Tools

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Tools in Fear Nightfall come from many content mods rather than from one tool set. Mining tools, butchery and cutting tools, fishing gear and utility items are added by Aquaculture, Butchery, Farmer's Delight, Sons of Sins, Sleepy Hollows, The Graveyard, Supplementaries and Handcrafted, among others. Each mod gives its tools their own tier, durability and special behaviour, so the pack has no single tool progression. Combat-oriented items are covered on Weapons and the spell-based weapons on Iron's Spellbooks Weapons.

Most of the pack's tools are ordinary tiered tools that take the vanilla tool classes. Several sets add a behaviour that matters more than their numbers: underwater mining, self-repair, unbreakable durability, blood-based drops or per-block tool choice. The sections below group the tools by job and link to the page for each family.

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Tool families

Mining and digging tools

  • Neptunium (Neptunium): Aquaculture's metal tier. Its pickaxe and shovel mine much faster while the player's eyes are underwater.
  • Sons of Sins (Sons of Sins Tools and Armor): the Osseous, Flesh and Sinful sets, each with a sword, pickaxe, axe, shovel and hoe. The Osseous and Flesh sets are made from bone and then converted in a blood pool. The Sinful set is the late-game tier and is unbreakable.
  • Shape-Shifting Tool (Sons of Sins): a single late-game tool with 1600 durability. At harvest time it acts as a pickaxe, shovel or axe, chosen per block, so one item can mine any of those block types.
  • Raubbau (Sleepy Hollows): a shovel that always mines with Efficiency VIII. It is found in the Loot Bag drop table and is described on Spectral Waraxe and Shatterbrand.
  • Mithril (Mithril): the mithril ore in the Iron's Spellbooks set needs a netherite-tier tool to mine. See Ores and Mining for the mining tiers.

Butchery tools

Butchery Tools are the cleavers, skinning knives, hammers and hacksaws added by Butchery. Each type comes in six tiers: copper, iron, gold, diamond, netherite and bone. The cleaver is the most important of them, because by default only a cleaver, or the Butcher's Touch or Hunter enchantment from Butchery Enchantments, lets a kill drop a carcass. The full process is described on Butchering.

Knives and fish-cutting tools

  • Knives (Knives): Farmer's Delight's Flint, Iron, Golden, Diamond and Netherite knives, plus the Refurbished Furniture kitchen knife and the Neptunium knife. Knives are used on Cutting Boards and also harvest straw and carve pumpkins.
  • Fillet knives (Fillet Knives and Fish Fillets): wooden, stone, iron, gold and diamond fillet knives, which butcher caught fish into fillets on a cutting board. The Neptunium fillet knife is described on Neptunium.

Fishing rods

Rods are sold in iron, gold, diamond and Neptunium tiers by Aquaculture. Their lure and bobber stats are covered on Fishing Rods and Fishing Lines and Bobbers, and the wider system on Fishing.

Utility and craft-only tools

Durability and tiers

Tool durability varies widely across the pack. The gold and flint tiers sit at the bottom of their families, with 32 and 131 durability for the Golden Knife and Flint Knife, while the diamond and netherite tiers reach roughly 1500 to 2000. Neptunium tools have 1796 durability. The Sinful set and the Shape-Shifting Tool are the outliers: the Sinful tools have no durability limit, and the Shape-Shifting Tool has 1600.

Mining speed also differs by family. The iron Butchery hammer has a mining speed of 6.0 and the iron hacksaw 4.0, while Neptunium tools reach 8.5. Each family's tables give the exact figures for every tier, so they are not repeated here.

Special behaviour

  • Underwater mining and fighting. Neptunium pickaxes and shovels break blocks 25 times faster while the eyes are underwater. Neptunium swords and axes deal 1.5 times damage in the same state. See Neptunium.
  • Blood and ashes. Killing a mob with an Osseous or Sinful tool drops Ether Ashes equal to 10 percent of the victim's maximum health, rounded up. Ashes feed the Ether recipes and the Soul Steel set. The blood-pool conversion of tools is described on Blood Pools, Slicing and Ether Ashes.
  • Anti-sin damage. Sinful tools deal four times their normal damage to the seven sin creatures of Sons of Sins.
  • Self-repair. A Flesh tool carried in the inventory, but not held, recovers 5 durability every 15 seconds. Each repair can cost the holder a point of saturation or food.
  • Reach. Flesh pickaxes, axes, hoes and shovels add 3 blocks of block interaction range, and the Flesh Sword adds 1.5 blocks of entity range.
  • Crafting wear. Butchery cleavers, skinning knives and hammers lose one point of durability when used as a crafting ingredient, while hacksaws come back undamaged. See Butchery Tools.

Fear Nightfall changes

The pack changes how tools reach the player in two ways. Loot from Iron's Spells, Farmer's Delight and Butchery is mapped into the chests of the structure mods, so knives and butchery tools turn up in more places than in the base mods. See Loot and Chests for the general mapping and Knives for the chest chances.

Structures from The Graveyard, Sleepy Hollows and Sons of Sins are placed about 30 percent closer together than in the base mods. Where they share a structure set with other structures, they get six times the weight. The Sinful Church chest holds an Osseous Sword and an Osseous Axe at 50 percent each. Containers that Lootr cannot make per-player, such as Graveyard coffins and urns and Sleepy Hollows coffins, are shared and first come, first served.

Tips

  • Blast Neptunium gear you no longer need for ingots. Each item gives one ingot, and the Neptunium fillet knife does not lose durability. See Neptunium.
  • Carry a cleaver when hunting in Butchery, since without it or the Butcher's Touch or Hunter enchantment a kill drops no carcass.
  • Fish in open water if you want the Neptunium loot entry. The entry is not rolled when the hook is in lava. See Neptunium.
  • Bring Sinful tools against the seven sin creatures, since they deal four times their normal damage to them.
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