What is the point of a toothbrush shiv?

[Willy]

I found a recipe for a toothbrush shiv. I thought "Oh, hell yeah. We're gonna scrape this against the wall or something like in prison to make a shiv out of it" Then I saw the crafting recipe and it requires a knife to whittle it down. Why? Has anyone tested this weapon yet? Is there a reason to sacrifice knife durability for a toothbrush shiv?

[Wilson]

-Makes toothbrush shiv
-It breaks in less time than it took to craft
-bruh

[katsuragi]

It's for when you're doing that steamy sweaty prison roleplay.
IRL 10 of 10 toothbrush shiv users say they wish they had a knife

[Wilson]

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It's for when you're doing that steamy sweaty prison roleplay.
IRL 10 of 10 toothbrush shiv users say they wish they had a knife

The problem is it takes a knife to make one, so... why not just use a knife?

You should be able to make one by your character snapping the toothbrush and sharpening it on the ground. Maybe you could require the ground to be hard too.

[Sybarine]

Ahaha, needs a knife. It could be reworked to require a stone/chipped stone/similar from foraging?

[Lokaror]

Yeah, dont really understand why it needs a knife.

[f03n1x]

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İlk olarak katsuragi tarafından gönderildi:

It's for when you're doing that steamy sweaty prison roleplay.
IRL 10 of 10 toothbrush shiv users say they wish they had a knife

The problem is it takes a knife to make one, so... why not just use a knife?

You should be able to make one by your character snapping the toothbrush and sharpening it on the ground. Maybe you could require the ground to be hard too.

Lol your comment to made me remember this bit from the first jumanji movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LZ80thPpo0

Yeah it is definitely strange to need a knife to basically use durability for when you could just use the knife instead but does it use durability or just make it blunt? the first playthrough I had I spawned with a whetstone and a pair of blunt (I don't think that's what it was called but I can't remember lol) scissors, I could sharpen them so maybe it doesn't use the durability?

[Willy]

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Ahaha, needs a knife. It could be reworked to require a stone/chipped stone/similar from foraging?

Honest to god, You can find a knife 10 times faster than you can find a stone, Let alone a chipped stone at least for me its damn near impossible but thats because I never put any levels into foraging. Too boring imo

[Wilson]

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Ahaha, needs a knife. It could be reworked to require a stone/chipped stone/similar from foraging?

Honest to god, You can find a knife 10 times faster than you can find a stone, Let alone a chipped stone at least for me its damn near impossible but thats because I never put any levels into foraging. Too boring imo

Forage needs a minigame or something, right now it's just walk like a blind man till you find something

[Willy]

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Honest to god, You can find a knife 10 times faster than you can find a stone, Let alone a chipped stone at least for me its damn near impossible but thats because I never put any levels into foraging. Too boring imo

Forage needs a minigame or something, right now it's just walk like a blind man till you find something

Maybe like, you could turn those piles of trash scattered around the world into containers that you can take a few seconds to search to possibly get an item and that levels your foraging. Then make another for a rural context like a pile of leaves or a jumble of twigs or something similar? That way you're actually searching for something in the world, and not staring at trees and grass waiting for the game to decide that you've found something.

[Sybarine]

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Maybe like, you could turn those piles of trash scattered around the world into containers that you can take a few seconds to search to possibly get an item and that levels your foraging. Then make another for a rural context like a pile of leaves or a jumble of twigs or something similar? That way you're actually searching for something in the world, and not staring at trees and grass waiting for the game to decide that you've found something.

Love this idea

[Qinji]

I don't know right now but I'm going to make the assumption that it'll make more sense once you have more maintenance and blade skill then the toothbrush shiv will pay for the amount of durability cost of the knife that was used.

[Khergit Horse Archer]

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I don't know right now but I'm going to make the assumption that it'll make more sense once you have more maintenance and blade skill then the toothbrush shiv will pay for the amount of durability cost of the knife that was used.

bruh no matter how skilled u r, a toothbrush shiv will be bent everytime u stab a zambie lol

[Qinji]

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İlk olarak Qinji tarafından gönderildi:

I don't know right now but I'm going to make the assumption that it'll make more sense once you have more maintenance and blade skill then the toothbrush shiv will pay for the amount of durability cost of the knife that was used.

bruh no matter how skilled u r, a toothbrush shiv will be bent everytime u stab a zambie lol

lol, like I said, I don't know--it's not exactly easy to level up both maintenance blades to that high level. Are you speaking on in game experience or are you talking about a real life toothbrush?