Sorry about the confusion with getting an attack boost and cutting vines. The moment you described when you fell down the hole is when you got the machete. I must not have worded it clearly in the item pick up message that gets displayed afterwards. Thanks for the feedback and playing my game! I really appreciate it.
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If this is true? how did you use the machete? I assumed this was the case, but then tried several buttons and mouse clicks and could not seem to get a machete to appear? Maybe I missed the control introduction. Will go back! So far this is in my top 5 games I have played about 25 of them so far. So good job overall!