Tool Ladders

Tool Ladders are permanent Amber-and-materials upgrades that speed up gathering. Each of the four gathering skills — Foraging, Logging, Mining and Fishing — has its own tool that climbs six ranks, from a crude Flint tool up to a Starfall tool. Every rank you buy makes that skill's actions 4% faster, so a fully-laddered tool cuts action time by 24%.

Tool Ladders are the second stage of the late-game Amber sink, sitting alongside the Shop's upgrades and the Exotic Broker.

The four tools

Skill	Tool
Foraging	Sickle
Logging	Axe
Mining	Pick
Fishing	Rod

Ranks and cost

The Amber cost and skill-level gate for each rank are the same across all four skills — only the materials differ by tool. Ranks must be bought in order.

Rank	Tier	Level	Amber	Sickle	Axe	Pick	Rod
1	Flint	10	2,000	Flint Sickle	Flint Axe	Flint Pick	Flint Rod
2	Bronze	25	8,000	Bronze Sickle	Bronze Axe	Bronze Pick	Bronze Rod
3	Iron	45	32,000	Iron Sickle	Iron Axe	Iron Pick	Iron Rod
4	Silver	65	128,000	Silver Sickle	Silver Axe	Silver Pick	Silver Rod
5	Obsidian	82	512,000	Obsidian Sickle	Obsidian Axe	Obsidian Pick	Obsidian Rod
6	Starfall	94	1,360,000	Starfall Sickle	Starfall Axe	Starfall Pick	Starfall Rod

Ranks 1–5 cost about 682,000 Amber per tool — roughly 2.7 million to bring all four skills to Obsidian. The Starfall rank (6) is a post-99 trophy: it needs level 94 in the skill and a top-tier material bill.

Materials

Every tool at a given rank shares a common mineral core; each tool then adds its own flavour materials (a wooden haft at Silver, a rare component at Starfall).

Shared core (all four tools):

Rank	Shared materials
1 Flint	20 Flint, 10 Fernwood
2 Bronze	30 Copper Ore, 30 Tin Ore, 10 Podocarp Log
3 Iron	60 Iron Ore, 30 Coal, 20 Araucaria Log, 10 Limestone
4 Silver	80 Silver Ore, 40 Cobalt Ore
5 Obsidian	100 Obsidian, 40 Gold Ore, 20 Ironbark Log
6 Starfall	120 Moonstone, 20 Skysteel Ore, 20 Cloudwood Log, 20 Worldroot Log

Per-tool additions:

Tool	Rank 4 (Silver) haft	Rank 5–6 extras
Sickle (Foraging)	+20 Palmfern Log	Starfall: +2 Sunpetal Resin
Axe (Logging)	+20 Kelpwood Log	Starfall: +2 Heartwood Core
Pick (Mining)	+20 Palmfern Log	Starfall: +2 Starmetal Ore
Rod (Fishing)	+20 Kelpwood Log	Starfall: +2 Abyssal Pearl

The Rod also needs 10 Horsetail Reed at ranks 1 and 2. Every listed material can be produced within a few levels of the rank's own gate, so no rank ever asks for something far out of reach.

Related pages

Foraging, Logging, Mining, Fishing — the skills these tools speed up
Shop — the Amber upgrade shop
Exotic Broker — the late-game second shop tier
Amber — the currency tool ranks cost