The Fall of the Fur Tool

The Fur Tool, one of the most popular multi-tools on the grid (alongside the NK tool), is just about dead. When I first started SL, I visited the Fur Plateau, where a big sign handed out fur tools for free. Just about everyone on the grid had one, and the NK tool was only just appearing on the scene.

As the creators of the Fur Tool stopped support for the tool and ultimately removed the inventory giver, the Fur Tool lost popularity. It was impossible to get one if you didn’t already have it, and after the giver was gone for a little while, the only name in multi tools was NK. Half the people on the grid hadn’t even heard of the Fur Tool.

Now, only a select few SL veterans still have one, mostly as mementos of a time long gone in TSL. The functions on the Fur Tool have been reverse engineered (not really, but that sounds cool), and now there are free, open source multi tools that, though not as elegantly, offer the same features.

Here is the complete help file included in the Fur Tool. As you can see, it is chock full of useful, and useless, but equally cool, feaures. (It looks to me like a few of them are taken from the MG, though how, I don’t know)

Here is a picture of the fur tool while it is attached to my forearm:

The Fur.Light feature:

The Fur platform: