ceramic knife vs stone axe

[bondowondo]

is the ceramic knife any better as a sharp tool than the stone axe? for example, does it provide a higher bonus to softcaps affected by the sharp tool quality? or is it just an early game melee weapon that you cant even use until you randomly get an attack for weapons?

[Grobble]

As far as I can tell, stone axe and ceramic knife are both the same as tool quality hard caps animal products now.
Really just depends on which you can get a better quality out of.

[waga]

ceramic is nice very early since it's likely you'll be able to make a better quality (before mining / trees) and that's about it.

[Sevenless]

is the ceramic knife any better as a sharp tool than the stone axe? for example, does it provide a higher bonus to softcaps affected by the sharp tool quality? or is it just an early game melee weapon that you cant even use until you randomly get an attack for weapons?

For a brief window of minmaxing, it's the best cutting tool you'll get early world if you have a masonry pumper running through cave clay 24/7. As a weapon it's useful during the first week since it's the only weapon you can use sting with at that stage of the world.

It's a pretty niche set of uses, and quickly stops being relevant.

[bondowondo]

unfortunate. a knife should act as a better cutting tool than an axe, and a ceramic knife can get quite sharp.

[sMartins]

Make axe half the quality.

[Reiber]

unfortunate. a knife should act as a better cutting tool than an axe, and a ceramic knife can get quite sharp.

it isnt an ceramic knive though, at least not how you would buy it at your grocery store, its an clay knive, i dont even know if that has historic precidence, you just litterally took an hand full of dirt , threw it in an oven, and then try too stab something with it.

chipped stone on the other hand, especially flint is laughably sharp,

[Valgar]

Make axe half the quality.

Or Knives boost the Quality ?
Was a tedious start World 14, with the butchering capped by tool.