Terraforming and Tools

A tool deals terraforming damage set by the hardness of whatever it hits, and each of the 91 terrain materials has health points that the damage wears down. The dug material drops by the amount of terrain removed. The Mining Damage world setting scales that damage, so a higher value digs more and yields more per hit.

Terrain materials: 91
Hardness grades: 5
Pickaxes: 8
Explosives that dig: 8

Terrain materials

Slightly hard is the largest grade with 35 materials, Albaneve Summits Dirt and Archaic Essence among them, and Soft holds the farm soils and fertile dirts. Amethyst, Aquamarine and Flintstone are Hard; Copper, Iron, Gold and Silver Ore, Granite and Obsidian are Very hard. Underwater Mud, Toxic Slime and Tar are hazards, and Ice is slippery underfoot.

Material	Hardness	Health	Terrain per item	Can be flattened	Slippery	Road	Hazard	Gives mining XP	Variants
Blackmire Dirt	Soft	2	15	Yes	No	No	none	No	1
Farm Soil	Soft	3	16	Yes	No	No	none	No	1
Fertile Blackmire Dirt	Soft	2	15	Yes	No	No	none	No	1
Fertile Kindlewastes Sand	Soft	2	3	Yes	No	No	none	No	1
Fertile Nomad Highlands Dirt	Soft	2	15	Yes	No	No	none	No	1
Fertile Revelwood Dirt	Soft	2	15	Yes	No	No	none	No	1
Fertile Springlands Dirt	Soft	2	2	Yes	No	No	none	No	1
Fertile Veilwater Basin Dirt	Soft	10	16	Yes	No	No	none	No	1
Fertilised Farm Soil	Soft	3	16	Yes	No	No	none	No	1
Fine Sand	Soft	2	3	Yes	No	No	none	No	1
Flower Soil	Soft	3	16	Yes	No	No	none	No	1
Lump of Clay	Soft	4	10	No	No	No	none	Yes	1
Nomad Highlands Dirt	Soft	2	15	Yes	No	No	none	No	1
Revelwood Dirt	Soft	2	15	Yes	No	No	none	No	1
Sand	Soft	2	3	Yes	No	No	none	No	1
Shroud Infused Farm Soil	Soft	3	16	Yes	No	No	none	No	1
Snow	Soft	2	3	Yes	No	No	none	No	1
Springlands Dirt	Soft	2	2	Yes	No	No	none	No	1
Veilwater Basin Dirt	Soft	10	16	Yes	No	No	none	No	1
Veilwater Basin Rubble	Soft	10	16	Yes	No	No	none	No	1
Veilwater Basin Sand	Soft	10	16	Yes	No	No	none	No	1
Acidic Mycelium	Slightly hard	5	16	No	No	No	none	No	1
Active Mycelium	Slightly hard	10	16	No	No	No	none	No	1
Albaneve Summits Dirt	Slightly hard	10	16	Yes	No	No	none	No	1
Archaic Essence I	Slightly hard	4	6	No	No	No	none	No	1
Archaic Essence II	Slightly hard	8	6	No	No	No	none	No	1
Archaic Essence III	Slightly hard	12	6	No	No	No	none	No	1
Archaic Essence IV	Slightly hard	16	6	No	No	No	none	No	1
Archaic Essence V	Slightly hard	20	6	No	No	No	none	No	1
Archaic Essence VI	Slightly hard	20	6	No	No	No	none	No	1
Blackmire Rubble	Slightly hard	5	5	Yes	No	No	none	No	1
Bones	Slightly hard	5	16	No	No	No	none	No	1
Coal	Slightly hard	5	12	No	No	No	none	Yes	1
Dirt Road Block	Slightly hard	10	16	Yes	No	Yes	none	No	1
Ectoplasm Fragment	Slightly hard	5	32	No	No	No	none	No	1
Foliage	Slightly hard	10	15	Yes	No	No	none	No	1
Fossilized Bone	Slightly hard	15	25	No	No	No	none	Yes	1
Gold Coins	Slightly hard	15	25	No	No	No	none	No	1
Granite Rubble Road Block	Slightly hard	10	16	Yes	No	Yes	none	No	1
Limestone	Slightly hard	3	8	Yes	No	No	none	No	1
Moss	Slightly hard	15	25	Yes	No	No	none	No	1
Mushroom Flesh	Slightly hard	15	25	Yes	No	No	none	No	1
Mycelium	Slightly hard	5	16	No	No	No	none	No	3
Revelwood Rubble	Slightly hard	5	5	Yes	No	No	none	No	1
Rubble	Slightly hard	3	16	Yes	No	No	none	No	1
Rubble	Slightly hard	5	16	No	No	No	none	No	6
Sandstone	Slightly hard	3	10	Yes	No	No	none	No	1
Sandstone	Slightly hard	5	10	Yes	No	No	none	No	1
Shroud Sand	Slightly hard	5	16	No	No	No	none	No	1
Shroud Slime	Slightly hard	5	16	No	No	No	none	No	1
Stone	Slightly hard	5	5	Yes	No	No	none	No	1
Sulfur	Slightly hard	5	18	No	No	No	none	Yes	1
Twigs	Slightly hard	3	30	No	No	No	none	No	1
Underwater Luminous Growth	Slightly hard	10	16	Yes	No	No	none	No	1
Underwater Mud	Slightly hard	20	20	Yes	No	No	Mud	No	1
Vukah Nesting Material	Slightly hard	10	20	Yes	No	No	none	No	1
Amber	Moderately hard	5	30	No	No	No	none	Yes	1
Blackmire Heartwood	Moderately hard	15	15	No	No	No	none	No	1
Field Stones	Moderately hard	5	8	Yes	No	No	none	No	1
Granite Rubble Road Block	Moderately hard	30	16	Yes	No	Yes	none	No	1
Ice	Moderately hard	30	16	Yes	Yes	No	none	No	1
Limestone	Moderately hard	20	16	Yes	No	Yes	none	No	1
Luminous Growth	Moderately hard	10	32	Yes	No	No	none	No	1
Mother-Of-Pearl	Moderately hard	5	10	No	No	No	none	Yes	1
Salt	Moderately hard	3	3	No	No	No	none	Yes	1
Shell Limestone	Moderately hard	10	16	Yes	No	No	none	No	1
Shell Limestone	Moderately hard	20	16	Yes	No	Yes	none	No	2
Springlands Dirt	Moderately hard	50	16	No	Yes	No	none	No	1
Stone	Moderately hard	20	16	Yes	No	Yes	none	No	1
Stone	Moderately hard	25	16	Yes	No	Yes	none	No	1
Stone	Moderately hard	30	16	No	No	No	none	No	2
Toxic Slime	Moderately hard	60	2	No	No	No	Toxic slime	No	1
Amethyst	Hard	5	10	No	No	No	none	Yes	1
Aquamarine	Hard	5	20	No	No	No	none	Yes	1
Blackmire Bark	Hard	20	15	Yes	No	No	none	No	1
Blackmire Stone	Hard	5	5	Yes	No	No	none	No	1
Flintstone	Hard	5	12	No	No	No	none	Yes	1
Lapislazuli	Hard	5	45	No	No	No	none	Yes	1
Limestone	Hard	5	8	Yes	No	No	none	No	1
Red Marble Fragment	Hard	10	16	No	No	No	none	Yes	1
Revelwood Stone	Hard	5	5	Yes	No	No	none	No	1
Stone	Hard	5	5	Yes	No	No	none	No	1
Copper Ore	Very hard	8	8	No	No	No	none	Yes	1
Gold Ore	Very hard	20	10	No	No	No	none	Yes	1
Granite	Very hard	15	11	Yes	No	No	none	No	1
Iron Ore	Very hard	8	15	No	No	No	none	Yes	1
Obsidian	Very hard	20	10	No	No	No	none	Yes	1
Silver Ore	Very hard	20	20	No	No	No	none	Yes	1
Springlands Dirt	Very hard	100	40	No	No	No	Mud	No	2
Tar	Very hard	100	40	No	No	No	Tar	No	1
Tin Ore	Very hard	8	12	No	No	No	none	Yes	1

