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The Combat Knife takes 7 swings to strip a boar carcass, keeping 100% of the yield.
What one batch takes.
Metal Fragments
High Quality Metal
Copy it, then hold Shift and click Paste (JSON) in the conveyor, in game.
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"MinAmountInInput": 0,
"IsBlueprint": false,
"TargetItemName": "metal.fragments"
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Workbench Level 1, 15s, yields 1
Faster at a higher workbench: 7.5s at Workbench Level 2, 3.75s at Workbench Level 3.
Researching the blueprint costs 30 scrap at a Research Table.
Keeps is the share of what the tool breaks off that reaches your inventory. The rest is destroyed with the swing.
What the Combat 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 | 7 | 4.2s |
| 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 | 7 | 4.2s |
| 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.
Crates, barrels and NPCs that drop the Combat Knife, most likely first
| From | Chance | Amount |
|---|---|---|
 Tool Box | 2.5% | 1 |
 Sunken Crate | 1.6% | 1 |
 Sunken Chest | 1.1% | 1 |
 Normal Crate | 0.44% | 1 |
 Wagon Normal Crate | 0.44% | 1 |
Scientist | 0.16% | 1 |
Tunnel Dweller and Underwater Dweller | 0.16% | 1 |
Chance is for one container opened or one NPC killed. Amount is how many it holds when it holds any.
A repair bench charges 20% of the recipe to fix a broken item, less when it is only worn.
What the Combat Knife gives back in each recycler
| Recycler | Efficiency | You get |
|---|---|---|
| Red recycler | 75% | 75% High Quality Metal, 18 + 75% Metal Fragments |
| Green recycler (powered) | 60% | 60% High Quality Metal, 15 Metal Fragments |
| Green recycler | 50% | 50% High Quality Metal, 12 + 50% Metal Fragments |
| Yellow recycler | 40% | 40% High Quality Metal, 10 Metal Fragments |
The Combat Knife breaks down into High Quality Metal and 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. “18 + 75%” means 18 every time and a 75% chance of one more, and a percentage alone is the chance of getting one.
20 skins on the Steam Market change how the Combat Knife looks, from $0.82 to $15.35.
Also listed: 2 Twitch and Kick drops, marked “Drop”. They never reach the market, so they have no price.
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In Rust, Combat Knife is a melee weapon in the Weapons category (item ID #2040726127, console shortname knife.combat). 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 20 minutes.
Combat knife designed for close combat engagements, can attack while sprinting. Best in class at harvesting flesh.
Crafting Combat Knife in Rust takes 15 seconds at a Workbench Level 1 once the 30 scrap blueprint node is unlocked, with all ballistics, crafting, and durability values 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 choosing between Combat Knife and related weapons in Rust, prioritize researching a looted or traded copy at a Research Table (30 scrap) whenever you want to skip the 375-scrap tech tree path and save 345 scrap, or unlock the tech tree branch when your group also needs the prerequisite blueprints.
| Item | Category | Stack Limit | Craft / Source | Tech Tree / Research | Green Recycler Yield |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Combat Knife | Weapons | 1 per slot | Workbench Level 1 | 30 node / 375 path | Not recyclable |
| Butcher Knife | Weapons | 1 per slot | World loot / gather | No blueprint | 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 Combat Knife with closely related melee weapon sheets in the Rust item catalog:
To compare Combat Knife against every item in its inventory category, browse All 85 items in Weapons, or plan prerequisite scrap paths on the The Workbench Level 1 tech tree, tile by tile.
The Combat 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 2040726127 across 85 weapons, stacking up to 1 unit per inventory or container slot.
The Combat Knife is crafted at a Workbench Level 1 from 25 Metal Fragments and 1 High Quality Metal, once the blueprint is learned in Rust. Smelting raw ores and looting required components from monument crates lets players queue the craft at their workbench.
The Combat Knife drops from 7 container and NPC loot tables in Rust, led by Tool Box (2.5% chance), Sunken Crate (1.6% chance), and Sunken Chest (1.1% chance). Each listed probability reflects a single container opened or NPC killed, and found copies can be repaired or researched at base.
The Combat Knife recycles in Rust at an unpowered green recycler into a 50% chance of a High Quality Metal and 12 Metal Fragments plus a 50% chance of one more. Undamaged copies return the full listed yield, whereas worn items scale their recycler output down in proportion to remaining durability.
The Combat Knife takes 15 seconds to craft, down to 3.75 seconds at Workbench Level 3 in Rust. It sits in the Weapons catalog with item ID 2040726127 alongside 84 related weapons, with F1 console command inventory.giveid 2040726127 1 across 85 published Weapons entries.
A repair bench fixes the Combat Knife from broken for 5 Metal Fragments and 1 High Quality Metal in Rust. Repairing at a Repair Bench requires no learned blueprint, scales material cost by missing durability, and reduces maximum condition by 20% across a full durability bar.
Blueprint progression for Combat Knife at Workbench Level 1 in Rust charges 30 scrap on the target node and 375 cumulative scrap along the prerequisite branch, while direct blueprint study at a Research Table charges 30 scrap.
Dropped on the ground in Rust, the Combat Knife despawns after 20 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 Combat Knife has 32-bit signed item ID 2040726127 and shortname knife.combat 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 Combat Knife in the F1 developer console by typing inventory.give knife.combat 1 or inventory.giveid 2040726127 1 for a single unit. Both console spawn commands require administrator or moderator privileges on the server, while regular players can bind a quick-craft shortcut key instead.
