drifting pike
Summary:
The icon for the Handicraft skill is a Hand, holding some sort of tool.
That basically makes sense for a "Handicraft" skill icon, but the tool itself is nonsense.
What is it?
A toothbrush behind held backwards?
A primitive axe head (also being held backwards), but using a plastic-looking handle?
It should be changed to something better.
Difficulty:
Low.
Barely noticeable.
And yet, when you do notice it, it gnaws at you.
Occurrence:
Always.
It's been this way for over 13 years.
if you look at a handicraft kit, the handle looks like it might be a match.
but we dont know what the tool itself would be.
but the most crucial clue, comes from the wiki
the icon was changed between 2009 and 2012
the old icon clearly, showing that the red bit, and the grey bit, are two different tools.
and that the grey tool had a brown handle, which was lost when the icon was revamped.
harsh wren
The game actually has had an event make that toothbrush joke in-game a while back...
In the original Skill Icon, the metal object is a Wood Carving Chisel. The red handle could be to a number of objects- maybe a paint-brush or a drafting brush to clean wood shavings away.
Honestly the red handle has always been sort of vague.
drifting pike
i always figured a hammer... hard to use a chisel without a hammer
forest trout
that's not a bug, also Lint, don't forget that Handicraft went through some initial changes and was first added for an event
specifically, you equipped this version in the off-hand and had to use manuals to make items, like the Wooden Man for the event and some fireworks
so yeah, there probably was an even earlier icon, I wonder if that still floats around on the web somewhere...