Tool belt

The interface for configuring items stored on the tool belt

The tool belt is a utility belt available to all players that can be accessed in the Worn Equipment screen. It allows players to carry and access basic tools at any time without taking up space in their inventory. It was released on 6 December 2011 along with the Money pouch.

Items can be added to the tool belt by right-clicking on an item while it is in the player's inventory and selecting the Add-to-tool belt option. Most tools that have no requirements to obtain are automatically added to a players tool belt. Once the items are added, they remain there permanently (with the exception of pickaxes, hatchets and mattocks) and therefore cannot be retrieved. Upon death, all items in the tool belt are kept, even if the player dies in the Wilderness.

Only tools that the player has the required level to use them can be added to the tool belt. Dragon or crystal tools will function as a rune version on a free-to-play world. It is impossible to add a members-only tool to the tool belt on a free world.

Filling up the tool belt completes the achievement Get Tooled Up and unlocks the title [Name] the Tool. When new tools are released, the title is relocked until the player adds the tools to their tool belt. The achievement, however, remains complete.

Items that can be stored

See Category:Tool belt for a list of all items that can be added to the tool belt.

There are currently 76 item slots in the tool belt divided into 7 categories.

Augmented tools (pickaxes, hatchets, fishing rods, etc.) cannot be stored on the tool belt; players who wish to augment their tools for use with perks will have to wield the item or keep it in their inventory.

