Alaska Gold Fever Guide — How to Repair Tools

Alaska Gold Fever is a first-person frontier sim from Baked Games in which you play a prospector in 1896 Alaska. The official Steam description sets the goal plainly: mine resources, refine different forms of gold, upgrade your tools, explore diverse mines, survive the harsh climate, and work through story and side quests. This guide covers the loop that matters in the opening hours and the repairs that keep it running.

The core loop: mine, process, refine, sell

The loop starts with a pickaxe and a bucket. You break gold-bearing rock, collect the dirt, and take it to water to sift out dust, flakes, and nuggets. Refining at a furnace turns those findings into gold bars, and the bank trades bars for cash that buys better gear, blueprints, and workshop upgrades. Community notes suggest targeting workshop upgrades early so daily throughput roughly doubles, but treat that timing as an estimate rather than an official target.

Cold, stamina, and your first days

Survival pressure comes from cold, hunger, and stamina. Clothing supplies cold resistance, and poor gear drains your ability to work in the open. The community wiki's short list of habits is a reasonable starting plan:

• Keep a wood-to-fire-to-food loop running so stamina stays positive.
• Wear warm clothing before glacier routes, because cold drains work time quickly.
• Do your first dust runs at the day-one claim and upgrade the pan before travelling far.

Avoid mining on an empty stamina bar and avoid taking brittle tools into hard rock.

Repairing tools so a run does not end early

Tools and weapons have durability, and repairs are done from the inventory using repair material such as magnetite. Players report that magnetite is easy to run out of, so keep a stock before a long trip. A recent hotfix stopped weapons from being repairable for some players while tools still repaired, so check your repair action at camp before you rely on it underground. Repairing early is cheaper than replacing a tool mid-expedition.