Shovel behavior

Format: use shovel

The world holds items or treasures buried by someone. To dig them up you will need a shovel. Just use it in the right spot and, if you are lucky, you may unearth something interesting.

Even where nobody buried anything, the ground itself hides riches, and every land keeps its own. Forests sit on coal and old amber, the hills hide veins of common ore, and the open mountainside gives mostly stone: the precious metals and the finest gems lie deep in mountain caves.

Volcanoes give sulfur, obsidian and fire opal, and underground rivers wash silver and moonstone out of the rock. Deserts give sand and the odd geode, the sea washes things up on its shores, and patient folk pan gold in the shallows of rivers and lakes. The richest bottom of all lies under deep water, but only a diver with gills or a scuba set can reach it.

Blacksmiths spot metal where others see only dirt, and jewelers have an eye for stones. Every dig leaves a pit: a well-dug spot runs dry until the pits fill back in. Hard work dulls a shovel, so keep it in repair.

Format: use shovel object

You can also bury any item for safekeeping. Buried things begin to slowly decay over time, so do not forget to dig them up!

Rumour has it that Immortals have their own secret way of using shovels...