leaf gathering tool

[Zirikana]

For those who have a rather large scale silk operation in place, it would be nice if there were a tool that made mulberry leaf collection a little faster. Other disciplines (farming, mining, forestry) have their tools, so why not this?

I propose something like secateurs or gardening shears, made from a few metal nuggets and maybe a piece of hardened leather or silk (for handle grips). It would cut leaf collection time by 50% or so. It could concievably work for collecting anything off of any type of tree, but mulberry leaves is the most pressing issue

[AnnaC]

Did they recently change gathering leaves to make it slower? Because I really don't see the problem with picking mulberry leaves except you can only carry so many so you usually have to make several trips.

[spectacle]

I agree that leaf gathering takes too long when you have a large operation, but a tool to do it faster won't really help, since you won't be able to use it and carry two traveler's sacks at the same time. Any time gained from using the tool will be lost in having to make more trips.

[Mqrius]

Perhaps allow leaves to be stored in seedbags, or a solution similar to that?

[Kahim]

Just use a large chest seeing how the farthest you'll have to go is right inside of the mansion or house where your production is made.

The idea of the shears or suck I think wold in reality make it slower (not to mention kill the tree from producing leaves due to loss of small limbs) Have a backpack equipped two travelers sacks and you'll get the leaves eventually I mean you cant get much faster then it already is.

[Zirikana]

The collection time for a single leaf is around 1 second, so with two traveller's sacks and a backback and merch robe, that's a little over a minute of just watching an hourglass. To fill up a few cupboards with leafs for my moths means doing that four or five times. It's not brutal, but i just thought a tool that would make the collection time maybe 1/2 or 1/3 of a second would make a significant difference for those who load up on a large amount of leaves per trip.

But the obvious problem is that it would take up at least one hand slot in the inventory, so any gains in collection time are negated in the long run by having to make more trips without the second traveller's sack... so i guess nevermind

[Potjeh]

A tool would work if you used liftable containers and put them next to the tree while filling with leaves. That's the general idea behind the specialised silkworm container mentioned in that other silk thread.

[Chakravanti]

dragging a liftable around would be just as slow as making the runs. When I did silk my tree was directly outside the silk hut and that made it a lot easier but it was still a pitfa. Still I think traveller's sacks more than buffed leaf collection and silk production in general because it's a toolless trade.