Stone Knife
The Stone Knife is a crafted blade tool in DayZ made from Small Stones. It can cut rags, open cans with 10% to 30% food loss, cut sticks, cut bark, remove restraints, skin animals or players, and works as an early emergency knife.
Quick item summary
Quick answer
The Stone Knife is a player-crafted tool that can also be used as a bladed melee weapon in DayZ. It is not very durable or powerful, but it is one of the most useful early-game items because it gives fresh spawns access to basic knife actions without needing to find a real blade.
In-game description
“A shard of stone. Not very durable or sharp, but useful, if you have nothing else at hand.”
Main Uses
- Cut clothing into rags
- Open canned food with 10% to 30% food loss
- Cut sticks from shrubs and bushes
- Cut bark from trees
- Remove rope and duct tape restraints from players
- Skin and quarter dead animals or players
- Use as a basic crafted blade
- Repair with a Sharpening Stone
How to use this item
Craft a Stone Knife
Craft a Stone Knife by sharpening a Small Stone against another Small Stone, rock, or boulder.
- Find a Small Stone.
- Combine it with another Small Stone, or use it on a rock or boulder.
- Craft the Stone Knife.
Cut rags
Use the Stone Knife to cut clothing into rags for bandaging or crafting.
- Place or equip the clothing item.
- Use the Stone Knife on the clothing.
- Choose the cut into rags action.
Open canned food
The Stone Knife can open canned food, but it wastes some of the contents.
- Hold the can or the Stone Knife.
- Use the Stone Knife to open the can.
- Expect around 10% to 30% food loss.
Cut sticks
Use the Stone Knife on bushes and shrubs to gather sticks.
- Equip the Stone Knife.
- Look at a shrub or bush.
- Use the cut sticks action.
- Collect the sticks.
Cut bark
Use the Stone Knife to gather bark from trees for fires and survival crafting.
- Equip the Stone Knife.
- Look at a tree.
- Use the cut bark action.
- Collect the bark.
Remove restraints
Use the Stone Knife to remove rope and duct tape restraints from players.
- Approach the restrained player.
- Equip the Stone Knife.
- Use the remove restraints action if available.
Skinning
Use the Stone Knife to skin and quarter dead animals or players for meat, pelts, and other resources.
- Approach a dead animal or player body.
- Equip the Stone Knife.
- Use the skinning or quartering action.
Repair the Stone Knife
Repair the Stone Knife with a Sharpening Stone to restore condition.
- Place the Stone Knife in your hands or inventory.
- Combine it with a Sharpening Stone.
- Repair until the condition improves.
How to get Stone Knife
- Craft it by combining two Small Stones.
- Craft it by sharpening a Small Stone against a rock or boulder.
- Look for Small Stones on nature paths and game trails.
- Search terrain around Chernarus where Small Stones can spawn.
Spawn info
- • The Stone Knife is player-crafted.
- • It can be crafted from two Small Stones.
- • It can also be crafted by sharpening a Small Stone against a rock or boulder.
Crafting and item conversions
How to craft Stone Knife
Stone Knife
Result: Stone Knife
Combine two Small Stones to craft a Stone Knife.
View crafting guideStone Knife
Result: Stone Knife
Sharpen a Small Stone against a rock or boulder in the environment to craft a Stone Knife.
View crafting guideUsed in recipes
Improvised Spear
Result: Improvised Spear
Craft Improvised Spear using Long Wooden Stick and Stone Knife.
View crafting guideImportant notes
- The Stone Knife is a player-crafted tool and bladed melee weapon.
- It is useful when you have no other knife or blade.
- It can cut clothing into rags.
- It can open canned food with 10% to 30% food loss.
- It can cut sticks from shrubs and bushes.
- It can cut bark from trees.
- It can remove rope and duct tape restraints from players.
- It can skin and quarter dead animals or players.
- It can be repaired with a Sharpening Stone.
- As of 0.63, stone textures can no longer be searched, and Small Stones spawn around terrain instead.
- As of 1.04, Small Stones are found on nature paths and game trails.
- As of 1.04, survivors no longer spawn with an Improvised Knife.