Reference

Tools

Every gathering and crafting skill needs a tool, and the tool you are holding decides how far that skill can climb. This is the whole ladder in one place: what each tier trains you to, what it adds while you use it, and how long it lasts before it breaks.

What each tier trains you to

The cap is a hard ceiling on GAIN, not on use — an Iron pickaxe keeps mining perfectly well at 75, it just stops teaching you anything. The skill bonus is added on top of your real skill when the game checks what you can gather or craft, so a Valorite tool reaches resources your own skill cannot. The two Uses columns are separate ladders: a pickaxe, hatchet or fishing pole spends a use every gather tick, so they get far more than a tool that spends one per item made.

Tier	Trains you to	Skill bonus	Uses — pickaxe, hatchet, pole	Uses — every other tool
Iron	75	—	250	100
Dull Copper	85	—	400	130
Shadow Iron	85	—	550	160
Copper	85	—	700	200
Bronze	85	+2	850	250
Golden	90	+3	1,000	320
Agapite	95	+4	1,150	400
Verite	100 — no ceiling	+5	1,300	500
Valorite	100 — no ceiling	+10	1,450	650

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Iron stops teaching at 75. The next four tiers all stop at 85, so upgrading within them buys you charges and nothing else — the cap only moves again at Golden. Only Verite and Valorite will take you all the way to 100.

Which tool serves which skill

Every one of these is a Tinkering recipe, and every skill listed refuses to start without its tool made active.

Tool	Skill it serves	Ingots	Boards
Pickaxe	Mining	5	4
Hatchet	Lumberjacking	3	4
Fishing Pole	Fishing	1	8
Skinning Knife	Camping	2	—
Blacksmith Hammer	Blacksmithing	4	2
Carpenter's Saw	Carpentry	3	2
Tinker's Tools	Tinkering	3	—
Mortar and Pestle	Alchemy	1	—
Tailor's Kit	Tailoring	2	—
Writer's Quill	Inscription	1	1

If you have nothing at all

The Provisioner gives away: Pickaxe, Hatchet, Carpenter's Saw, Tinker's Tools
How often: One of each every 60 minutes
They last: 35 uses, whichever tool it is
They behave as: An Iron tool exactly — same 75 cap, no penalty

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A worn tool can be DISMANTLED from its right-click menu for part of its own materials back — half its original cost at full durability, tapering to nothing as it nears its last use. Dismantling a nearly-broken tool returns nothing, so do it early or not at all. "Dismantle All" does the same to every copy of that tool in your pack, one per second.

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The same menu also RECYCLES the things a tool makes. "Recycle" arms a cursor and melts the one backpack item you click; "Recycle All" sweeps every eligible item that tool's skill made, one per second. Either way you get back 30% of what it cost to craft, rounded to the nearest whole unit — so anything built from a single unit is worth nothing back. It costs the tool no charges at all. Offered by the 4 crafting tools whose skills make gear: the Blacksmith Hammer, Carpenter's Saw, Tinker's Tools and Tailor's Kit.

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A Recycle All sweep deliberately leaves things alone: anything equipped, anything magical or not yet identified, anything you have Locked, any tool currently set active, and Tinker's Tools themselves — which would otherwise be a Tinkering sweep melting down the one item you need in hand to make any tool at all. Targeting a single item with the cursor overrides the magic and active-tool guards, because picking that exact icon out is the confirmation a sweep cannot ask for.

The skills this decides

Mining Lumberjacking Fishing Camping Blacksmithing Carpentry Tinkering Alchemy Tailoring Inscription