Hatchets are faster harvesting carcasses 51-100% frozen. Hatchets can also allow the player to cut down maple and birch saplings without a hacksaw. It can also be used to break down many wooden objects such as shelves and crates into reclaimed wood.
The hatchet can be used to harvest sticks from branches and some scrub brush, cedar firewood from cedar limbs, and fir firewood from fir limbs.