Tool belt contents
Tool		Notes	Added by default
General
	Pickaxe	All metal pickaxes from bronze to primal pickaxe + 5. Includes gilded pickaxes, crystal pickaxes, Imcando pickaxes, pickaxe of earth and song and the pickaxe of life and death. Does not include augmented pickaxes, the dwarven army axe or inferno adze. Dragon pickaxes and above act as rune pickaxes on free worlds. Can be freely removed.	(bronze)
	Hatchet	All hatchets except for the inferno adze and the dwarven army axe. Dragon hatchets and above act as rune hatchets on free worlds. Augmented hatchets cannot be placed on the tool belt. Can be freely removed.	(bronze)
	Hammer
	Chisel
	Knife
	Tinderbox
	Saw
	Pestle and mortar
	Machete (m)	Includes the regular, opal, jade, and red topaz machetes.	(regular)
	Watch (m)
	Chart (m)
	Sextant (m)	Has a right-click "Look through" option on the tool belt, which displays the player's current geographic coordinates.
	Shears
	Noose wand
	Tongs (m)	Added automatically, discontinued outside the tool belt.
	Enhanced grappling hook (m)	Created from a mithril crossbow, mithril grapple, and 5 mithril bars. Requires level 54 Fletching to create.
	Master thief's lockpick (m)	Purchased from Dodgy Derek's Dirty Deals for 2,500 pilfer points.
	Master thief's stethoscope (m)	Purchased from Dodgy Derek's Dirty Deals for 2,500 pilfer points.
	Insect repellent (m)	Can be obtained by speaking to the beekeeper, or from the table in the easternmost house in Catherby.
	Steel key ring (m)	Added automatically upon completion of the One Small Favour quest.
	Incense burner (m)	Added automatically, unobtainable outside of the tool belt.
	Infernal Puzzle Box (m)	Needs to be fully upgraded in order to be added, including completion of the Succession quest.
Fishing
	Fishing rod
	Crayfish cage
	Small fishing net
	Big fishing net (m)
	Fly fishing rod
	Harpoon
	Lobster pot
	Barbarian rod (m)	Obtained during Barbarian Training.
Crafting
	Needle
	Glassblowing pipe (m)
	Amulet mould
	Bracelet mould
	Necklace mould
	Ring mould
	Tiara mould
	Ammo mould (m)	Obtained during Dwarf Cannon.
	Double ammo mould (m)	Obtained from thieving the chests in the western part of the dwarven mines.
	Bolt mould
	Holy mould
	Unholy mould (m)	Obtained by speaking to the Spirit of Scorpius or as a drop from chaos druids or zombies in the Lair of Tarn Razorlor.
	Sickle mould (m)
	Chain link mould (m)	Obtained during Legacy of Seergaze.
	Rod clay mould (m)	Obtained during In Aid of the Myreque.
Farming
	Rake
	Seed dibber
	Spade	Can also be used for Treasure Trails. Miscellaneous activities still require using a spade outside the tool belt.
	Gardening trowel
	Secateurs	Members can replace these with magic secateurs, obtained during A Fairy Tale I - Growing Pains.	(regular)
	Magic watering can (m)	Reward from A Fairy Tale III - Battle at Ork's Rift.
Slayer^{[n 1]}
	Rock hammer (m)
	Salt shaker (m)
	Ice shaker (m)	Requires level 22 Slayer to be added to the tool belt.
	Fungicide shaker (m)	Requires level 57 Slayer to be added to the tool belt.
	(Super) explosive shaker (m)	A super explosive shaker can be made by filling a super explosive flask with 100 rubium.^{[n 2]} Both variants require level 32 Slayer to be added to the tool belt.
	Slayer bell (m)	Requires level 39 Slayer to be added to the tool belt.
	Crystal chime (m)	Adding either the crystal chime or the chime from Prifddinas will return the seed used to create it.
	Ouroboros pouch (m)	Obtained from the Temple Trekking minigame as a reward for raising Jayene Kliyn's level to 99.
	Bonecrusher (m)	Purchased from the Daemonheim rewards trader for 34,000 Dungeoneering tokens requiring level 21 Dungeoneering and level 21 Prayer. Can benefit from the bonecrusher upgrade purchased from Waiko Reward Shop. Requires 500 Slayer points to purchase the ability for it to be added to the tool belt. Its effects can be enabled or disabled in the tool belt settings.
	Seedicide	Purchased from either the Quartermaster of the Cabbage Facepunch Bonanza minigame for 2,200 renown, the Farmers' Market for 10,000 beans, or from Stanley Limelight for 360 thaler. Can benefit from the seedicide upgrade purchased from the Farmers' Market. Requires 500 Slayer points to purchase the ability for it to be added to the tool belt. Its effects can be enabled or disabled in the tool belt settings.
	Charming imp (m)	Purchased from the Daemonheim rewards trader for 100,000 Dungeoneering tokens, requiring level 21 Dungeoneering and level 21 Summoning. Requires 500 slayer points to purchase the ability for it to be added to the tool belt. Its effects can be enabled or disabled in the tool belt settings.
	Herbicide (m)	Purchased from the Rewards trader for 34,000 Dungeoneering tokens or from the Farmers' Market for 10,000 beans, requiring level 21 Herblore and level 21 Dungeoneering. Can benefit from the herbicide upgrade purchased from the Farmers' Market. Requires 500 slayer points to purchase the ability for it to be added to the tool belt. Its effects can be enabled or disabled in the tool belt settings.
	Advanced gold accumulator (m)	Purchased from the Daemonheim rewards trader for 1,500,000 Dungeoneering tokens requiring level 60 Dungeoneering. Requires 500 slayer points to purchase the ability for it to be added to the tool belt. Its effects can be enabled or disabled in the tool belt settings.
Invention^{[n 3]}
	Inventor's tools (m)	Obtained during Invention tutorial.
	Bag of materials (m)	Obtained during Invention tutorial.
	Charge pack (m)	Obtained during Invention tutorial.
Archaeology^{[n 4]}
	Archaeologist's tools	Obtained during Archaeology tutorial.
	Mattock	All metal mattocks from bronze to elder rune. Includes crystal mattocks, Imcando mattocks, and the Mattock of Time and Space. Can be freely removed (with the exception of the bronze mattock). Does not include augmented mattocks, or Guildmaster Tony's mattock.
	Legatus pendant (m)	Requires level 47 Archaeology to excavate and restore. Grants access to the legatus barrier inside the prison section of Kharid-et. Grants access to the maximum security barrier along with the pontifex signet ring.
	Pontifex signet ring (m)	Requires level 58 Archaeology to excavate and restore. Grants access to the Chapel in the Kharid-et Dig Site. Grants access to the maximum security barrier along with the legatus pendant.
	Chaos star (m)	Requires level 68 Archaeology to excavate and restore. Stops portals at The Source from misfiring. Allows players to traverse the Dagon portal from the Dagon Overlook to the lowest level of the Infernal Source.
	Ikovian gerege (m)	Requires level 70 Archaeology to excavate and restore. Grants access to the Stormguard Citadel Dig Site.
	Stormguard gerege (m)	Requires level 95 Archaeology to excavate and restore. Grants access to Howl's Floating Workshop along with the Wingsuit v3.
	Boots of Flight (m)	Requires level 70 Archaeology to restore. Allow players to traverse the small gaps between islands in the Stormguard Citadel Dig Site.
	Wingsuit v1 (m)	Requires level 76 Archaeology to restore. Allows players to fly between islands in the Stormguard Citadel Dig Site. Can be upgraded to Wingsuit v2 and then to Wingsuit v3.
	'Friendship bracelet' (m)	Requires level 87 Archaeology to restore. Allows players to enter the imposing door and access the Daemonheim - Depths excavation site.

