# Edit: I actually just don't understand Eskrima

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/edit-i-actually-just-dont-understand-eskrima/22378>\
**Category:** The Garage\
**Created:** [January 2, 2020, 9:32pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/edit-i-actually-just-dont-understand-eskrima/22378 "2020-01-02T21:32:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Toshok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/258eb7/32.png) [@Toshok](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Toshok)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2020, 9:32pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/edit-i-actually-just-dont-understand-eskrima/22378/1 "2020-01-02T21:32:25Z")

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As the title says, sorry if I just don’t understand it, but I took Eskrima on my character to try and get me some wonderful rapid-fire stabbings, slashings, hackings and the like - I just updated to the latest experimental, went into my world of “lets see how much mess can be made” settings and after escaping from rather too many big red-named things that filled the starting shelter with toxic gas in the first eight to ten turns (and a “friendly” skeletal juggernaut who got stuck on a necromancer and couldn’t reach me) I tried to loot a farmhouse.

I tried grabbing every single knife type I could in the kitchen - cleavers, paring knives, steak knives, chef knives… all of them - every single one says it’s not a valid Eskrima weapon.  
Am I misunderstanding what type of knives Eskrima can use, or is this broken?  
Apologies if so - I guess I’ll take the other knife one.

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**Author:** ![Junknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc348/32.png) [@Junknown](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Junknown)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2020, 9:39pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/edit-i-actually-just-dont-understand-eskrima/22378/2 "2020-01-02T21:39:54Z")

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Non of the knifes you listed are compatible with Eskrima. You can push F1 when selecting which martial art you want to use (in this case Eskrima) to see a full list of weapons that are compatible with it.

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**Author:** ![Toshok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/258eb7/32.png) [@Toshok](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Toshok)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2020, 10:37pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/edit-i-actually-just-dont-understand-eskrima/22378/3 "2020-01-02T22:37:50Z")

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Ah, OK. I guess a mod I used to have must have allowed them at some point - it’s been quite a while.

Also seems kind of weird they wouldn’t be, but then I don’t really know what Eskrima is or what would make those knives (especially the smaller lighter ones) so unusable for the purpose.

Citing Wikipedia (and I know how reliable that is) it seems like it can be used for all kinds of improvised weapons that aren’t even vaguely knife or baton like. That said, I guess it would be kind of overpowered if it could literally use half the objects in the game.