Crafting recipes do not come easy inEchoes of The Plum Grove.

Honeywood may seem idyllic, but farm life ain’t all sunshine and moo-cows.

Here’s how to ensure your first season isn’t your last.

Echoes of the Plum Grove player in a mine with a pickaxe and lantern

Managing your tools and upgrading them is an important part of managing your farm.

How To Repair Tools

you’re able to’t use the same tools until the next upgrade.

Tools in Echoes of The Plum Grovebreak with use.

Echoes of the Grove Playable Character Standing on Boat.

When tools are broken, they disappear forever.

Theprice of repairinga tool depends onhow damagedthe tool actually is.

If it is around90 percentbroken, you are looking at30 or so gold.

Echoes of Plum Grove, player speaking to Rowland Smith

If it is onlya bit damaged, you would have to pay aroundtwo to eight gold.

You willreceive the repaired tool in your mailboxthe next morning.

How To Get Better Tools

Youcannot craft new toolsin Echoes of The Plum Grove.

Echoes of The Plum Grove, player mining

The only way to get a new tool or a better tool is topurchase one from Rowland Smith.

NPC’s storeinventories rotateevery so often.

Some days you may only see Simple and Stone tools in Rowland’s store.

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Wait until Rowland Smith starts sellingStone, Iron, or Steel toolsin his rotation.

All tools, including the starter ones, can be purchased by trading with Rowland Smith.

They get sold for around1600+ gold each.

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Tools From Weakest To Strongest

Cost

Simple

Starter tools.

Cost around 60-90 gold each to repurchase.

Stone

Sold by Rowland.

Cost around 130 gold each.

Iron

Sold by Rowland.

Cost around 320 gold each.

Steel

Sold by Rowland.Cost around 1600 each.

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