Typical Newbie Confusion

[Saphos]

Okay, so I'm very confused. I see everyone with axes for chopping down trees to get wood to make stuff. So I ask someone, how do you get one? Is there a shop that sells them? No, they say, You have to make them. How do you make them? With iron. How do you get iron? In the mines with a pickaxe. How do you get a pickaxe?

You make it with iron.

Am I the only one who sees a problem with this?

Is there a place to buy a pickaxe or other tools? I feel like an idiot because I looked through the rest of this forum and didn't see anyone else having trouble. I assume that once you can mine iron you can make pretty much everything else you need? Someone really should make a detailed manual for this game... It's popular and it's been around for a long time, you would think that there would be instructions by now...

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me out.