The Butcher in Violence District

Kit

Added 24 Oct 2026. Trap nerf 25 Oct 2026. Second original killer.

The wiki associates these personal perks with this killer: Split the Pain / Bloodhound / Rotten Stench. Exact unlock levels and cross-killer availability were not confirmed in the cited text; check the current in-game menu before planning a purchase.

Chain and trap timings

Your Heart Is Mine reaches up to 50 studs. A latched survivor becomes Silenced and needs 7 seconds to free themselves. The chain bends around the environment and develops tension. After 5 seconds, high tension allows up to 3 recast pulls that interrupt actions; the third stuns longer and breaks the chain. Pulling during a vault also lengthens the stun. The ability has a 15-second cooldown.

Tendons takes 2.5 seconds to place and arms on touching the ground. You hold up to 2 traps, each returning after 45 seconds. Stepping in one injures, immobilizes, and reveals a survivor. Self escape takes 20 seconds of continuous special skill checks; each great check removes 1 second, while a miss cancels the attempt and reveals the survivor again. A teammate frees them in 7 seconds; disarming an empty trap takes 5 seconds.

• Suggested loop: place a trap on an approach survivors must choose, away from the prohibited generator and spike areas.
• Chain a visible target within 50 studs, then build tension. Use eligible pulls to interrupt a vault or other action rather than assuming an immediate pull is available.
• Follow a trapped or pulled target with attacks, then spike them. Replenish traps before committing to the next defended route.

Build notes

Suggested loadout: Bloodhound + Rotten Stench + Containment, if available in your perk menu. Bloodhound supplies injured-target tracking through tokens and blood pools; Rotten Stench makes damaged targets repair more slowly and reveals their first good skill check during the penalty. Containment blocks windows after your vault, giving survivors fewer repeat routes around a trap setup. Swap Containment for Split the Pain when repeated stuns are the problem: it returns part of the stun and Silences nearby survivors, pausing item recharge. This is a mechanism-based starting build, not a measured best build; check in-game unlock requirements.

How survivors answer it

Watch the ground before committing to a narrow route. An unused trap takes 5 seconds to disarm; a trapped teammate can be freed in 7 seconds, much faster than the base 20-second self-escape attempt. Great self-escape checks reduce that timer, but a miss cancels the attempt and reveals you again. A latched chain wraps around scenery, so a corner does not guarantee escape. At high tension after 5 seconds, pulls can interrupt actions, with longer stuns during vaults. The 25 October note prohibits placement near spikes and generators, but does not specify an exact exclusion radius.