Stone Axe
Weapon · WeaponMelee0★A stone-headed axe for felling trees, with an edge that leaves a lot to be desired.
Stone Axe is an early melee weapon: 76th of 79 by attack, so treat it as a stepping stone, at 20 against the 2,400 of Laser Sword.
No recipe takes it as an ingredient. Whatever you build is the finished article, so there is no reason to hoard spares.
Details
At 10 weight each it eats carry capacity fast, so bring a mount or park a chest nearby.
Stone
WoodWhere to Find Stone Axe
Stone Axe is not something you find lying around — you craft it, and the recipe is below.
Using Stone Axe Well
The Stone Axe is the tool that lets you fell trees yourself — with one equipped you can chop trunks for Wood instead of waiting on base Pals with the Lumbering suitability. It is the reason the recipe sits at technology level 1: you need it before wood-hungry structures like the Palbox upgrades and the workbench line stop being a bottleneck.
It is a workbench craft, not a hand craft. The Primitive Workbench is the earliest station that will produce one, and every later bench in the line — High Quality Workbench, Weapon Workbench, the Assembly Line tiers, Ancient Workbench — keeps the recipe, so you never lose access to a cheap replacement.
150 durability is the lowest of any axe in the game, so treat the Stone Axe as consumable early on: 5 Wood and 5 Stone is cheap enough that carrying a spare in your bag beats hiking back to base mid-run with a dead tool.
Metal Axe is the straight upgrade at 30 attack and 250 durability, followed by Refined Metal Axe at 60 attack and 300 durability. Nothing about the Stone Axe scales, so once metal ingots are flowing there is no reason to keep crafting the stone version except as a stopgap.
20 attack makes it a marginally better melee weapon than bare fists, but it is still a gathering tool first — it has no ranged option and no element, so anything that fights back is better handled by a Pal or by a bow.
Every Tier of Stone Axe
The same piece exists at 4 rarities, and the gap is not cosmetic: attack runs 20 to 60, a 3x swing. Which one you end up with is decided by the rarity of the schematic you built from, not by the recipe — so a legendary copy of this is worth more than the next item up built from a common one.
| Rarity | Item | Attack | Durability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0★ | Stone Axe (this one) | 20 | 150 |
| 1★ | Metal Axe | 30 | 250 |
| 2★ | Axe4 | 75 | 400 |
| 2★ | Refined Metal Axe | 60 | 300 |
Alternatives and Upgrades
Step up from here and you get Wooden Club at 25 attack; step down and it is Stone Pickaxe at 20. 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:
