How to get and use the Ice Axe in DayZ Frostline: Sakhal

The Ice Axe is not a new item to DayZ. It was added to the game a very long time ago and has since become a staple of the melee arsenal. However, DayZ Frostline and its focus on the icy land of Sakhal has made the Ice Axe more desirable to players.

It’s not the most common item to find throughout Sakhal, so we’re going to show you how to get and use the Ice Axe in DayZ Frostline.

Where does the Ice Axe spawn in DayZ Frostline: Sakhal?

If you’re looking for the Ice Axe in DayZ Frostline: Sakhal, simply finding it on the ground will be your best bet. So, where exactly does it spawn? To find out, we can take a look at the game’s loot economy files on the game’s official GitHub.

This reveals some interesting information. The Ice Axe spawns in anything marked as a town or village by the game, and there’s a minimum of nine on the map at any given time. This means you’ll need to head into your nearest town and get looting, as you won’t just find the Ice Axe out in the wilderness!

With this information in mind, it’s also worth mentioning that you can always loot the Ice Axe from another dead player, who you may or may not have killed.

Finding the Ice Axe in the Scientific Briefcase

If you’re struggling to find the Ice Axe around Sakhal, it’s 100% guaranteed to appear in a Scientific Briefcase. These briefcases have a random chance to appear next to dead scientists anywhere on the map but are locked by default. To open them, you’ll need to find the Scientific Briefcase Keys, which you can do with our guide here.

Because of the random nature of Scientific Briefcases, we wouldn’t be counting on this to appear. Still, it’s worth knowing about if you want to get the Ice Axe in DayZ Frostline: Sakhal.

How to use the Ice Axe in DayZ Frostline: Sakhal

So, you’ve got yourself an Ice Axe. What now? Strangely, DayZ Frostline doesn’t add any new functionality to the weapon-tool hybrid, but it’s as useful as ever. Equip it by dragging it from your inventory to your hotbar along the bottom of your screen, where you can use it for any of the following things:

• Opening cans, although it spills 20-40% of the food.
• Mining rocks to get Large Stones.
• Digging up worms from the ground to get fishing bait.
• Removing constraints from players.
• Attacking zombies and players as a melee weapon.
• Building Fences and Watchtowers.
• Dismantling player-built bases.
• Creating plots for fruits and vegetables.

Anything is possible in the future, so hopefully, Bohemia Interactive will give the Ice Axe more uses specific to Sakhal. An Ice Axe for an icy map — it just makes sense.