Axe

Axe=

Luxury Axe=

"An instrument for Industry and murder."

- Wendy

The Axe is a Tool which can be used to chop down trees or as a fairly weak weapon. It can be crafted at the start of the game with 1 Twig and 1 Flint.

The Luxury Axe is a variant of the normal Axe which requires Gold Nuggets instead of Flint, allowing Flint to be saved for other uses. It requires 2 Gold Nuggets, 4 Twigs to craft and a Alchemy Engine to prototype.

Usage
To chop down a Tree either click the Axe on the tree or equip it by right-clicking it from the belt. Once the player begins to chop the tree either hold down the LMB or Spacebar until the tree falls. Both Axes can be used as a weapon in the same way, and deal 27.2 damage. The Axe has 100 uses meaning each chop will reduce 1% of its durability; whether when it is used as a weapon or to chop down trees. While the Luxury Axe has 400 uses meaning each chop will reduce 0.25% of the items durability

Fallen Trees produce Logs and Pine Cones. It takes between 5 and 15 chops to fell a Tree, depending on its size. This means the Axe can fell 6 to 20 trees in its lifetime, while the Luxury Axe can chop down 26 to 80 trees. Spiky Trees (found in Marshes) can be chopped down for Logs or Twigs.

Trivia

 * The Luxury Axe was added in the October 2, 2012 update.
 * The Axe used to have a value of 1-10 Science Points depending on its durability when used on a Science Machine, while the Luxury Axe gave 1-35.
 * A character-specific item, Lucy the Axe, is given to Woodie upon spawn. It acts as an infinite durability axe that chops trees much faster but does less damage.
 * Gold is actually not a good metal to be used in tools or weapons as it is a soft metal and would easily break. This is often remarked when examined by some characters.
 * Axes do the same amount of damage as a Boomerang.
 * If the player tries to DebugSpawn a Pick/Axe by typing DebugSpawn"pick/axe", it will spawn a normal Axe.