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I have just started playing now, and I started to mine for iron ore and coal, and doing some fishing.

My hammer broke after 3 attempts to smith anything, and a fishing rod I was given was lost after 4.

The tools are more expensive than the what I can forage until it breaks.

Is this normal?
Is it my skills/character attributes that makes this happen?

That´s bad luck.

When tools break is at these days random. For example sometimes you can dig with a shovel 50 times, another time only two.

But in my opinion it is correct, the tools break to often at the moment.
But thats another "story".