Hatchet

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For hatchets from Stealing Creation, see Hatchet (Stealing Creation).

Slot	Main-hand
Style	Slash
Speed	Fast (3.0s)

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The hatchet is the tool used in Woodcutting to chop trees. (Prior to 1 April 2009, a hatchet was called an axe; all woodcutting axes were since renamed to hatchets to clear up ambiguity between other items such as pickaxes, battleaxes, and thrownaxes.)

A hatchet is a melee weapon, available in all varieties of metal except white, although its power and speed are less favourable than many other weapons. Hatchets can be used to slash webs. A bronze hatchet spawns on the wood stump at the chicken farm in the north east section of Lumbridge. All hatchets except for the crystal hatchet, the dragon hatchet, the black hatchet, the inferno adze, and the sacred clay hatchet, can be smithed using the Smithing skill.

All hatchets (except the blessed, sacred clay, and black hatchets) can now be added to the tool belt. This saves inventory space while woodcutting, without needing to be equipped. However once a hatchet is added it cannot be removed.

Types of hatchets

The level required to wield a hatchet is different than the level required to use a hatchet to chop trees. Wielding is governed by Attack level while chopping trees is governed by Woodcutting level. For example, a player with level 1 Attack and level 61 Woodcutting can use a dragon hatchet to chop trees, but not wield it as their Attack level is not high enough.

Item		Level	Level	Main-hand			Off-hand			Attributes			Style bonus			Price
				Style	Dmg	Acc	Style	Dmg	Acc
	Dwarven army axe	1	1	Slash	183	160	-	-	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	Obtained during Troll Warzone
	Bronze hatchet	1	1	Slash	30	110	-	-	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	1,459
	Iron hatchet	1	10	Slash	61	152	-	-	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	2,576
	Steel hatchet	6	20	Slash	122	202	-	-	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	3,019
	Black hatchet	6	25	Slash	147	223	-	-	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	3,295
	Mithril hatchet	21	30	Slash	183	257	-	-	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	5,242
	Blessed hatchet	35	20	Slash	9	110	-	-	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	Made during the quest Animal Magnetism
	Adamant hatchet	31	40	Slash	245	316	-	-	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	10,119
	Rune hatchet	41	50	Slash	306	381	-	-	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	9,120
	Sacred clay hatchet/Volatile clay hatchet	50	1	Slash	24	110	-	-	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	20 Stealing Creation points
	Dragon hatchet	61	60	Slash	367	454	-	-	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	3,221,368
	Inferno adze	61?	1	Slash	447	454	-	-	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	Beacon network reward
	Crystal hatchet	71	70	Slash	428	536	-	-	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	4000 harmonic dust & a dragon hatchet

Dungeoneering hatchets

These hatchets could only be obtained and used during Dungeoneering.

Table of hatchets

Tier	Item	Levels to use
1	Novite hatchet	1 Attack; 1 Woodcutting
2	Bathus hatchet	10 Attack; 10 Woodcutting
3	Marmaros hatchet	20 Attack; 20 Woodcutting
4	Kratonite hatchet	30 Attack; 30 Woodcutting
5	Fractite hatchet	40 Attack; 40 Woodcutting
6	Zephyrium hatchet	50 Attack; 50 Woodcutting
7	Argonite hatchet	60 Attack; 60 Woodcutting
8	Katagon hatchet	70 Attack; 70 Woodcutting
9	Gorgonite hatchet	80 Attack; 80 Woodcutting
10	Promethium hatchet	90 Attack; 90 Woodcutting
11	Primal hatchet	99 Attack; 99 Woodcutting

Trivia

A player wielding a Dragon hatchet.

• When the woodcutting animation was changed, only the sacred clay hatchet retained the old woodcutting animation.
• Axes were renamed as 'Hatchets' on 1 April 2009 to avoid confusion, but this temporarily caused some scams as people said that a hatchet was a rare item.
• Before the introduction of hatchets, the Broken axe random event was removed and all remaining broken pieces were removed from the game.
• Interestingly, hatchets can be made using the Smithing skill with only the metal bar and a hammer, there is no wood involved in the production and thus the origin of the hatchet's handle remains a mystery.
• After the Evolution of Combat update, if players were woodcutting with a sheathed hatchet, it would appear in their hand but also remain sheathed on their back at the same time, giving the appearance of having two hatchets equipped. This also happened when mining with a sheathed pickaxe. This was fixed on 13 May 2013, causing them to be unsheathed when they are being used for woodcutting, and another update on 17 June caused them to be sheathed again after use.