lost tool

I’ve lost my iridium pickaxe. I’ve searched every single chest and I cannot find it. I haven’t received one in the mail so theoretically I still have it I just can’t find it. Does any one have any suggestions? I’m in year five of this run and don’t want to start over.

when I talk to a character and he calls my name, then a star drop falls to me. the star drop is causing my items to end up in the Lewis box. I wouldn't give a damn, but I used to have a steel ax, and now the most common one after returning. can this be fixed somehow?

My enchanted pickaxe vanish over night and then I received a letter saying I had a tool in lost and found. It was a new pickaxe. It, of course, was the basic one. I had to go through the whole process with all the upgrades from Clint and then spend (waste) more Prismatic Shards and Cinder Shards...

I believe getting the basic tools in the shop (say blacksmith) for like 1G instead of hoping they will just spawn or that we find them would improve user experience. I lost a bunch of tools already, it is incredibly frustrating and basically kills whole runs in my case.