Chain Knife

Chain Knife

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Statistics

Type	Weapon
Damage	12 (Melee)
Knockback	3.5 (Weak)
Critical chance	4%
Use time	20 (Very fast)
Velocity	12
Rarity	01*
Sell	25
Research	1 required

Projectile created

• Chain Knife
  

Sounds

Use

• Internal Item ID: 1325
• Internal Projectile ID: 273

 Obtained from

 Classic

 Expert

 Master

Entity	Qty.	Rate
Cave Bat Cave Bat	1	0.4%

The Chain Knife attacking a Target Dummy. Note how the Knife immediately returns when hitting a block.

The Chain Knife is a melee weapon that throws a Knife-like projectile attached to a chain, similar to Flails, but the attack button cannot be held to wield it continuously. It only extends a short distance of 12 tiles, though its quick use time and velocity may make it a good early to mid-game weapon. It has a 0.4*1/250 (0.4%) chance of being dropped by a Cave Bat.

Its best modifier is Godly or Demonic. Both modifiers increase the average damage output by the same amount.

Tips

• It is good at killing quick flying monsters. It is also good at killing large groups of Wall Creepers, and keeping the second form of the Brain of Cthulhu at bay.
• A Bat Statue can be used to easily farm bats to obtain the Chain Knife. Note that drop rates from statue enemies are reduced by a factor of 5.
  • If the player finds a Bat statue underground before beating skeletron, they can put in onto a wire (in between a trap and its pressure plate) and step on the pressure plate to make a crude way of spawning more bats.
• Although the weapon attacks quite quickly, it is very difficult to stunlock enemies with it due to its low knockback.

Trivia

• Unlike most flails, this flail will not spin around the player, but instead attack the target directly before returning to the player.
• Despite having worse stats overall, it sells for more than the Chain Guillotines on the  Console versions.

See also

• Chain Guillotines, its Hardmode counterpart

History

 PC version

• Desktop 1.4.0.1:
  • Damage increased from 11 to 12.
  • Item and projectile sprites updated.

• Desktop 1.2: Introduced.

 Console version

• Console 1.02: Introduced.

 Nintendo Switch version

• Switch 1.0.711.6: Introduced.

 Mobile version

• Mobile 1.2.6508: Introduced.

Nintendo 3DS version

• 3DS-Release: Introduced.