[Velvet Wafer]

Originally Posted by 1Kurgan1

The kick is just to unrealistic for a mod like this. I did enjoy DI, but it was a bit over the top as well, but it fit that game. And as far as a church being near, most decent sized towns have one, so I'd say pretty often, but that wasn't the point of me saying that. I was just saying that thats one place I have personally seen one, meaning they do spawn in places beyond hospitals, they may spawn elsewhere, but I'm doubting it since it wouldn't make much sense for people to just keep morphine stock piles in their house on the countryside.

It would be nice to see some extra easy to find weapons, though getting melee with a zombie (even with a 1 hit hatchet) is less than idea since they have a chance to break bones or make you bleed.

Also I haven't heard anything about a nerf to hatchet spawns next patch, here's the 1.7.2 patch notes (the patch is suppose to land today)

Spoiler

Changelog:
* [FIXED] Infected hear perfectly through objects (noise reduced by 50% through an object)
* [FIXED] Animal bodies despawn way too fast (now despawn automatically after 2 minutes)
* [FIXED] Corrupted update data causes people to spawn in debug forest (now will not save corrupted position data)
* [FIXED] States where animal might stop walking around (now should walk around more)
* [FIXED] Animal AI routines consuming large amounts of FPS (now in line with Infected AI routines, reduced FPS usage)
* [NEW] Player Syncing system replaced (increased performance and ammo quantity tracking)
* [FIXED] Error reports are almost invisible (has now been fixed)
* [FIXED] Daylight calculations causing slight FPS issue
* [NEW] Visibility now smoothly alters based on sun, moon, cloud, rain, and fog state
* [NEW] Aubility now dampened in rain and increased by fog
* [FIXED] Object cleanup causing significant (huge) performance issue on servers (reduced by up to 50%, means more players + zombies possible)
* [FIXED] Use of "allMissionObjects" causing performance issue on clients (new engine command "entities" used to improve FPS on clients)
* [FIXED] Too easy to break legs due to infected (reduced probability of leg damage, reduced amount of leg damage)
* [FIXED] Inspection of dead bodies does not work (fix only applies with ArmA2 Beta 94033 and above)
* [NEW] Exponent driven probability introduced into visibility calculation
* [FIXED] Hatchet/Crowbar requires reloading ( https://dev-heaven.net/issues/34903 )
* [FIXED] Unlimited Wire fence/Sandbag/Tank Trap Bug ( https://dev-heaven.net/issues/34283 )
* [FIXED] Duplication Exploit on object pickup ( https://dev-heaven.net/issues/34031 )
* [FIXED] Not full magazines disappear when you reconnect ( https://dev-heaven.net/issues/33998 )
* [NEW] Set Bear Traps that break player and infected legs, kills animals, when activated
* [NEW] Authentication process streamlined with new ArmA2 Beta commands (publicVariableServer and publicVariableClient)
* [NEW] Authentication for duplicate IDs supportive of the new beta patch (ArmAX users)

this was just from the Wiki:
http://dayzwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Hatchet

"The Hatchet is currently a very common loot drop, it is expected by much of the community to be reduced in frequency with coming patches. "

as said, why not beeing able to carry a big long wooden/iron stick, to crush zombie skulls?

there are surely enough metal scraps and wooden planks or bits lying around