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Tool Upgrades

By firehoesdiaz

A Quick Guide Summarising the Resources Needed to Purchase Tool Upgrades from Clint

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Guide Index

Overview

Intro

Axes

Hoes

Pickaxes

Watering Can

To Conclude...

Comments

Intro

Back at it again with the laziness-infused guides!

Similarly to what I said in my Robin's Buildings Guide, it can be a real inconvenience to have to trek all the way to the the other side of town just to recall what resources you need in order to buy one of Clint's Tool Upgrades (e.g. a Copper Axe, a Steel Pickaxe, a Gold Hoe etc).

So here you go! I've created a guide that you can reference instead of walking all the way to Clint's place! XD
(Again, this is a tad bit for me to use as well)

LISTING: (Order: Alphabetical)

Axes

Starter Tool

About:

10 hits to fell a tree.
5 hits to chop up the small stump from a felled tree.

Copper Axe

About:

Able to chop large stumps.
8 hits to chop down trees.
4 hits to chop down small stumps.

Cost:

2,000G
5 Copper Bars

Steel Axe

About:

Able to chop large logs.
6 hits to chop down trees.
3 hits to chop down small stumps.

Cost:

5,000G
5 Iron Bars

Gold Axe

About:

4 hits to chop down trees.
2 hits to chop down small stumps.

Cost:

10,000G
5 Gold Bars

Iridium Axe

About:

2 hits to chop down trees.
1 hit to chop down small stumps.

Cost:

25,000G
5 Iridium Bars

Hoes

Starter Hoe

Copper Hoe

About:

Increases maximum area of effect to 3 tiles, in a line in front of you.

Cost:

2,000G
5 Copper Bars

Steel Hoe

About:

Increases maximum area of effect to 5 tiles, in a line in front of you.

Cost:

5,000G
5 Iron Bars

Gold Hoe

About:

Increases maximum area of effect to 3x3 tiles.

Cost:

10,000G
5 Gold Bars

Iridium Hoe

About:

Increases maximum area of effect to 6x3 tiles.

Cost:

25,000G
5 Iridium Bars

Pickaxes

Starter Tool

Copper Pickaxe

About:

Can mine big stones of the mines (2x2 size stone).

Cost:

2,000G
5 Copper Bars

Steel Pickaxe

About:

Can mine the boulders of the farm (2x2 size stone).
Can mine the barrier inside the mine that blocks the player from talking with the Dwarf.

Cost:

5,000G
5 Iron Bars

Gold Pickaxe

About:

Can break meteorite.
Most of the stones will break in a couple of hits, including small stones that now only require 1 hit.

Cost:

10,000G
5 Gold Bars

Iridium Pickaxe

About:

Pickaxe will use fewer hits to break stones, including in Skull Cavern.

Cost:

25,000G
5 Iridium Bars

Watering Can

(to upgrade your watering can without skipping a day of watering your plants OR waiting until winter, check the weather channel and take your watering can to Clint - after watering your crops -
on a day that it claims it will rain tomorrow; this way the rain will water your crops for you the next day and you can collect your watering can from Clint the day after)

Starter Tool

About:

Has a total water capacity of 40 charges before it has to be refilled.

Copper Watering Can

About:

Capacity increased to 55 charges.
Increases maximum area of effect to 3 tiles in a straight line.

Cost:

2,000G
5 Copper Bars

Steel Watering Can

About:

Capacity increased to 70 charges.
Increases maximum area of effect to 5 tiles in a straight line.

Cost:

5,000G
5 Iron Bars

Gold Watering Can

About:

Capacity increased to 85 charges.
Increases maximum area of effect to a 3x3 area (9 corresponding tiles).

Cost:

10,000G
5 Gold Bars

Iridium Watering Can

About:

Capacity increased to 100 charges.
Increases maximum area of effect to a 6x3 area (18 corresponding tiles).

Cost:

25,000G
5 Iridium Bars

To Conclude...

I hope that this guide proves helpful to some people!

Please rate this guide and let me know if it was beneficial to you, and do call me out if I've made any mistakes so that I can fix them as quickly as possible!

Here is a complete collection of my guides (including this one), so that you can access anything that you need from right here!

Animals

Barn Animals

Coop Animals

Pets

Artisan

Honey

Community Center Bundles

Boiler Room

Bulletin Board

Crafts Room

Fish Tank

Pantry

Vault

Quests

Story Quests

'Help Wanted' Quests

Upgrades

Robin's Buildings

Tool Upgrades

Villagers

Gifting

Other Helpful Guides

Abandoned JojaMart Bundle by mitzirox

In addition, please let me know if there's anything else you'd like to see a guide about, as I'm more than willing to work on more!

Happy Farming!

32 Comments

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twogunal 2 Aug, 2024 @ 9:52pm

I found this guide very helpful. If you are open to suggestions, you might include his shop hours in the intro

firehoesdiaz [author] 14 Nov, 2021 @ 1:16pm

i'm glad this could be helpful to you! after 4 years i worry that they might not hold up anymore but i'm glad to find out not too much has changed in-game! (with regards to these guides at least, i know they're still in pretty dire need of an update regardless hahaha)

ItsAlonPlayz 14 Nov, 2021 @ 12:51pm

Wow so helpful I wanted to upgrade to a copper pickaxe but I didn't know how much it costs and what it does. Thank you!

firehoesdiaz [author] 19 Feb, 2021 @ 10:50am

no worries! i'm glad you found this helpful! :D

cheeseblender6 19 Feb, 2021 @ 9:36am

OMG thank you. I didn't know what the tools did and so I didn't want to upgrade them. Now I know! Thank you!!!!

firehoesdiaz [author] 21 Dec, 2020 @ 2:50am

hi! i'm really glad you found this helpful! i will have a look into fishing poles, i didn't originally think to add them bcs i don't think they're a tool you upgrade with Clint BUT they are a tool nonetheless so i will have to look into adding an extra section for them!

RianaEiren 20 Dec, 2020 @ 3:22pm

Spphoihioho, Thank you for this useful info! Would you consider adding Fishing poles as well?

RianaEiren 20 Dec, 2020 @ 3:21pm

With regards to the larger boulders in the mine (2x2) squares, I have just experienced the reality of needing a copper pick to break them. Maybe Gregjonny1 meant the slightly bigger looking 1x1 stones that you can break with a regular axe? Or maybe they have a mod... I'm not sure.

RianaEiren 20 Dec, 2020 @ 3:20pm

You need five (5) ores per copper/silver bar (haven't gotten to higher levels yet) and one (1) coal per bar.

Clint will give you the blueprint for the furnace the morning after you collect at least one copper ore, but you must exit your house between 6am and 11:30am to trigger the cutscene.

It takes twenty-five (25) stone and twenty (20) copper ores (not bars) to craft a furnace. (Thank goodness, because you actually need the furnace to get bars--oddly enough, although Clint sells copper, silver, and gold ores, he doesn't sell bars!)

firehoesdiaz [author] 7 Nov, 2020 @ 2:28am

ahh thank you for letting me know! my guides are in dire need of an upgrade as i made them a good couple of years ago so i really appreciate the pointers! :D

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