Improve Rusty Axe

[Wapplino]

The Rusty Axe can be found at the very end of the submerged cave.
And yet despite being all the way at the end of the cave, the axe itself isn't that good.
The Modern Axe, which is much better than the Rusty Axe, takes a lot less time to obtain.
Most people end up already having the Modern Axe by the time they find the Rusty one, making it pretty much useless in the end. The only thing it can boast over the Modern Axe is a slightly higher block stat, which hardly matters that much.
If the Rusty Axe's stats were improved, say to make it do more damage or swing faster, it would make it a lot less pointless.
Or, better yet, just move it back to where you would originally find it in older versions of the game, in the cave you spawn in when you die.
This way, newer players are more likely to encounter it before the Modern Axe, giving it somewhat of a point.

[RequiemsRose]

The rusty axe does have it's uses. It is one of few items in the game with a perfect block which is nice but the less known perk is that it has a higher knockdown power than the modern axe. It is slower, less damaging, and less effective with trees than the modern axe so many favor modern axe for it's general adaptability and power in most situations but you can still use the rusty axe pretty effectively if you understand it well enough. Like other axes it can also be upgraded to adjust it to better suit your playstyle. Though I do think they expected people to stumble across rebreather cave pretty early on in the game considering how many players enjoy building in the yacht beach area and how many caves encourage/require rebreather to fully explore for other items

I will admit it is far from my favorite weapon (but then again I favor katana so...maybe I don't really apply in the case of axes) but I do think it's fairly well balanced. I could agree it could be somewhere a bit more likely to be found early on, but hanging cave (where you respawn when you die) is the same cave that you can find the modern axe in so moving it back to there would still render it fairly useless by the same logic of putting it in a place where you are likely to find it before modern axe (although didn't it used to be in rebreather/submerged cave, just earlier than it is now?).

[Wariat117]

the end of the submerged cave is early game and there are no dangers on the way there, it's basically freebie both MP and SP