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Hatchet

ToolCondition 400
Hatchet

A Hatchet, useful for chopping trees and dismembering corpses.

Shortname: hatchet

Item ID: -1252059217

Despawns after 20m on the ground

Craft recipe
Wood100xWoodMetal Fragments75xMetal FragmentsHatchet1xHatchet
Workbench tier
T1
Craft time
30s
Recycling yields

Safe Zone Recycler

Wood40xWoodMetal Fragments30xMetal Fragments

Approximate — recyclers return a share of an item's crafting cost (60% at monument Recyclers, 40% at Safe Zone Recyclers), not a fixed table.

Ammo ballistics
Projectile type
bullet
Projectiles per shot
1
Muzzle velocity
22 m/s
Spread
1
15 Slash

Falls off to 80% damage past 40m

Repair cost
Current condition
%
Wood20xWoodMetal Fragments15xMetal Fragments

A repair bench restores 20% condition per click, at 20% of the recipe cost per point missing.

Skins (3)
Diver HatchetDiver HatchetPrototype HatchetPrototype HatchetFrontier HatchetFrontier Hatchet
Sold by NPC vendors
Water Well (Primitive)1x for 30–40 ScrapScrap
Water Well Vendor1x for 30–40 ScrapScrap
Tools Vendor1x for 40 ScrapScrap
Loot sources
★Tool Island33.3%Black Box7.8%Mining Crate2.6%Collection Tools1.7%Workbench Experiment Tier 11.1%Barrel (Better Loot)0.4%Radtown (Alt)0.3%Generic0.1%

Chance the item is included whenever that container rolls, resolved through nested loot tables. Approximate — doesn't account for seasonal or event-restricted rotations.