Penalty for dropping tools?

[vagabong]

I dropped my gold pickaxe without realizing and the next morning i woke up to the mayor giving me my "lost pickaxe" where that one was steel or whatever the starter metal is and mine was gold... is that right?

[jcp011c2]

Unfortunately, I do believe that is correct. You will always be able to get "new" tools should you lose them, but they will revert to the starting grade.

[vagabong]

That's really unfortunate :( The game may be casual but they really seem to punish you for screwing up it seems.

[gyzbug]

Lost tools are lost for good, the mayor just sends you a replacement of starter tools so you cant get stuck without any since you cant buy or craft replacements. This can also happen when you lose random item when you faint. The mayor sends you a Starter replacement even if it was an Iridium Pick that you lost.

[jcp011c2]

I think it would be nice, if you lost a tool of a certain grade, when it was replaced it was just replaced one grade lower, instead of a starter tool. For instance, I lost my gold axe after "dying" in the mines once. Instead of just being replaced by a starter axe, it would be a good compromise of punishment yet not too stern a punishment to have gotten a steel/iron axe instead.

That way there is SOME punishment but it's not quite so severe. Obviously a copper axe replacement would be the starter axe.

Incidentially, after that I learned to never take my axe into the mines again.