^ This part of the tool belt was released on 8 June 2015.
^ Regular explosive shaker is sufficient to obtain the title.
^ This part of the tool belt was released on 25 January 2016.
^ This part of the tool belt was released on 30 March 2020.

Usage

Because of the tool belt, players are able to click on an object to perform an action instead of having to use a tool on it. For example, once a tinderbox is added to the tool belt, players can click on a log to light it instead of using a tinderbox on every individual log. Alternatively, right-clicking on a log gives a list of other possible actions that can be used with the log.

Free-to-play tools are available for use on free-to-play servers. Thus, as an example, a free-player may light logs using a stored tinderbox, saving bank space on the numerous tools used.

In the event that a player has a stored pickaxe, hatchet, or mattock but has another pickaxe or hatchet in their inventory or wielded (and has the level to use both), the better tool will be used. For example, cutting wood with a dragon hatchet in the tool belt and an inferno adze wielded will use the adze, while mining with a dragon pickaxe in the tool belt and adze wielded will use the dragon pickaxe. In addition, a tool will override the one on the tool belt if wielded but will not do so from the backpack.

A sextant added to a tool belt may be used by opening the interface and right clicking it or by right clicking a clue scroll in the backpack.

Restricted usages and bugs

The items on the normal tool belt cannot be used in Dungeoneering. On 11 April 2012 a second tool belt was added for use inside Daemonheim, containing all the tools used there, including an upgradable novite pickaxe and hatchet.
The tools in the tool belt cannot be used with some quest items such as in the lighthouse during Horror from the Deep, the Bone key from Shilo Village, lighting the Ceremonial Brazier in Lunar Diplomacy, and digging up saplings in Meeting History.
A spade stored on the tool belt cannot be used for digging at the ground. It only works on objects with a "Dig" or "Harvest" option. It also doesn't work for the vine flower, bush and fruit tree patches at Herblore Habitat, as the right-click "Clear" option only appears when the crops are fully grown. At one time, it couldn't be used for Treasure Trails, but this was fixed and the player can now dig with it by right-clicking the scroll.
When chopping down an Evil Tree with a loaned dragon hatchet, the player will use the tool belt bronze hatchet instead.
The spade in the tool belt cannot be used to add fuel to the Blast Furnace, because gathering coke turns a spade into a different item (spadeful of coke). There is however a spade spawn nearby.
It is important to remember that all items except for pickaxes, hatchets, and mattocks stored in the belt remain there permanently and therefore cannot be retrieved.
- Augmentable hatchets can be removed and augmented by Doc. This can however only be done once.
- The player must have a backpack space to add a new tool to the tool belt, even if no item will come off it (e.g. adding a rune pickaxe to the tool belt cannot be done with a full inventory, even though the default bronze pickaxe is not removed into the inventory).
The player must meet the mining requirements to add a specific tier pickaxe to the tool belt. This differs from the hatchet, which automatically uses the highest tier you can wield, even if the added hatchet is of a much higher tier.
Players with the ability to catch fish bare-handed can toggle whether or not they wish to use a harpoon on their tool belt from their Fishing settings.

Achievements

Get Tooled Up ( 20) – Fill up your tool belt.

