Tools and Weapons: Difference between revisions

Tools don't come easy in Vintage Story and they shouldn't! In real life, these things aren't easy to make, so it's challenging yet rewarding to obtain these when playing.

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The raw material used to create the tool head determines the crafting process required:

** Note: Tier 2 tools can also be crafted from the rare base metals gold and silver.  

The material selected to create the tool determines the tier of the tool. In general, higher tier tools have more '''durability''' (last longer); provide more '''attack power''' (damage per action); and have higher '''mining speeds''' (faster to use). Higher tier tools require advanced material processing and crafting processes to create. The specific page for each tool includes the stats (values) for each tool crafted using different materials.

* Special Cases: The [[bow]] and the [[club]] are tools crafted from wood. Wood items do not have material "tiers" affecting durability, mining speed, or attack power. Arrowheads can be crafted from different tiers of materials, and are discussed on the [[bow]] page in more detail.

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All tools may be used as weapons, some tools are primarily used as "weapons" that damage mobs. For other information about weapons, see the [[combat]] page or pages about individual weapons. Of the remaining tools, these fall into two categories: Harvesting and Crafting. "Harvesting" tools are primarily used to gather resources, while "Crafting" tools are used to process resources or create items using the crafting grid, or through interactive crafting mechanics.

Special functions, crafting mechanics and tool modes associated with each tool can be found on individual tool pages.  

* '''Attacking a mob''' (melee combat): place the tool in an active hotbar slot and press or hold left mouse button to strike the target.

* '''Attacking a mob''' (Bow: ranged combat): place the bow in an active hotbar slot and hold right mouse button to charge the bow. Releasing the mouse button fires the arrow.

* '''Harvesting a material''': place the tool in an active hotbar slot and press or hold left mouse button until the block breaks and the block or resource drops.

* '''Grid crafting''': place the tool in the grid crafting slot with the material to process. Removing the product from the output slot of the grid uses the tool. When complete, remove the tool from the grid, or close the interface by pressing 'E' to replace the tool into the inventory or hotbar.

The primary use of each tool is provided in the list below:  

* [[Bow]]/Arrow: (Weapon) Damages Mobs; used as a ranged weapon

* [[Chisel]]: (Crafting) Used with the hammer to [[Stone Blocks#Polished Stone|polish rock]], create [[Stone Blocks#Stone Brick Blocks|stone bricks]] or carving wooden gears and axles in the crafting grid

* [[Club]]: (Weapon) Damages Mobs; used as a melee combat weapon

* [[Hoe]]: (Crafting) Used in [[farming]] to convert [[soil]] into farmland.

* [[Knife]]: (Harvesting) Damages Plant blocks; used to harvest meat from animals, [[grass]], wild plants including [[Cooper's Reed (Cattail)|Cooper's Reed]] and crops for [[farming]]. Used in [[Leather Working|leather working]], crafting wood items.

* [[Pickaxe]]: (Harvesting) Damages [[Rock]], [[Stone Blocks|Stone]] and [[Ceramic Blocks|Ceramic blocks]]; used to harvest [[Rock]] and [[ores]].

* [[Saw]]: (Crafting) Used in grid crafting to create [[boards]] (the primary component required to create wooden items and blocks), cutting [[glass]] into slabs, and carving wooden gears.

* [[Scythe]]: (Harvesting) Damages Plant blocks; used in [[farming]] to harvest crops or collect [[grass]]

* [[Sword]]: (Weapon) Damages Mobs; used as a melee combat weapon

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