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The hatchet is a weapon in Fallout: New Vegas.
Characteristics[]
A one-handed axe-head bladed weapon with a rubber-gripped wooden handle for chopping wood and limbs alike. Unlike the throwing hatchet, it is not balanced for use as a projectile weapon.
Compared to the cleaver, the hatchet deals around twice as much damage per strike at a similar attack speed, thus having a higher damage-per-second (DPS) value. It deals around twice as much critical hit damage, costs the same amount of AP, has slightly more durability, weighs the same, and has a higher caps value. Conversely, the cleaver requires no Melee Weapons skill level to the hatchet's 25, and the same 2 Strength attribute level.
The primary element of the weapon is that it deals bonus damage to a target's limbs, increasing the chance of crippling them. It is considered an improved holdout weapon.
Special attack[]
The hatchet has a special Back Slash attack, which does 70% damage in V.A.T.S. at the cost of 5 less action points (requires a Melee skill of 50).
| Legend | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | - Type of attack |  | - Skill required | |
 | - Damage per attack in V.A.T.S. |  | - Action point cost | |
 | - Damage per action point |  | - Additional effects | |
| | | | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Normal | 0 | 32 | 22 | 1.45 |
| Back Slash | 50 | 22.4 | 17 | 1.32 |
- Note: Melee weapons do double normal damage in V.A.T.S.
It is possible to execute Back Slash outside of V.A.T.S. (without the required Melee skill of 50 to perform the move) by initiating a power attack (hold attack button) while moving forward.
Durability[]
The hatchet can successfully strike about 1,495 times from full condition before breaking.
Variants[]
- Throwing hatchet - a projectile variant found throughout the Mojave Wasteland.
Tomahawk - a functionally similar weapon used by the tribals of Zion.- Poisoned hatchet - a non-playable weapon sometimes used by White Legs pain-makers.
Comparison[]
| Legend | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | - Weapon name (melee or unarmed) |  | - Attacks in V.A.T.S. | |
 | - Weapon name (gun, energy or explosive) | | - Action point cost | |
| - Damage per attack (damage per projectile) | | - Damage per action point | |
 | - Damage per second |  | - Weapon spread | |
 | - Area of effect damage |  | - Magazine capacity (shots per reload) | |
| - Effect damage & duration |  | - Durability (number of attacks before breaking) | |
 | - Bonus effects |  | - Weight | |
| - Attacks per second |  | - Value in caps | |
 | - Critical chance % multiplier |  | - Value to weight ratio | |
 | - Critical damage | | - Skill required | |
 | - Critical effect damage & duration |  | - Strength required | |
 | - With all mods attached | |||
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hatchet | 16 | 40.6 | x1.5 limb  | 2.54 | x1 | 16 | 22 | 1.5 | 1495 | 2 | 75 | 37.5 | 25 | 2 |
| Throwing hatchet | 20 | 17.6 | x1.5 limb | 0.88 | x1 | 20 | 22 | 1.8 | 4995 | 2 | 20 | 10 | 25 | 1 |
Tomahawk  | 30 | 19.8 | x1.5 limb | 0.66 | x1 | 30 | 23 | 2.6 | 4995 | 0.5 | 75 | 150 | 50 | 3 |
- Note: Melee damage is doubled in V.A.T.S.
Locations[]
- Deathclaw promontory - Sometimes found on one of the dead prospectors, alongside a set of T-51b power armor and Remnants power armor.
- Freeside - Freeside thugs occasionally use them.
- Mojave Outpost barracks - Occasionally sold by Lacey.
- Nipton - Randomly carried on a dead prospector inside the Town Hall, on the assembly floor.
- The Thorn - Carried by Red Lucy.
- The Prospector's Den - Sometimes found on the corpses.
- Vault 3 - Equipped by some Fiends.
- Vault 19 - The escaped convicts occasionally carry them.
- Often carried by White Legs pain-makers.
- Sometimes used by lobotomites from levels 20-40.
Notes[]
- Drop sounds for the hatchet are the same sounds used for the hollow barrel physics objects.
