Shovel

a shovel already exists in game it is just not functional atm (you can spawn it only through the console)

ehm not that kind of a console.....a command console (like the black screen old computers had, well they still do but very fewer people use them nowadays).

if you press the grave/tilde key (`/~ next to 1 and below Esc) on your keyboard it opens, it is black with green letters. There you type e.g. item shovel 1 and you get a shovel

oh ok cool

as I said it is not functional yet hopefully will be with one of the player model updates

hehe np we all want more new items

I suggested to Red51 a few months ago that we should have a shovel that focuses on clearing dirt & sand, yet he told me it would be difficult for some technical reason. Told him that pickaxes should be used on harder materials (rocks & ore), while shovels be used for sand & dirt, snow, and all those loose stuff. Somehow that's difficult that I'm not sure what's up. Also, even suggested that shovels should have a bonus on soft materials with a bigger yield, compared to a pickaxe to gain a smaller yield. Makes sense to me.

Also, hope you don't find it offensive that I laughed at the whole "spawning a shovel through a console" that it shows the English language to be 'lazy' & 'sloppy'. Can you imagine spawning a shovel through a PS4 & Switch?

I do hope we get a shovel to be highly effective on dirt & sand, yet pickaxes would be less effective at those. I suggested this when I was venting how slow it was to mine away dirt to flatten out areas, something I'm trying to keep away from as much as possible until the next few updates.