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Update history

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patch 10 February 2025 (Update):
- The displayed hatchet when Woodcutting now matches the hatchet stored in the tool belt.

patch 9 December 2024 (Update):
- Hatchets can now be removed from the tool belt and replaced with a bronze hatchet, mimicking the tool belt functionality of pickaxes.

patch 10 June 2024 (Update):
- The 'friendship bracelet' can be added to the tool belt.

patch 25 March 2024 (Update):
- The bronze hatchet appears as stored and is not greyed out in the toolbelt.

patch 15 January 2024 (Update):
- Highlighted items will now set and unset correctly on the tool belt.

ninja 27 February 2023 (Update):
- Changed all occurrences of 'toolbelt' in text to 'tool belt' for consistency.

patch 27 February 2023 (Update):
- The tool belt can now sap trees (including Acadia trees) and provide salt for the embalmer.

patch 17 May 2021 (Update):
- The Black Axe can now be added to your Tool Belt.

patch 7 September 2020 (Update):
- The dying roses in Perils of Ice Mountain can now be watered using cans on your tool belt.

patch 18 May 2020 (Update):
- Players will no longer be able to remove items with combat stats from their tool belts while on Entrana.

patch 27 April 2020 (Update):
- Updated the information about Archaeology tools on the Tool Belt interface.

patch 20 April 2020 (Update):
- Both the Pontifex Signet Ring and the Legatus Pendant can be added to the tool belt.

patch 6 January 2020 (Update):
- Bronze Pickaxes can no longer be duplicated via the tool belt.

patch 9 December 2019 (Update):
- Fixed a typo involving adding items to the Tool belt.

patch 18 November 2019 (Update):
- Bronze pickaxes no longer get added to tool-belt whilst already having one.

patch 21 October 2019 (Update):
- Fixed an issue where the user wasn't being asked for a bank pin while trying to add/remove pickaxe from the tool belt.

patch 9 September 2019 (Update):
- Attempting to add a lent pickaxe to the tool belt will no longer remove the current pickaxe from the tool belt.

patch 1 July 2019 (Update):
- You can no longer remove items from your tool belt whilst in the duel arena.
- Fixed tool belt scrollbar slider so it now visually appears properly.

hidden 4 February 2019 (Update):
- Hatchets can once again be added to the tool belt without having the Attack level required to wield them.^[1]

patch 28 January 2019 (Update):
- All players upon login will now have the tong slot on their tool belt automatically unlocked as it is no longer available from the Artisans Workshop.

patch 21 January 2019 (Update):
- Players will no longer be able to remove pickaxes from their tool belt while in New Varrock.

patch 14 January 2019 (Update):
- It is no longer possible to attempt to store pickaxes on your tool belt in free to play worlds if you have a member's only pickaxe already stored.
- When having a high-level members pickaxe on your tool belt on F2P, when mining, this will now default to runite.

patch 7 January 2019 (Update):
- You can add and remove any pickaxe (except bronze and augmented) from the tool belt.

ninja 24 September 2018 (Update):
- The key ring now appears on the tool belt, allowing players to store keys on their tool-belted key ring.

patch 10 September 2018 (Update):
- You are now able to use the hatchet in your tool belt to make a boat as per Rantz' instruction during Skrach's rescue in the Recipe for Disaster quest.

patch 30 April 2018 (Update):
- Fixed an issue that was closing information boxes on the tool belt.

ninja 3 April 2018 (Update):
- A permanent grappling hook can now be made with a Mithril crossbow, 5 Mithril bars, and a Mithril grapple. This can be added to the tool belt.
- The tool belt interface has been updated and reworked. The main focus of the update is to provide more useful information to the player as well as to better future proof the belt for additional items.

ninja 5 February 2018 (Update):
- Players no longer need to select the 'needle' option on the tool belt when attempting to craft dragonhides.

patch 4 December 2017 (Update):
- The noose wand is now listed as a non-member tool in the tool belt.
- The tool totals in the tool belt have been corrected to 30 on free worlds.

hotfix 13 November 2017 (Update):
- Coins are now consistently dropped when a gold accumulator is placed in the tool belt and disabled.

patch 9 October 2017 (Update):
- Machetes now display correctly in the tool belt when selected.

ninja 9 October 2017 (Update):
- The pestle and mortar, rake, seed dibber, gardening trowel, secateurs, rod clay mould, sextant and seedicide now correctly reflect their free status in the tool belt.

patch 12 September 2016 (Update):
- The confirmation window for Doc augmenting a tool belt pickaxe now correctly refers to the rune replacement as a pickaxe.

