Tools

Tools are equipment that help you perform certain tasks in The Garden Path.

How to Equip

To equip a Tool, go to your Inventory and click Use. Once you do this, the tool will disappear from your inventory and instead be equipped to your person.

To see what tools you currently have equipped, toggle the menu (START on controller and TAB on PC) and go to the character page.

Once you equip a new tool, the old tool will return to your inventory.

Types of Tools

There are several different types of Tools in The Garden Path which will help you do different things in the game. Travelling merchants also sell axe variants that sometimes have different effects on Tones.

Axe

The Axe is the first tool you'll receive in the game which will be given to you during the Tutorial or automatically if you skipped the Tutorial.

The axe is used to chop down trees and harvest their resources. You will need to hit a tree several times (depending on its size) before it will fall, so you can safely collect resources if you only hit a few times.

Fishing Rod

The fishing Rod is used to fish in ponds and rivers to catch Songfish. You will get your first one after completing a Quest with Larto.

Secateurs

The Secateurs are the next tool you'll get during the introductory quests of the game. After talking to Augustus for the first time, he'll ask you to help find the other half of his broken Secateurs.

The secateurs are used to obtain cuttings and harvest certain resources from plants and bushes. Shears, like axes, when used many times in succession can destroy a plant or bush.

Trowel

The trowel is used to dig up Soil and move plants that are already planted.

Shovel

The shovel is used to dig up treasure spots (glowing spots on the ground that randomly appear) and fill in holes.

Tool Varieties

Each type of tool also have variants of the tool that can be traded for with Travellers.

These variants are aesthetically different, have different item tags, but can also have different effects on Tones. As an example, a tool might give you extra permanent Tones while talking to Residents or while successfully fulfilling at trade.