Steel Pickaxe
A steel pickaxe used to break down stone and ore into usable rubble.
Notes
The Steel Pickaxe is a tier-3 tool for breaking down stone and ore, primarily used to train the Mining skill as you excavate. Each swing costs 20 calories and uses 1 durability out of a maximum of 2000, so keeping it well-stocked in a town store ensures miners can work efficiently without frequent trips to a crafter. It also serves as an ingredient in the Scrap Tool recipe.
Notes are AI-generated and may be imprecise.
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Ingredients
| Ingredient | Qty | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 20 | item | |
| 8 | item | |
| 5 | category |
Byproducts (garbage)
| Material | Qty / craft |
|---|---|
| ≈ 0.34 | |
| ≈ 0.08 | |
| ≈ 0.06 |
Approximate โ a category ingredient's salvage value depends on the item actually used.
Crafting waste collects in the station's garbage output and must be hauled away or recycled โ see the Garbage & Recycling guide.
Crafting
| Labor | 750 calories |
|---|---|
| Craft time | 0.5 min |
| Throughput | ≈ 120 Steel Pickaxe / hour (base) |
As a weapon
Showing base values. Set Mining level / talents in the ⚙ Character panel to recompute.
Recycling & waste
6× Iron Scrap
1× Bio Residue
0.8× Wood Scrap
0.2× Textiles
The same salvage value leaks out as garbage when this item is consumed in crafting.
How garbage, sorting & recycling work
Total raw to craft this
200× Limestone
140× Wood (any)
75× Iron Ore
75× Quicklime
30.63× Clay
5× Lumber (any)
4× Bison Carcass
3.33× Steel Bar
1.88× Silica (any)
Approximate โ category ingredients and any production cycles are counted as raw.