Shovel

Shovel
Creation
A Shovel
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.

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.

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.
Attaching a gather rune will increase the quality of gathered materials by up to 10% when digging with a shovel.

In addition to taking reduced damage with use, rare shovels will slightly increase the maximum quality of resources gather by 1/2/3.