Metal Axe
Weapon · WeaponMelee1★Metal construction lets it cut Hardwood without effort, which makes it the tool for the sturdy trees deep within the continent.
Metal Axe is an early melee weapon: 72nd of 79 by attack, so treat it as a stepping stone, at 30 against the 2,400 of Laser Sword.
Wearing it also carries the effect Logging Yield Up Lv. 1, which matters more than the raw numbers in the biomes that punish you for the wrong outfit.
It feeds no other recipe, which makes it a terminal item: craft what you will actually carry and stop there.
Details
At 15 weight each it eats carry capacity fast, so bring a mount or park a chest nearby.
Metal Axe Crafting Recipe
Stone×15
Wood×20
Ingot×15
Ore×30Crafting it takes 50 materials across 3 types.
Where to Find Metal Axe
Metal Axe is not something you find lying around — you craft it, and the recipe is below.
Using Metal Axe Well
Buying the level 11 node is only half of it — the bench you have been using since minute one will not take this recipe. The earliest station that accepts it is the High-Quality Workbench, itself a level 11 technology, so the axe and the bench arrive on the same level-up and cost you two purchases rather than one. After that nothing ever forces a downgrade: every general-purpose bench above it takes the recipe too (Production Assembly Line at 29, Production Assembly Line II at 42, Advanced Workshop at 62), the whole weapon line accepts it once the Weapon Workbench opens at 20, and the Ancient Workbench builds it as well. Practical effect at level 11: put the High-Quality Workbench down first, then read the recipe.
The 15 Ingot is the part that has to be planned ahead, because it is not a gather. Each bar is 2 Ore, so the axe is 30 ore fed through a furnace, and the Primitive Furnace is a level 10 technology — one level before the axe itself. If you have not spent that point and mined the ore by the time you hit 11, the recipe sits greyed out while you go back for it. The Stone and Wood halves of the bill are the trivial part; the smelter is the gate.
This is the axe you carry longest. Stone Axe holds the slot from level 1 to 11 with 20 attack and 150 durability, this one from 11 to 34, and Refined Metal Axe only arrives at level 34 for another 2 points — so 23 levels, the widest gap anywhere in the line, run on this tool. What the 2 points buy immediately is half again the damage and two thirds more durability for 5 extra weight, which is worth it purely on the swings-between-crafts arithmetic: 250 durability against 150 means noticeably fewer replacement axes on a long harvesting trip. Worth knowing about the far end too — the Refined Metal Axe doubles damage to 60 but adds only 50 durability, so the upgrade at 34 is about speed, not about the tool lasting longer.
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 | 20 | 150 |
| 1★ | Metal Axe (this one) | 30 | 250 |
| 2★ | Axe4 | 75 | 400 |
| 2★ | Refined Metal Axe | 60 | 300 |
What Metal Axe Does
Metal Axe grants Logging Yield Up Lv. 1: Collect Item Drop Natural Object +50.
Alternatives and Upgrades
Step up from here and you get Stone Spear at 35 attack; step down and it is Metal Pickaxe at 30. The size of that step is what decides whether the crafting bill is justified yet.
Other melee weapons at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class:
