Attacking

The Steel Cleaver is a Shield Breaching weapon. If you perform a critical hit with it on an entity using a Shield, it will disable that shield and deal damage through it.

It also comes with Innate Looting I.

Usage

The Steel Cleaver mimicks Axe functionality on usage - it can strip bark off of logs and wax / oxidation off of copper blocks.

Mining

The Steel Cleaver is a Instabreak Tool - it has a set of blocks that it can instantly break no matter the circumstance. For the Steel Cleaver, this includes congealed / biological blocks such as Rubber, Moss, and Sculk..

It can also mine anything that an Axe can.