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The Iron Pickaxe is the Foothills-tier mining tool in . Its item description flags it as a pickaxe that makes mining ore much easier, which is the in-game way of saying it is the specific tool the route needs. That makes it one of the cleanest single-craft progression milestones in the game.

Stats

Recipe

Why It Matters

The Iron Pickaxe is the clear mining upgrade over the : 40 percent more durability and a small ATK bump on the same 5-ingot recipe. The progression reason to craft it is narrower, though: it is the tool step that opens mining, which in turn feeds the and makes supply dependable instead of loot-dependent. The same pickaxe also continues to mine every lower-tier node (Stone, Copper Ore, Foothills Iron Ore) with fewer swings per node and longer runs before a break.

Progression Role

Crafting an Iron Pickaxe requires two upstream investments: a Workbench upgraded to Lvl 2, and a working iron chain. Most players reach this point around the time they build their first stack and upgrade the workbench in their main camp. Once both are ready, five ingots and five Wood produce the pickaxe in a single craft.

See Also

• : the direct recipe input

• : the resource players usually care about once the Iron Pickaxe is ready

• : the station that turns sulfur into homemade gunpowder

• : the main reason this pickaxe matters beyond raw mining speed

• : the full tool roster