How To Upgrade Your Tools In Mirthwood

Quick Links

How To Upgrade From Copper Tools

Upgrading your tools in Mirthwood allows you to harvest more materials from stronger rocks and allows you to deal more damage. You won’t get anywhere by playing the whole game with Copper items. Tools have tiers of metal or material that is the worst or the best. Wood and Copper are at the bottom of the list.

Farming Simulators With Unique Gameplay Elements, Paleo Pines and Slime Rancher

10 Cozy Farming Simulators With A Twist

Learn all about the best cozy farming simulator games with twists!

The best tools you can get are Gold tools. You will need to earn a lot of money in order to even think about crafting tool upgrades, though. Below you will find each tool kit available in the game and how to acquire everything you need.

A Gold Tool Kit for trade in trade menu in Mirthwood.

The first thing you want to do is locate a blacksmith. There is a blacksmith in south Brightoak, where the houses begin to look brown. Here, you will find the blacksmith sells tool kit upgrades. The prices are very high and not so accessible at the start of the game.

Upgrading your tools increases the efficiency of that item per upgrade.

Upgrading your watering pot allows you to water a larger radius.
Upgrading your Scythe increases the amount of Hay you get and the radius of the swing.
Upgrading your Hoe increases the speed of your tilling.

It’s important to upgrade your tools sooner rather than later because farming and gathering resources can become tedious. Being able to harvest materials faster thanks to better tools, will allow you to focus on other things like quests.

To upgrade your tools from Copper to the next best thing, Iron, you will need at least 750 coins and an anvil. You can only upgrade tools at an anvil. One can be crafted at your workbench for 15 Stone and 2 Iron Bars.

Ores can be found in different regions. Iron rock deposits are found in Murkwater Marsh. Put ore in a Furnace to smelt them into bars.

Tool Kit Tiers	Cost
Iron Tool Kit	750
Steel Tool Kit	2000
Silver Tool Kit	3000
Gold Tool Kit	5000

Each tool will need a corresponding tool kit, 10 bars of the corresponding material such as Iron, and your previous tool. Better axes and pickaxes will allow you to harvest more of a resource and unlock the ability to collect higher-grade materials.

Pickaxes	What It Can Break
Copper	Small stones and ores.
Iron	Unlocks the ability to break Limestone.
Steel	Unlocks the ability to break Boulders, Gemstones, and acquire Silver.
Silver	Unlocks the ability to acquire Gold.
Gold	Greatly improves mining efficiency.

Axes	What It Can Break
Copper	Small trees with pink leaves.
Iron	Unlocks the ability to harvest wood from Stumps.
Silver	Unlocks the ability to break Logs.
Steel	Greatly increases speed of harvesting.
Gold	Greatly increases chopping efficiency.

Where To Find Ore

Ore deposits look just like rocks you smash for stone; Copper rocks will be brown and have green cracks, and Iron rocks will look the most similar to stone, grey with silver cracks. Different ore deposits reside within different regions of the world.

Bramble Quillworthy’s book pages share where to find resources.

If you are struggling to find specific ore, it’s time to start exploring new regions.