Sickle vs Scythe

[Naryoril]

What's the difference between sickles and scythes? As far as i can tell, a with a scythe you can harvest 3 plants per swing, and 2 with a sickle. Also they need different materials to make and scythes are more durable. Is that all?

And does it make a difference for the villagers whether i give them sickles or scyhtes?

[Enjoy The Journey]

The requirement says sickle/scythe, and in the hand of your farmer villager, the output is negligible.

So, in other words, it is your choice. Whatever you have available as the needed farming tool.

[richardmgoldsmith]

The real answer is a bad back, but luckily that is not modelled.

[simeon]

Scythes have a higher durability compared to sickles.
Ergo: Less replacement and production of tools needed, by giving your farmers a scythe.

[Kharn Terrer]

Yeah but you can find free sickles in carts all over the place so my farmers generally use sickles :D

[Naryoril]

So no difference for villagers then.

For bronze tools the sickle and the scythe both have 150 endurance per bronze bar, so in that regard it doesn't make a difference. I didn't check whether the production time is different or the same.

Anyway, since the villagers don't seem to be faster with a scythe, i'm currently using copper to make farmer tools (my bronze is used to make pickaxes, axes and knives), there is no copper scythe and my blacksmith does have the spare time, i'll stick to sickles for now. Thanks.

Btw: I found an iron scythe somewhere. When i went harvesting until it broke and then switched to a bronze sickle, it felt like the scythe was using much less stamina per swing. I didn't do any testing though, might have been my imagination.

[darkestkhan]

Publicado originalmente por Naryoril:

What's the difference between sickles and scythes? As far as i can tell, a with a scythe you can harvest 3 plants per swing, and 2 with a sickle. Also they need different materials to make and scythes are more durable. Is that all?

And does it make a difference for the villagers whether i give them sickles or scyhtes?

For NPCs? No difference. For players? Scythes are much better (you harvest WAY faster with scythe)