If you hit a reed for long enough, it will break, too!

In the end, the solution was like most others the bees had.

Overwhelming numbers and brute force!

I ordered Workharder to get on it, and in no time at all, the coin was surrounded by the strongest, toughest Forager Bees available—as many as could fit around them.

Each had a stone axe, which could function decently as a pickaxe.

At command from their Foreman, the Forager bees began hitting metal with the axes.

Ding! Ding! Di-di-ding!

The sharp sounds made me wince and get away from the sight, but my girls kept working.

The metal was too soft to break even under this onslaught. Instead, every strike left a large dent. However, this didn't discourage my girls at all.

They kept hitting, each of them striking the same dent and making it deeper and deeper. And where metal caved it, it eventually became more tightly packed and less prone to bending.

Instead, as minutes passed, it began cracking!