Any use for the Diamond-Encrusted Shovel?

[Fodder]

You get it as a reward for one of the toaster quests, anything more is probably a spoiler. But does it have any use? Looks like it should be able to dig, but won't dig up any mounts. Is it bugged, or only good for selling? It's odd enough that I feel like it should have some effect or be needed by another NPC. But it's friggin 5 lbs and I don't wanna drag the rest of the game for nothing!

[Lozzle]

Sell it.

[Fodder]

Yeah, that was pretty much the only thing google came up with. Thanks for concurring. Was it supposed to have any difference in function from a regular shovel, or just some ostentatious bling?

[DirtyBlue929]

Originally posted by Fodder:

Yeah, that was pretty much the only thing google came up with. Thanks for concurring. Was it supposed to have any difference in function from a regular shovel, or just some ostentatious bling?

Pretty much the latter. Would be nice if it dug faster than the normal shovel - that'd make it useful and complete the Minecraft reference.

[Rage]

Bump. Still not usable to dig stuff :)

[SeriousCCIE]

I'm hoping it can be imported into the snowy wastes of Wasteland 3, and fail to be useful to remove snow or ice or just about anything one could shovel normally, like mutant auroch polar bear hybrid dung.

It could be an in-joke that the fabulously blinged shovel could continue to be useless.

Personally, I am holding out for an alternate use for the shovel in the Atari 2600 version of Raiders of the Lost Ark. The manual hinted at such greatness of an alternate use (besides digging up any Arks you happened to find).

Maybe, they can go meta and include a secret hidden cache of Atari 2600 Raiders of the Lost Ark cartridges that made their way up to some old military base in the Arctic and represents a secondary use of a shovel that didn't work in its preceeding game--with the real secret being what it can be used for as a primary purpose.

Like equipping it as a weapon that can do blunt damage when swung like a giant spoon and sharp damage when hit from its side.

Maybe let the diamonds studded on it act as proof the hardest substance known to man (or monster) makes for a good weapon when wielded responsibly; it can cave in skulls and dig their graves, too.

[Boneyard Bob]

Originally posted by SeriousCCIE:

*some stuff*

Heh, I like the way you think.

[MeowRaa]

I wish it was working as regular shovel, but dig all things.. slower x)

[BigTinz]

How have they not fixed a single "use" value four years later?

[Krigsprästen]

Still broken.

[Boneyard Bob]

Originally posted by Luckmann:

Still broken.

Not broken, works as intended, i.e. high value sellable item. It was never intended to work as a functioning shovel.

[inanity]

Originally posted by Luckmann:

Still broken.

Wth is everyone's problem?? Just use.a normal shovel, you whiners.