Tools

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A tool is a resource that allows you to perform certain actions (via Action Icons or your Skills menu) that you could not do, if you did not have it in your possession.

A tool is generally not used up in the process, though many can break.

Blacksmithing Tools

Allows the working of metals on an Anvil. These require Advanced Blacksmithing to create but can be used without the tech. They're made in a Casting Box and take 5 minutes to cool.

• Ball Peen Hammer
  • 1 Iron and 1 Beeswax
• Round Hammer
  • 2 Iron and 2 Beeswax
• Shaping Mallet
  • 2 Lead and 2 Beeswax
• Wide Tungsten Chisel
  • 2 Tungsten and 2 Beeswax

Chit

Allows you to carve your name on a piece of Wood and use it as a token.

Dowsing Rod

Allows you to prospect for ore.

• Requires Dowsing
• Self > Skills > Assemble...
• 8 Cactus Sap, 1 Sharpened Stick

Fly Rods

Allows you to fish when you are near water.

• Requires Fishing
• Self > Skills > Assemble...
• Basic Fly Rod
  • 25 Twine, 1 Sharpened Stick

Gem Shearing Chisel

Made in a Casting Box from 7 Treated Metal. Used as an upgrade in a Gem Cutting Table

Hatchet

Allows you to gather extra wood when you harvest wood from a tree but increases time between harvests. Needs to be 3k quality or higher to get the bonus.

• Created on an Anvil from 20 Metal

Incense Prong

Used to add Herbs, Resin and Rose Petals to Incense in a Scent Lab.

• Requires Aromatics to craft and to use.
• Created in a Casting Box from 1 Pewter.

Knives

A variety of knives, along with the Carving skill, allow you to create a number of objects from wood. Self > Skills > Carving > Knives...

• Knife:Flint (quality 1)
  • 2 Flint, 1 Wood, 1 Twine
  • Will wear out after some number of uses.
• Knife:Glass (quality 2)
  • 1 Glass Blade and 4 Rawhide Strips
  • Requires Carving (Second Degree)
• Knife:Iron (quality 3)
  • 1 Knife Blade, 1 Crudely Carved Handle, 2 Wooden Pegs
  • Requires Carving (Second Degree)
• Knife:Sharp Edge (quality 4)
  • 1 Sharp Edged Knife Blade of at least 8500 quality, 1 Crudely Carved Handle, 4 Rawhide Strips, 2 Wooden Peg
  • Requires Carving (Third Degree)
• Knife:Jagged Edge (quality 5?)
  • 1 Jagged Knife Blade of at least 9000 quality, 1 Intricately Carved Handle, 2 Bolts and 4 Rawhide Strips
  • Requires Carving (Fourth Degree)

Limestone Tools

To harvest Limestone, you must have both a hammer and a chisel. Mixing types (i.e. flint with lead) will increase the likelihood that the flint item will break.

• Requires Stonemasonry
• Flint Hammer
  • 2 Flint, 1 Rope, 1 Wood
  • Self > Skills > Assemble...
  • Will not break if used with a flint chisel.
• Flint Chisel
  • 4 Flint
  • Self > Skills > Assemble...
  • Will break after some number of uses.
• Heavy Mallet
  • 1 Heavy Mallet Head, 1 Large Crude Handle, 1 Wooden Peg
  • Assembled at a Carpentry Shop
  • Yields 3 Limestone per pull when used with a Lead Chisel.
• Lead Chisel
  • Created on a Forge from 2 Lead.
  • Will eventually break, but not as quickly as a Flint Chisel.

Monkey Wrench

Made in a Casting Box. Takes 8 Steel, 8 Beeswax and 4 minutes.

Resin Wedge

Allows you to nick trees to generate resin.

• Created on an Anvil from 7 Metal.

Scythe & Baskets

A scythe and papyrus Baskets, when used with the Rhythmic Strength skill, allow you to pick grass faster.

• Requires Rhythmic Strength
• Assembled on a Carpentry Shop.
• Slate Scythe
  • 1 Stone Blade, 2 Boards
• Glass Scythe
  • 1 Glass Blade, 1 Crudely Carved Handle and 2 Twine

Sledgehammer

A sledgehammer is used to smash Medium Stones into Gravel

• Made in a Carpentry Shop with 1 Boards and 5 Iron

Shovels

Allows you to dig up dirt, as well as dig for cuttable stones and medium stones.

• Slate Shovel
  • 1 Stone Blades, 2 Boards
  • Will break after some number of uses.
  • Assembled at a Carpentry Shop.
• Iron Shovel
  • 1 Shovel Blade and 4 Boards
  • Assembled at a Carpentry Shop upgraded with a Vice Bench.
• Shovel (Blacksmithed)
  • Made on an Anvil from 10 Metal.
  • Higher quality gives better results per dig.
• Archaeologist's Shovel
  • Made on an Anvil from 7 Metal
  • Used to retrieve relics from an archaeological Dig Site

Tongs

Allow the re-use of the Acid required to start the Metal Treatment process in a Chemical Bath