★ Butterfly Knife | Safari Mesh (Minimal Wear)

In Minimal Wear (MW), the ★ Butterfly Knife | Safari Mesh is the cheapest butterfly knife of any finish in this wear. It is a Covert knife with the ★ mark and drops from the Operation Breakout Weapon Case.

What the ★ Butterfly Knife | Safari Mesh looks like in Minimal Wear

Hexagonal cells cover the whole knife, from the point to the ends of the handles, and stay within one olive-gray palette. The catch is dark, the handles have a row of round holes, and the blade curves toward its point as on any butterfly knife.

In Minimal Wear the mesh reads as a whole. The paint has survived, and light marks show only on the edge of the blade and the ridges of the handles. Wear does not grow with time: what dropped is what stays. Floats in this wear span 0.07 to 0.15. At 0.07 to 0.15 the band is tight, and the copies at either end differ only by their number.

What to check before buying

Two things change from one listing of the ★ Butterfly Knife | Safari Mesh to the next:

• float: a number within 0.07 to 0.15, which has little effect on the color of the mesh;


• name tag: butterfly knives accept one, and it stays on the item after the sale.

Phase and pattern

There is no point in hunting for the ★ Butterfly Knife | Safari Mesh by pattern index, since the design never changes.

What the ★ Butterfly Knife | Safari Mesh costs in Minimal Wear

Factory New is 1.81 times as expensive, Field-Tested is cheaper by a factor of 1.07, Well-Worn is 1.04 times as expensive, and Battle-Scarred costs the same.

Of twenty-eight butterfly finishes priced in this wear, Safari Mesh is the cheapest and all twenty-seven others cost more. Closest are Forest DDPAT, Boreal Forest, Urban Masked, Scorched and Bright Water. At the top of the row are Doppler (Phase 4), Doppler (Sapphire) and Doppler (Ruby), which cost several times as much.

Getting the ★ Butterfly Knife | Safari Mesh

The finish comes from the Operation Breakout Weapon Case in CS2, and wear is decided at the drop. The second route is a craft: five Covert skins of one type, either normal or StatTrak but not mixed, produce a random rare special item. You cannot choose the finish or the model, so the exact wear is easier to buy ready-made.

Is there a StatTrak version

A StatTrak variant of this knife is in the game as well.

Who this wear suits

Minimal Wear makes sense for the ★ Butterfly Knife | Safari Mesh in these cases:

• you want the most affordable butterfly knife in this wear, not a knife from the top of the row;


• the mesh should read cleanly, and Factory New at 1.81 times the price is not needed;


• the knife is going into a CS2 loadout in olive-gray tones.