Black knife

For this item's off-hand variant, see off-hand black knife.

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Black knife
Release																				14 April 2003 (Update)
Members																				No
Quest item																				No
Properties
Tradeable																				Yes
Equipable																				Yes
Stackable																				Yes
Disassembly																				Yes
Destroy																				Drop
Examine																				A finely balanced throwing knife.
Options
Backpack																				Wield
Values
Value																				19 coins
High alch																				11 coins
Low alch																				7 coins
On death																				Reclaimable Value: 1,631 Reclaim: 100
Weight																				0 kg
Grand Exchange
Exchange																				1,631 coins (info)
Buy limit																				10,000
Volume																				599
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Advanced data
Item ID																				869
Links																				MRID • recipe

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A black knife is a ranged weapon. A player must have at least 25 Ranged to wield these throwing knives. Black knives are also one of only two ranged weapons able to harm the tormented wraith, the other being black darts.

Combat stats

Requirements
25
Class			Slot
Ranged
Tier
25
		Auto		Ability
Damage		240.0		240
Accuracy		381
Style		Thrown
Range		5
Speed		4 ticks (2.4s)
Attributes						Damage reduction
Armour				0.0		PvM: 0%				PvP: 0%
Life points				0		Style bonuses
Prayer				0		0.0		0.0		0.0		0.0

Item sources

For an exhaustive list of all known sources for this item, see here.

Source	Level	Quantity	Rarity
Ankou (elite)	67	1	Rare
Cyclops	57; 68	4–13	16/200
Monkey knife fighter	70	1–3; 5; 10	Common
Shadow warrior	65	1	1/256

Shop locations

Seller	Location	Number in stock	Price sold at	Price bought at	Members
Authentic Throwing Weapons	Ranging Guild	8	19	5
Martin Thwait's Lost and Found	Rogues' Den	100	19	5

Disassembly

Black knife
Disassembly category	Throwing knives
Disassembly XP	0.7
Item quantity required	50
Material count	8
Base junk chance	?  72.5% Your actual junk chance depends on your junk chance reduction researched. See the table below for all values, and Junk for more information. Reduction Junk chance None 1 72.5% 1 34 71.8 2 49 70.4 3 64 68.9 4 69 67.5 5 78 66.0 6 83 63.8 7 91 62.4 8 95 60.2 9 105 58.0
Special materials
1 × Knightly components	Always
Common materials
Simple parts	35/100
Blade parts	30/100
Metallic parts	30/100
Rare materials
Sharp components	3/100
Swift components	2/100

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Graphical updates

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Update history

This information has been compiled as part of the update history project. Some updates may not be included – see here for how to help out!

• patch 22 July 2013 (Update):
  • Main hand and off-hand black knives now have the correct accuracy.

• patch 12 April 2011 (Update):
  • This item's throwing animation has been altered to stop showing multiple knives.

• update 14 April 2003 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• The black knife is one of only a few items of Black equipment that does not have a corresponding item for White equipment.
• The price of black knives had a very sharp increase around September 2010, briefly reaching prices over 500 coins each, due to a rumour that they were to be discontinued.