Why do you have to make copper tools before steel?

[Exotic]

Title, I never noticed this but what is the logic behind making your tools copper before you can make it steel?

Only reason I can see is progression, something to slow us down basicly

[Divusmor]

Progression is pretty much it, as with every game that does this. Same reason gold is always used as a final or near final, even though gold is pretty lousy for tools.

[levi]

Yup, it's just progression. The actual quality of the material isn't important, the idea is simply that it's a tiered system of upgrading.

[Steve C.]

It's kind of like the "common"/"uncommon"/"rare"/"very rare" or similar systems other games use for categorizing equipment. It keeps things from getting too over powered too quickly I guess.

I think of it as a quality level, rather than the actual material the tool is made of. Gold would be a downgrade from steel for an axe! A watering can should work about the same made of any of the 4 metals in the game. Iridium is very dense and heat resistant, but brittle at high purity and quite rare. In real life it's usually reserved for very specific applications.

[LondorPaleShade]

Originally posted by Exotic:

Title, I never noticed this but what is the logic behind making your tools copper before you can make it steel?

Only reason I can see is progression, something to slow us down basicly

the game about progress,,thats why

[Rio]

Gives clint more money and an excuse to take away your tool for 3 days.

If he made the tool from a selection with the best ore bars you got, that would be madness. A single player world with two hoes, thats not natural.

[Rio]

Originally posted by Max Caulfield:

Originally posted by Black:

Gives clint more money and an excuse to take away your tool for 3 days.

If he made the tool from a selection with the best ore bars you got, that would be madness. A single player world with two hoes, thats not natural.

dont you have a cabin where there are basic tools inside chest?

You mean the muliplayer houses? I thought robin can only make those if you create a multiplayer world.

[-Na Shagul-]

Originally posted by Black:

Originally posted by Max Caulfield:

dont you have a cabin where there are basic tools inside chest?

You mean the muliplayer houses? I thought robin can only make those if you create a multiplayer world.

All worlds are possible multiplayer worlds, they only rely on a cabin being built to facilitate another player.