If you come across a furnace after harvesting 3 or 4 Metal Ore, take the time to craft the weaponized hatchet. Read more about this on the Crafting page. You may be able to find a furnace in your server, or you may need to craft your own. You can also obtain Metal Ore by bashing lone boulders with your rock, but you'll need to use a furnace to turn the ore into Metal Fragments.
Stone can be obtained by bashing boulders that are standing out in the middle of a field. There are a lot of trees out in the world, which means there is a lot of wood. Wood can be obtained by bashing trees with your rock. To do that, you'll need to Craft two other items together.ΔΆ0 Wood + 10 Metal Fragments (furnace required)
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You'll want to get rid of your ever-spawning rock as soon as possible, to upgrade it in favor of either the Stone Hatchet or the fancier (and deadlier) Hatchet weapon. It is a terrible weapon against wild animals and an even worse weapon against intelligent players that may have guns by now. The default rock item is used to gather supplies out in the world, and it'll be your only weapon when first starting off. There are two key things to keep in mind when attempting to survive in the wilderness: sustenance and self-defense. Once you've gotten over getting beaten to death with a rock by that jerk DMoney69, you'll want to have an idea of what to do and where to go in order to survive for more than a few hours.