Tool

Frontier Hatchet

A frontier-themed hatchet whose row matches the plain one line for line. Same Level 1 bench, same recipe, same 400 durability.

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Characteristics

Category: Tool

Stack size: 1

Durability: 400

Workbench: Level 1

Craftable: Yes

Researchable: Yes · 30 Scrap

Damage: 25

Swing time: 0.9 s

Overview

In-game description

A Frontier Hatchet, useful for chopping trees and dismembering corpses.

Chopping trees and taking apart whatever you just killed: the same two jobs as the standard hatchet. Read both game descriptions side by side and only the name has changed. The rest of the row agrees, with a Level 1 workbench, 75 frags and 100 wood and 400 durability. That is because it is a skin of the hatchet: you craft the plain one and pick this look if you own the skin, with no research of its own.

The corpse part is the one newcomers forget. You shoot a deer near your base, run up with a rock and walk away with a handful of meat and hide. Switch to this or any metal hatchet first and the same body gives noticeably more. So on a hunt it lives in the hotbar, not in a box.

In practice the pick between this and the plain one is cosmetic. If you want more wood per swing, the Salvaged Axe is the actual upgrade, at a Level 2 bench.