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''This article refers to all hatchets, if you wish to view Hatchets from Stealing Creation see [[Hatchet (Stealing Creation)]]''

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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 then renamed as hatchets to clear up ambiguity between the woodcutting tool and other items such as [[pickaxe]]s, [[battleaxe]]s, 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 [[Dragon hatchet]], the [[Black hatchet]], the [[Inferno Adze]], and the [[Sacred clay hatchet]], can be smithed using the [[Smithing]] skill.

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. Therefore a level 3 combat player with level 61 woodcutting can use a Dragon hatchet to chop trees, but not wield it if their [[attack]] level is not high enough.

{| class="wikitable"
!Hatchet Type
![[Woodcutting]] level<br />required to use
![[Attack]] level<br />required to wield
![[Attack]] bonus<br />([[Slash]])
|-
|[[Dwarven army axe]]
|1
|1
| +8
|-
|[[Bronze hatchet]]
|1
|1
| +4
|-
|[[Iron hatchet]]
|1
|1
| +5
|-
|[[Steel hatchet]]
|6
|5
| +8
|-
|[[Black hatchet]]
|6
|10
| +10
|-
|[[Mithril hatchet]]
|21
|20
| +12
|-
|[[Blessed hatchet]]
|35
|1
| +1
|-
|[[Adamant hatchet]]
|31
|30
| +17
|-
|[[Volatile clay hatchet]]
|40
|1
| +14
|-
|[[Rune hatchet]]
|41
|40
| +26
|-
|[[Sacred clay hatchet]]
|40
|1
| +1
|-
|
[[Dragon hatchet]]
|61
|60
| +38
|-
|[[Inferno Adze]]
|61 (and 92 firemaking)
|1
| +19
|}

==Dungeoneering hatchets==
These hatchets could only be obtained and used during [[Dungeoneering]].

*[[Novite hatchet]]
*[[Bathus hatchet]]
*[[Marmaros hatchet]]
*[[Kratonite hatchet]]
*[[Fractite hatchet]]
*[[Zephyrium hatchet]]
*[[Argonite hatchet]]
*[[Katagon hatchet]]
*[[Gorgonite hatchet]]
*[[Promethium hatchet]]
*[[Primal hatchet]]

==Combat Styles==
{{CombatStyles AxeWoodcut}}

==Trivia==
[[File:Dragon hatchet equipped.png|thumb|150px|right|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 [[Random Event|Broken axe]] random event was removed and all remaining broken pieces were removed from the game.
*Interestingly, although 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.

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