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Wooden Shovel

Wooden Shovel

Tool

A simple wooden shovel made for moving dirt.

Weight1000 gMax stack1StationTool Bench

Notes

The Wooden Shovel is a tier 1 tool primarily used for moving dirt and soft terrain, marking the earliest available excavation implement. Crafted early in progression, it offers 350 uses before breaking and consumes 20 calories per use, making it suitable for small digging jobs but inefficient for large-scale earth moving. Its negligible animal damage (×0.2) means it should not be relied on for combat. For larger excavations, upgrading to a more durable or specialized tool is recommended.

Notes are AI-generated and may be imprecise.

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Ingredients

Ingredients for this recipe
IngredientQtyType
Wood20category

Byproducts (garbage)

Garbage byproducts of this recipe
MaterialQty / craft
Bio Residue0.4

Approximate โ€” a category ingredient's salvage value depends on the item actually used.

Crafting waste collects in the station's garbage output and must be hauled away or recycled โ€” see the Garbage & Recycling guide.

Crafting

Crafting stats
Labor100 calories
Craft time0.5 min
Throughput120 Wooden Shovel / hour (base)

As a tool

Tier1Damage1Vs animals×0.2Calories/use20Durability/use1Max durability350

Recycling & waste

Salvages into (per unit)

The same salvage value leaks out as garbage when this item is consumed in crafting.

How garbage, sorting & recycling work

Total raw to craft this

Steps1Total labor100 calTotal time0.5 min

Approximate โ€” category ingredients and any production cycles are counted as raw.

Categories

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