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More than one use.

I would like it if tools had more than one use or can be used on more than one thing or can make more than one thing. For example, the hoes can be used on patches and plots. Picks can be used on many different types of rocks. 
So what are possible different uses that might be added to the following:
• Crystalizing chamber? (Most likely making different types of crystal. I am guessing this is actually in the works.)
• Hatchet? (It CAN be used on different types of dead trees... but one dead tree is really like the next. This is a hard one because in the real world, hatchets are used for really three things: Chapping wood, break down doors and walls, and, well, killing people.)
• Scrapper? (What else can one scrape? Paint?)
• Smelter? (While plain ingots can be made into other types with tongs, the smelt it self only does on thing. What else might be smelted? Maybe emblems? (Giants would HATE that.))
• Gnome? (Being able to dress or customize your gnome would make it slight feel like it has more to it. But what else might one be able to do with gnomes?)

And to for all the above: Donating does not count as a use.

Posted 18 months ago by Lord Bacon-o Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • The gnome could be used to subsitute for me when I am afk so I don't lose all my energy and up in Hell?

    My gnome could act as 'maitre - de' at parties :)

    Crystalising chamber - making sweets

    Hatchet - for burying...?

    Smelter - manufacturing dodgy currants

    Scraper - Erm - DIY , scraping paint and wallpaper. maybe if we could customise our homes?

    Okay - its been a long day, sorry.
    Posted 18 months ago by Twoodle Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Scrapers are used for scraping ice off cars up north during the winter. So that could go somewhere if we ever get any icy worlds that don't try to kill us like A Wintry Place does now :)
    Posted 18 months ago by RM Subscriber! | Permalink
  • TS has stated there are several unfinished skill chains, which also leads to marginally useful equipment and items. (Has anyone found a good use for Mild Sauce?)

    I imagine many of these things will become more useful over time. I can see loads of potential 'creations' and uses for the equipment, the real issues surround lack of uses for the stuff produced by the equipment. Crystals have no uses other than projects and donating and cash, so while being able to make Blue Crystals (crystal + blue element) or Sapphire Crystals (sapphire + crystal + elements) is really cool, the objects have little 'usefulness'.

    Also, sometimes a spade is just a spade. 
    Tools have uses, sometimes they really only have one good use.
    Posted 18 months ago by Travinara Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Twoodle - mmmmm, rock candy....
    Posted 18 months ago by ~Pink Flamingo~ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Cough candy as opposed to sneezing powder maybe? - hmm not sure of that one. Rock candy sounds very tasty just now!

    sapphire sherbet? amber aniseed? Moonstone mouth-melters? Ruby raindrops? Diamond dates (oops, apologies to FSrs, it just slipped out).
    Posted 18 months ago by Twoodle Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Travinara, you're obviously not from the Elton Brown school of thinking that all tools should be multi-purpose.
    Posted 18 months ago by Essie Kitten Subscriber! | Permalink