Design a new tool Contest!

Name : Hammer.

Construction cost: Made by a blacksmith for a steel oz, piece of wood , and leather strip.

Durability: 500 per quality level I guess.  Idk I think this part should be left for later...  Durability is related to whatever the stamina requirement is for its use, which would be a new thing for a new tool.

Uses:. Required for building fences for ranch spots, maybe some (or all) blacksmith tools, ore melting, making weapons, maybe make a warhammer out of one too. Oh and a portion of town upgrades or buildings might need someone with a hammer to do it.

Description: Been useful since ever

Story: Long ago, people would use their foreheads when they needed to pound something into something else.  Since the hammer's inception, the average IQ has skyrocketted.

Name : Lute
Construction costs: 10 wood base +5 extra per quality lvl + 1 iron bar + 6 wool strings


(The amount of wood might seem excessive, but it requires a complex crafting process and the lower skill the carpenter the more wood will be wasted to end up with a proper result.)

The strings have to be made as a separate subcombine first, each requiring 1 wool.

Crafted at: The workbench

Durability 1200 x Quality level (Considering you don't fight with it, it should last you for quite some time)
The strings however require replacement sooner. These will last 300x Quality level. (To be included with the repair skill.)

Description: Every quality tavern needs a bard and what would a bard be without a lute?

Use 1 stamina to

Short Story
The Lute helps to calm the animals. This increases your luck while hunting and fishing.
Mermaids love music so may become curious to discover the source of it.

When walking it may ease the animals in not attacking you, but humans will be attracted to the music more often.
Not everyone is meant to become a bard though, so your bad attempts at making music might also scare away the fish and anger those around you to attack.

Cool contest idea.  Here's my best shot!

Name: Wooden Bucket

Durability: 250 * Quality Level

Construction Cost: 10 Wood

Unit Cost: 500 * Quality Level (Carpenter Workshop)

Description: Using a bucket will help you gather and move resources.

Milking Cows: +20% chance to gain +2 Milk when you milk a cow.

Gathering Eggs: +20% chance to gather one extra egg when you gather eggs.

Fishing: While in use, you receive a temporary +2 bonus to your fishing skill.

Labourer: While in use, you gain a temporary +2 bonus to your labourer skill.

Can be transformed into an Improvised Helmet.

Story: What can’t you do with a bucket?  Use this item to gather milk, store eggs, keep your fish fresh, and carry stone in the quarry.  If you find yourself in an unexpected fight, you can even put it on your head and hope for the best!

Public Domain Image: https://wpclipart.com/tools/lawn_garden/pail/bucket.png.html

Other Ideas

Ox-hide buckets bound by iron were also widely used in medieval times, so that style could be made using 5 Leather and 1 Iron Bar instead.

Historically, buckets were also used in the mines, but I didn’t want them to be overpowered compared to other items.

Name: Compost Bin


Durability: 1000 x Quality level


Construction Cost: 20 wood + 80 Iron Nails


Unit Cost: 1500 * Quality level (Carpenter)


Uses: Used to fertilise your Fields so you have a better harvest. (5% more harvest * Quality level)
(Usage cost of the bin on the field empties 25% of the bin and costs 20 stamina)

Meals can be thrown away into this Bin (1% fill * Quality level of meal)
Moreso, when eating a meal your leftovers are also put in the bin (0.2% fill * quality level of meal)

An extra option in the Ranch to "clean your Ranch" (costs 5 stamina per slot of your ranch)
this will move the dung from your ranch to the bin. (1% fill per slot of your ranch)

When your Bin is filled 100% it takes a week to decompose and become ready for usage. 


Description: it looks like a crate but hold your breath before you open it!

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Name: Chisel
Durability: 500 * quality
Item cost: 2 steel ounce, 2 shafts
Unit cost: 400 * quality
Workshop: carpenter (/or blacksmith)

Description: the tool of choice for both carpenters and sculptors
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Ingame effect:
+1 unit per stamina when working on carpenter projects; takes 1 durability per stamina spent
(potentially) Required to make sculptures

Name: Journal

Cost: 1 Leather Square, 1 Wood, 2 Wool, 8 Writable Skin. 1,000 Stamina *Quality Level (Tailor Workshop).

Durability: 250 *Quality Level

Description: The Journal gives the Seeker an extra .01 Learning Skill *Quality Level when equipped at reset. Due to the time it takes the Seeker to take notes, the Seeker loses 1 stamina *Quality Level when having the Journal equipped at reset.

Story: The Journal helps the busy Seeker keep track of their experiences during the day. Writing down their lessons helps them learn even faster!

Name: Rope maker's tools

Durability: 500 * Quality Level (Carpenter Workshop)

Construction Cost: 10 Wood, 10 iron nails

Description: Rope maker's tools are used to make rope! The tools will work just like the Cheese curdle, but without the 7 day waiting: Add 8 amount of hemp (new crop type!). Make rope (new Profession: Rope making!) There are two types of rope which can be made: standard rope coil: 200 units. fine rope coil: 400 units. The rope can be made in the Tailor workshop, or there can be added a new Workshop spesifically for making rope (rope making houses are usually loooooong). The rope maker's tools will lose 25 durability for each rope made.


