Knife

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This article is about the tool. For other uses, see Knife (disambiguation).

Knife
Release																				4 January 2001 (Update)
Members																				No
Quest item																				No
Properties
Tradeable																				Yes
Equipable																				No
Stackable																				No
Disassembly																				Yes
Noteable																				Yes
Destroy																				Drop
Actions
Backpack																				Add to tool belt
Values
Value																				25 coins
High alch																				15 coins
Low alch																				10 coins
On death																				Always kept outside Wild
Weight																				0.453 kg
Examine
A dangerous looking knife.
Grand Exchange
Exchange																				427 coins (info)
Buy limit																				100
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Advanced data
Item ID																				946
Links																				MRID • recipe
FAQ • doc

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A knife is a tool used for a variety of tasks, such as cutting logs for the Fletching skill and slicing various fruits for the Cooking skill. It can be stored on the tool belt.

Uses

Uses for knives are as follows:

• Shaping logs in the Fletching skill
• Slashing webs
• Slicing and dicing oranges, limes, bananas, lemons, and pineapples in the Cooking skill
• Cutting cacti in the Kharidian Desert to fill waterskins
• Chopping up such things as tuna, sweetcorn, and tomatoes into bowls
• Hollowing calquats to form calquat kegs
• Scraping off sap from an evergreen tree while having a bucket in the inventory to make a bucket of sap
• Making chocolate dust by using it on a chocolate bar
• Cutting a fish using Barbarian Training at Baxtorian Falls to obtain various parts of the fish with multiple uses
• Setting up deadfall traps in the Hunter skill
• Cutting cheese slices from a cheese wheel

Locations

Store locations

This is an auto-generated list (update now). For a full list, see here. For help, see the FAQ.

† Denotes discontinued stores that stocked Knife. For help, see the FAQ.

Seller	Location	Cost	Currency	Base stock	Members?
Aemad's Adventuring Supplies	East Ardougne	25	Coins	10
Ali's Discount Wares	Al Kharid	25	Coins	10
Ardougne Spice Stall	East Ardougne	25	Coins	10
Arhein's Store	Catherby	25	Coins	10
Arnold's Eclectic Supplies	Piscatoris Fishing Colony	25	Coins	10
Bandit Bargains	Bandit Camp (Kharidian Desert)	25	Coins	10
Bedabin Village Bartering	Bedabin Camp	25	Coins	10
Crafting Supplies	Prifddinas	25	Coins	10
Dal's General Ogre Supplies	Gu'Tanoth	25	Coins	10
Funch's Fine Groceries	Grand Tree	25	Coins	10
General Store (Canifis)	Canifis	25	Coins	10
General Store (Monkey colony)	Monkey colony	25	Coins	3
Gift Shop	Oo'glog	25	Coins	10
Grand Tree Groceries	Grand Tree	25	Coins	10
Jiminua's Jungle Store	Tai Bwo Wannai, Karamja	25	Coins	10
Khazard General Store	Port Khazard	25	Coins	10
The Lighthouse Store	Lighthouse	25	Coins	10
Lletya General Store	Lletya	25	Coins	10
Martin Thwait's Lost and Found	Rogues' Den	25	Coins	10
Neitiznot Supplies	Neitiznot	25	Coins	10
Polypore Dungeon Supplies	Polypore Dungeon, first level	25	Coins	2
Shantay Pass Shop	Shantay Pass	25	Coins	10
Trader Stan's Trading Post	Ports with charter ships	25	Coins	10
Trader's Goods	Darkmeyer	25	Coins	10
Uglug's Stuffsies	Jiggig	25	Coins	10
Alison Elmshaper's Flying Arrow Fletching Shop †	Taverley	25	Coins	10

Item spawns

• In Gu'Tanoth, south-west of the market
• In a house just south-west of the gate in West Ardougne
• North of Rellekka, near the rock crabs
• Inside the Sorcerer's Tower
• House south-west of the Seers' Village bank
• In the house just north of the Catherby bank
• In the Karamja general store
• In the Lumbridge castle kitchen
• Behind Bob's Axes in Lumbridge
• Varrock general store 1^st floor^[UK]2^nd floor^[US]
• In a building in Meiyerditch 1^st floor^[UK]2^nd floor^[US]
• In the Varrock Sewers by the level 48 giant spiders after the web
• In the basement of the Temple of Ikov
• Up to 2 knives may be taken from Nyriki's crate for free

Drop sources

For an exhaustive list of all known sources for this item, see here.

Source	Level	Quantity	Rarity
Baby impling jar		1	1/10
Baby impling	17	1	1/10
Bandit looter	42	1	Uncommon
Desert Lizard	35; 49; 63	1	Common
Dried zombie	67	1	Common
Giant skeleton (Tarn's Lair)	84	1	Uncommon
H.A.M. Guard	30	1	Common
H.A.M. Member (female)		1	Unknown
H.A.M. Member (male)		1	Unknown
Jogre	57; 86	1	Common
Lizard	77	1	Common
Mugger	15	1	Rare
Ogre coffin	N/A	1	3/100
Ork	96	1	5/128
Outlaw	32	1	Common
Skeleton (Tarn's Lair) Level 79	79	1	Uncommon
Skeleton (Ullek)	70	1	Uncommon
Skeleton looter	42	1	Common
Small Lizard	21	1	Common
Tree spirit (Enchanted Valley)	12	1	Common
Zombie (Tarn's Lair) Medium level	77; 78; 79	1	Common

Disassembly

Knife
Disassembly category	Default disassembly items
Disassembly XP	0.1
Item quantity required	1
Material count	1
Base junk chance	?  98.9% Your actual junk chance depends on your junk chance reduction researched. See the table below for all values, and Junk for more information. Reduction Junk chance None 1 98.9% 1 34 98.0 2 49 96.0 3 64 94.0 4 69 92.0 5 78 90.0 6 83 87.1 7 91 85.1 8 95 82.1 9 105 79.2
Common materials
Simple parts	99/100
Rare materials
Variable components	1/100

Update history

This information has been compiled as part of the update history project. Some updates may not be included - see here for how to help out!

• patch 28 July 2009 (Update):
  • The messages you get when using a knife on logs is now more consistent.

• update 4 January 2001 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• The current appearance of the item's inventory sprite resembles that of real-world Bowie knives.
• In the early days of RuneScape Classic, free players could pick up a knife and throw it.
• The equipable knife glitch in RuneScape Classic allowed players to wield a knife, giving very high strength bonuses that made players with level 1 Strength able to hit 10-20 hitpoints of damage. This glitch was later fixed.
• The knife's inventory graphic was updated on 25 May 2010, making it look sharper.
• Seven knives are one of the ingredients of Iron Beer.

See also

• Sacred clay fletching knife
• Volatile clay fletching knife