Shovel

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Shovel

A Shovel A Shovel
Creation
Activate shaft (1.0 kg) Right-click shovel blade Open submenu "Create > Tools"
Result
Shovel - (2.0 kg)
Skill and improvement
Uses blacksmithing skill

Description

A tool for digging.

Shovel is a versatile tool used mainly for digging and terraforming.

Creating

When creating a shovel, the quality of the shaft affects success chance. The quality of the shovel blade affects the initial quality of the shovel.

Usage

• Shovel is used to dig up clay, dirt, moss, peat, sand, and tar.
• Shovel is also the primary tool for terraforming, landscaping and building roads and packed dirt paths.
• With shovel you can 'Cultivate' packed dirt, moss, grass, steppe or mycelium tiles into dirt suitable for farming.
• If your character has 10 digging and 20 body strength, you may use a shovel to destroy pavement such as cobblestone, gravel, stone slabs, or floor boards.
• Shovels can be used to disarm traps.
• You can cut down trees and bushes with a shovel, albeit much more slowly than with a hatchet.
• Shovels can be used to investigate tiles to search for archaeology fragments with 20+ skill in Archaeology - though with higher difficulty than using a trowel.

Skills & Characteristics

When using a shovel

• Miscellaneous items > Shovel

When creating a shovel

• Smithing > Blacksmithing

Titles

• Shoveler at 50 skill
• Packer at 70 skill
• Undertaker at 90 skill
• Ace Of Spades at 100 skill

See Also

Crude shovel

WARNING: The shovel given with the beginner set is made out of birchwood and is burnable. Take care as to not accidentally burn it to fuel a campfire, forge or oven! If you lose it in this way, you will have to either make a new one from scratch or ask other players for help in acquiring a new one.