Terraforming damage by hardness

Damage drops with every hardness grade: the starting Pickaxe deals 60 to Soft ground and only 5 to Very hard. Each tier narrows that gap, and the Steel Pickaxe reaches 100 on the three softer grades and 60 on Very hard, the same as the Gilded Pickaxe.

Tool	Level	Soft	Slightly hard	Moderately hard	Hard	Very hard
Pickaxe	1	60	50	35	20	5
Scrappy Pickaxe	5	80	65	50	30	10
Copper Pickaxe	10	100	80	65	40	20
Bronze Pickaxe	15	100	95	80	50	35
Iron Pickaxe	20	100	100	95	60	50
Steel Pickaxe	30	100	100	100	75	60
Gilded Pickaxe	40	100	100	100	75	60
Mining Sieve	40	100	95	80	50	35

Explosives

Explosives work on a different scale. An Explosive Powder Ball hits Very hard ground for 500 where the best pickaxe manages 60, and the Black Powder Ball tops the list at 3,000 on Soft and 750 on Very hard. Explosive Arrow I is the weakest at 25 on Very hard.

Item	Soft	Slightly hard	Moderately hard	Hard	Very hard
Explosive Arrow I	500	250	75	50	25
Explosive Arrow II	1000	500	250	100	50
Explosive Arrow III	1000	500	250	100	50
Explosive Powder Ball	2000	1500	1000	750	500
Explosive Powder Ball Net	2000	1500	1000	750	500
Snowball	2000	1500	1000	750	500
Water Balloon	2000	1500	1000	750	500
Black Powder Ball	3000	2250	1500	1125	750

Wood, stone and metal damage

Axes are for wood and pickaxes for stone and metal. The Steel and Gilded Axe hit wood for 43 but stone for only 7, and the best pickaxes deal 22 to stone and 16 to wood. Gilded tools have the lowest stamina cost, 1 where the early tiers take 3.

Tool	Kind	Level	Wood	Stone	Metal	Stamina cost
Axe	Axe	1	18	2	1	3
Scrappy Axe	Axe	5	20	4	2	3
Copper Axe	Axe	10	25	4	2	3
Bronze Axe	Axe	15	31	5	3	3
Iron Axe	Axe	20	37	6	4	2
Steel Axe	Axe	30	43	7	5	2
Gilded Axe	Axe	40	43	7	5	1
Pickaxe	Pickaxe	1	4	10	5	3
Scrappy Pickaxe	Pickaxe	5	8	12	8	3
Copper Pickaxe	Pickaxe	10	10	15	10	3
Bronze Pickaxe	Pickaxe	15	12	18	12	3
Iron Pickaxe	Pickaxe	20	14	20	14	2
Steel Pickaxe	Pickaxe	30	16	22	16	2
Gilded Pickaxe	Pickaxe	40	16	22	16	1
Mining Sieve	Pickaxe	40	14	20	14	3

Server settings

the value each difficulty preset uses

Setting	Hard	Default	Relaxed	Survival	Range
Mining DamageThis scales the mining damage. A higher mining damage leads to increased terraforming and more yield of resources per hit.	100%	100%	150%	75%	50% to 200%
Loot AmountScales the amount of materials per loot stack.	100%	100%	150%	75%	25% to 200%

Related: Server settings, Farming.