Rust Manual

Combat Knife

WeaponCondition 100
Sunken Combat Knife

Combat knife designed for close combat engagements, can attack while sprinting. Best in class at harvesting flesh.

Shortname: knife.combat

Item ID: 2040726127

Despawns after 20m on the ground

About this skin

Sunken Combat Knife is a cosmetic skin for Combat Knife — apply it from your inventory to change how the item looks. It doesn't change combat knife's stats, crafting cost, or protection.

Craft recipe
Recycling yields

Radtown Recycler

Safe Zone Recycler

Approximate — recyclers return a share of an item's crafting cost (60% at monument Recyclers, 40% at Safe Zone Recyclers), not a fixed table.

Ammo ballistics
Projectile type
bullet
Projectiles per shot
1
Muzzle velocity
30 m/s
Spread
1
50 Slash

Falls off to 80% damage past 40m

Melee damage
17.5 Slash17.5 Stab= 35 total
Range
1.5m
Attack speed
86/min
Draw time
1s
Repair cost
Current condition
%

A repair bench restores 20% condition per click, at 20% of the recipe cost per point missing.

Loot sources
Weapons Collection (Good Rolls)3.1%Black Box2.5%Workbench Experiment Tier 11.1%Radtown (Alt)0.3%Generic<0.1%Barrel (Better Loot)<0.1%

Chance the item is included whenever that container rolls, resolved through nested loot tables. Approximate — doesn't account for seasonal or event-restricted rotations.