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Pickaxes (often abbreviated as picks) are used to mine any type of ore in Gielinor. Pickaxes can either be held in the inventory or wielded; but, to wield a pickaxe, the wielder's Attack level must be high enough to wield the metal. Wielding the pickaxe provides extra space in the inventory. This is useful when mining for a profit, as one extra ore can be held.

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Maintenance Edit

In the past, players would need to repair their pickaxe only if it had been damaged during the exploding rock random event. In this situation, players would have to visit Nurmof in the Dwarven Mine or Bob at the Lumbridge axe shop to repair it for a small cost. Players also used to find their Pickaxe head flying off their handle, which they then needed to pick up and rejoin to the handle.

However, pickaxes no longer get damaged or lose their heads, due to the removal random events.

After completion of the Perils of Ice Mountain quest, players can smith their own pickaxes, using 2 bars of the desired metal.

Pickaxe Mining level Smithing level Shop price Grand Exchange price
Bronze pickaxe 1 5 Free at Bob in Lumbridge. 109
Iron pickaxe 1 20 140 coins at Nurmof 251
Dwarven army axe 1 N/A Moe the miner or Larry the Lumberjack will give you one for free N/A
Steel pickaxe 6 35 500 coins at Nurmof 408
Mithril pickaxe 21 55 1300 coins at Nurmof 558
Adamant pickaxe 31 75 3200 coins at Nurmof 1,682
Rune pickaxe 41 90 32,000 coins at Nurmof 18,804

Dragon pickaxe (members only)

61 N/A Drop from Dwogres, Chaos Dwarf, and Chaos dwarf hand cannoneer in the Chaos Dwarf Battlefield after Forgiveness of a Chaos Dwarf 8,141,898
Sacred clay pickaxe (members only) 40 N/A Bought from Stealing Creation for 20 Creation Points N/A
Inferno Adze (members only) 41 (and 92 Firemaking) N/A Reward from All Fired Up (minigame) N/A

Stealing Creation pickaxesEdit

In minigame

Table of pickaxes
Icon Class Level to use Level to make
Pickaxe (class 1) Class 1 1 Mining 1 Smithing
Pickaxe (class 2) Class 2 20 Mining 20 Smithing
Pickaxe (class 3) Class 3 40 Mining 40 Smithing
Pickaxe (class 4) Class 4 60 Mining 60 Smithing
Pickaxe (class 5) Class 5 80 Mining 80 Smithing

Rewards

Dungeoneering pickaxesEdit

These pickaxes could only be obtained and used during Dungeoneering.

Table of pickaxes (Dungeoneering)
Tier Icon Item Level to use
1 Novite pickaxe Novite pickaxe 1 Attack
2 Bathus pickaxe Bathus pickaxe 10 Attack
3 Marmaros pickaxe Marmaros pickaxe 20 Attack
4 Kratonite pickaxe Kratonite pickaxe 30 Attack
5 Fractite pickaxe Fractite pickaxe 40 Attack
6 Zephyrium pickaxe Zephyrium pickaxe 50 Attack
7 Argonite pickaxe Argonite pickaxe 60 Attack
8 Katagon pickaxe Katagon pickaxe 70 Attack
9 Gorgonite pickaxe Gorgonite pickaxe 80 Attack
10 Promethium pickaxe Promethium pickaxe 90 Attack
11 Primal pickaxe Primal pickaxe 99 Attack

Trivia Edit

  • In the early days of Runescape Classic, there was only one type of pickaxe available, named simply Pickaxe. It looked like a Steel pickaxe and could not be equipped. When different types of pickaxes were released in May 2003, all pickaxes in the bank became the Bronze pickaxes that are commonly found today.
  • Upon the release of Dragon pickaxe, all the other pickaxes underwent an animation change, except the crush attack and mining animation, which the latter was already updated after release of HD. Still, mining and crushing action would use the new figures released.
  • The Tzhaar tourist guide found in Varrock Palace Library references to an obsidian pickaxe.
  • It is often believed that higher tier pickaxes in Daemonheim have a lower chance of accidently crushing ores while mining. This is yet to be confirmed.
  • There is no such thing as a Black pickaxe. However, there are Black hatchets.
  • The Elite Dwarven Guard seems to be wielding pickaxes (tactical) and shields. However, this is not as surprising because the dwarves are very orientated around mining.
  • Since the launch of EOC, if you have a pickaxe equiped and mine a rock, it will show you using the pickaxe to mine, but you will still have one on your back.
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