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# Crafting
Make your own tools, and better ones.
Two benches. The carpenter's workbench makes things from wood and stone. The blacksmith's forge smelts ore into bars and turns bars into better tools.
Tools wear out, so knowing how to make a hoe means never losing a morning to a broken one.
## Tools
     
Four families and four tiers: iron, bronze, gold and amethyst. Each tier lasts longer and does more work per swing, and the difference is obvious the moment you swing one.
Amethyst is the top of the ladder and no shop sells it. You forge it or you go without.
  
## What else you can make
A beehive, which you need before anyone will sell you bees. Replacement rods and cans. Bars, in quantity, for everything above.
Crafting your own is always cheaper than buying, but a crafted tool sells for less than its parts cost, so there is no money in making them to sell.
Crafting and mining hold each other back at a couple of points, so they climb together.
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