Top Ten Most Versatile Weapons

The knife primarily serves as a defense weapon, but it is also practical in outdoor scenarios. Want to make a fire? Rub your knife between stone and some dried shaved wood. Want to prepare food? Think about how you use kitchen knives.

In survival scenarios, the knife can also be used for harvesting skin and hide from animals, as well as carving and peeling materials.

Good for surgery, making fires, and crafting.

The spear is regarded as one of the most historical weapons, used since primitive eras. Many variants of spears in cultures around the world are used in different ways and for various purposes.

Spears are basically a long stick with a sharp blade on the end, making them simple to make, yet very effective and versatile in war due to their lightness and length. They can be easily thrown, making them effective tools in hunting and fishing.

Most importantly, even when broken in half, a spear is still usable as a dagger.

One of the iconic tools used by indigenous American people that also serves as an effective weapon in defense. The tomahawk is similar to the axe but with added features to the axe head, allowing it to function as a tool for crushing or delivering blunt strikes on one side, and chopping and cutting on the other.

Depending on the weapon, tomahawks are typically lighter than hatchets. Not to mention, tomahawks can be easily thrown due to their lightness.

With a longer range compared to knives, the axe can deliver powerful strikes as a defense weapon. Most importantly, it serves versatile purposes in bushcraft environments.

If you have good survival skills, the axe is effective for chopping and splitting wood, which can be used to make campfires and shelter.

Although, the axe requires a bit of strength to wield and use properly, especially for defense.

You can break down doors with it.

Even a simple, strong stick can serve as one of the most versatile weapons. Most importantly, it is often lightweight, making it easy to handle and deliver blunt hits, especially in skilled hands.

When not in use for defense, it can be used as a walking stick.

Not as versatile as others, although it is usually lightweight with a long blade. It is very effective for slashing and thrusting, with its only weakness being penetration through thick armor.

The pommel, located at the hilt, serves as a crushing weapon that can deliver blunt strikes if used by a skilled swordsman.

Similar to a knife, although much broader and longer in range, the machete is not only used as a tool for agricultural purposes, such as splitting various foods and fruits and clearing branches, but it can also serve as a self-defense weapon due to its sharpness.

The machete has many forms, each utilized for different purposes. The Kukri, for example, is a weapon originating from India, consisting of curved blades that are more effective in cutting and penetrating than the standard machete.

Although rocks themselves are not very effective, they serve as quick-access throwing weapons and are more effective in slingshots.

Most importantly, rocks are the gateway to crafting one of the most versatile and effective weapons, such as the spear.

This weapon is unusual. It's a hammer combined with a pike or a pole. Also called the Raven's Beak or the Crow's Beak, the bec de corbin was used in medieval Europe.

The spike on top was used for piercing and thrusting, while the hammer head was used for blunt strikes. The back of the hammerhead, the beak, functions like an ice pick. It can pierce through armor and deliver powerful, piercing strikes.

In short, it functions as a spear, hammer, and pick.