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describe some facts about energy required for tool use
'''Tools''' help you do things in the world. You can carry them with you in your backpack for ready use, or store them in a [[chest]] when not immediately needed. You can upgrade your tools at the [[Blacksmith#Upgrade Tools|Blacksmith]] for money and metal bars (or raw ore), with upgrades taking two days to complete. During the upgrade, you can't buy anything or ask [[Clint]] to break open geodes. Tools must go in ascending order of materials in order to upgrade. Copper tools can't be upgraded directly to iriduim, etc.
'''Tools''' help you do things in the world. You can carry them with you in your backpack for ready use, or store them in a [[chest]] when not immediately needed. You can upgrade your tools at the [[Blacksmith#Upgrade Tools|Blacksmith]] for money and metal bars (or raw ore), with upgrades taking two days to complete. During the upgrade, you can't buy anything or ask [[Clint]] to break open geodes. Tools must be upgraded in ascending order of materials; for example, a copper tool can't be upgraded directly to iridium.
Tip: The practical meaning of an upgrade "taking two days to complete" is that you will wake up on two successive days without your tool. (It is at the blacksmith's.) This means that on the day you bring it in to be upgraded, you may first use the tool for any number of hours, so long as you hand it over to the blacksmith before the shop's closing time. You will then have one complete day without the tool. The second day, you may retrieve the upgraded tool at any time after the shop opens, and then use it freely. Thus, "two days" does not end up meaning exactly 48 hours, but something less than that. It is somewhat clearer to think of it as two nights.
Tip: The practical meaning of an upgrade "taking two days to complete" is that you will wake up on two successive days without your tool. (It is at the blacksmith's.) This means that on the day you bring it in to be upgraded, you may first use the tool for any number of hours, so long as you hand it over to the blacksmith before the shop's closing time. You will then have one complete day without the tool. The second day, you may retrieve the upgraded tool at any time after the shop opens, and then use it freely. Thus, "two days" does not end up meaning exactly 48 hours, but something less than that. It is somewhat clearer to think of it as two nights.
==Energy Consumption==
Using a tool consumes some of the player's daily energy, as reflected in the energy bar. The base consumption is two energy points for each tool use. Consumption decreases as the player gains skills levels, an effect the game describes as "increased proficiency" when it announces a new level has been reached. The farming skill affects the hoe and watering can, foraging affects the axe, and mining affects the pickaxe. At each new level of experience, the energy consumption decreases another 5% from the base amount, so at level 5, consumption is three-quarters (down by a quarter) from the base, or 1.5 energy per use, and at level 10 it is down to half, or 1 energy per use.
Each tool upgrade also makes the tool more efficient, decreasing the energy required to use it even more. The amounts given above apply to the original tools, so the upgrades perform better at any skill level than the original tool at that skill level.
==Hoes==
==Hoes==