Unlocking Abilities via the Crystal Tool Skill Tree

Crystal tools—such as crystal pickaxes—provide enhancements beyond Netherite, allowing you to access powerful perks through an experience-based skill tree.

Earning Experience on Tools

To begin upgrading your tools, craft your crystal pickaxe or other crystal gathering implements and put them to work in the world:

1. Use your crystal tool for standard harvesting tasks, such as mining stone, breaking ores, or gathering wood.

2. Monitor the item as you use it; tools accumulate experience through active gameplay.

3. Keep the tool repaired and maintained so you do not lose your primary working item while leveling it up.

Unlocking Specialized Abilities

Once your tool accumulates enough experience, you can open its upgrade interface to spend progression points across the skill tree:

1. Access the tool's skill tree interface.

2. Choose passive improvements to raise baseline stats, such as overall durability and harvesting efficiency.

3. Unlock specialized mining abilities suited to your playstyle, including vein mining to clear connected ore veins in one strike, tree chopping to fell entire logs quickly, or auto-smelting to instantly convert mined raw ores into their smelted ingot forms without needing a furnace on site.