Guide to Tools and Mods

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List of Tools and Toolmods

This page, while not an exhaustive guide to every single useful tool, holds the list of many of the tools you will find in and around the colony, ranging from makeshift tools made of scrap you would find anywhere to highly advanced tools that are extremely rare, made by the defunct megacorp Greyson Positronics.

Each variant is typically more effective than the previous, and the best part about them is that they can be upgraded with specialised toolmods. These can improve the workspeed, tool duration, battery capacity or even make the tool silent for hacking into doors or hacking locked closets should you be interested in such endeavors.

Tool Stats

Each tool with a quality has its own stat of Precision and Workspeed, which can be checked if different from normal by either examining the tool, or pressing the "i" button on your HUD when holding it. These values tend to go into the negatives on visibly old tools found in maintenance or during salvage.

Precision indicates the success rate of a tool in general circumstances. Higher is better, negative not so much. Failure rates are also dependent on your relevant Stats and the Quality of the tool's function.

Workspeed is the multiplier of how fast a task is when using the tool.

Construction Tools

Screwdrivers

Icon	Item	Description	Tool Qualities
	Screwpusher	A little metal rod wrapped in tape, barely qualifies as a tool. This can be fixed with enough tool mods, for which it has ample capacity.	Screwdriving: 15
	Screwdriver	You can use this to open panels, screw stuff and such things.	Screwdriving: 30, Bone Setting: 10
	Electric Screwdriver	An electrical screwdriver, powered by an S class cell. Can be used as a drilling tool if necessary, though is not well suited to do so.	Screwdriving: 40, Drilling: 10, Bone Setting: 10
	Combi Driver	Drive screws, drive bolts, drill bones - you can do everything with it. Uses S class cells.	Screwdriving: 50, Bolt Turning: 50, Drilling: 20
	Greyson Combi Driver	A combi driver from Greyson Positronics. Does better than the standard combi drivers on the market, but has less slots for tool mods. Also uses S class cells.	Screwdriving: 60, Bolt Turning: 60, Drilling: 25

Wrenches

Icon	Item	Description	Tool Qualities
	Sheet Spanner	A flat bit of metal with some usefully shaped holes cut into it. Would perform better than a regular wrench with some tool mods investment.	Bolt Turning: 20, Hammering: 5
	Wrench	A wrench with many common uses. Can be usually found in your hand.	Bolt Turning: 30, Hammering: 10
	Big Wrench	If all else fails - bring a bigger wrench. This time, you're no longer asking.	Bolt Turning: 40, Hammering: 15

Saws

Icon	Item	Description	Tool Qualities
	Choppa	A wicked serrated blade made of whatever nasty sharp things you could find. It would make a pretty decent weapon, given there are more space for some tool mods too.	Sawing: 15, Cutting: 10, Wirecutting: 10
	Metal Saw	For cutting wood and other objects to pieces. Or sawing bones, in case of emergency.	Sawing: 30, Cutting: 20, Wirecutting: 20
	Chainsaw	You can cut trees, people, walls and zombies with it, just watch out for fuel.	Sawing: 60, Cutting: 50, Wirecutting: 20
	TM Hypersaw	This eco-friendly chainsaw will Rip and Tear until it is done. Runs off of a cell instead of fuel.	Sawing: 60, Cutting: 50, Wirecutting: 20

Wirecutters

Icon	Item	Description	Tool Qualities
	Wiremanglers	An improvised monstrosity made of bent rods which can sometimes be used to snip things. Could serve you well if you stuff it with enough tool mods.	Wirecutting: 20, Retracting: 10, Bone Setting: 10
	Wirecutters	Cuts wires and other objects with it.	Wirecutting: 30, Retracting: 15, Bone Setting: 15
	Armature Cutter	Bigger brother of the wirecutter. Can't do much in terms of emergency surgery, but does its main job better.	Wirecutting: 40, Cutting: 30
	Pliers	A multitool from the world of maintenance. Useful for pinching, clamping, and occasionally bolt turning.	Wirecutting: 10, Clamping: 20, Bolt Turning: 15, Bone Setting: 20

