★ Survival Knife | Fade (Factory New)

The ★ Survival Knife | Fade (Factory New) is a Covert knife finish built from transparent paints airbrushed over a chrome base, fading through purple, pink, and yellow down the blade. Factory New is the lowest-float grade this fade comes in, so the chrome underneath still reads bright and the color spread looks as fresh as it ever does.

Design

The look comes from layered transparent paint sprayed over a mirror-chrome base, letting purple slide into pink and pink slide into yellow along the blade in one continuous gradient. It carries a fitting line in-game: "This isn't just a weapon, it's a conversation piece."

★ Survival Knife | Fade (Factory New) Float and Wear

This finish is float-capped at 0.08, so it never wears past a near-mint look — only Factory New and Minimal Wear exist, and Factory New is the cleaner of the two, covering the 0.00–0.07 band of that narrow range. The chrome base stays glossy and the fade transition looks its most vivid at this end.

Survival Knife | Fade Rarity

Rarity: Covert ★ — a rare special ("knife") item, the gold-tier rare drop from its case pool, not an ordinary Covert weapon skin.

Survival Knife | Fade Case and Collection

This finish is one of the original knife finishes and comes out of the Shattered Web Case and the Fracture Case. Gold-tier knife pulls sit at roughly 0.26% of a case opening, a rate attributed to the item tier as a whole rather than to this finish specifically.

Survival Knife | Fade Patterns

For a Fade, "best pattern" means fade percentage — how far the purple-pink-yellow spectrum stretches across the blade before the chrome shows through. A full 100% fade is the grail, and it carries a real premium over the far more common 90–95% copies. That percentage is locked in by the paint seed the moment the knife is generated, and it never shifts no matter how much the float changes. There's no "blue gem" equivalent here — a fuller, more even fade is simply what separates a top copy from an average one.

StatTrak & Souvenir

This knife comes as a regular version and a StatTrak version with a permanent confirmed-kill counter. There is no Souvenir Fade — Souvenir weapons are only ever handed out in Major-tournament packages, and knives have never been part of those packages.

Survival Knife | Fade Price

Factory New sits at the top of the Fade's own price ladder, above Minimal Wear, and lands in the upper-mid range among this knife's finishes overall — a genuinely premium pick, though not the single priciest one available. It's available to buy on Skin.Land with instant delivery and no hidden fees.

FAQ

What is the best Survival Knife Fade percentage to look for?

A full 100% fade is the grail — the purple-pink-yellow spectrum stretches completely across the blade with no chrome breaking it up, and copies like that carry a clear premium over the more common 90–95% fades. The percentage is fixed by the paint seed for life and never changes with wear or trading.

Why isn't there a Field-Tested or Battle-Scarred Fade?

The finish is float-capped at 0.08, well under what those grades require. The game simply never rolls a copy worn enough to qualify, which is why Factory New and Minimal Wear are the only two grades this fade has ever existed in.

What are the best gloves for the Survival Knife | Fade?

Its purple-pink-yellow gradient pairs naturally with warm-toned or iridescent gloves — think Hedge Maze, Bronze Morph, or a Slaughter-style pair that echoes the pink-purple shift. For the best Survival Knife Fade glove combo, lean into that gradient rather than fighting it with a flat single-color pair.