Metal Bat
Weapon · WeaponMelee2★Metal bat suited to close quarters — blunt force for anyone the wielder has taken a dislike to.
Metal Bat is 23rd of 79 melee weapons by attack, at 600 against the 2,400 of Laser Sword.
No recipe takes it as an ingredient. Whatever you build is the finished article, so there is no reason to hoard spares.
Details
It does not stack, so every spare copy costs an inventory slot. At 31,320 gold it is worth real money to a merchant.
Metal Bat Crafting Recipe
Hardwood×45
Refined Ingot
Coal×60
Ore×60Crafting it takes 75 materials across 2 types, and the bottleneck is almost always the 45× requirement — line that up first and the rest follows.
Where to Find Metal Bat
The recipe is not on the Technology tree — it is locked behind a schematic you have to find first. The best single source is sea base enemy camp boss stashes in the Desert at 12.6% per container, and the table below lists every tier and where each one drops.
Every Tier of Metal Bat
The same piece exists at 5 rarities, and the gap is not cosmetic: attack runs 500 to 750, a 1.5x swing. Which one you end up with is decided by the rarity of the schematic you built from, not by the recipe — so a legendary copy of this is worth more than the next item up built from a common one.
Schematics That Unlock Metal Bat
The Technology tree hands you the plain Metal Bat at level 40 for 3 Technology points, but nothing above that base version — the rarer builds are schematic-only. One schematic grants the recipe, and they are world loot — chests, boss Pals and the late-game pools — rather than anything you research. Higher-rarity copies of the same schematic raise the quality of what you end up crafting.
Fastest route. The fastest route is sea base enemy camp boss stashes in the Desert, and the reason is the ladder rather than the top rung: that pool stocks every tier, so the common copies it hands you fuse upward into the one you want. Counting them, a top-tier Metal Bat schematic works out at roughly 66 containers against the 198 the 4★ drop rate alone suggests. Spare low tiers are progress, not clutter. Schematics fuse five-to-one, so a lower tier with better odds can beat the top tier outright. Counts are containers of that source, not time.
| Schematic | Rarity | Where it comes from |
|---|---|---|
 Metal Bat Schematic 2 | 2★ | Desert sea base camp stashes, Snowfields camp stashes, Desert chests +6 more — best 12.6% (grade 3/5/6) · Supply drops in the Desert (2.53%) |
Alternatives and Upgrades
Step up from here and you get Terra Blade at 637 attack; step down and it is Terra Blade at 552. Weigh the jump against what the next tier costs you before committing the resources.
Other melee weapons at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class:
