Metal Bat

Details

It does not stack, so every spare copy costs an inventory slot. At 41,760 gold it is worth real money to a merchant.

Metal Bat Crafting Recipe

Hardwood×60

Refined Ingot×40

What it really costs, once every sub-recipe is expanded

Coal×80Ore×80Hardwood×60

Crafting it takes 100 materials across 2 types, and the bottleneck is almost always the 60× 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 0.5% per container, and the table below lists every tier and where each one drops.

Using Metal Bat Well

Two lines on the recipe, and both hide a step. The 40 Refined Ingot are 80 Ore and 80 Coal that have to go through a furnace before the bench ever sees them, which is the easy half — 1,632 ore nodes and 824 coal nodes sit on the map. Hardwood is the awkward half, because it cannot be crafted from anything. Mossanda, Mossanda Lux, Palumba and Wumpo Botan each hand it over on every kill (1 to 3, 1 to 3, 2 to 4 and 2 to 5), and the desert, village and volcano shops all stock it at 100 gold apiece, as does the wandering trader — so 6,000 gold buys the entire wood side of the bill without you ever finding a hardwood tree. Budget the bench as well: this build is 1,920,000 work against 60,000 for the plain Metal Bat, thirty-two times the crafting time out of the same two materials, so put your best craft-speed Pals on the Weapon Assembly Line before you start.

Keep the schematic on your person the whole time you are building. The Legendary option only shows up at the bench while the sheet is in your own inventory — park it in a base chest for tidiness and the menu quietly drops back to offering the plain Metal Bat, with no warning that anything is missing.

Know what 750 attack actually buys before you commit to the schematic hunt: the Katana the Technology tree hands you at level 44 for two points already swings for 780, and its own Legendary reaches 1,170. What the Bat wins on is the bill and the backpack. Nothing that out-hits it is buildable from ore, coal and wood — the Katana needs Pal Metal Ingot, and behind that Pure Quartz and Paldium Fragments, plus Venom Glands and Sulfur for its solvent; Lily's Spear wants High Quality Cloth, the Beam Sword wants Plastic and a Computer, the Laser Sword wants Sky Island ingots and AI Cores. This one asks for nothing you were not already mining. It also weighs 3 where every sword, katana and spear weighs 10 or more, which makes it the best attack-per-weight melee weapon in the game and a cheap thing to keep slotted as a backup, and its 2,000 durability matches the Legendary Katana and Beam Sword — only the Laser Sword line outlasts it.

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 4	4★	Desert sea base camp stashes, Snowfields camp stashes, Desert chests +6 more — best 0.5% (grade 3/5/6) · Supply drops in the Desert (0.1%)

Alternatives and Upgrades

Step up from here and you get Katana at 780 attack; step down and it is Metal Bat at 650. How far apart those two sit tells you whether to spend now or keep what you have.

Katana780Metal Bat650

Other melee weapons at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class:

SwordLegendary MeowmereMeowmereKatanaExcaliburLily's SpearBeam SwordTerra BladeNightglowTerraprismaPlasma MulticutterEnhanced Lily's Spear