In RuneScape: Dragonwilds, progressing through the game’s crafting and gathering systems is key to survival. One of the first big upgrades you’ll want to make is to your logging axe. This guide breaks down everything about upgrading your axe, from crafting your first bronze tool to unlocking access to stronger materials like oak and iron.
How to Upgrade the Axe
Upgrading your axe in Runescape Dragon Wilds can be a bit tricky at first, especially when you’re just starting out. When you check the crafting table, you might notice there’s a bone pickaxe option once you’ve collected bone and leather, but there’s no bone axe because a bone version of the axe doesn’t exist. Instead, your next upgrade after the stone logging axe is the bronze logging axe.
How to Craft Bronze Tools
To craft a bronze axe, you’ll need a furnace and a kiln. The kiln becomes available once you collect clay, which you can find in the swamp area. After building the kiln, you can burn wood to create charcoal. Then, to unlock and use a furnace, you’ll first need to mine copper and tin ore.
Creating Bronze Bars and Building the Anvil
Once you’ve collected copper and tin, you can smelt them in the furnace, copper in one slot, tin in the other, to produce bronze bars. To gather Copper and Tin, head north of Whispering Swamp to the Fractured Plains, and make sure you’ve crafted a Bone Pickaxe first; it’s essential for mining these resources and can be made from animal bones, ash logs, and leather.
Once you’re there, look for large ore rocks that stand out from regular boulders. Copper nodes have a gray base with orange streaks, while Tin nodes are marked by yellow-green patches, making them fairly easy to spot once you know what to look for.
With bronze bars in hand, you’ll then unlock the option to craft a smithing anvil. If the anvil doesn’t show up right away, make sure you also have some coarse thread and a vault core in your inventory. With all that, you can finally build the anvil and use it to craft the bronze logging axe.
Building the Smithing Forge
The final step is to build the Smithing Forge and use the Smithing Anvil to craft your Bronze Axe. Once the forge is in place, simply open the anvil menu, go to the Tools section, and select the Bronze Axe. To construct the Smithing Forge, you’ll need 24 Stone, 8 Clay, 4 Steel, 10 Fire Runes, and 8 Vault Shards. Once crafted, the Bronze Axe is a major upgrade from the basic version; it’s faster, hits harder, and is much more efficient overall.
Equipping the bronze logging axe allows you to chop down oak trees, which is your gateway to the next tier: iron. After gathering oak wood, your next step is to find iron ore, which can be smelted into iron bars. You’ll find iron in the Storm Touch Highlands, again around the cliffsides. With iron bars, you can then craft the iron logging axe, marking your progress into the third tier of gear, moving up from stone to bronze and finally to iron.