Weldingtools

Icon	Item	Description	Tool Qualities
	Jury-rigged Torch	An assembly of pipes attached to a little gas tank. Serves capably as a welder, though a bit risky. Can be improved greatly with large amount of tool mods.	Welding: 15, Cauterizing: 10, Wirecutting: 10
	Welding Tool	Used to weld or unweld things. Don't forget your welding helmet/goggles if you value your eyes.	Welding: 30, Cauterizing: 10, Wirecutting: 10
	Advanced Welding Tool	A better version of the welding tool.	Welding: 40, Cauterizing: 15, Wirecutting: 15
	Arc Welder	A Guild-only reimagining of the welding tool, this one runs off an M class cell, and can even be used to weld things without needing eye protection. Can also be used as a multitool or tazer.	Welding: 40, Cauterizing: 15, Wirecutting: 15, Pulsing: 30
	Greyson Welding Tool	A Greyson welding tool. Very powerful and reliable, but its compact design causes it to suffer from a lack of both fuel storage and efficiency.	Welding: 30, Cauterizing: 10, Wirecutting: 10

Crowbars

Icon	Item	Description	Tool Qualities
	Rebar	A pair of metal rods laboriously twisted into a useful shape. Has more space for tool mods because it's hand-made.	Prying: 10, Digging: 10, Hammering: 10
	Crowbar	Used to remove floors and to pry open doors.	Prying: 25, Digging: 10, Hammering: 10
	Pneumatic Crowbar	When you really need to crack open something. Works on an M class cell.	Prying: 40, Digging: 35
	Greyson Crowbar	Looks like a classic one, but more durable. Has more space for mods too.	Prying: 25, Digging: 10

Hammers

Icon	Item	Description	Tool Qualities
	Hammer	Used for applying small amounts of blunt force to a surface.	Hammering: 20, Prying: 10
	Powered Hammer	Used for applying excessive blunt force to a surface. Powered edition.	Hammering: 30
	Greyson Sledgehammer	A sledgehammer model produced by Greyson Positronics, used for applying immeasurable blunt force to anything in your way. Capable of breaching even the toughest obstacles, and cracking the most resilient skulls.	Hammering: 50
	Homewrecker	A large steel chunk welded to a long handle which resembles a sledgehammer. Extremely heavy.	Hammering: 15
	Rocket Hammer	After many issues with Soteria interns trying unsuccessfully to hammer a nail, one small, fuzzy, yet strangely crafty abhuman wondered what could be achieved by attaching a stellar-grade ship engine to the back.	On (Hammering: 60) Off (Hammering: 35)

Multitools

Icon	Item	Description	Tool Qualities
	Wire Frier	A haphazardly-put-together machine used for pulsing wires, measuring electrical grids and bypassing security protocols. Its improvised design heavily consumes power, but allows for a greater range of customization.	Pulsing: 15
	Multitool	Used for pulsing wires to test which to cut, as well as checking the voltage of active powerlines. You can also use this on airlocks, APCs or lockers to try to hack them.	Pulsing: 35
	Advanced Multitool	Like a multitool, but can take M class cells and is generally better quality.	Pulsing: 60

Tape and Glue

Icon	Item	Description	Tool Qualities
	Web Tape	A strip of fabric covered in an all-natural adhesive. Made by spiders, from spiders, for spiders.	Adhesive: 15, Sealing: 15
	Duct Tape	The guildsman's eternal friend. Fixes just about anything for a while. Leave it to the next shift, they totally got it.	Adhesive: 30, Sealing: 30
	Fiber Tape	A roll of flexible adhesive polymer mesh, which sets as strong as welded steel.	Adhesive: 50, Sealing: 50
	Flex Tape	The Holy Grail of repairwork, it can fix a whole lotta damage. Maybe even a little more.	Adhesive: 100, Sealing: 100
	Superglue	A bucket of milky white fluid. Can be used to stick things together, but unlike tape, it cannot be used to seal things.	Adhesive: 40, Cauterizing: 5

