Stone Skinning Knife - Where?

[Chaon]

Okay I am just starting playing again and I want to start skinning.

I haven't gotten to making iron tools yet so I need stone tools.

Where is the recipe for the stone skinning knife?

[JackPhoenix]

There is none. Earliest available skinning knife is made from iron. Although stone one does exists in files, it's only available through admin panel.

[Astasia]

There isn't one. A lot of the journeys seem to be a tad out of order.

Unless the dekarta religion knife counts as a skinning knife even though it can't skin anything.

[Chaon]

Nah, got the Dekarta knife and it works on humans but not on animals.

Pretty poor that they had forgotten to put the stone skinning knife into the feats.

[Astasia]

I think it's intentional there is no stone one, they just forgot to change the journeys. The first sickle is steel (which also confused me as some early game tip mentioned them), so it seems like they wanted to stagger the tool tiers somewhat.

[Chaon]

Which is pretty stupid.

We are supposed to start off with stone then move to iron, steel, etc.

So why gate skinning knife to start at iron/steel?

Haven't they ever heard of flint knives? We can make stone knives to fight with but not to skin with.

[JackPhoenix]

Agreed. I get no stone sickle... the specific shape and size would be hard to achieve and get any durability from stone, but skinning knife? Much easier.

Used to be that normal daggers worked for skinning, but not anymore.

[Smiles]

Well, this answered one of my questions. Jez no stone skinning knives, if this were the case the human race wouldn't have made it to our modern age..

[Astasia]

I mean the stone axe functions, it's not like you are incapable of getting skins before then. It's like upgrading from a stone pick to a iron pick, you just get more yields. My guess is since the knife doesn't have meat drops they wanted to make sure new players knew how to get meat from kills before they started skinning everything. There's a good chance I would have struggled a bit with food early on if I wasn't forced to axe everything as I didn't have any experience with the game or how often I would need food (especially for healing).

[JackPhoenix]

Originally posted by Astasia:

I mean the stone axe functions, it's not like you are incapable of getting skins before then. It's like upgrading from a stone pick to a iron pick, you just get more yields. My guess is since the knife doesn't have meat drops they wanted to make sure new players knew how to get meat from kills before they started skinning everything. There's a good chance I would have struggled a bit with food early on if I wasn't forced to axe everything as I didn't have any experience with the game or how often I would need food (especially for healing).

They could make it require higher level and spend knowledge point, unlike the hatchet you can make from the very beginning. But the problem is that during Chapter III of the Exile's Journey, there's a step that requires you to "Use a skinning dagger to skin an animal". However, the step to "Craft an iron tool" is in Chapter IV. Also, they could make it clear in the descrpition that skinning knife harvests only skins, and butcher's cleaver harvests only meat, while hatchet harvests both, but worse than specialized tools.

[Phnx]

Admins can spawn it in.

[Chaon]

Yeah they can spawn it in but it's stupid of the devs to not make a recipe to make it.

Stone skinning knives were one of the first tools ever created after the club.

[Goldfinch]

I found one in a chest in a darfari camp, so they seem to be around in the game world, just not craftable.

[FredEffinChopin]

Originally posted by Goldfinch:

I found one in a chest in a darfari camp, so they seem to be around in the game world, just not craftable.

Same here. I'm wondering how to repair mine and can't find it anywhere in the crafting menus. That's a shame.

[matke587]

I have found stone skinning knifes, can't recall if they was from a basic chest or dropped from a dead thrall. So they are out there. Just a case of being lucky. Though chances are by the time you do find one, you'll have the steel one anyway!

[Red River]

loot only.. kinda odd they removed it back during EA