Tool

Stone Pickaxe

The first pick of every wipe: stones and wood, no bench, 100 durability. It beats hitting nodes with your rock and breaks fast, so carry a spare.

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Characteristics

Category: Tool

Stack size: 1

Durability: 100

Craftable: Yes

Researchable: Yes · 10 Scrap

Damage: 17

Swing time: 0.9 s

Overview

In-game description

Primitive tool used for harvesting Stone, Metal ore and Sulfur ore.

Right after a stone hatchet has got you some wood, craft this one. It needs no bench, just 100 stones and 200 wood, and every node gives you far more than the rock in your starting hand ever will.

The usual opening goes like this: you wake up on the beach, knock a few stones loose with the rock, craft the pick and walk inland hitting every metal ore node on the way. A furnace turns that into the frags for a Level 1 workbench, and a metal pickaxe comes straight after it.

Tip

Its 100 durability goes quickly on ore. Carry stones and wood for a second one rather than walking back to base with a broken tool.

There is nothing to research: every player knows it from the first spawn, and it is retired as soon as the metal one exists.