Gathering Tools

#Your three tools

Every hero wears three tools alongside their gear: a pickaxe for Mining, an axe for Woodcutting and a fishing rod for Fishing. They sit in their own row of slots under your hero in the Character window, so they never take bag space while you wear them.

You start with a Bronze Pickaxe, a Bronze Hatchet and an Oak Fishing Rod. Lost them? Old Harl in Emberfall sells all three, cheap. You can still gather with an empty tool slot, but only at 50% speed.

A tool only counts for its own skill: the fastest pickaxe in the land does nothing for your fishing. Tools add nothing to combat.

#Tiers

Each tool comes in five tiers. A better tier gathers faster, and needs a higher level in its skill to wear.

#Pickaxes

Name	Requires.level	Tool.speed %	Min Item Level
Bronze Pickaxe	—	0%	1
Iron Pickaxe	10	10%	5
Steel Pickaxe	20	20%	10
Mithril Pickaxe	30	30%	18
Emberforged Pickaxe	45	45%	28

#Hatchets

Name	Requires.level	Tool.speed %	Min Item Level
Bronze Hatchet	—	0%	1
Iron Hatchet	10	10%	5
Steel Hatchet	20	20%	10
Mithril Hatchet	30	30%	18
Emberforged Hatchet	45	45%	28

#Fishing rods

Name	Requires.level	Tool.speed %	Min Item Level
Oak Fishing Rod	—	0%	1
Willow Fishing Rod	10	10%	5
Maple Fishing Rod	20	20%	10
Mithril-Line Rod	30	30%	18
Emberline Rod	45	45%	28

Mithril tools can't be made by anyone alive: they only turn up as loot.

#Tool affixes

Tools roll magic, rare and unique just like gear, but from their own pool of affixes (combat affixes never roll on tools, and tool affixes never roll on gear):

What each one does, for the tool's own skill:

• Gathering Speed (Brisk): more attempts in the same time.
• Extra resource (Bountiful): a chance that a gather gives two instead of one.
• Gathering XP (of Learning): more XP per gather. For Mining it adds to any Mining XP from your gloves, helm and jewellery, which still work as before.
• Rare Find (of the Seeker): multiplies the chance of an uncut gem. Rocks already give gems now and then; with Rare Find, trees and fishing spots can too (a 1% base chance, raised by your Rare Find).
• Refining (of Refining): a chance that what you gather comes out already worked, with the XP for the work: ore as a bar (Smithing), logs as planks (Crafting), raw fish cooked (Cooking). You need the level for that recipe; below it, the ore stays ore. Coal is never refined.
• Gold (Gilded): each gather also finds a few coins, raised by your Gold Find.

Magic, rare and unique tools take crafting orbs like any other item: re-roll them with a Chaos Ember, temper them with Ashen Ichor, empower them with Emberstone or corrupt them with an Ashen Shard (see Crafting Orbs). Tools never have sockets.

#Unique tools

Name	Base Name	Slot
Grimstone Pick	Iron Pickaxe	Pickaxe
Emberheart Pick	Mithril Pickaxe	Pickaxe
The Whispering Hatchet	Steel Hatchet	Axe
The Drowned Angler's Rod	Maple Fishing Rod	Rod

• Grimstone Pick: rocks often don't run dry when they would.
• Emberheart Pick: ore comes out of the rock as bars.
• The Whispering Hatchet: a much better chance of the woodcutting pet, and coins with every log.
• The Drowned Angler's Rod: extra fish, gems from the water, and fish that come out cooked.

#Where tools come from

Monsters. Tools drop from the monsters who would carry them, at the best tier the monster's level has reached (the Min Item Level column above), normal, magic or rare; magic find helps just as it does for gear. Pack leaders, champions and bosses carry them far more often:

The frogmen of Stiltwater never part with their rods; the bog folk who share their swamp are less careful. Each tool's page lists every monster and its exact rate, and so do the unique tools' pages.

Smithing and Crafting. Pickaxes and hatchets are smithed at an Anvil from bars; fishing rods are made at a Crafting Bench from logs. Like any smithed gear, they sometimes come out magic.

Name	Skill	Level	Station
Bronze Pickaxe	Smithing	1	Anvil
Bronze Hatchet	Smithing	1	Anvil
Iron Pickaxe	Smithing	16	Anvil
Iron Hatchet	Smithing	16	Anvil
Steel Pickaxe	Smithing	31	Anvil
Steel Hatchet	Smithing	31	Anvil
Emberforged Pickaxe	Smithing	50	Anvil
Emberforged Hatchet	Smithing	50	Anvil
Oak Fishing Rod	Crafting	1	Crafting Bench
Willow Fishing Rod	Crafting	15	Crafting Bench
Maple Fishing Rod	Crafting	30	Crafting Bench
Emberline Rod	Crafting	50	Crafting Bench

#Tips

• Upgrade your pickaxe first if you smith: Refining on a pickaxe saves you trips to the furnace, and pays Smithing XP.
• A Bountiful rod is the best AFK tool there is: fishing spots never run out, and extra fish count while you're away. (Refining, gold and gems need you there.)
• Tools are gear: they can be traded on the Grand Market, banked, and lost in the Wilderness like anything else you wear.