Are you hosed if you lose your starter weapon?

So my starter sword disappeared during a fight. It costs a ton of bits to make a new weapon, which i can't get without a weapon...Seems like I'm pretty much dead in the water at this point. Is there any other way to get a new weapon other than crafting them?

 

you can find them in chests sometimes, not that rare but getting to those chests without being mauled when you have no way to defend yourself is something you have to figure out for yourself

 

Same thing happened to me but i just kept digging down next to my spawn point until i found enough iron to make a new sword. It took a while but there is a bunch of money in capsules and ore in tunnels deep under ground.