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"What do you mean, I need a knife? I have a knife in my inventory already!"

If you have ever struggled with this specific issue, you are not alone! The game can be sometimes confusing, and not all similar-looking tools are equal. This guide will explain the subtle differences in the three most confusing categories of tools: knives, hammers and wrenches

Knives

There are four types of knives. Meat cleavers can be used for all the carpentry/carving recipes. Scissors can be used for all of the tailoring recipes, and dull knives (like butter knife) can be used in cooking (cutting bread/vegetables for example).

Sharp knives can do all of the above (except a few tailoring recipes which require scissors explicitely). They are the long pointy knives (kitchen knife, machete). The pointy stone is a pointy knife.

When the blade is dull, they cannot be used anymore.

Shivs aren't knives at all.

Hammers

The club hammer and mallet cannot be used for building with nails. The club hammer can be used in all recipes which require to smash stuff, as well as most forging recipes, while the mallet can be used for knapping. Interestingly, a stone can be used for knapping in simple recipes.

The ball-peen hammer, claw hammer and stone hammer can all be used in most recipes and buildings. The ball-peen hammer is required for a few specialized forging recipes, while the claw hammer is the only one capable of removing a barricade.

The sledgehammer is not a hammer at all, it can only be used to break walls and big stones.

Wrenches

Wrenches are the most straightforward. The pipewrench is used exclusively for plumbing, the lug wrench exclusively for adding/removing tires on a car, and other wrenches are used for crafting and dismanteling items.

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Starting with at least one point in any skill multiplies all xp gains by 4! This made me wonder: would it be possible to start a run with one level in all 33 skills? What would be the cheapest build then? What's the optimal combination of traits and occupation? Here is how I built the optimal solution

Pottery, glassmaking and tracking are trait-specific

Thus we need to take artisan (pottery/glassmaking) and hunter

No trait/occupation give long blade or spear

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Five skills are occupation-specific

Short blunt, welding, reloading, electrical and animal care can only be obtained through an occupation. Worse, no occupation provide even two of those. Thus we will have to choose one of 13 occupations (carpenter, construction worker, DIY expert, security guard, blacksmith // electrician, engineer // mechanic, welder // police officer, veteran // farmer, rancher) and give up on four extra skills

From there, most trait choices can be deducted

Given our limited choice of occupations, we need to take

1. Artisan
2. Hunter
3. Brawler
   • To get the axe skill without using firefighter or lumberjack
4. Keen cook
   • Cooking w/o chef or burger flipper
5. Bushcrafter
   • Knapping w/o park ranger
6. Hiker
   • Trapping w/o park ranger
7. Sewer
   • Sewing w/o tailor
8. Former scout
   • First aid and fishing, w/o doctor, first aider, nurse or fishing guide
   • Note that first aider + angler has the same cost
9. Gymnast
   • Lightfooted + nimble, none of our occupation give both

And 5 extra traits based on our choice of occupation

1. Gardener
   • Replaced by farmer to get animal care
2. Vehicle knowledge
   • Replaced by mechanic to get welding
3. Runner
   • Security guard is actually a sub-optimal way to get short blunt, so runner is always picked
4. Blacksmith knowledge
   • Same, blacksmith is sub-optimal, blacksmith knowledge is always picked
5. Handy
   • Replaced by capenter/construction worker/DIY expert to get short blunt (all have the same price)
   • Replaced by engineer to get electrical

In total, the short blunt variant is the cheapest with a cost of 64 points. The most expensive is the reloading variant with 74 points

To get reloading we need to pick all the 14 traits + the police officer occupation. Electrical costs 66 points, animal care 68 and welding 71.

To conclude, one character can at best start with 27 out of the 33 skills with at least one level. We would need to take 64 points worth of bad traits, which is definitely doable, but might prove very challenging. If anyone is up for starting a challenge run, I'd watch it with great curiosity!

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In U2 the team can obtain special wagons in the ??? locations. Each biome has a unique special wagon, and each ??? spawns exactly once per biome, so obtaining them feels like a challenge. That being said, the reward isn't super good, and it gets worse with more advanced biomes.

Piggybank (Monorail Meadows)

The piggybank is quite good, if sufficiently upgraded. It consumes 30 items, regardless of level, but it produces more bolts as it levels up. At level 1 it produces 1 bolt per round, 3 bolts at level 6 and 3.3 at level 7. It works very well with a magnet or with a storage-pull extension, producing bolts almost passively. A tier

Wagon printer (Boxcar Bayou)

The printer is an odd one. It produces random empty wagons with 4 slots from rails, starting at 20 rails per wagon at lvl 1 down to 10 rails per wagon at level 6. It seems great in theory, being the only way to make wagons with 4 slots (besides the ghost engine), but I never had much use for it, given that, on the one hand, getting all the wagons filled with extensions and at max level is already enough room for improvement and, on the other hand, a random wagon isn't the one you are looking for most of the time. For a perfectionnist run it might be a must, otherwise C tier

Cartridge toaster (Cargo Canyon)

It consumes animals to produce a random cartridge, starting at 8 animals per cartridge at level 1, down to 4 animals per cartridge at level 5. In a typical level there are 1 or 2 animals (except in monorail meadow), thus making the wagon not very productive, although having an extra cartridge is always cool. C tier

Hexnut tree (Island Interchange)

It produces a hexnut out of thin air, once every 6 minutes at level 1, down to 1 per minute at level 6. Pretty cool if you haven't unlocked everything, although remember that you already obtain 1 hexnut per round, and 3 per boss, so it isn't amazing either. Kind of a niche, B tier

Mimic (Loco Labyrinth)

It copies the wagon in front, without extensions or levels. This means that if you a have super high level dynamite wagon, you can have another level 1 dynamite wagon for free, what a deal! This wagon doesn't have any real use-case because most wagons shouldn't be duplicated anyway (one is usually enough), and, if necessary, you can just obtain a duplicate from a chest or a shop. The only edge case would be duplicating another special wagon, but once again most aren't super useful. I guess you could get even more hexnut trees. F tier

Teleporter (Boiler Badlands)

The player can place a teleporter plateform, and travel instantly between the two. Outside of very niche cases, it doesn't really have a use case. F tier

Overall, compared to normal wagons (water gun, ghost, bombs), special wagon feel difficult to obtain for little practical use. With the recent update and the need to collect them all, they feel more like dead weight than anything!