Metal Hatchet

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

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Metal Hatchet
A sharp metal hatchet for harvesting wood from trees, stone from rocks, and skin from bodies.
Weapon
Type	Tool
Melee damage	40.0
Item
Weight	2.0
Durability	40
Durability per use	0.075
Single use	No
Item ID	36
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
Found in Beacon	Blue
Crafting
Required level	Level 20
Engram Points	6 EP
Crafting XP	2.8 XP
Prerequisites	Stone Hatchet
Unlocks	Metal Hammer Metal Sickle
Crafted in	Smithy Argentavis Saddle Castoroides Saddle Thorny Dragon Saddle  Tek Replicator
Ingredients
Resources breakdown 8 × Metal Ingot or Scrap Metal Ingot 1 × Wood or Fungal Wood 10 × Hide
Purchase (Mobile)
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
Leech Blood	★★★★☆
Wood	★★★★☆
Chitin	★★★★☆
Pelt	★★★★☆
Hide	★★★★☆
Angler Gel	★★★★☆
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 6 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.