Wooden tools become the colour of the stock used to craft rather than the timber, is this as intended?
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I would say hell yeah! I love that feature!
…not that I use wood tools anymore heh
Yes, as do the stone tools.
Can you illustrate this further with a few screenshots?
Blue wood, green foliage and black sticks result in black bladed wooden tool!
Should be black handle and blue blade?
I thought it was always the stick that determines the color of the whole thing. Pretty sure it’s the same with stone as well. Tho the stone will always be grey colored I believe. Just the handle will be the stick color.
Tho I could be completely wrong as I haven’t used wood or stone tools since I was lvl 10ish 
I’ve em now for harvesting!
Aoe, speed and dura, don’t last long though.
My thought was how can the stick become the blade, surely the timber is used for the blade?
And for stone, the stone colour would be the blade colour, logically?
Is it the same as this?
No, what you have highlighted is when you make an item with different colours of the same block it all comes out the same colour.
For example, I have 10 white, 10 black, 10 red gleam plus some extra, if you create refined gleam (no other item needed), the end product is only one of those colours, not a mixture.
This is in a craft with different blocks (sticks, foliage, timber).
The colour of the wooden axe, I would have expected the blade to be the colour of the timber (blue in this case) but rather the blade is the colour of the stick used (black in this case).
Presumably the stick is used to make the handle and the timber to make the blade?
I mean, it’s not a big issue at all, but its behaviour is different than you would logically expect.
I’m actually logging in to test this.
100% certain i have never cared about stick color when making colored wooden/stone items.
I think it’s gone unnoticed aa when we first start the game it’s likely that all the wood collected will be the same colour.
So the sticks and the timber are the same colour, so doesn’t become apparent.
Its only because I use wooden axes to harvest my farm that I noticed.
No this is not right. And it’s not always been this way. As recently as when I was posting about forging I was able to make wooden tools in my target/expected (timber) color.
As it stands, the following examples would give the expected colours.
Crafting Stark Turquoise ingredients (except for the foliage) will create an axe in the same colour:
Similar with the colour black:
If I understand the original post, if you have black sticks and blue timber, you expect an axe with a black handle and a blue blade. Is that correct?
Or just an axe with a blue blade. Regardless of the handle colour.
In your example, using black stick, blue timber and green foliage results in black bladed axes.
You seem to be focused a little on the handle, apologies if anywhere I indicated that the colour of the handle was what I thought was incorrect, but it’s not.
It’s the axe blade that doesn’t take the colour of the timber that is the point of the original post.
This has turned out to be more complicated than I thought it would 
@fidach I expected the stick = handle and timber = blade or entire tool also, but I think the stick has always = tool color (right?)
Input:
Output:
And when you do a mass craft, I wish it didn’t only output one color. 
Input:
Output:
This is what I think too, I am not sure if it’s always been this way.
Edit: Highlighted for clarity
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Yeah this thread is making me doubt myself but I very specifically made a batch of red axes once when i was newish and found red wood. I’m fairly certain that I used regular sticks from my base (raxxan light orange) with red timber to produce them.
I recently made some dark rose (or similar) wooden hammers to run the forging objective on my crafter but TBH these days I have a variety of stick colors around. I did confirm yesterday that stone tools take the stone color and not the stick color.
AFAIK handle color is always the same.
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The Wood gear takes the colour from the sticks.
The Stone gear takes the colour from the rock.
I’m not sure the history here or why it’s setup this way.
It would be trivial to switch the Wood gear to take the colour from the Timer - if that is what we’d all prefer.
Hmm well it’s been quite some time since i was dealing with wooden tools. If you’re confirming that it’s always been that way maybe I made sticks in the field for those axes or something.
I think that the specific material of the tools should determine the color, not an ingredient that is shared among many tool recipes determining the color in some of those recipes and not others.
:Just my 2 coins on the matter I guess.
I think it would make more sense to take it from the timber.
Would be more consistent with all the other tool recipes
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