Started new game.... Elo' Axes !!! anyone...

[Jessian Kaanneo]

Okay, restarted again (gotta love these instant deaths) as Axe man and in the little town of Rosewood.

Now I have looted the fire station. ( ZERO axes) (B:42) I have more or less scoured the town of little Rosewood. Has anyone found any Axes in this town?

[maeharaprojekt]

If you chose the right traits, you should be able to gather the materials through foraging and then craft a stone axe, to use until you find one of the several steel axes.

[Jessian Kaanneo]

Originally posted by maeharaprojekt:

If you chose the right traits, you should be able to gather the materials through foraging and then craft a stone axe, to use until you find one of the several steel axes.

Its Looking likely i will need to do this, tried to get one to save me having to do that.

[NiL]

Originally posted by Jessian Kaanneo:

Okay, restarted again (gotta love these instant deaths) as Axe man and in the little town of Rosewood.

Now I have looted the fire station. ( ZERO axes) (B:42) I have more or less scoured the town of little Rosewood. Has anyone found any Axes in this town?

Hatchets, hand axes, and wood axes also count towards axe skill, and are just about as effective. Until I find one if I'm running axe man I usually go with one of those that are generally common to find in tool spawns, or i just deal with it, use a log blunt or short blunt I find, then switch to an axe when I find one.

[fowlcon]

in answer to your question i have found axes in the firestation in rosewood in one play there was 4 the next none

[Jessian Kaanneo]

Originally posted by fowlcon:

in answer to your question i have found axes in the firestation in rosewood in one play there was 4 the next none

Yeah have had a nightmare on starting in rosewood. nothing in firestation. Except a mop.

Now has anyone seen or knows location of the fire trucks?

I did find one up near west point i Think it was on the road with 3 or 4 firemen outside it

[Gimple]

Well there is a simple remedy.
Make a new game and pick sandbox and bump up the loot tables to normal for tools and weapons.
If you want to stay with your game, maybe someone can instruct you how to spawn a axe.

[NiL]

Originally posted by Jessian Kaanneo:

Originally posted by fowlcon:

in answer to your question i have found axes in the firestation in rosewood in one play there was 4 the next none

Yeah have had a nightmare on starting in rosewood. nothing in firestation. Except a mop.

Now has anyone seen or knows location of the fire trucks?

I did find one up near west point i Think it was on the road with 3 or 4 firemen outside it

I was about to say firemen and fire trucks usually have 1 on them, or at least 1 or 2 in the truck bed, but the locations are generally randomized to be near the random gen burnt houses.

Axes are much more the upkeep now though, so i usually go for a short blunt or long blunt build, so I don't have to worry about sharpness, or a short or long blade build so sharpness is all I have to worry about beside durability, but axes have head and handle durability, plus sharpness.

Just making suggestions, blunt weapons with stout and stomping to finish tends to be a much more efficient use of weapon durability as far as I've seen.

[MrMinMax]

Yes, crowbar still rules. Although metal plated baseball bat is pretty good too.

Even after they halved the "sharpness loss" speed last patch, bladed weapons are still not on par with long blunt. Yea, long blade kills in 1-2 hits, and stamina loss is small, but i have to carry 4 short swords in a backpack each raid and keep sharpening them.

Have to change my opinion on bladed. Top tier blades have increased durability and less edge loss per hit. With high level long blade skill top tier blades are absolutely devastating. Especially the 2-H sword. But getting there is hard.

[rmemech]

i thought meat cleavers count as axes now too? might find some in restaurants and personal kitchens

[rmemech]

also find the whetstones to sharpen the axes in there as well, more likely in restaurants

[Gootsu]

I have loot for tools at 4 and I have found 2 total axes in like 30-40 hours play and 1 was stuck on a zombie back literally I have found more sledge hammers than axes, but the cream of the crop is the mason chisel, I have only found 1.

Yes the meat cleavers also give axe experience now. fun fact creating the stone axes now level up maintenance skill.

But the loot it is still very annoying tbh right now I am on a 6 months later setting on rosewood, and I have clear the 2 big houses of the south and the whole street of the bottom of the school, that is literally 2 big houses, 2 garages, 4 tools sheaths, 5 basements and a tools closet on each of the total of 10 houses I looted and guess what I have found 0 Fuc**** boxes of nails, I mean come on man wtf, this is kentucky on the 80s there is probably hundreds of nails on each of the houses, ffs then it is supposed to be "realistic" it turns that zombies eat nails now aparently. I have killed 500 zombies to clear 10 houses the school looks like a rock concert. So yeah can not really build anything without nails, fun.

[Kot]

Make a bunch of stone axes. As you level your knapping you can make bigger stone axes, and bone axes. Also, they spawn more often in logging areas and tool sheds. And in random story craftspeople vans. You can also start metalworking, and craft axes from buzzsaw blades, and then make your own axes when you get your skill high enough.
The perk is nice, but still, other weapons are as effective, and more easy to obtain.

[Jessian Kaanneo]

Eventually found axes, so i looted all 6 of them.

Drove all the way to Ekron firestation and inside the massive storage area in the middle found them all hiding inside.

Rejoice !!! At last, now i can chopppp da wood..

Oh, just in case you have not found this yet yourself, there is a very cool boarded house nearby that has a very cool basement

Coords, X 929, Y 9916. Has an underground basement with a few machines to make stuff