RUSTLY
Salvaged Cleaver
Weapons

Salvaged Cleaver

salvaged.cleaver

A brutal two-handed melee weapon with high damage but slow swings.

Damage & Attachments

60
Damage

Crafting

Metal Fragments×50
Road Signs×1
Workbench Lvl 1Craft time: 30s

Blueprint

30
Research (scrap)
30
Tech tree node (scrap)
315
Tech tree path (scrap)
Workbench Lvl 1
Requires

Recycling

recyclingSafezone Recycler
Metal Fragments×20
Road Signs×1(40%)
warningRadtown Recycler
Metal Fragments×30
Road Signs×1(60%)

Radtown recyclers (found in monuments) give more than the safe-zone recyclers at Outpost and Bandit Camp. A percentage next to a yield is the chance of receiving it.

Repair

buildRepair Bench
Metal Fragments×10
High Quality Metal×1
Condition lost per repair: 20%Blueprint required: Yes

Cost shown is the maximum, to repair from near-broken to full condition.

Looted From

GingerbreadMedium PresentTools CrateUnderwater Lab - Tools CrateUnderwater Basic CrateSUPER StockingUnderwater Advanced CrateWagon - Normal CrateNormal CrateUnderwater Lab - Normal Crate 2Abandoned Military Base ScientistAirfield Scientist
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