Shovel and broom do anything?

[DragonNOR]

Been having loads of fun with this game, but I haven't figured out any particular use for the shovel or the broom. Do they have a special role in this or are they just there to fill space?

[Smidge204]

The shovel is used for moving dirt around. Perhaps somewhere on some level there's a big hole you can fill in.

Brooms do exactly what you would expect a broom to do.

[DragonNOR]

Aight, thanks for the reply. I remember one of the tablets you find mention the sandtraps being filled up as a way of killing them, but aside from those I can't think of any other place that needs that job in the official maps. Still have the last three or four to go though, so could be it's waiting further down x)

The broom only shuffles things slightly forward with the same force as the mop, so if it's like you write, then I reckon it truly doesn't serve any purpose ingame aside from being a handy way to gather bullet casings before picking them up.

[A JANITOR]

shovel can set off explosives and can also fill buckets with sand:)

[grounded Morikami]

I actually had an idea of using the broom to sweep all trash (bullet casings for instance) into one of the garbage bins but alas there is no easy way to rotate the bins.

[socco]

Originally posted by Kelbris:

I actually had an idea of using the broom to sweep all trash (bullet casings for instance) into one of the garbage bins but alas there is no easy way to rotate the bins.

Well, all you have to do is drop one side of it on an object like a crate to make it fall onto its side. Or just throw it in the air and hope it lands on its side :P
But either way, it probably wouldn't be very easy to get everything inside, Especially when just picking stuff up would probably be so much faster.