Story: Rope is so versatile, so ubiquitous, that it is incredible it hasn't been introduced before. Here, I simply add the tool to make it. A new crop - hemp - must also be added (George Washington used it, medieval folks used it...so can we!). It will be a very useful crop (more than we can say about potatoes or grapes)   The crop will yield 15-20 hemp before bonuses. This will (almost) guarantee materials for two ropes (8 hemp per rope) with one crop.

(A possible add-on is making yarn out of the hemp. This can be done either in the Alchemist shop (chemical process), or in the Tailor shop. If added to the Tailor workshop, there could be introduced a new tool for making yarn in the Tailor shop, OR an empty barrel or bucket for the Alchemist shop (process and stamina use exactly like making beer. Should be easy to implement). Instead of adding 8 hemp when making rope, we will add 8 yarn instead. Yarn can also be used for other purposes later on. Nettle can be used too if we want!)

What can the ropes be used for?

- Pulleys (Standard rope - reduced stamina cost when delving rocks in the quarry)
- Fishing net (Fine rope - a tightly knit net which doubles the catch...or something)
- Hammock (Fine rope - +18 stamina when spending the night outdoors)
- You name it! Any activity in the realm can probably use a rope! It's easier to answer what a rope CANNOT be used for

Aro could probably throw another contest of designing new tools where the rope is the essential part

Mushroom Culture (Carpenter Workshop)

Cost:
16 Wood
12 Corn (could also use Kage's compost )
30 Nails
1 Mushroom

Units: 2000 units x quality level
Durability: lasts for 7 + 5 x quality level harvests

Growing mushrooms is similar to other crops (same skills apply), but without a plowing phase.
phase 1: sow 5 units
phase 2-7: wait
phase 8: harvest 5 units

Yields:
Base= 5-9 mushrooms
+2 x quality level
+1 per 20 points in the Farming skill

Description:
Bring some culture to your damp, dark basement!

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Name:  Medical kit (May change)
Durability: 1000 *per level
Item cost: 10 Wool, 2 wood, Healing potion of equivalent quality (Or possibly a few herbs)
Unit cost: 2000 *per level
Workshop: Tailor


Description:  The medical kit is a small satchel containing essential medical supplies such as cloth wrapping and small splints which come in handy with ailing anything from cuts and scraps to broken bones.
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Ingame effect:  The medical kit would would allow a seeker to regenerate life points when in the wild, but it would require base 25 stamina (scaling down 1 with every 10 points on the regeneration skill) and it would give you 1 life point immediately and 1 life point at reset, to simulate the rest aspect of fixing your wounds in the wild, and to make it less tempting that doing regen in the town.  Additionally, XP gained this way would be halved from xp gained regenerating life points in town.  Additionally, it would allow you to heal other players outside of town.  Since we can find other easier, this would allow people to come out and help heal newer players struggling in the mines, and possibly comes extra in handy when groups function so that groups can have a healer who is able to help keep the group alive.  
all uses cause it to wear at a normal rate, based on stamina spent (Points healed?).

It may in some way help help with healing players normally in the hospital, but only as a small bonus.

Story:
Using cloth to wrap wounds has been common for ages, and having a way to regen a few extra points in the wild could be enticing for miners and people training combat from time to time.  Also, as the map expands and the island becomes more integrated into gameplay this would increase in usefulness as traveling from the island to regen is much less tempting than walking back from mines.

Lathe / Strung
- raw material: 1.000 iron bars + 500 wood;
- Durability: 10,000 * Q
- Cost 10.000 * Q
Usage: used in carpenter and blacksmitg, it produces all kinds of products from the two workshops. Bonus: 2 ordered products (from the raw material required for 2 products), 3 results - the third product is free.
Only using the lathe can Q6 and Q7 tools be produced.

Name: Mortar & Pestle

Construction Cost: 5 stone and 1 wood shaft

Workshop: Carpenter.  If Stone Masons were in the game, I would have suggested them.

Durability: 500 per quality level

Description:  Used by alchemist to grind ingredients into powder, to then turn them into potions.

  A wounded and weary grail seeker stumbles into town, after a rough encounter with a thug.  He desperately cries: "Can anyone please help me?  I am injured after encountering a heartless thug on the roads near Spero." 

  An alchemist responds:  "I can provide you with a potion that will cure your wounds and feeling invigorated.  Please follow me to my shop."

  Once they arrive at the small shop, the alchemist begins crafting his concoction, he grabs his mortar and pestle from the shelf and grabs a handful of red berries and starts to mash them into a pulp.  Mixing in a bit of water, the alchemist hands to potion to the weary traveler. 

  The traveler quaffs the potion and instantly feels much better.  He thanks the smiling alchemist and pays a handful of silver in payment for the healing potion.

What ever happened with these?  Didn't work out, or still in development?

The introduction of the Journal was great. It makes it easier for new players to catch up with older players (and gain more stamina faster).

Now we are waiting eagerly for the compost bin! It is such an excellent suggestion, it cannot be forgotten about!