Misc

Icon	Item	Description	Tool Qualities
	Cable Coil	An approximately 30m spool of electrical cabling, coming in many fun colors! Prone to fraying.	N/A
	Lonestar "Munchkin 5000"	A fuel powered monster of a tool. Its welding attachment is capable of welding things without an eye-damaging flash, so no eye protection is required.	Screwdriving: 50, Bolt Turning: 50, Drilling: 20, Welding: 30, Cauterizing: 10
	Engineering Omnitool	An all-in-one engineering tool implant. Convenient to use and more effective than the basics, but much less efficient than customized or more specialized tools.	Screwdriving: 35, Bolt Turning: 35, Drilling: 15, Welding: 30, Cauterizing: 10, Prying: 25, Digging: 20, Pulsing: 30, Wirecutting: 30
	'Jolly Co-Operation' Polytool	A truly wonderful fusion of the Lonestar 'Munchkin' and the Guild Arc Welder, the burning flame it provides is almost grossly incandescent.	Screwdriving: 75, Bolt Turning: 75, Drilling: 40, Pulsing: 60, Wirecutting: 30, Welding: 60, Cauterizing: 30
	Rapid Construction Device	A device used to rapidly build walls and floors.	N/A
	Rapid Piping Device	A device used to rapidly build pipes.	N/A

Medical Tools

Scalpels

Icon	Item	Description	Tool Qualities
	Shiv	A pointy piece of glass, abraded to an edge and wrapped in tape for a handle. Could become a decent tool or weapon with right tool mods.	Cutting: 15, Wirecutting: 5, Drilling: 5
	Scalpel	Cut, cut, and once more cut.	Cutting: 30, Wirecutting: 10
	Advanced Scalpel	Made of more expensive materials, sharper and generally more reliable.	Cutting: 40, Wirecutting: 10
	Laser Scalpel	A scalpel which uses a directed laser to slice instead of a blade, for more precise surgery while also cauterizing as it cuts.	Cutting: 40, Wirecutting: 20, Laser Cutting: 40, Cauterizing: 20

Hemostats

Icon	Item	Description	Tool Qualities
	Hemostat	Used to clamp blood vessels to prevent bleeding.	Clamping: 30
	Precise Hemostat	An advanced hemostat with better vein clamping strength and an adaptive tip tuned to also allow easier extraction of shrapnel, organs, and implants.	Clamping: 60

Retractors

Icon	Item	Description	Tool Qualities
	Retractor	Keeps the flesh open during surgery.	Retracting: 30
	Extended Retractor	Retracts surgical incisions with greater precision and speed than normal.	Retracting: 60

Bone Setters

Icon	Item	Description	Tool Qualities
	Bone Setter	Used to set broken or dislocated bones.	Bone Setting: 30
	Clamp Bone Setter	An advanced bone clamping tool, allows for more precise setting of bones with less wrist force required.	Bone Setting: 60

Cauteries

Icon	Item	Description	Tool Qualities
	Electrocautery	This closes and seals opened flesh.	Cauterizing: 30
	High-Powered Electrocautery	An electrocautery with self-regulating heat transfer capabilities, allows for quicker and more precise cauterization of surgical incisions.	Cauterizing: 60

Circular Saws

Icon	Item	Description	Tool Qualities
	Circular Saw	Used to remove limbs, cut lumber or saw through that pesky ribcage.	Sawing: 40, Cutting: 30, Wirecutting: 30
	Medical Circular Saw	For clean bone cutting but doesn't seem all that durable. Spins slower than the normal saw to allow for higher surgical precision.	Sawing: 60, Cutting: 40, Wirecutting: 40
	Advanced Circular Saw	Removes limbs with greater ease. Either tree or organic, your choice.	Sawing: 50, Cutting: 40, Wirecutting: 40

Surgical Drills

Icon	Item	Description	Tool Qualities
	Surgical Drill	You can drill using this item. You dig?	Drilling: 30
	Long-Nose Hand Drill	A handheld drill with an extended bit and diamond tip, for precision work.	Drilling: 60

Misc

Icon	Item	Description	Tool Qualities
	Medical Omnitool	An all-in-one medical tool implant based on the legendary Greyson's model. While convenient, it is less efficient than more advanced surgical tools, such as laser scalpels, and requires a power cell.	Clamping: 30, Retracting: 30, Bone Setting: 30, Cauterizing: 30, Sawing: 15, Cutting: 30, Wirecutting: 15
	Greyson Medmultitool	A compact Greyson-brand medical multitool. It has all surgery tools.	Clamping: 30, Retracting: 30, Bone Setting: 30, Cauterizing: 30, Sawing: 15, Cutting: 30, Wirecutting: 25

