Salvaged Axe
A high-yield resource gathering axe. Slower than the Hatchet.
The Salvaged Axe is a melee tool in Rust for chopping trees. It deals 40 damage per hit (35 slash and 5 stab) and swings once every 1.25 seconds, 32 damage per second. You craft it at a Level 2 Workbench, and its blueprint costs 100 scrap to research.
About the Salvaged Axe
It can be thrown as well as swung. Every hit on a tree costs it 0.33 condition, so from full condition it chops for 1,516 hits. On an animal corpse it takes 15 health per hit and loses 1 condition each time. Recycling it returns the Metal Pipe only by chance, 50% of the time.
On the tech tree it sits behind one other unlock, the Longsword. In all, 26 loot sources drop it; the full list of where it drops gives the chance for each.
Salvaged Axe damage and stats
Its gather rate on trees is 50 health per hit, 40 per second of steady chopping. Of the 8 tools that chop trees, it ranks 3rd for gather rate.
How to craft the Salvaged Axe
Crafting one takes 25 seconds at a Level 2 Workbench and costs 1 × Metal Pipe and 5 × Metal Blade.
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5 
How to get the Salvaged Axe blueprint
Research it for 100 scrap, or unlock it on the Level 2 tech tree for 2 Blueprint Pages in total.
1 Item 
100 Scrap Blueprint 100 
Node 
1 Blueprint Page Unlocked 2 How to repair the Salvaged Axe
A full repair at a Repair Bench costs 1 × High Quality Metal and 31 × Metal Fragments, and you need its blueprint.
×1 
×31 Per hit is how much of the node one swing takes; wasted is the share destroyed rather than collected, which is why two tools at the same damage do not yield the same. Wear is the condition the tool loses per hit.
What the Salvaged Axe recycles into
A green recycler always gives back 2 × Metal Blade for one.
×2 50% 50% ×3 60% 
×3 75% 75% 
×2 40% Where to find the Salvaged Axe
Tool Box has the best chance at 2%, followed by Metal Detector at 1.8% and Treasure Box at 1.6%.
Metal Detector — 1.8% ×1 
Stats checked against the Rust game files on 12 November 2026.
