ToolsStage 10
Iron pickaxe
Breaks stone and digs into rock and ore — as hard as its level allows. With a ladder it digs down through stone and a cave's floor, or up through the rock above — Space alone where one way is open, E or Q held where both are.
- Level
- 3
- Uses
- 250
- Speed
- 3× a wooden one
- Attack
- 4
- Stack
- one a slot
The way there
From the start, the soonest chain of what each step needs.
How to get it
Made
Makes 1 iron pickaxe, only within 3 tiles of Anvil.
Or found

In an old mine's chest the stone pickaxe is an iron pickaxe instead, 1 time in 20; one lies in 20% of the chests.

An abandoned dwelling's chest holds 1 to 6 things, the dearer the rarer; each is iron pickaxe once in 338, 1 at a time.
What it makes
Works on
- a boulder
- a rock outcrop
- a stalagmite
- an old mine's rail
- rocky ground
- rock
- hardstone
- a ramp
- coal ore
- iron ore
- gold ore
- cave floor
The first of its kind to get: Raw gold
Further on
11 more things lie a step or more beyond it.



