Pickaxe

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Pickaxe

Creation
Activate pickaxe head (1.0 kg) Right-click shaft (1.0 kg) Open submenu "Create > Tools"
Result
1 Pickaxe (2.0 kg)
Skill and improvement
Uses blacksmithing

Description

A tool for mining.

Rare Functionality

Note: Rare functionality is still not completely understood and is an exciting aspect of the game. Most information listed is only an observation of one or more players rather than confirmed by developers.

Pickaxes with rare properties have been seen to mine faster.

Scalorn - 2013/08/22 - I made a supreme pickaxe and noticed it was returning +3.0 ql higher than the cap of the iron vein. The capped vein was 69, ore returned was 72. This was with 90 mining and a 65ql supreme pickaxe.

Note

A pickaxe is a tool with a metal head attached perpendicular to the handle, used primarily for mining. It is rather effective as a weapon compared to other tools, but should be disregarded once the player has access to proper weaponry.

Note that there are 3 versions of the pickaxe: the wooden 'newbie' pickaxe which cannot be improved but does not drop upon death, the normal iron version which can be improved and the Crude pickaxe which can be created with a pickaxe head made of stone.

There is no penalty for failure in creation of an iron pickaxe.

Unstable Build 2.7.0-2286 (6th Jan 2010), pickaxes will show the current slope up or down in the same manner of shovels. Unknown skill required.

Needed 15 shovel skill before I could see slope with pickaxe equiped. 20:25, 22 November 2011 (UTC)