# \[r183\] You can only promote if you have actually crafted the specific tool before

**URL:** <https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/r183-you-can-only-promote-if-you-have-actually-crafted-the-specific-tool-before/9273>\
**Category:** Previous Build Reports\
**Created:** [December 24, 2014, 8:18pm UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/r183-you-can-only-promote-if-you-have-actually-crafted-the-specific-tool-before/9273 "2014-12-24T20:18:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![AltaHMano](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c37758/32.png) [@AltaHMano](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/u/AltaHMano)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2014, 8:18pm UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/r183-you-can-only-promote-if-you-have-actually-crafted-the-specific-tool-before/9273/1 "2014-12-24T20:18:05Z")

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**Summary:**  
You cannot promote a citizen to a farmer before a carpenter crafted a farmer’s hoe although you own a hoe!

**Steps to reproduce:**

1. Start up a fresh world and wait for travellers
2. Steal a traveller’s hoe
3. Try to promote a citizen to a farmer with that hoe

**Expected Results:**  
Have a farmer feeling guilty because he works with a stolen hoe.

**Actual Results:**  
Have only citizens because Hearthlings are no thiefs and will refuse to use the stolen hoe.

**Notes:**  
This can probably occur with more jobs as the game has to register that a tool has been crafted before the job is unlocked. (Well this is my assumption.)

**Versions and Mods:**  
183, no mods

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**Author:** ![SteveAdamo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.stonehearth.net/steveadamo/32/13955_2.png) [@SteveAdamo](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/u/SteveAdamo)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2014, 8:37pm UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/r183-you-can-only-promote-if-you-have-actually-crafted-the-specific-tool-before/9273/2 "2014-12-24T20:37:10Z")

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just to clarify, you are saying you cant promote a unit with the farmer’s tool that was acquired from a traveler, as opposed to crafted by your carpenter… yes?

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**Author:** ![AltaHMano](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c37758/32.png) [@AltaHMano](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/u/AltaHMano)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2014, 8:45pm UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/r183-you-can-only-promote-if-you-have-actually-crafted-the-specific-tool-before/9273/3 "2014-12-24T20:45:17Z")

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I guess i got drawn away by talking about stealing a traveller’s stuff… Sorry.  
You can use the traveller’s hoe to promote, but only if you craft(ed) a hoe yourself; the “promote to farmer button” stays black until you craft your very own hoe.

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**Author:** ![Relyss](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.stonehearth.net/relyss/32/41785_2.png) [@Relyss](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/u/Relyss)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2014, 9:20pm UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/r183-you-can-only-promote-if-you-have-actually-crafted-the-specific-tool-before/9273/4 "2014-12-24T21:20:11Z")

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Was your ‘traveller’s hoe’ not in a stockpile, by chance?

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**Author:** ![AltaHMano](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c37758/32.png) [@AltaHMano](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/u/AltaHMano)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2014, 9:47pm UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/r183-you-can-only-promote-if-you-have-actually-crafted-the-specific-tool-before/9273/5 "2014-12-24T21:47:13Z")

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It was, i checked that.  
Did it work for you?