Guide

Tools: what they do and which to get

Tools are permanent unlocks that make one skill faster and pay it more XP. Early on they're the cheapest lasting upgrade there is: a single 1-in-100 drop is worth a few percent XP per hour in its skill, for good.

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What a tool does

• Skilling tools add +0.5% XP at T1, rising to +2.5% at T5 and +3% for Chaos. They cut 0.1 s off every action at T1 and T2, up to 0.6 s for Chaos. Each one is also an action source: +1% success chance and +1% double gather, or +0.5% material save in a processing skill.
• Combat tools pay double: +1% XP at T1 up to +5% at T5 and +6% for Chaos, in their combat skill. Every tier is also one effective level and one crit source (+0.2% crit chance, +0.25% crit damage); Chaos counts as two.
• The Lantern is a tool for every skill at once: skilling-rate XP everywhere, an action source in every skill, and an effective level and crit source in combat.
• Each family has ten versions (T1–T5, Chaos, D1, D2, Lucky and Shiny Lucky), and you keep all of them. D1 and Lucky count as T1; D2 and Shiny Lucky as T2.

What one tool is worth

Skilling focus

A T1 tool in a skill you train adds roughly this much XP per hour. Its speed cut counts for more the faster your actions already are:

Assumes success under 100% and no double gather yet. Processing tools give material save instead of double gather, which saves materials but adds no XP.

Combat focus

• A T1 combat tool gives its skill +1% XP and one effective level. On an accuracy skill that's about +0.6% hit chance; on a strength skill about +0.4 max hit.
• Every combat tier also adds +0.2% crit chance and +0.25% crit damage to all your attacks, so they add up across skills.
• Four non-combat tools count for combat as well: the Culling Knife (Slay), Enchanted Trainers (Vigor), Enchanted Skull (Delve) and the Lantern. Each tier is an effective level and a crit source.

Which to get first

Skilling focus

1. T1 tools for the skill pair you train most. Seven Feeble mobs, from Slay 9 to 25, each drop one gather and process pair at 1 in 100. A 1-in-100 drop takes 69 loot rolls for an even chance. See When to start combat for which mob drops which pair.
2. The T1 Lantern from Feeble Rage Slime (Slay 1) at 1 in 500. It's worth a T1 tool in every skill at once, so it's worth the longer grind.
3. T2 tools from Dire mobs at 1 in 250, once you reach Slay 30.

Combat focus

1. The Culling Knife and the Enchanted Trainers from Feeble Skeleton and Feeble Imp, at 1 in 100. They help every fight.
2. Combat tools from dungeons. Each completed Feeble Dungeon run rolls each of its tools at 1 in 100 per player; Dire is 1 in 200, up to 1 in 1,600 for Ancient.
3. The Lantern, for the same reasons as above.

Where each tool drops

Mob drops roll per loot roll and drop once per mob. Dungeon tools roll once per player per completed run. Open a tool to see where each tier comes from.

For every skill

Gathering

Processing

Combat

Other skills

D1, D2, Lucky and Shiny Lucky

• D1 and D2 come from treasure chests: each loot roll has a 1 in (300 − 20 × chest tier) chance of a random D1 tool you don't own yet, and 1 in (1,500 − 100 × chest tier) of a D2. The Lantern comes up at half weight.
• Lucky and Shiny Lucky are rolled from XP: each XP gain has an XP-gained-in-a-million chance of that skill's Lucky tool, and 1 in 5 hits is Shiny. The Lucky Lantern is 1 in 10 million per XP (1 in 50 million Shiny).