Characteristics
- Category
- Tool
- Stack size
- 1
- Durability
- 100
- Craftable
- Yes
- Researchable
- Yes · 10 Scrap
- Damage
- 10
- Swing time
- 1.3 s
Overview
A Rock. The most basic melee weapon and gathering tool.
You wake up on a beach with a rock and a torch, and the next ten minutes decide how fast your wipe starts. Hit trees for wood and the grey nodes for stones. It is slow work, but nothing else is in your hands yet.
The first goal is to stop using it. A stone hatchet and a stone pickaxe each ask for 100 stones and 200 wood with no bench, and they gather much faster. Most people make the hatchet first, because a base wants wood before anything else.
Tip
Aim for the X mark on a tree trunk and the glowing spot on an ore node. A hit there gives a bonus and saves you swings.
But don't throw it away once you have tools. It breaks barrels on a road run, keeps chipping at a node when your pickaxe snaps far from home, and if you lose it, ten stones make another in seconds. Fresh spawns even fight with it, though a spear or a bow wins that fight.
Crafting
- Crafting time
- 5 s
- Research cost
- 10 Scrap
Recycling
At power grid stage 2 a green recycler works at 60% instead of 50%. Yields depend on the recycler.
How to get
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Craft
by hand
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Research
10 Scrap at a Research Table
