Melee Weapon

Melee weapons consist of various types of knives, blades, blunt weapons, and tools. Melee weapons can have Weapon Perks.

Notes[]

Like Ranged Weapons, melee weapons have five different rarities: basic (1 star), copper (2 stars), silver (3 stars), gold (4 stars), and legendary (5 stars).
They can be upgraded up to Gold tier using copper, silver, and gold nuggets.
Legendary weapons cannot be upgraded from gold weapons, and need to be acquired in the following ways:
- Bought from stores that randomly have them on sale.
- Looted from silver chests (low chance)
- Found in Treasure Hunt quests (low chance).
Most weapons can cause secondary effect such as Bleeding and Stun.
Melee weapons are also silent and allow the Protagonist to perform one-hit kill or knock-out on unaware enemies, depending on whether the weapons are lethal or non-lethal.
Even during open combat, using a non-lethal weapon to reduce enemies' health to 0 also results in incapacitating them.
- Attacking knocked-out enemies again, however, will kill them regardless whether what type of weapon was used.

Melee Weapons[]

A Gold Cleaver can be found in the basement of Shepherd's Dale.
A Gold Initiate's Knife can be found in Oleander Temple.

Weapon	Damage	Property	Range	Attack Rate	Upgrade Cost
Cleaver	40	Bleed	Short	Slow	2
Copper Cleaver	46	Bleed	Short	Slow	7
Silver Cleaver	52	Bleed	Short	Slow	10
Gold Cleaver	59	Bleed	Short	Slow	-
Legendary Cleaver	69	Bleed	Short	Slow	-
Knife	21	Bleed	Short	Fast	2
Copper Knife	26	Bleed	Short	Fast	7
Silver Knife	33	Bleed	Short	Fast	10
Gold Knife	41	Bleed	Short	Fast	-
Legendary Knife	51	Bleed	Short	Fast	-
Machete	35	Bleed	Medium	Average	2
Copper Machete	40	Bleed	Medium	Average	7
Silver Machete	47	Bleed	Medium	Average	10
Gold Machete	55	Bleed	Medium	Average	-
Legendary Machete	63	Bleed	Medium	Average	-
Initiate's Knife	26	Bleed	Medium	Fast	2
Copper Initiate's Knife	32	Bleed	Medium	Fast	7
Silver Initiate's Knife	38	Bleed	Medium	Fast	10
Gold Initiate's Knife	46	Bleed	Medium	Fast	-
Legendary Initiate's Knife		Bleed	Medium	Fast	-
Warclub	25	Stun Non-lethal	Long	Fast	2
Copper Warclub	34	Stun Non-lethal	Long	Fast	7
Silver Warclub	40	Stun Non-lethal	Long	Fast	10
Gold Warclub	48	Stun Non-lethal	Long	Fast	-
Legendary Warclub		Stun Non-lethal	Long	Fast	-

Improvised Weapons[]

Certain tools and junk items can be used as improvised weapons. Although they don't deal much damage, some of them can stun enemies and are non-lethal weapons. Shovels and Pickaxes can be upgraded to the gold rarity with a cost of 30 gold nuggets apiece, and actually have much higher damage than the gold equivalent of other melee weapons. The gold shovel, in particular, is great for a non-lethal playthrough due to its high damage, long reach, and fast attack speed.

Weapon	Damage	Property	Range	Attack Rate	Upgrade Cost
Bone	17	Non-lethal	Medium	Fast	-
Little Hammer	29	Non-lethal	Short	Average	-
Pickaxe	29	Bleed	Medium	Average	30
The Golden Driller Deluxe	63	Bleed	Medium	Fast	-
Pitchfork	29	Bleed	Long	Slow	-
Shovel	29	Stun Non-lethal	Long	Average	30
The Golden Digger Max	63	Stun Non-lethal	Long	Fast	-