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Tools & weapons
Your tools upgrade through copper, steel, gold and iridium at the workshop. Weapons come from Wes, who works out a new one each time you show him a new material.
| Item | Description | Damage | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
 Areonite Rod | Areonite, hand-wound by Tariq. The biggest catch bar, bait and two tackle. | ||
 Areonite Saber | Forged from crater areonite. The best blade on Mars. (Damage 32) | 32 | 20,000 bm |
 Axe | A good steel axe from your field kit. Fells spire trees and chops through tough Martian succulents. | ||
 Carbon Rod | Tariq's carbon-fibre rod. Light, with a bigger catch bar and a clip for bait. | ||
 Crowbar | Pried open half the crates on Mars. Works on cubes too. (Damage 5) | 5 | 600 bm |
 Ember Blade | A blade of fused meteorite that never quite cools. Found in the chest on floor 50. (Damage 18) | 18 | 8,000 bm |
 Fishing Rod | A collapsible rod. Drill a hole in lake ice with the Ice Auger, then cast into it. | ||
 Frost Pick | An old survey pick rimed with cave ice. Found in the chest on floor 25. (Damage 11) | 11 | 3,000 bm |
 Glow Cleaver | A broad thorium blade from Wes's bench. It glows green when it bites. (Damage 38) | 38 | 30,000 bm |
 Hoe | Tills Martian regolith into farmable soil. Mark Watney made do with worse. | ||
 Ice Axe | Light and quick. Built for glaciers, good for cubes. (Damage 6) | 6 | 2,500 bm |
 Ice Drill | A hand-held drill: half jackhammer, half auger. Bore a hole through lake ice to fish (or to fill your watering pump). Holes freeze over at night. | ||
 Meteor Hammer | A lump of iron-nickel meteorite on a steel haft. Found in the chest on floor 75. (Damage 26) | 26 | 14,000 bm |
 Obsidian Edge | Knapped from Abyss obsidian on a steel spine. Light, quick and wickedly sharp. (Damage 24) | 24 | |
 Pickaxe | Breaks rocks and ore. Don't think about how you made the handle. | ||
 Plasma Blaster | Fires bolts of plasma that burst on whatever they hit. Fires Plasma Cells. (Damage 15) | 15 | 6,000 bm |
 Plasma Cutter | Hull-cutting torch, repurposed. (Damage 22) | 22 | 15,000 bm |
 Pneumatic Lance | A rock-breaking spike on a gas piston. (Damage 14) | 14 | 6,000 bm |
 Rail Gun | A magnetic rail that throws a slug through everything in a line. Fires Rail Slugs. (Damage 45) | 45 | 24,000 bm |
 Rebar Club | A bent length of rebar with tape for a grip. Wes swears by it. (Damage 4) | 4 | |
 Rebar Gun | A nail gun Wes beefed up to fire rebar. Loud, slow and better than nothing. Fires Rebar Rounds. (Damage 7) | 7 | 1,500 bm |
 Scythe | A long curved blade from your field kit. Sweeps through cactus scrub (fodder for the silo) and brings in ripe crops, a swath at a time. Costs no energy. | ||
 Starglass Blade | A blade of Starglass from the Hollow Halls on an areonite spine. Stars drift in it when it moves. (Damage 46) | 46 | 45,000 bm |
 Survey Hammer | A geologist's sledge. Slow, but things stay down. (Damage 8) | 8 | 1,500 bm |
 Titanium Rod | A titanium rod with a proper reel: a bigger catch bar, bait and a tackle. | ||
 Water Pump | Salvaged from the lander's coolant system. Waters tilled tiles. Refills near ice. |