Trusty Shovel

Item

 

Changelogs

 

Trusty Shovel is a Tier 1 neutral item dropped by neutral creeps.

▲ Trusty Shovel
Former plaything of a young deity, received as a gift from his uncle.
Tier 1 Neutral Item Active Dig Bonus ? +90 Health Shareable Usage Alert ? Drop Rate 14% ( 42%) Availability 7:00 (3:30) game-time Recipe

Ability

Dig

▶️

Ability
Target Point

Channel for 1 second.
Can find a Bounty Rune, a Flask, an Enchanted Mango, or a friendly Kobold.

Cast Animation: 0.1+0

Channel Time: 1

Bounty Rune Drop Chance: 16%

Healing Salve Drop Chance: 28%

Enchanted Mango Drop Chance: 28%

Kobold Drop Chance: 28%

 40

 0

• If the channeling is interrupted, the ability does nothing and goes into cooldown.

• Can dig up a Bounty Rune, a Healing Salve (75 ), an Enchanted Mango (65 ), or a player-controlled Kobold.

• The dug-up Kobold is a friendly unit, and automatically follows its owner 100 distance behind if no other order is given.
  • The owner's ally heroes also benefit from Prospecting Aura

• Dug-up items cannot be sold, are fully shareable, cannot be destroyed, and don't count towards Net Worth.

• Stacks of dug-up items can be combined with stacks of regular items, even if the regular item is owned by a different player.
  • If this happens, the whole stack becomes unsellable and cannot be destroyed.
  • If a stack of dug-up items is combined into a stack of regular items, the whole stack becomes unshareable and retains the owner.
  • If a stack of regular items is combined into a stack of dug-up items, the whole stack becomes completely shareable.
    • This type of merge cannot happen if both stacks are already in the inventory (dragging the slot of regular items into the slot of dug-up items doesn't merge them, but swaps them instead). The merge must happen by obtaining a stack of regular items while a stack of dug-up items is in the inventory.

• The same Trusty Shovel cannot spawn the same reward twice in a row.

Bounty Rune

Bounty

▶️

Ability
No Target

Affects
Self / Allies

Grants bonus Gold.

Cast Animation: 0+0

Initial Spawn Team Gold: 40

Next Spawn Base Team Gold: 40

Next Spawn Team Gold Bonus per Interval: 6

Team Gold Bonus Interval: 240

Turbo Mode Multiplier: 2

• Since Trusty Shovel can only be obtained past the 7:30th minute mark, the Bounty Runes will be worth at least 46 per hero.
  • Activating a Stored Bounty Rune grants gold based on the time at which it is activated.
  • Bounty Rune replenishes 2 Regenerate charges, unless it already had more than 2 Regenerate charges.

• Grants reliable gold to each hero of the team that activates the Rune.
  • A small golden particle effect briefly bursts from the player, visible to everyone, while an ally-only overhead text displays the amount of granted gold.

• In Turbo Mode, the granted gold is doubled, despite the notification message showing standard values.

Prospecting Aura

Prospecting Aura

Ability
Aura

Affects
Allies

Kobolds are adept at finding gold, increasing nearby allied heroes' GPM.

Radius: 1200

Gold per Minute Bonus: 20/25/30/40

Aura Linger Duration: 0.5

Aghanim's Shard Upgrade:

Holy Persuasion increases the level of certain persuaded creeps' ability by 1 and unlocks the 4th ability level.

Illusion Notes:

Bestows the aura, but are not affected by it.

Modifiers [?]

modifier_kobold_tunneler_prospecting_aura

Undispellable

modifier_kobold_tunneler_prospecting_aura_money

Undispellable

• Grants reliable gold. The aura's buff lingers for 0.5 seconds.

• Increases gold gained to a total of 110/115/120/130 per minute while affected.
  • Fully stacks with other gold per minute increasing effects, but not with multiple aura instances of itself.

• Multiple instances of the aura do not stack.
  • Prospecting Aura also has an 800 radius neutral aura. However, this has no effect since the neutral creeps cannot utilize gold.
  • Visually affects illusions and clones, but does not grant any bonus gold to their owner.
  • Does not affect invulnerable units.

• Prospecting Aura has 4 levels by default, but the 4th level can only be unlocked by the following sources:
  • Holy Persuasion
  • Helm of the Overlord's Dominate

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Recent Changes

Main Article: Trusty Shovel/Changelogs

Version

Description

7.35c

• Increased health bonus from 75 to 90.

7.33e

• The Summoned Kobold now follows the caster by default.

7.33c

• Reduced Dig cooldown from 50 to 40.

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