The bronze hatchet is the weakest hatchet in RuneScape. It may be wielded for combat or used to cut trees in Woodcutting. Players can make a bronze hatchet with the Smithing skill at level 1 using one bronze bar, giving the player 12.5 Smithing experience. Players can attain this hatchet for free from Bob's Brilliant Axes in Lumbridge or pick one up at the chicken farm by the Lumbridge cow field. Bronze hatchets can be stored in the tool belt.
At the Lumbridge respawn location in the chicken coop, the hatchet in the stump still uses the RuneScape Classic graphical model. The examine text of the hatchet reads "Don't bury this one.", a reference to the idiom burying the hatchet.