Advanced Repair Kits and Star Metal Tools

[Morbo Kitteneater]

First time playing so I am making some assumptions. The wiki says that adv repair kits can repair Star Metal and below, but when I try to do it it says "repair-kit is too low".
Anyone knows if this a recent change and the wiki is outdated, or if it is a bug they are aware?
If these repair kits don't work, are my only options to repair at the bench with star metal or use legendary kits? Should I avoid star metal tools entirely and save it for weapons?

[Xevyr]

You don't have to be at a bench... just take a few star metal bars and stuff needed in your horse.. and you can repair them from your inventory screen as long as you know how to craft the item - which you DO for tools :P
As for the repair kits... I'm not sure... haven't used them all that much aside from the legendary ones to be fair. I thought they would repair it to like 75% too, but maybe it caps off at hardened steel now.. (you can repair hardened steel with that - at least you should be able to)

[EthanT]

Advanced repair kits used to work on star metal tools but now only go up to hardened steel. Star metal tools you need to carry star metal bars for the repair now.

[Seishisha]

Worth mentioning, if you have legendary kits they will fully repair any level of equipment providing it has at least one durability remaining, if the equipment reads at 0.5 it will treat it as broken and not work.

In terms of resource cost normally once you are at advanced kits or better they become more cost efficient to use than raw bars. With the correct type of tier 4 smith, legendary kits are quite cheap to make and do not need star metal, overtime using them can be a significant saving of star metal. If you do not have access to the recipe. they are not too difficult to farm, the mini boss enemies inside the unnamed city drop them regularly. If on siptah i believe those same enemies spawn in the ruins of x'chotl.

[Morbo Kitteneater]

I'm a bit torn between unlocking acheronian tools or keeping stockpile of star metal.
I'm not sure if I am being lucky in single player, meteor showers happening every time I visit the place after few minutes, or if the horror stories of players sitting afk in single player for hours waiting for meteors are not true anymore.
thanks for the tips fellas.

[Xevyr]

Originally posted by Seishisha:

Worth mentioning, if you have legendary kits they will fully repair any level of equipment providing it has at least one durability remaining, if the equipment reads at 0.5 it will treat it as broken and not work.

That's been fixed :P
At least I read it in some patch-notes.. either for one of the hotfixes we already have or the one we're gonna have tomorrow, but it's addressed :)

[Seishisha]

Originally posted by Xevyr:

That's been fixed :P
At least I read it in some patch-notes.. either for one of the hotfixes we already have or the one we're gonna have tomorrow, but it's addressed :)

I didn't even know that was considered a bug, just thought it was normal.

[Xevyr]

Somebody reported it arguing that it does not match the description because anything above 0 is still not completely broken :D