★ Survival Knife | Case Hardened (Factory New)

The ★ Survival Knife | Case Hardened (Factory New) gets its look from color case-hardening — wood charcoal applied at high heat leaves a patina of blue, gold, and steel that's different on every copy. Factory New is the lowest-float grade, so that patina reads with the least surface disruption.

Design

The finish comes from color case-hardening with wood charcoal at high temperature, which leaves behind a swirling patina of blue, gold, and steel gray rather than a painted design. It ships with a matching in-game line: "A little color never hurt anyone."

★ Survival Knife | Case Hardened (Factory New) Float and Wear

This finish runs the full 0.00–1.00 float range, and Factory New covers the 0.00–0.07 band at the low end — the lowest-float, most detailed grade the knife comes in. The patina's edges look their sharpest here, with no surface scuffing competing with the blue-gold-steel pattern.

Survival Knife | Case Hardened Rarity

Rarity: Covert ★ — a rare special ("knife") item, the gold-tier rare drop from its case pool, distinct from an ordinary Covert weapon rarity.

Survival Knife | Case Hardened Case and Collection

This is one of the original knife finishes, obtainable from the Shattered Web Case and the Fracture Case. Gold-tier knife pulls land around 0.26% across those cases, a rate attributed to the item tier as a whole rather than this finish specifically.

Survival Knife | Case Hardened Patterns

Case Hardened is the blue-gem finish, and the paint seed decides everything about how much blue, versus gold and steel, ends up covering the blade. Copies get ranked in tiers by blue coverage, and the legendary seed for this knife is pattern #403 — around 96.8% blue on the playside, the most fully covered blade of any Survival Knife Case Hardened and the benchmark everyone measures against. Other Tier-1 seeds like #634 (only minor blemishes) and #577 (an unusually even coat on both sides) sit just behind it, ahead of a long tail of lesser patterns. That seed is locked in at generation and never changes with wear, so a heavy blue gem trades far above an ordinary gold-and-steel copy regardless of float.

StatTrak & Souvenir

Both a regular knife and a StatTrak version exist, the StatTrak carrying a permanent confirmed-kill counter. There's no Souvenir Case Hardened — Souvenir items only come from Major-tournament packages, and knives have never appeared in one.

Survival Knife | Case Hardened Price

Factory New tops the Case Hardened's own price ladder as its lowest-float grade, and the finish overall lands upper-mid among this knife's finishes — genuinely premium, though an exceptional blue-gem pattern can push any given copy well beyond that baseline. It's available to buy on Skin.Land with instant delivery and no hidden fees.

FAQ

What is the best Survival Knife Case Hardened pattern?

Pattern #403 is the benchmark — about 96.8% blue on the playside, the fullest coverage recorded for this knife. Seeds #634 and #577 also rank Tier-1, prized for near-total coverage or an unusually even coat on both sides. The seed never changes once a copy is generated, so a top pattern keeps its value at any wear grade.

Does Factory New guarantee a better blue gem?

No — pattern and wear grade are unrelated. The paint seed sets the blue coverage the moment the knife is generated, so a Battle-Scarred copy can carry pattern #403 just as easily as a Factory New one. Wear only affects surface scuffing, not the patina's color layout.

What are the best gloves for the Survival Knife | Case Hardened?

Blue-leaning gloves work best when your copy shows heavy blue coverage — think Sapphire-style or cobalt tones — while gold or bronze gloves suit a copy that leans more gold-and-steel. For the best Survival Knife Case Hardened glove combo, match the pair to whichever color dominates your specific patina rather than guessing blind.