Dissappearing broken Iron Tools

[Ladyhawke76]

Hi,

love this game so far! Question: When an iron tool is broken, did anyone realize where it goes? Do villagers just drop it? Eat it? Or sell it to Draugrs?

Can't find it in any tool rack nor workshop box nor the storage item I could make for collecting them. Seems a bit buggy...

Thanks for your help!

[Jazzy]

when iron tools break you make a new one it refurbishes old parts so its cheaper to make 2nd time. Im not sure where they go when it breaks for villagers might be a bug.

[Ladyhawke76]

Sorry, I wasn't making myself very clear - I know you can repair iron tools with only a handle if they are broken, but the villagers don't seem to have them nor putting them in a storage, they just vanish. Even the assigned warehouse worker isn't able to find them. Thank you anyway!

[ThunderfulPaige | Community]

Hey the intended effect is that the tool should drop on the ground for you to pick up and repair. I'd try scanning the area with Z!

[ScythianUA]

you can repair iron tools? O_O

[Daddy Bunny]

Originally posted by ScythianUA:

you can repair iron tools? O_O

Yeah, the iron part of the tool recipe is indestructible, atleast the axe, blade, hammer head.
Idk about the nails. Those i haven't yet tested. But everything else you can repair.
But you have to have a warehouse worker and a warehouse spot for broken tool parts.
Because your Villagers break tools and then don't pick up or store those pieces.

[LonesharkX]

Originally posted by ThunderfulPaige | Community:

Hey the intended effect is that the tool should drop on the ground for you to pick up and repair. I'd try scanning the area with Z!

What about the 30 or so villagers I have in all sorts of locations around the world? is there not a way to get someone to go pick them up? The micromanagement of the iron age is a bit much, I can barely leave the base I have to babysit them so much, and when I do leave its to clear out the mines.

[=яενєηąŋŧ=]

Originally posted by ThunderfulPaige | Community:

Hey the intended effect is that the tool should drop on the ground for you to pick up and repair. I'd try scanning the area with Z!

Why don't they go into the villagers' inventories, and have *them* take it to a bin? Dropping them on the ground seems like asking for trouble, as all the pieces of my Carpentry tools seem to be dropping through the workshop floor and possibly also the planet, never to be seen again. Warehouse worker with a broken tools bin can't find them either.

Also, if a woodworker or stonecutter has a tool break while a half-mile from camp, are you supposed to run around the entire map searching a broken axe/pick head?

[This is my happy face]

Took me a bit to figure it out but there is a warehouse part for broken tools. Once you make that, the assigned warehouse worker will gather the dropped parts and put them in there. Although I think this only works within the near vicinity of the village and not outside of it.

[=яενєηąŋŧ=]

Originally posted by This is my happy face:

Took me a bit to figure it out but there is a warehouse part for broken tools. Once you make that, the assigned warehouse worker will gather the dropped parts and put them in there. Although I think this only works within the near vicinity of the village and not outside of it.

Yeah, already did this and no luck. Whenever one of my carpenters' tools breaks, the broken part seems to just disappear and MAYBE show up somewhere 20 minutes later, if I'm lucky, maybe 25% of the time. I think they're falling through the floor of the crafter's shop.

Workshop is like 10 feet from my warehouse, doesn't make a difference, warehouse guy can't find it and neither can I.

[This is my happy face]

Originally posted by =яενєηąŋŧ=:

Originally posted by This is my happy face:

Took me a bit to figure it out but there is a warehouse part for broken tools. Once you make that, the assigned warehouse worker will gather the dropped parts and put them in there. Although I think this only works within the near vicinity of the village and not outside of it.

Yeah, already did this and no luck. Whenever one of my carpenters' tools breaks, the broken part seems to just disappear and MAYBE show up somewhere 20 minutes later, if I'm lucky, maybe 25% of the time. I think they're falling through the floor of the crafter's shop.

Workshop is like 10 feet from my warehouse, doesn't make a difference, warehouse guy can't find it and neither can I.

Hmm, I have not had that problem. On the other hand I have the workshop set so they make at least 1 of each iron tool. Perhaps I am just missing the disappearing bug on it.

[dboard514]

So if my woodcutters break an iron axe out in the world, we're supposed to run around the map looking for the dropped axe heads? smh It would be a much better user experience if villagers picked up the iron parts and brought them back to the village or the parts just stayed in their inventory. At least we could find it that way. Iron is scarce.

[Shawn]

If you set up a warehouse ‘broken iron tools’ storage, your warehouse workers will collect them.

Then all you have to do is tick the box on your forge to use recycled parts (or whatever it is called) to use those parts to make tools.

[ThunderfulPaige | Community]

Your warehouse workers should indeed store the parts dropped on the ground if there is correct storage.

[Jibaro]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1Z0S-3WFm4&t=62s

[dboard514]

How far will the warehouse worker travel to pick up dropped items? I have a warehouse with the broken tools storage and a villager assigned to the warehouse and still nothing gets put in there. I assumed that the woodcutters broke their axes somewhere far enough away that the warehouse worker won't pick them up. My woodcutters have vigorously cut down all the trees in the vicinity of my base so they have to travel quite far to get wood now haha.

I even spent an hour last night running around the map spamming Z to look for the dropped heads myself w/o success.