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Like a lot of life-sim games, you’ll have a large variety of materials to use, find, and craft with, but there’s no punching trees or grabbing bugs up by hand inPalia– if you want wood, bugs, or fish, you’ll need a tool to get them. From cutting trees to growing crops, tools are one of the most important mechanics in the game, and you’ll be using them all the time.
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In this guide we’ll show you how to obtain your initial tools, how to upgrade them and what materials you’ll need for each tier, and how to keep them repaired.
How To Obtain Tools
To get the majority of your basic tools, you’ll need to go completethe first few main quests, particularlyWelcome to PaliaandLearning the Ropes.
You’ll meet with a few of the villagers of Kilima during these two quests, and they’ll introduce you toseveral game mechanics and skills, as well asgiving you your first six tools: an axe, pick, watering can, hoe, belt, and bow.
Your final tool, a fishing rod, can be obtained fromanother resident independent of the tutorial quests.
Who To Obtain It From
Makeshift Axe
During Welcome to Palia,you’ll meet Ashura, who will give the axe to you after the conversation.
Makeshift Pick
Afterward, you’ll be sent ontoHodari at your housing plot, and he’ll give you the pick.
Makeshift Bow
You’ll also receivea letter in the mail from Hassian,which contains both the bow and some arrows.
Makeshift Belt
After completing the construction of your house, Auni will appear outside next to your mailbox. Listen to his tutorial then accept the questBug Catching 101, and he’ll give you the belt and several smoke bombs.
Makeshift Fishing Rod
MeetEinarat his fishing docknext to Kilima Lake,and hewill give youthe questFishing 101. Accept it, and he’ll give you aMakeshift Fishing Rod.
Makeshift Hoe
Speak to Badruu during Learning the Ropesthenmeethim at your housing plot, he’ll give you the hoe when you accept his questGardening 101.
Makeshift Watering Can
Also given to you byBadruu during Learning the Ropes/Gardening 101at the same time as the hoe.
How To Upgrade Your Tools
As you progress, you’ll need better tools to be able tomine new rocks or cut down bigger trees, and that means you’ll need to upgrade your tools. Upgrading will require the new tier’s recipe, a few materials, andthe previous tier of your tool.
Not only does upgrading your tools ensure you canobtain higher tier materials, but it alsoimproves their durability, andimproves what they do.For example,upgrading your Watering Canincreases the amount of crops it can water at once, and upgrading your Bowincreases the distance you can shoot.
To upgrade your tools, you have toimprove your skill level, which means leveling Foraging, Mining, Bug Catching, Fishing, Hunting, and Gardening.
Therecipes you need for the improved tools are purchasedfrom the same characters who gave you the base tools:Ashura, Hodari, Auni, Einar, Hassian, and Badruu. In each skill, you’ll unlock a new tier of tool recipe every few levels.
Standard Axe
Allows you tocut down medium trees, and increases damage to trees.
Standard Pick
Allows you to mineboth Copper and Iron, and increases damage to mining nodes.
Increasesline health and speed.
Fine Axe
Allows you tocut down medium and large trees, and increases damage to trees.
Fine Pick
Allows you to mineIron and Palium, and increases damage to mining nodes.
Greatly increasesline health and speed.
Fine Watering Can
Allows you to waternine crops at once,and greatly increases water held.
Exquisite Axe
Allows you to cut down medium and large trees, andgreatly improves damage to trees.
Exquisite Pick
Allows you to mine Iron and Palium andgreatly improves damage to mining nodes.
Massively improved line health and speed.
Exquisite Watering Can
Allows you to waternine crops at onceand massively increases water held.
Massively increases the amount of ground tilled at once.
How To Repair Your Tools
Once you upgrade past the Makeshift tier, your tools will start to have adurability meter. Their durability willdecrease with each skill task completed, such as successfully catching a fish or bug.
If your tool’s durability falls to zero, they willrevert to the previous tier,and you’ll need to upgrade it again. To keep this from happening, you canrepair your toolsbefore this happens.
There are two ways to repair your tools: visitingSifuu’s Forgeand paying for it at her Repair Station or usingRepair Kits atany Repair Station.
Repair Kits areautomatically unlocked upon crafting any of the Standard Tools, and each time you get to a new tool tier, you unlock the ability to craft bigger bundles of them.
Unlocking standard tools allows you to craft a bundle of 20, unlock Fine tools unlocks a bundle of 40, and unlocking Exquisite tools unlocks a bundle of 60.
At Sifuu’s repair station, you canpay to repair any tool individually, orrepair all of themat once for a small lump sum.
If you want to repair your tools at home, at unattended repair stations, or for free, you’ll needboth Repair Kits and a Repair Station. The recipe for a Repair Station can bepurchased from Hodarionce you reachMining level fourand requiresfive Stone Bricks and ten Copper Bars.
