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The Skinning Knife is sold in the item store as part of the Frontier Decor Pack.
What one batch takes.
Metal Fragments
Copy it, then hold Shift and click Paste (JSON) in the conveyor, in game.
[
{
"TargetCategory": null,
"MaxAmountInOutput": 75,
"BufferAmount": 0,
"MinAmountInInput": 0,
"IsBlueprint": false,
"TargetItemName": "metal.fragments"
}
]
Workbench Level 1, 15s, yields 1
Faster at a higher workbench: 7.5s at Workbench Level 2, 3.75s at Workbench Level 3.
Keeps is the share of what the tool breaks off that reaches your inventory. The rest is destroyed with the swing.
What the Skinning 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 recipe to fix a broken item, less when it is only worn.
What the Skinning Knife gives back in each recycler
| Recycler | Efficiency | You get |
|---|---|---|
| Red recycler | 75% | 56 + 25% Metal Fragments |
| Green recycler (powered) | 60% | 45 Metal Fragments |
| Green recycler | 50% | 37 + 50% Metal Fragments |
| Yellow recycler | 40% | 30 Metal Fragments |
The Skinning 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. “56 + 25%” means 56 every time and a 25% chance of one more.
In Rust, Skinning Knife is a melee weapon in the Weapons category (item ID #-2073432256, console shortname knife.skinning). 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 skinning knife. Extremely good at harvesting flesh and can produce trophies that can be mounted on Hunting Trophies.
Crafting Skinning Knife in Rust takes 15 seconds at a Workbench Level 1, 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 comparing Skinning Knife against related weapons in Rust, craft copies once the blueprint is unlocked (15 seconds per craft) and recycle surplus spares at an unpowered radtown green recycler (fifty percent base efficiency) rather than a safe-zone yellow recycler (forty percent efficiency) to maximize recovered materials.
| Item | Category | Stack Limit | Craft / Source | Tech Tree / Research | Green Recycler Yield |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Skinning Knife | Weapons | 1 per slot | Workbench Level 1 | No blueprint | Not recyclable |
| Combat Knife | Weapons | 1 per slot | Workbench Level 1 | 30 node / 375 path | Not recyclable |
| Bone Knife | Weapons | 1 per slot | Crafted by hand | 10 scrap (Table) | Not recyclable |
| Butcher Knife | Weapons | 1 per slot | World loot / gather | No blueprint | Not recyclable |
Compare Skinning Knife with closely related melee weapon sheets in the Rust item catalog:
To compare Skinning Knife against every item in its inventory category, browse All 85 items in Weapons.
The Skinning 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 -2073432256 across 85 weapons, stacking up to 1 unit per inventory or container slot.
The Skinning Knife is crafted at a Workbench Level 1 from 75 Metal Fragments in Rust. Raw ores smelt into metal inputs in a furnace while non-craftable components must be looted from monument crates before queuing the craft at your workbench.
The Skinning Knife recycles in Rust at an unpowered green recycler into 37 Metal Fragments plus a 50% chance of one more. Full material recovery applies to an undamaged copy, whereas worn items return proportionally fewer resources based on their remaining condition bar when shredded.
The Skinning Knife takes 15 seconds to craft, down to 3.75 seconds at Workbench Level 3 in Rust. It belongs to the Weapons category under numeric ID -2073432256 across 85 weapons, stacking to 1 unit per slot, with F1 console command inventory.giveid -2073432256 1.
A repair bench fixes the Skinning Knife from broken for 15 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 Skinning 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 Skinning Knife has 32-bit signed item ID -2073432256 and shortname knife.skinning 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 Skinning Knife in the F1 developer console by typing inventory.give knife.skinning 1 or inventory.giveid -2073432256 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.