This tool is very good for newbies, u can grind almost any resourses and keep repairing them so it costs less materials, it's also good for killing

beginner dinos it has 22 damage

Stone hatchet

Crafting: 1 flint, 1 wood, 10 Thatch

Damage: 20

Durability: 40

Gathers wood and stone faster.

-the itemdex

You can get better versions of this from the blue drops in the swamp cave (alphas don't drop better versions of these)

For example, I got a ramshackle stone axe from one of these.

This is better at getting wood and stone than the pick and hide

Being a Stone Beginner Tool it is cheap and worse than most tools but good for early game grinding of resource