A Game About Needle In A Haystack · Tools & farm wiki
Compare five tools and twelve available upgrade branches, meet six animal families and identify all twelve curios while planning the next stage of your farm.
Official game analysis · Data updated: 2026-10-17
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TOOLS
Hand
Your own two hands.
Purchase price: $0
FULLER HANDFUL
Gather nearby strands in a single grab.
Prices by level: $2 → $4 → $8 → $22 → $58
QUICKER HANDS
Less waiting between each handful.
Prices by level: $3 → $6 → $12 → $25 → $50
LONGER REACH
Grab hay from a little further away.
Prices by level: $3 → $6 → $12 → $32 → $87
STEADY HAND
Keep collecting while you hold the mouse.
Prices by level: $20
Pitchfork
A big forkful of hay with every swing.
Purchase price: $242
MORE PRONGS
More hay on every swing.
Prices by level: $25 → $50 → $100 → $200 → $400
QUICK SWING
Less wait between swings.
Prices by level: $20 → $40 → $80 → $160 → $320
WIDE SWEEP
A wider head digs a wider hole, so you keep reaching the hay.
Prices by level: $30 → $60 → $120 → $240 → $480
Dynamite
Blast a crater. Your bag catches what it can.
Purchase price: $1,500
BIGGER CHARGE
More hay in every blast.
Prices by level: $680 → $1,000 → $1,200 → $1,400 → $1,600
SHORT FUSE
Less wait between throws.
Prices by level: $950 → $1,500 → $1,800 → $2,100 → $2,500
Vacuum
Hoover up hay until the motor overheats.
Purchase price: $15,000
MORE POWER
Faster suction.
Prices by level: $3,100 → $4,900 → $5,600 → $6,400 → $7,400
BETTER COOLING
Cools down faster.
Prices by level: $4,900 → $5,600 → $6,500
BIGGER TANK
Runs longer before it overheats.
Prices by level: $5,000 → $5,800 → $6,600
Magnet
Finds what hides deep in the hay.
Purchase price: $220,000
ANIMALS
Keep room in your bag before using dynamite: hay beyond its capacity is lost. The vacuum needs cooling breaks. Animals keep earning while you dig; new families need their own homes and progression requirements.
CHICKEN
Pecks at the foot of the pile. Every strand it eats is money.
- Young animal
- CHICK
- Leader
- ROOSTER
- First animal
- $10
- Animal home
- $0
DUCK
Waddles round the pile and dabbles in the loose hay.
- Young animal
- DUCKLING
- Leader
- GOOSE
- First animal
- $87
- Animal home
- $650
GOAT
Eats anything, hay first. Climbs nothing here, promise.
- Young animal
- KID
- Leader
- BILLY GOAT
- First animal
- $240
- Animal home
- $2,500
SHEEP
Grazes steadily at the pile's edge, never in a hurry.
- Young animal
- LAMB
- Leader
- RAM
- First animal
- $500
- Animal home
- $6,000
PIG
Snuffles into the pile and eats like it means it.
- Young animal
- PIGLET
- Leader
- BOAR
- First animal
- $960
- Animal home
- $29,000
COW
Big, slow and hungry: the pile's best customer.
- Young animal
- CALF
- Leader
- BULL
- First animal
- $1,800
- Animal home
- $35,000
CURIOS
BRASS BELL
Someone's cow is missing it.
CLAY JUG
Still smells of cider.
COPPER THIMBLE
Mended a thousand sacks.
GLASS MARBLE
The shooter, the one everybody wanted.
WOODEN SPOOL
No thread left. Lots of story.
SILVER BUTTON
From a Sunday coat.
CHESS PAWN
It was always going to be a pawn.
INKWELL
Dried out in 1952.
ACORN
A squirrel is looking for this.
POCKET WATCH
It stopped at a quarter past.
OLD KEY
Opens something. Somewhere.
GOLDEN EGG
No goose has owned up to it.