ninja 26 May 2015 (Update):
- Players may now upgrade the machete on their tool belt with gem-bladed machetes.
- The Seed dibber icon on the tool belt has been updated to match the recently updated inventory model.

ninja 13 April 2015 (Update):
- Players can now add the magic watering can and magic secateurs to their tool belt.

patch 2 February 2015 (Update):
- The hyphen between the option 'Add to tool belt' has been removed for all objects that are part of the tool belt, to keep consistency with hatchets and pickaxes.

patch 5 January 2015 (Update):
- Sextant graphics have been added to the Tool Belt interface.

patch 24 November 2014 (Update):
- Players who gilded a pickaxe in their tool belt then added a crystal pickaxe will no longer have a gilded bronze pickaxe shown in the tool belt interface.

ninja 1 July 2014 (Update):
- It is now possible to close the tool belt interface with the 'escape' key.

patch 13 January 2014 (Update):
- An issue where the tool belt would display as null in certain situations has been fixed.

patch 9 July 2013 (Update):
- Dondakan will now recognise pickaxes stored in your tool belt during the Between a Rock... quest.

patch 24 June 2013 (Update):
- Gilded pickaxes can now be placed in a tool belt. The Gold Nymph will now also gild the pickaxes in your tool belt.
- A small spelling error when adding lent items to the tool belt has been fixed.

patch 9 April 2013 (Update):
- Spells in the Ability Book are now updated when selecting keys on the Tool belt.

patch 19 June 2012 (Update):
- References to the tool belt all now consistently use "tool belt" rather than "toolbelt".

patch 13 March 2012 (Update):
- Players' tool belts will now be filled with all non-quest items on logging in.

patch 4 January 2012 (Update):
- The tool belt now works correctly when slashing a portrait or tapestry in The Darkness of Hallowvale.
- Fishing nets on the tool belt can now be used to fish in the Mort Myre Swamp.

patch 20 December 2011 (Update):
- Some disabled tool belt images have been made darker to distinguish between the disabled and enabled states.
- It is now possible to clear a fruit tree patch using a spade in the tool belt.

patch 13 December 2011 (Update):
- Machetes stored in a tool belt now work correctly with jungle plants south of Shilo Village.
- The ammo mould from Dwarf Cannon can no longer be added to the tool belt until the quest has been completed. Nulodian will issue replacements even if the mould is in a player's tool belt.

update 6 December 2011 (Update):
- Added to the game.

Trivia

On the day of release a new task, Shear Convenience was added into the beginner Lumbridge achievements to introduce the tool belt to players. It gave a reward of 500 experience, making it one of the biggest rewards for a beginner task. This task was later removed.
With the addition of the tool belt, many inventory space saving items became much less useful, for example the dwarven army axe and the quest kit. The later update which allowed storage of stronger tools in the tool belt made many of these items obsolete. These items include but are not limited to the small cast net, big cast net, barb-tail harpoon, and golden hammer.
A hammer stored on a tool belt can be used to open the Bandos door in the God Wars Dungeon.
Initially, only the bronze pickaxe and hatchet could be added to the belt, making the tool belt unsuitable for use in training Woodcutting and Mining at higher levels. After 17 June 2013, the ability to add pickaxes and hatchets all the way up to dragon was added.
The player talks to themselves during Violet is Blue about its convenience, spelling it as "toolbelt".
When the tool belt was introduced, there were no tools added automatically, and those like a tinderbox, bronze hatchet or needle had to be added manually. This was changed a couple of months later.

References

^ Mod Poerkie. When will adding hatchets to toolbelts be fixed?. Reddit. 4 February 2019. (Archived from the original on 5 February 2019.) Mod Poerkie: "Might want to check today's update out ;)"

[1] This part of the tool belt was released on 8 June 2015.

[2] Regular explosive shaker is sufficient to obtain the title.

[3] This part of the tool belt was released on 25 January 2016.

[4] This part of the tool belt was released on 30 March 2020.

[5] Mod Poerkie. When will adding hatchets to toolbelts be fixed?. Reddit. 4 February 2019. (Archived from the original on 5 February 2019.) Mod Poerkie: "Might want to check today's update out ;)"

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