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Dose it actually help in digging? Dose it make it faster to dig?

Lazun123 wrote:Dose it actually help in digging? Dose it make it faster to dig?

Yes, but economically you're better off using an iron shovel.

Imagine it's on par with metal axe vs steel axe... metal does 5% and steel does 6% damage cutting down a tree.

Significant increase in value of materials required for a minute increase is productivity.

5% vs 6% chops is not a minute as you say but regardless...It's not a minute of productivity. It's a minute of productivity per tree you cut down. Cut down 5000 trees or dig up 20,000 items of clay over a 6 month period and that expense of materials' difference is a lot smaller.

Ah yes. I did miss that. Something you missed is the entire context of my post in regard to this thread. What do you think of the comparison between a minute difference in the time and phlegm it takes to cut down a single tree and an extraordinary difference in the time and phlegm it takes to cut down 5000 or 500 trees?

Obviously the exact numbers are variable but taking 200s for wrought and 700s for steel and putting a 10s value on a tree being chopped down would only require cutting down 250 trees to be at even.

Putting it simple it takes about 60 seconds to chop a tree with a metal axe and about 51 seconds to chop a tree with steel axe so you spend 500s to have 9 seconds less per tree.

If you need to make only a few big projects (like a lot of mortars + enclosure a 100x100 area with plank fence + having a barn) it's not worth it yet. It would be a pain in the ass anyway and this 15 minutes that you would save you will probably spend chatting more etc throughout the months.

A metal shovel digs with 20% per tick(for clay pits) so that means 5 ticks for 1 clay when the steel one digs with 35% per tick so 3 ticks only.
I find the steel shovel very useful

im doing a major terra forming project, and I find the steel shovel really helps, now what about soil artifacts? do they really increase speed?

Lazun123 wrote:im doing a major terra forming project, and I find the steel shovel really helps, now what about soil artifacts? do they really increase speed?

Sounds like the only thing they affect currently is how quickly you can uproot shrubs, which is rather useless unless you spend a lot of time reorganizing your berry bushes.