Stone Hatchet
Primitive tool used for harvesting wood from trees and logs.
The Stone Hatchet is a melee tool in Rust for chopping trees. It deals 15 damage per hit (10 slash and 5 blunt) and swings once every 0.9 seconds, 16.7 damage per second. You can craft it without a workbench, and its blueprint costs 10 scrap to research.
About the Stone Hatchet
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 304 hits. On an animal corpse it takes 10 health per hit and loses 0.33 condition each time.
Stone Hatchet damage and stats
Its gather rate on trees is 20 health per hit, 22.2 per second of steady chopping. Of the 8 tools that chop trees, it ranks 5th for gather rate.
How to craft the Stone Hatchet
Crafting one takes 15 seconds without a workbench and costs 200 × Wood and 100 × Stones.
200 
100 
How to get the Stone Hatchet blueprint
Research it for 10 scrap at a Research Table.
1 Item 
10 Scrap Blueprint 10 How to repair the Stone Hatchet
A full repair at a Repair Bench costs 41 × Wood and 21 × Stones, and you need its blueprint.
×41 ×21 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 Stone Hatchet recycles into
A green recycler always gives back 100 × Wood and 50 × Stones for one.
×100 ×50 ×120 ×60 
×150 ×75 
×80 ×40 Where to find the Stone Hatchet
Mine Crate has the best chance at 7.7%, followed by Minecart at 7.7%.
Stats checked against the Rust game files on 12 November 2026.
