Digging stats

The Shovel, and its variants are an underrated tool for various experiments and your luck. For your sake, I made some charts to visualize this.

You should definitely craft one yourself as it massively changes the way you look at dirt piles in the game. Instead of a key, you get three of or two. For even smaller key usage, you just make The Kennel commonplace. You don't need a Emerald Bracelet to bypass these sometimes annoying gems, because you have much more than 10 of them. The only downside of it is the lack of it digging turnips.

It is so far my least favorite type of shovel. It's only useful if you don't draft The Kennel often enough. It also lacks the ability of digging turnips.