Tools

In Raccoon Lagoon, you can gain and equip tools to help you gather resources or do specific things. Most of the tools can be upgraded to have better functionality.

Fishing Rod
The fishing rod is one of the first tools that you will gain in Raccoon Lagoon. Salty, the fisherbird Nym will give it to you at the beach after you shelter yourself from the storm.

Once you complete enough tasks for Salty, you will be able to build his store on the beach where you can buy upgrades for the fishing rod using hearts. The fishing rod can be upgraded 2 times. Upgrades are required to progress certain tasks.

The fishing rod is needed for the following tasks:
 * Fishing for one of the Phoenix Egg Shards
 * Fishing for stormfish (Part of completing the Town Hall)
 * Fishing for salt (Part of completing the Restaurant)
 * Fishing for "gift boxes"

Pickaxe
The pickaxe will be given to you by the miner goat Nym to the left of where you first walk out from the beach.

The miner goat will have a store that you can build next to the mine where you can then buy upgrades for the pickaxe.

There are 2 upgrades for the pickaxe which are available to buy using Hearts in the Miner's Shop.

Pickaxe I

 * First pickaxe that is given by the Miner Nym
 * Can only mine for emeralds and copper and clear away granite rocks

Pickaxe II

 * Costs 5 hearts
 * Allows player to mine for emeralds, copper, rubies, silver, and clear away marble rocks

Pickaxe III

 * Costs 15 hearts
 * Allows player to mine for emeralds, copper, rubies, silver, sapphires, and gold. Can clear away obsidian rocks

The pickaxe is needed for the following tasks:
 * Freeing the farmer Nym from the boulder

Watering Can
The farmer bunny Nym will give this tool to you.

Axe
The woodcutter lizard snake Nym will give this tool to you.
 * Axe I - Able to chop down "soft" wood trees. These are the leafy trees with fruit scattered throughout the biomes.
 * Axe II - Able to chop down "dense" wood trees. These are the tall pine-looking trees in the forest biome.
 * Axe III - Able to chop down "Ashen" trees. These are white, located in the mountain and volcano biomes.

Paintbrush
The purple artist Nym found in the forest connected to the Town Hall area will give this tool to you.

Boomerang
The black and blue Trader Nym found in the Volcano area will give this tool to you.

Tasks requiring the Boomerang:
 * Two Phoenix Egg shards
 * Helping explorer nym reach treasure chests
 * Helping miner nym get his pickaxe un-stuck from walls / ceiling in the mines
 * Helping carpenter nym get his axe un-stuck