mechanist playthrough, tinkering kit broke insanely quickly

[Graydient05]

it was broken by floor 2, repaired it once, broke almost immediately again, now I am a mechanist with no tinkering kit. this sucks so bad. I cant even get scrap to repair it anymore.

[Thrupert]

Use the spell you start with, and then repair it fully.

Oh, and in the first place, if you're using it to the point of breaking and don't have enough scrap to repair it, you're wasting your scrap somehow.

[Graydient05]

Originally posted by Thrupert:

Use the spell you start with, and then repair it fully.

Oh, and in the first place, if you're using it to the point of breaking and don't have enough scrap to repair it, you're wasting your scrap somehow.

the break times are random, and only the automaton starts with the salvage spell.

[Fyodor]

Look I get that it's unlucky and feels terrible when it breaks... but your first priority is looking at your tinkering kit, making sure it's at least serviceable.
Repairing the kit takes 16 metal pieces or whatever, there's plenty of torches early on, get on a rhythm/habit of maintaining it.
Alchemy kit can get ruined with just the first 3 or 4 potions if unlucky so I feel your pain, run is pretty much done for after kits break early on.

[Graydient05]

Originally posted by Fyodor:

Look I get that it's unlucky and feels terrible when it breaks... but your first priority is looking at your tinkering kit, making sure it's at least serviceable.
Repairing the kit takes 16 metal pieces or whatever, there's plenty of torches early on, get on a rhythm/habit of maintaining it.
Alchemy kit can get ruined with just the first 3 or 4 potions if unlucky so I feel your pain, run is pretty much done for after kits break early on.

man, this post is over a month old. I already said I managed to get a new kit and have since started a new run, it broke while I was salvaging to repair it, I got very unlucky with the last two repair states.