Knives

Knives are tools from the Farmer’s Delight mod, and there are five of them, from the Flint Knife up to the Netherite Knife. You’ll need one to cut food on the Cutting Board, to get Straw when you break grass and crops, and to get extra drops from animals, like Ham from Pigs, so you’ll want to have one with you most of the time.

You can use them as a weapon too, as they swing faster than a sword but hit for less, and they’re the only thing you’re able to put the Backstabbing enchantment on. So it’s worth making one early on, as a lot of the food in the mod will need a knife at some point.

Crafting

Each knife is crafted from one piece of its material on top of a Stick, so it’s one of the cheapest tools you’re able to make. The Flint Knife only needs Flint, which you’ll find by breaking Gravel, so it’s usually the first one you’ll make.

Flint Knife

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Iron Knife

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Golden Knife

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Diamond Knife

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You can’t craft the Netherite Knife, as you’ll need to upgrade a Diamond Knife at a Smithing Table with a Netherite Ingot and a Netherite Upgrade Smithing Template, just like any other Diamond tool. It will keep all of its enchantments and its durability when you upgrade it, so you can enchant the Diamond Knife first.

Netherite Knife

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You’ll get an advancement for making it, and the Netherite Knife won’t burn up if you drop it in Lava or Fire either. If you have an old Iron or Golden Knife you don’t need, you can smelt it down into an Iron Nugget or a Gold Nugget, though you’ll only get one back.

Finding Knives in Chests

You might not need to craft your first one, as you can find knives in a few kinds of chests as well. You’ll find them in the Butcher’s house in a Village early on, and the ones in Bastions, Ruined Portals and End Cities will usually have some enchantments on them already.

You can find the rest of what the mod adds to chests on the Villages and Loot page. Piglins like the Golden Knife as well, so they’ll pick one up if you drop it near them, the same way they would with any other gold item.

Stats

All five of the knives will swing at the same speed, which is 2 attacks a second against a sword’s 1.6, but they’ll hit for less than a sword that’s made from the same thing. For example, a Diamond Knife hits for 4.5, whereas a Diamond Sword will hit for 7.

Knives will also knock mobs back a little less than other weapons, which keeps the mob close for your next hit. The Golden Knife has the lowest damage and durability, but it’s a lot easier to enchant, so it will usually get better enchantments from an Enchanting Table.

You’re able to repair each knife with its own material at an Anvil, so you’ll need Flint for a Flint Knife and a Diamond for a Diamond Knife. Two worn knives of the same kind can be put together in a crafting grid as well, which gives you one knife with their durability added up, though you’ll lose any enchantments that were on them.

Some add-ons will add more Knives as well, like the End Stone Knife, Purpur Knife, Dragon Egg Shell Knife and Dragon Tooth Knife in End’s Delight, and the Bone Knife from Delightful. There’s also Farmer’s Knives, which adds Knives made from other mods’ materials, and the Add-ons page has the rest of them.

Uses

Cutting Board

If you put food on a Cutting Board and right-click it with a knife, it will cut it up, so a Raw Porkchop will give you 2 Raw Bacon, and a Cabbage will be cut into two pieces of Cabbage Leaf. Each cut will cost the knife 1 durability, and you can find every recipe on the Cutting Board page.

Straw

If you break Wheat or Rice that’s fully grown with a knife in your hand, you’ll always get a piece of Straw as well as the crop. Short Grass and Tall Grass have a 20% chance of dropping Straw, and the Sandy Shrub has a 30% chance, but only when you break them with a knife.

You’ll need Straw to make Canvas and Rope, along with a few other blocks, so it’s worth picking it up whenever you can. The Straw page has everything you’re able to make with it, and you’ll get the Grasping at Straws advancement for your first piece.

Extra Drops From Mobs

If you kill some animals with a knife in your main hand, they’ll drop something extra on top of their normal drops. This is the main way you’ll get Ham, which comes from Pigs and Hoglins, and you’ll get Leather, Feathers and String from a few other mobs as well.

If you’ve got Fire Aspect on your knife, it will set the Pig alight on the first hit, so the hit that kills it will usually give you Smoked Ham, which saves you a trip to the Smoker. You can find out what Ham is used for on the Ham page, and you’ll get the Wild Butcher advancement for your first one.

Blocks and Right-Click Uses

You can also use a knife to break soft blocks quickly, like Wool, Cobwebs, Melons and Pumpkins, and the mod’s Straw Bales and pies as well. If you break a Pumpkin with it, you’ll get 4 Pumpkin Slices instead of the Pumpkin, unless the knife has Silk Touch on it.

If you right-click a Pumpkin with a knife, it will carve it just like Shears would, and you’ll get 4 Pumpkin Seeds as well. You can also right-click a Cake or a pie that’s been placed down to cut a slice off it, and a knife will take all of the mushrooms off a Mushroom Colony at once, whereas Shears only take one at a time.

Enchantments

You’re able to put most sword enchantments and most tool enchantments on a knife, so you can make one for fighting or one for farming. Sweeping Edge is the only sword enchantment you can’t put on a knife, and Backstabbing is the one that you can only put on a knife.

Backstabbing multiplies your damage by 1.4 at level I, 1.6 at level II and 1.8 at level III when you hit a mob from behind. It’s applied after Sharpness has been added, so the two of them stack together on a fighting knife.

Fortune will help you on the Cutting Board, as each level adds 10% to the chance of getting things like the dye from Wild Crops, and it works on Melons you break with the knife too, the same as it would with any other Fortune tool. If you’re playing on 1.20.1, the Enchanting Table won’t put Fortune on a knife, but the rest of the list works the same.

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