, Butcher Knife is a melee weapon in the Weapons category (item ID #-194509282, console shortname knife.butcher). When harvesting, it clears a crocodile node in 8 swings while keeping 100% of the yield. Inventory storage holds a single unit per slot, and uncollected ground drops despawn after 5 minutes.
A sharp butcher knife. Extremely good at harvesting flesh from both dead or alive bodies.
In Rust, Butcher Knife has no player crafting recipe; acquisition relies on map collection, smelting, or vendor trades read from the Rust game files. Shredding a spare copy at a green recycler recovers base materials at fifty percent yield (vs forty percent at safe-zone yellow units). Damaged copies repair at a Repair Bench for a fraction of recipe cost.
When comparing Butcher Knife against related weapons in Rust, prioritize farming its highest-probability monument containers or recycling surplus components at an unpowered radtown green recycler (fifty percent base yield, versus forty percent at safe-zone yellow units) because this item cannot be crafted at a player workbench.
| Item | Category | Stack Limit | Craft / Source | Tech Tree / Research | Green Recycler Yield |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Butcher Knife | Weapons | 1 per slot | World loot / gather | No blueprint | Not recyclable |
| Combat Knife | Weapons | 1 per slot | Workbench Level 1 | 30 node / 375 path | Not recyclable |
| Skinning Knife | Weapons | 1 per slot | Workbench Level 1 | No blueprint | Not recyclable |
| Bone Knife | Weapons | 1 per slot | Crafted by hand | 10 scrap (Table) | Not recyclable |
Compare Butcher Knife with closely related melee weapon sheets in the Rust item catalog:
To compare Butcher Knife against every item in its inventory category, browse All 85 items in Weapons.
The Butcher Knife clears a crocodile carcass in 8 swings, about 4.9 seconds, and keeps 100% of the yield in Rust. It belongs to the Weapons category under numeric ID -194509282 across 85 weapons, stacking up to 1 unit per inventory or container slot.
The Butcher Knife recycles in Rust at an unpowered green recycler into 25 Metal Fragments. Monument green recyclers shred items one unit at a time on fast radtown cycles, whereas safe-zone yellow units trade lower material recovery for peacekeeper protection.
A repair bench fixes the Butcher Knife from broken for 10 Metal Fragments in Rust. Repairing at a Repair Bench requires no learned blueprint or rare component body, scaling material cost to missing durability while permanently capping maximum condition by 20% across a full repair.
Dropped on the ground in Rust, the Butcher Knife despawns after 5 minutes by default. Picking it back up into a player inventory or storing it inside a base container immediately resets that ground despawn timer, which the server scales by item rarity tier.
The Butcher Knife has 32-bit signed item ID -194509282 and shortname knife.butcher in Rust. Server plugins, custom loot tables, Vending Machine listings, and automated Industrial Conveyor filter strings reference these two identifiers under the Weapons category (stack limit 1 unit per slot).
Server administrators in Rust spawn the Butcher Knife in the F1 developer console by typing inventory.give knife.butcher 1 or inventory.giveid -194509282 1 for a single unit. Both console spawn commands work only on dedicated or local worlds where your Steam account holds administrator or moderator privileges.