★ Kukri Knife | Stained (Field-Tested)

★ Kukri Knife | Stained in Field-Tested (FT): a CS2 kukri with pale steel, dark bluish patina streaks and a black handle. Covert rank, with the ★ mark. The finish sits in the Kilowatt Case and the Gallery Case. Its float scale is complete, from 0.00 to 1.00, so all five wears exist, and Field-Tested takes the stretch from 0.15 to 0.38.

What the ★ Kukri Knife | Stained looks like in Field-Tested

The broad, curved blade stays steel and shiny. Dark blue-gray blotches with ragged edges spread over the flat near the point and in the middle, as if the metal had been etched. The handle is matte and dark, with cross ribs and a ring on the butt. Valve says the patina was made by dripping lemon and mustard onto the surface.

This wear of the ★ Kukri Knife | Stained lies between 0.15 and 0.38. Wear settles on the point and the cutting edge first, where the metal lightens soonest. It is fixed at drop, so the knife stays exactly as it fell.

Where the ★ Kukri Knife | Stained came from

The Kilowatt Case and the kukri itself arrived in the update of February 6, 2024, when Valve announced the kukri as a rare special item of that case. The same finish also sits in the Gallery Case. The flavor text Valve wrote for the finish is a joke: the blotches get more noticeable if you look at the knife under an ultraviolet lamp.

What to check before buying

On a ★ Kukri Knife | Stained listing, check the following:

• float: the band from 0.15 to 0.38 leaves room to choose, because copies closer to 0.15 are cleaner;


• name tag: a name can be applied to the kukri, but the knife has no sticker slots;


• listing title: each of the five wears is sold as a separate product.

What the ★ Kukri Knife | Stained costs in Field-Tested

Factory New costs 1.83 times as much, and Minimal Wear 1.1 times. Well-Worn and Battle-Scarred cost almost the same, within three percent of Field-Tested.

Among kukri finishes in this wear, Stained sits a little above the middle: of 11 finishes, six cost less and four cost more. The nearest finish above is Kukri Knife | Blue Steel, a fifth dearer. Night Stripe is an eighth lower, and Urban Masked and Scorched nearly a quarter lower. The cheapest finishes on the model are Safari Mesh, Boreal Forest and Forest DDPAT, while Crimson Web, Case Hardened and Slaughter top the ladder.

Getting the ★ Kukri Knife | Stained

The kukri with this finish drops from the Kilowatt and Gallery Cases, and the wear is random. The contract is the second road: five Covert skins of one collection yield one rare special item, but neither the model nor the finish can be chosen there. The exact copy you want is taken as a ready listing.

Is there a StatTrak version

A StatTrak version of the ★ Kukri Knife | Stained exists in the game.

Who this wear suits

Buying the ★ Kukri Knife | Stained in Field-Tested makes sense under these conditions:

• a kukri in a gray-steel palette, with no bright paint, is wanted;


• the CS2 loadout is assembled from dark and steel tones;


• price matters more: the bottom three wears cost almost the same, and a copy can be picked by its float number.