Hatchets rarer, crowbars more common?

[kander 80]

Has anyone else noticed that finding a hatchet is much, much harder since the arrival of 1.7.2.5?

Before, it was so easy, and crowbars seemed really rare. Now it seems to be the other way round.

One of my recent lives, the crowbar was the only weapon spawn in the first 5 buildings I went in. Cherno supermarket contained 4 but had no other weapons! The fire station had one and no other weapons.

[grylsyjaeger 171]

Really?

I often find a hatchet more than anything else.

[Janson 8]

I'm still finding hatchets way more than crowbars, sounds like it's just that server

[RaysGoodLiquor 93]

About half the barns I enter spawn only hatchets. I still only find a crowbar now and then.

[Jay Shack 28]

goes to barn: disproves logic.

Edited August 29, 2012 by Jay Shack

[kander 80]

I'm still finding hatchets way more than crowbars, sounds like it's just that server

hmm maybe so. Can server admins do that? adjusting spawn probabilities I mean

[deathstrike616 32]

Same, I almost never see crowbars, only saw one once in my hours of playing DayZ, hatchets and even crossbows are more common for me.

[EyeoftheYeti 44]

hmm maybe so. Can server admins do that? adjusting spawn probabilities I mean

More likely is the type of spawn you search. Sounds to me like you do mostly residential looting. Hatchets are an almost exclusively Farmland item. There's a 10.something% chance for every single farm spawn to be a hatchet. In a barn with 12 loot spawns, that comes out to more than a 70% chance. Look for the red roofs.

[Lysander_of_Sparta 43]

Hatchets do more damage than crowbars, but I've found hatchets more often. I think it's because hatchets spawn at industrial loot zones and crowbars spawn at residential loot zones.