Refined Metal Axe
Weapon · WeaponMelee2★High quality metal takes both the edge and the lifespan another step up. Sturdy trees growing in unforgiving lands give up their Hardwood to it.
Refined Metal Axe is an early melee weapon: 66th of 79 by attack, so treat it as a stepping stone, at 60 against the 2,400 of Laser Sword.
Wearing it also carries the effect Logging Yield Up Lv. 2, which matters more than the raw numbers in the biomes that punish you for the wrong outfit.
This is where the crafting chain ends — nothing downstream consumes it, so a stockpile earns you nothing.
Details
At 20 weight each it eats carry capacity fast, so bring a mount or park a chest nearby. At 10,320 gold it is worth real money to a merchant.
Refined Metal Axe Crafting Recipe
Stone×30
Wooden Board
Refined Ingot
Wood×50
Ore×22
Coal×20Crafting it takes 44 materials across 3 types, and the bottleneck is almost always the 30× requirement — line that up first and the rest follows.
Where to Find Refined Metal Axe
Refined Metal Axe is not something you find lying around — you craft it, and the recipe is below.
Using Refined Metal Axe Well
The technology sits at level 34 for 2 points, a 23-level gap above the level 11 Metal Axe. That whole stretch of the game is spent on the older axe, so there is no point hoarding Refined Ingot for this one early — spend it on armour and guns and come back at 34.
Budget the bench time: this axe is 50,000 work units, ten times what Metal Axe takes and a hundred times Stone Axe. Put every high-Handiwork pal you have on the line before you queue it, or it will tie up the bench for an age.
It shares an exact material list with Refined Metal Pickaxe — 30 Stone, 4 Wooden Board and 10 Refined Ingot apiece. One smelting run of 20 Refined Ingot covers both upgrades, so craft the pair together rather than making a second ore trip later.
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.
What Refined Metal Axe Does
Refined Metal Axe grants Logging Yield Up Lv. 2: Collect Item Drop Natural Object +80.
Alternatives and Upgrades
Step up from here and you get Nightglow at 70 attack; step down and it is Refined Metal Pickaxe at 60. How far apart those two sit tells you whether to spend now or keep what you have.
Other melee weapons at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class:
