Metal Hatchet

Metal Hatchet is referred to as "Iron Hatchet" in the Primitive Plus DLC

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Metal Hatchet

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A sharp metal hatchet for harvesting wood from trees, stone from rocks, and skin from bodies.

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Weapon

Type

Tool

Melee damage

40.0

Item

Weight

2.0

Durability

40 (-0.075 per use)

Single use

No

Found in Supply Crate

Blue

Spawn Command

cheat giveitemnum 36 1 0 0
or
cheat gfi MetalHatchet 1 0 0
or
cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/CoreBlueprints/Weapons/PrimalItem_WeaponMetalHatchet.PrimalItem_WeaponMetalHatchet'" 1 0 0

Crafting

Required level

Level 20

Engram points

6 EP

Crafting XP

5.6 XP

Prerequisites

• Stone Hatchet

Crafted in

• Smithy
• Argentavis Saddle
• Castoroides Saddle
• Thorny Dragon Saddle
• Tek Replicator

Required stations

Refining Forge

Ingredients

8 × Metal Ingot or Scrap Metal Ingot

1 × Wood or Fungal Wood

10 × Hide

Purchase (Mobile)

Item Quality

Journeyman

Purchased in

 Outpost 

Cost

70 ×  Slips 

Overview

A Metal Hatchet in ARK: Survival Evolved is the metal version of the Stone Hatchet. It not only has a faster gathering speed, but it also harvests more resources from each renewable resource and has a higher chance of collecting the rarer resources.

Gathering

Resource	Efficiency
Mutagel	★★★★★
AnglerGel	★★★★☆
Leech Blood	★★★★☆
Wood	★★★★☆
Chitin	★★★★☆
Pelt	★★★★☆
Hide	★★★★☆
Keratin	★★★★☆
Sand	★★★★☆
Stone	★★★☆☆
Raw Meat	★★☆☆☆

Quality

Items which use stats, namely Melee Damage, Durability, Armor, Hypothermic Insulation and Hyperthermic Insulation, have Item Quality, with higher quality items having better overall stats (though lower quality items may be randomly superior in an individual stat). Items with improved quality can be obtained from beacons, loot crates, and other forms of loot drops (such as from killing predators), while blueprints of higher quality items are obtainable only from beacons and loot crates. Items with higher quality can cost substantially more than primitive versions.

Items that are affected by quality::

• Weapons
• Tools
• Armor
• Shields
• Saddles

There are currently six levels of quality, defined as follows.

	Primitive	Ramshackle	Apprentice	Journeyman	Mastercraft	Ascendant
Random Multiplier Threshold	1	1.25	2.5	4.5	7	10
Crafting XP Multiplier	1	2	3	4	5	6
Repairing XP Multiplier	1	2	3	4	5	6
Crafting Resources Requirements Multiplier	1	1.33	1.67	2	2.5	3.5

Ramshackle Blueprints are also obtainable via beacons.

Notes/Trivia

• On ARK: Survival Evolved Mobile Metal Hatchets can deal Torpidity. This may be a glitch.