Pal Metal Axe
Weapon · WeaponMelee3★Pal Metal gives this woodcutting axe an edge well past anything ordinary metal reaches. High-grade trees out in the harshest regions come down without a fight.
Pal Metal Axe is 54th of 79 melee weapons by attack, at 120 against the 2,400 of Laser Sword.
Wearing it also carries the effect Logging Yield Up Lv. 4, which matters more than the raw numbers in the biomes that punish you for the wrong outfit.
No recipe takes it as an ingredient. Whatever you build is the finished article, so there is no reason to hoard spares.
Details
At 25 weight each it eats carry capacity fast, so bring a mount or park a chest nearby. At 112,920 gold it is worth real money to a merchant.
Pal Metal Axe Crafting Recipe
Pal Metal Ingot
High Quality Wooden Board
Stone×100
Corrosive Solvent
Hardwood×100
Wood×100
Ore×40
High Quality Cloth×20
Paldium Fragment×20
Pure Quartz×10
Sulfur×5
Venom Gland×5Crafting it takes 125 materials across 4 types, and the bottleneck is almost always the 100× requirement — line that up first and the rest follows.
Where to Find Pal Metal Axe
Pal Metal Axe is not something you find lying around — you craft it, and the recipe is below.
Using Pal Metal Axe Well
Five benches will take this recipe, and which one you use is decided by an accident of technology order. Its own rung on the weapon side is the Weapon Assembly Line II, a level 47 technology — but the axe unlocks at 44, so for three levels the only bench in your base that can build it is the Production Assembly Line II from the workshop family, which you already had at 42. Once you are past 47 the Advanced Workshop, the Advanced Weapon Assembly Line and the Ancient Workbench all accept it too, so nothing older needs to stay standing for this one recipe.
Queue it and walk away: the job carries four times the crafting work of the Refined Metal Axe one tier below, so a bench that turned out the refined axe in a minute of Handiwork will sit on this one far longer. Stack your best Handiwork Pals on it rather than waiting at the bench.
The Pal Metal Pickaxe is built from an identical shopping list — 10 Pal Metal Ingot, 10 High Quality Wooden Board, 100 Stone and 5 Corrosive Solvent apiece. Gather one double batch (20 ingots, 10 solvent) and you can unlock and craft both gathering tools in a single trip, since they share the same level 44 tier and the same benches.
What Pal Metal Axe Does
Pal Metal Axe grants Logging Yield Up Lv. 4: Collect Item Drop Natural Object +160.
Alternatives and Upgrades
Step up from here and you get Terraprisma at 125 attack; step down and it is Pal Metal Pickaxe at 120. Weigh the jump against what the next tier costs you before committing the resources.
Other melee weapons at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class:
