It can harvest plants and bushes only giving fiber but a decent amount of it, can harvest only corpses of fish or underwater animals to give fish meat and a few prime fish meat, does the same damage as the pike (50), has less range than the pike but attacks faster than it so it has 95 dps instead of 75, and can be dropped from alpha creatures with quality. (Means it can drop as primitive/ramshackle/apprentice/journeyman/mastercraft/ascendant) This means that since it is harder to find a better sword on ume you can kill alphas until you get a sickle that has more than 180% weapon damage then switch out your sword for that since it will do more dps.