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The Hacksaw is a tool with several critical functions, including harvesting saplings and furniture made of a variety of materials. Scrap Metal is required to repair it.
Uses
The hacksaw is the only tool able to break down Metal Shelves and other metal items to obtain scrap metal. It is required to open Cargo Containers on Timberwolf Mountain, and it can be used instead of a Hatchet to cut small tree limbs (a hatchet must be used for the largest limbs) and saplings. It also can be used to harvest carcasses for meat, hides, or guts, although it may be more efficient to use bare hands or other tools. It cannot be used as a weapon in struggles.
One scrap metal and a set of Simple Tools or Quality Tools are needed to repair the hacksaw. Although it requires a tool set for repair (which are reasonably common), the hacksaw is a reliable way to harvest firewood without relying on hatchets and Whetstones, which can be in limited supply, or an Improvised Hatchet, which requires Forge to craft.
Uses of Hacksaw:
- Breaking down metal furniture (for Scrap Metal and Cloth).
- Open locked Cargo Containers in Timberwolf Mountain region. (N.B. a hacksaw breaking while opening one of these can make it permanently inaccessible. See Repair section.)
- Harvest frozen carcasses (Hacksaws have the same meat harvesting speeds as Hatchets, which means they are better used on frozen meat, but have worse speeds for hide or gut harvesting).
- Harvest downed tree limbs (for Fir Firewood or Cedar Firewood).
Unlike most other tools, Hacksaws cannot be selected as a tool for self-defense during a Wolf Struggle. For more information on Struggles, see: Wildlife Struggles.
Repair
Hacksaws are repairable with Tools using Scrap Metal. Also the Milling Machine in Bleak Inlet or Blackrock may repair a non-ruined hacksaw to 100% condition for one Scrap Metal, during an active Aurora. N.B. The hacksaw has a breaking threshold at 25% condition, usage below this number risks ruining it for good.
Locations
As with other items, the hacksaw will randomly spawn in any of several different locations on different play-throughs.
Some observed spawn points include:
- On a shelf in the control room of Carter Hydro Dam in the Upper Dam.
- Under the Workbench in the Trapper's Cabin.
- Under the stairs in the Lower Dam.
- Under the chair in front of the entrance in Trapper's Homestead.
- Under a bench near the workbench in the Lower Dam.
- On the barrel or a shelf along the wall in the engine room, 1st floor, Hibernia Processing.
- In a drawer at Desolation Point exit side.
- On a metal shelf, and under the large tool chest, inside Quonset Garage.
- In the Abandoned Lookout.
- On the workbench in the Mountaineer's Hut.
- Beside a corpse on a plateau near the Mountaineer's Hut.
- Next to a corpse by the Wing between Forest Cave and the entrance to Echo Ravine.
- Beside a corpse near the Engine in Echo Ravine.
- In the Tail Section (on the Summit).
- Beside a corpse. (near the Old Spence Family Homestead)
- Near the Bunkhouses.
- Poacher's Camp.
- On the workbench in the Old Spence Family Homestead
- In the ruined house by the shore next to a chair at the Old Spence Family Homestead.
- In the High Blind.
- In the Low Blind.
- Under the Shortwave Tower, to the East of the Hat Creek
- In a cave next to a corpse, the cave is located a ways to the right of the Poachers camp, when facing it from the Mystery Lake side.
- In the toolbox in the barn.
- Molly's barn.
- Behind a fallen shelf or on the workbench in the basement of Pleasant Valley Farmstead.
- On the workbench in the Prepper's Abandoned Cache.
- In the car immediately outside Pleasant Valley Farmstead.
- On the ground in an outbuilding near the big red barn at Pleasant Valley Outbuildings.
- Between the metal shelf and standing mattresses inside the Trailer.
- Town of Milton, Milton House (Grey Mother's)
- Paradise Meadows Farm, on a workbench
- On a chair behind cash register in Orca Gas Station
- On a shelf in the Last Resort Cannery Workshop
- Under a beam that makes up part of the Cannery obstacle course
- Inside the pickup closest to the "Cannery Worker Residences" next to the long bridge, just forward of the shifter.
- In the Cabin at Miner's Folly.
- By a Campfire on Fire Overlook.
- In the Barn at Cook's Farm.
- In Bricklayer's Retreat.
- Can be found on top of the workbench inside the Mirthless Fork trailer.
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