Digging and Mining

Shovels

Icon	Item	Description	Tool Qualities
	Junk Shovel	A large but fragile tool for moving dirt and rock, made by hand. Has more than enough space for tool mods to make it better.	Shoveling: 25, Digging: 25, Excavation: 10, Hammering: 10
	Shovel	A large tool for digging and moving dirt and rock.	Shoveling: 30, Digging: 30, Excavation: 10, Hammering: 10
	Combat Crovel	Whether prying open crates in the market, or tending soil in the garden, this can still cave in the skull of any unfortunate maggot to cross your path.	Shoveling: 30, Digging: 30, Excavation: 10, Hammering: 10, Prying: 10
	Power Shovel 9000	A powered shovel for all your dumpster diving needs.	Shoveling: 60, Digging: 40, Excavation: 20, Hammering: 15

Pickaxes

Icon	Item	Description	Tool Qualities
	Hand Pickaxe	A smaller, more precise version of the pickaxe, used for archeology excavation.	Excavation: 30, Prying: 15
	Pickaxe	The most basic of mining tools, for short excavations and small mineral extractions.	Excavation: 30, Prying: 20
	Greyson Pickaxe	A standard Greyson tool. A historical remnant from the time actual humans were employed.	Digging: 40, Prying: 20

Jackhammers

Icon	Item	Description	Tool Qualities
	Jackhammer	Cracks rocks with pneumatic impacts, perfect for killing cave lizards.	Digging: 35
	Greyson Jackhammer	A heavy Greyson tool that cracks rocks with pneumatic force, perfect for killing capitalist pigs.	Digging: 75

Drills

Icon	Item	Description	Tool Qualities
	Mining Drill	Yours is the drill that will pierce through the rock walls.	Digging: 40, Drilling: 40
	Diamond-point Mining Drill	Yours is the drill that will pierce the heavens!	Digging: 50, Drilling: 50
	Greyson Mining Drill	Yours is the drill that will pierce through the worker. Metaphorically.	Digging: 60, Drilling: 60

Toolmods

Reduces Tool Degradation

Icon	Item	Description	Modifiers	Required Qualities
	Brace Bar	A sturdy pole made of fiber tape and plasteel rods. Can be used to reinforce the shaft of many tools.	Degradation: x 0.65, Force: + 1	Any tool that has a shaft.
	Heatsink	An array of plasteel fins which dissipates heat, reducing damage and extending the lifespan of power tools.	Degradation: x 0.65, Tool Health: + 10	Any tool that uses fuel or power.
	Reinforced Plating	A sturdy bit of plasteel that can be bolted onto any tool to protect it. Tough, but bulky.	Degradation: x 0.55, Force: + 1, Precision: -5, Bulk: + 1, Tool Health: + 10	Any tool or weapon.
	Metal Guard	A bent piece of metal that wraps around sensitive parts of a tool, protecting it from impacts, debris, and stray fingers.	Degradation: x 0.75, Precision: +5, Tool Health: + 10	Any tool or melee weapon.
	Plasmablock	A plasmablock is way more efficient to dissipate heat than classic heatsinks or waterblocks thanks to the tremendous heat-transfer capacity of liquid plasma. The fluid that is actively pumped through a radiator and cooled by fans. It greatly extends the lifespan of power tools.	Degradation: x 0.45, Tool Health: + 10, Power Use: x 1.05, Fuel Use: x 1.05	Any tool that uses fuel or power.
	Rubber Mesh	A rubber mesh that can wrapped around sensitive parts of a tool, protecting them from impacts and debris.	Degradation: x 0.7, Tool Health: + 5	Any tool or melee weapon.

