Butcher Knife
For official shards · Swordsmanship · one-handed · every figure sourced
Needs a poisoned weapon. Delivers the poison on hit; Poisoning skill sets the level applied, to a maximum of level 5.
Needs 70 weapon skill, 30 Tactics · base mana 20.
Knocks the weapon out of the target's hands; they cannot re-arm for 5 seconds, and cannot be disarmed again for 10. Usable unarmed, and exempt from Tactics when it is.
Needs 90 weapon skill, 60 Tactics · base mana 20.
The Butcher Knife is a one-handed Swordsmanship weapon: 10–13 base damage at 2.25 seconds a swing, with Infectious Strike as its primary special move and Disarm as its secondary.
The numbers
| Skill | Swordsmanship |
|---|---|
| Hands | One-handed |
| Base damage | 10–13 |
| Weapon speed | 2.25 seconds |
| Primary move | Infectious Strike |
| Secondary move | Disarm |
| Hue | 0 [!] — undyed: a plain Butcher Knife wears its art's own colours, which is how the picture is drawn. A crafted one takes the colour of the metal or wood it is made from. |
How fast it actually swings depends on your stamina and Swing Speed Increase — the toolkit's weapon builder and Reference › Weapons work that out for your character.
Named weapons and artifacts built on the Butcher Knife — 1
Every item in the toolkit's database that its own data places on this weapon. Each keeps the Butcher Knife's specials and base swing; the properties are its own.
| Item | Properties |
|---|---|
| Smuggler's Edge | SSI 30 · Spell Channeling, Use Best Weapon Skill |
Other Swordsmanship weapons
The gargoyle version: Gargish Butcher Knife.
One-handed: Bladed Whip · Bokuto · Bone Harvester · Broadsword · Cleaver · Cutlass · Dread Sword · Elven Machete · Gargish Bokuto · Gargish Bone Harvester · Gargish Butcher Knife · Gargish Cleaver · Gargish Katana · Glass Sword · Katana · Longsword · Pickaxe · Radiant Scimitar · Scimitar · Skinning Knife · Stone War Sword · The Redeemer · Viking Sword · Wakizashi
Two-handed: Axe · Bardiche · Battle Axe · Bladed Staff · Crescent Blade · Daisho · Double Axe · Executioner's Axe · Gargish Axe · Gargish Bardiche · Gargish Battle Axe · Gargish Daisho · Gargish Scythe · Gargish Talwar · Halberd · Hatchet · Large Battle Axe · No-Dachi · Ornate Axe · Rune Blade · Scythe · Tachi · Two Handed Axe
Where these come from
Damage, speed, hands and skill are the toolkit's weapon table; the special moves, their base mana and what they do come from uo.com's Special Moves page; the named weapons and their properties are the toolkit's item database. Everything here is from uo.com or the game itself; anything uo.com does not publish is marked [!] as unpublished where it appears.
More from UO Toolkit
- Every weapon — all 126, each with its own page
- Damage calculator — how a hit is worked out, step by step
- Every skill — what each does, its stats and where it caps
- The toolkit itself — the weapon builder, swing speed at your stamina and SSI, and every calculator, free
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