Leah's Whittler
| Leah's Whittler | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Weapon |
| Type | Sword |
| Level | 6 |
| Damage | 30-45 |
| Crit Chance | 2% |
| Stats | Speed (-1); Crit. Power (+10) |
| Location | Sold by Leah for 70 Calico Eggs during the Desert Festival |
Leah works for herself in a cottage in Cindersap Forest, turning driftwood and hardwood into sculpture, and the knife she uses for it turns up at the Desert Festival as a real weapon. Seventy Calico Eggs buys a sword that hits for 30 to 45 and lands its critical strikes harder than normal. Those numbers belong to the lower Mines, not to Spring of year two, which is why the whittler is one of the biggest jumps a young farm can make in a single afternoon. One point of swing speed is the whole cost, and that is small enough to ignore. Leah only sets up a stall in the years the festival picks her, and the knife sits beside a Short Bookcase, a pile of hardwood and a bowl of salad.
Location
The whittler is sold only at the Desert Festival, which fills the Calico Desert for three Spring days, and the bus must already run before anyone can attend. The festival opens at ten in the morning, but the villager stalls do not raise their shutters until noon.
Each day the festival picks two villagers at random to trade, so Leah may appear once, three times or not at all in a given year. A farm set on the knife should walk the stalls on all three days.
Calico Eggs are the only money accepted and they are earned on site. The races, the daily challenges from Willy, Gil and Marlon, and the Skull Cavern itself all pay in eggs. Seventy is a tall order on a single day, which is the best argument for arriving on the first morning rather than the last.
Stats
The ten points of critical power are the interesting part. A normal critical hit multiplies damage three times over, and the whittler pushes that above three and a fifth. On a top hit of 45 that is a noticeable spike, and it rewards anyone who later adds critical chance through an Aquamarine Ring or the Scout profession.
Damage itself is wide, 30 to 45, so swings vary a lot. The low end still beats the best hit of anything Marlon sells for under four thousand gold, and the high end matches the chest reward waiting ninety floors down.
Knockback is left at the standard value, which is more useful than it sounds. Monsters are nudged rather than scattered, so a group stays inside the arc of the next swing instead of drifting apart.
Swords recover quickly between hits, and losing one point of that recovery is barely felt. The Tempered Broadsword asks for three points and the Claymore for four, and both feel like wading by comparison.
Notes
Haley brings a curling iron with exactly the same figures, so a year that produces one and not the other costs nothing. There is no reason to own both.
The Obsidian Edge matches the whittler too, and it comes free from the chest on the ninetieth floor of the Mines. That is the real measure of what 70 eggs buys: roughly eighty floors of mining, skipped.
At the Forge the knife improves in two directions. Aquamarine supplies the critical chance the whittler lacks, which turns its raised critical power into something that actually triggers, while Jade pushes that power higher still. Emerald cancels the small speed penalty outright.
The Forge can also copy one weapon's appearance onto another, which matters here more than on most weapons. A farmer who grows attached to the look of a driftwood knife can carry it onto an Infinity Blade and fight the volcano with what is, visibly, a piece of Leah's workshop.
All Swords
Every entry in this group, with its key details.
| Name | Image | Type | Level | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bone Sword | 
|
Sword | 5 | 20-30 |
| Claymore | 
|
Sword | 5 | 20-32 |
| Cutlass | 
|
Sword | 3 | 9-17 |
| Dark Sword | 
|
Sword | 9 | 30-45 |
| Dragontooth Cutlass | 
|
Sword | 13 | 75-90 |
| Dwarf Sword | 
|
Sword | 13 | 65-75 |
| Forest Sword | 
|
Sword | 3 | 8-18 |
| Galaxy Sword | 
|
Sword | 13 | 60-80 |
| Haley's Iron | 
|
Sword | 6 | 30-45 |
| Holy Blade | 
|
Sword | 7 | 20-27 |
| Infinity Blade | 
|
Sword | 17 | 80-100 |
| Insect Head | 
|
Sword | 6 | 20-30 |
| Iron Edge | 
|
Sword | 3 | 12-25 |
| Lava Katana | 
|
Sword | 10 | 55-64 |
| Leah's Whittler | 
|
Sword | 6 | 30-45 |
| Meowmere | 
|
Sword | 4 | 20-20 |
| Neptune's Glaive | 
|
Sword | 5 | 18-35 |
| Obsidian Edge | 
|
Sword | 6 | 30-45 |
| Ossified Blade | 
|
Sword | 6 | 26-42 |
| Pirate's Sword | 
|
Sword | 2 | 8-14 |
| Rapier | 
|
Sword | 4 | 15-25 |
| Rusty Sword | 
|
Sword | 1 | 2-5 |
| Silver Saber | 
|
Sword | 2 | 8-15 |
| Steel Falchion | 
|
Sword | 8 | 28-46 |
| Steel Smallsword | 
|
Sword | 1 | 4-8 |
| Tempered Broadsword | 
|
Sword | 7 | 29-44 |
| Templar's Blade | 
|
Sword | 5 | 22-29 |
| Wooden Blade | 
|
Sword | 1 | 3-7 |
| Yeti Tooth | 
|
Sword | 7 | 26-42 |