# Crafting cooked meat with combat knife?

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/crafting-cooked-meat-with-combat-knife/2800>\
**Category:** The Drawing Board\
**Created:** [August 24, 2013, 3:53am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/crafting-cooked-meat-with-combat-knife/2800 "2013-08-24T03:53:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![cloudyrads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@cloudyrads](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/cloudyrads)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2013, 3:53am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/crafting-cooked-meat-with-combat-knife/2800/1 "2013-08-24T03:53:46Z")

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Can you guys make it possible to cook chunk of meat (has a volume of 1) with Combat Knife (has a volume of 2) or Broadsword (has a volume of 7) because i think the character can just stab the meat and cook it on bushfire.  
I’m playing a nightly build from yesterday.

Or i don’t know make it possible to craft skewer from 2x4 wood with pocket knife or combat knife?

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**Author:** ![xLemor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ea5d25/32.png) [@xLemor](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/xLemor)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2013, 3:58am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/crafting-cooked-meat-with-combat-knife/2800/2 "2013-08-24T03:58:39Z")

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Cooking with a short knife will result by you burning your hands trying. Also swords would conduct the heat and make it very hot. Just use pointy sticks imo.

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**Author:** ![Weyrling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7bcc69/32.png) [@Weyrling](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Weyrling)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2013, 5:43am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/crafting-cooked-meat-with-combat-knife/2800/3 "2013-08-24T05:43:47Z")

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Cooking with a knife is a bad idea, cooking with a sword is a slightly better idea, as it has enough length to reduce the conducted heat similar to using a solid metal pot or pan to cook with.  
Its not a particularly good idea, as it’d be pretty useless for fighting with after you used it for cooking a few things, the heat in addition to all the things that come off of cooking meat would degrade the blade.

Also, AFAIK you can already cut up a piece of two-by-four into a pointy stick or skewers to cook with.  
'a’ctivate your knife instead of using the craft menu.  
Edit: Number ‘3’ “Carve Wood”

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**Author:** ![Otaku](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/otaku/32/27_2.png) [@Otaku](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Otaku)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2013, 6:05am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/crafting-cooked-meat-with-combat-knife/2800/4 "2013-08-25T06:05:24Z")

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IIRC either heavy sticks, 2x4 or other woods can be cut up into pointy sticks.  
In the & (crafting) menu select the first tab (IIRC) then scroll down to pointy stick.

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**Author:** ![i2amroy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/i2amroy/32/909_2.png) [@i2amroy](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/i2amroy)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2013, 6:15am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/crafting-cooked-meat-with-combat-knife/2800/5 "2013-08-25T06:15:02Z")

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> [@cloudyrads](#):
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> Or i don’t know make it possible to craft skewer from 2x4 wood with pocket knife or combat knife?

This is already possible… Just activate a knife and select the “carve wood” option.

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**Author:** ![Pthalocy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/22d042/32.png) [@Pthalocy](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Pthalocy)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2013, 2:38pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/crafting-cooked-meat-with-combat-knife/2800/6 "2013-08-25T14:38:48Z")

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Welp, I have learned a thing, and I’m still playing with my herbivore character.

Time to bring back Harvey the doomed mechanic.

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**Author:** ![FunsizeNinja123](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/funsizeninja123/32/118_2.png) [@FunsizeNinja123](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/FunsizeNinja123)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2013, 2:40pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/crafting-cooked-meat-with-combat-knife/2800/7 "2013-08-25T14:40:08Z")

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You mean that guy with the tentacle arms?

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**Author:** ![Pthalocy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/22d042/32.png) [@Pthalocy](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Pthalocy)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2013, 3:41am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/crafting-cooked-meat-with-combat-knife/2800/8 "2013-08-26T03:41:06Z")

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Amongst other things, yes. I haven’t decided if those are part of his character permanently or not, since they were originally due to a game code error forcing EVERYONE to have such arms. God that was hilarious to figure out.