Increases Workspeed

Icon	Item	Description	Modifiers	Required Qualities
	Ratcheting Mechanism	A mechanical upgrade for wrenches and screwdrivers which allows the tool to only turn in one direction.	Workspeed: x 0.25	Only screwdrivers.
	Red Paint	Do red tools really work faster, or is the effect purely psychological?	Workspeed: x 0.20, Precision: -10	All tools and weapons.
	Sharpening Block	A rough single-use block to sharpen a blade. The honed edge cuts smoothly.	Workspeed: x 0.15, Precision: 5, Force: x 1.15	Any item that has a blade.
	Lonestar "Gleaming Edge"	An adaptable industrial grade cutting disc, with diamond dust worked into the metal. Exceptionally durable.	Workspeed: x 0.25, Degradation: x 0.85, Force: x 1.10,	Any item that has a blade.
	Oxyjet Canister	A canister of pure, compressed oxygen with adapters for mounting onto a welding tool. Used alongside fuel, it allows for higher burn temperatures.	Workspeed: x 0.20, Force: x 1.15, Degradation: x 1.15, Tool Health: -10	Only welders
	High Power Motor	A motor for power tools with a higher horsepower than usually expected. Significantly enhances productivity and lifespan, but more expensive to run and harder to control.	Workspeed: x 0.5, Force: x 1.15, Degradation: x 1.15, Power Use: x 1.35, Fuel Use: x 1.35, Precision: -10, Tool Health: -10	Any tool that uses a motor.
	Anti-Staining Paint	Applying a thin coat of this paint on a tool prevents stains, dirt blood or dust to adhere to its surface. Everyone works better and faster with clean tools.	Workspeed: x 0.30, Precision: 5, Unable to be dirty	All tools and weapons.
	Booster	When you do not care about energy consumption and just want to get shit done quickly. This device shunts the power safeties of your tool whether it uses fuel or electricity.	Workspeed: x 0.35, Degradation: x 1.15, Power Use: x 1.25, Fuel Use: x 1.25	All items that uses a motor.
	Plamsa Injector	If the words "safety regulations" do not mean anything to you, you may consider installing this fine piece of technology on your tool. It injects small amounts of plasma in the fuel mix before combustion to greatly increase its power output, making all kinds of tasks easier to perform.	Workspeed: x 0.75, Degradation: x 1.3, Power Use: x 1.3, Fuel Use: x 1.3, Tool Health: -10	Only Welders.

Increases Precision

Icon	Item	Description	Modifiers	Required Qualities
	Lonestar "Guiding Light" laser guide	A small visible laser which can be strapped onto any tool, giving an accurate representation of its target. Helps improve precision.	Precision: +10	Any tool and weapon
	Gyrostabilized Grip	A fancy mechanical grip that partially floats around a tool, absorbing tremors and shocks. Allows precise work with a shaky hand.	Precision: +10, Tool Health: + 10	Any single handed tool.
	Magnetic Bit	Magnetises tools used for handling small objects, reducing instances of dropping screws and bolts.	Precision: +10	Any screwdriving, clamping and bone setting tool.
	Ported Barrel	A barrel extension for a welding tool which helps manage gas pressure and keep the torch steady.	Precision: +12, Degradation: x 1.15, Bulk: + 1, Tool Health: + 10	Only welders.

Miscellaneous and Utility

Icon	Item	Description	Modifiers	Required Qualities
	Heavy Cell Mount	A bulky adapter which allows L sized power cells to be installed into small tools.	Bulk: + 1, Degradation: x 1.15, Tool Health: -10, Cell Upgrade: S/M > L	Any tool or weapons that uses power.
	Expanded Fuel Tank	An auxiliary tank which stores 100 extra units of fuel at the cost of degradation.	Bulk: + 1, Degradation: x 1.15, Tool Health: -10, Max Fuel: + 100	Only tools that use welder fuel/diesel to operate. CAUTION: Removing will result in spilled fuel on the floor. Beware of fires.
	Expansion Port	A bulky adapter which allows more modifications to be attached to the tool. A bit fragile, but you can compensate.	Bulk: + 2, Degradation: x 1.3, Precision: -10, Tool Health: -20, Max Upgrades: + 3	All tools and weapons.
	Flat Surface	An attachment that fits on almost everything, that gives a simple flat surface to employ the tool for simple hammering.	Workspeed: x -0.1, Tool Health: + 5, Hammering: 10	All tools.
	Aural Dampener	This aural dampener is a cutting edge tool attachment which mostly nullifies sound waves within a tiny radius. It minimizes the noise created during use, perfect for stealth operations.	Tool Color: Grey, Tool Health: -10, Silent Use	All tools and melee weapons.

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