Maybe an unpopular opinion but having to buy every gathering tool and then constantly switch between them just isn't fun.
All I want is to run up to resource nodes, gather and move on.
#Get rid of gathering tools
peak jasper
grave geyser
I suggested something similar to RuneScape's toolbelt system. Buy the tool, add it to your tool belt, and then it never needs to be equipped
I think the way it's done is to break things up into segments? Fight stuff for a bit, then switch to a pickaxe and run around the map, gathering instead of fighting
toxic dock
The reason practically every game has swapped to moving tools to special item slots and not your primary is to remove the tedious action of having to continuously swap between them. The dev said tools are how you basically rank up your fishing and mining so removing them probably wouldn't do well, but if they were to add new slots to put a fishing rod and a pickaxe in that would honestly be a huge plus
ionic quarry
Yeah I'm looking at this also
pliant holly
Yeah I don't mind having the tools to have the actual tools be the skill "level" - but switching out my main hand to use them is overly tedious
ionic quarry
agreed, having watched people do it