Upgrade Tools: the Shovel's diamond-pip stats

About this game

Developer: Light Worm · Publisher: XD · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Realistic 3D · Screen type: Tech / Research

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What to study

Tool upgrades presented like jewellery themselves: four stats as rows of diamond pips (the lapidary's own unit of quality), each showing its next value before you pay. The price is split honestly - coin for the work, Precious Metals by weight for the material, 100 g drawn from a 13.3 kg stock - and committing takes a deliberate hold on the mouse button, a small ritual against misclicks on a 250-coin decision. The roster's durability bars quietly advertise the loop: tools wear, so the bench is never finished. Frame at about 0:25 in the New fest PV-EN video (Steam), found by the dense 1-frame/2s review pass (the scene-change pass missed it) and inspected at full resolution in this run.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

side-panel detail-panel stat-rows

Components

Parts on screen.

Card List Gauge Pips Button prompts

Screen inventory

• left, the Tools roster with icons, per-tool durability bars and Quantity: Survey Torch, Point Chisel, Brush, Hammer, Gouge, Long-Nose Pliers, Nodule Sounding Hammer, Hand Drill, Shovel (highlighted) and a second Survey Torch below the fold
• centre, the Shovel card: a one-sentence job description ('Used to remove minerals with high toughness and low hardness over a large area') and four stats as diamond-pip gauges with before -> after values - Handling Speed 4 -> 5, Max Durability 120 -> 240, Toughness Rating 3 -> 4, Break Efficiency 50% -> 60%
• right, the tool rendered large over the workbench, and the price card: 250 coin plus Precious Metals 100 g / 13.3 kg (cost against stock), committed with a Hold to Upgrade mouse prompt - upgrading is a hold, not a click
• wallet bottom-left reads 212,922; build stamp 0.2.6 10/15/26, 6:04 AM

Top 3 colors

#040303 22%#231b18 20%#17110f 18%

Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© Light Worm / XD, Abyssal Lapidary screenshot: Abyssal Lapidary - New fest PV-EN and PV-EN videos (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by XD.

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-21. verified 2026-10-22: frame extracted in the dense-interval review pass at 24.5s and inspected visually at full resolution in this run; keeper file upgrade-tools.png is a byte copy of dense/v0_24.5.png

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