Sacred clay pickaxe

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Sacred clay pickaxe

Also known as?	Sacred clay paxe, Sacred pickaxe, Clay pickaxe, Clay pick
Members only?	Yes
Quest item?	No
Tradeable?	No
Equipable?	Yes
Stacks?	No
High Alchemy	0 coins
Low Alchemy	0 coins
Destroy	Drop
Store price	20 Stealing Creation Points (Rewards Mystic)
Examine	Your sacred clay tool has transformed into a pickaxe.
Weight	2 kg

The pickaxe is obtained from the Morphic tool (costing 20 Stealing Creation points). It is the 8th pickaxe in the game, the one before it being the Inferno Adze. This pickaxe gives double experience while mining.

Starting at 100% charge, its charge decreases as experience for using it is given. At 0% charge, the pickaxe crumbles to dust (dust being no item). It can be reverted back to a morphic tool without losing any charge and then changed into any morphic item (this loses no charge).

Sacred clay pickaxe mines at the same speed as Rune pickaxe or Inferno Adze.

If you are mining coal in the mining guild, it is not recommended that you use the sacred clay pickaxe if you are level 75+, as the pickaxe will last about twenty minutes or less, which is the approximate amount of time it takes to obtain one at the Stealing Creation minigame. Instead, use the morphic tool for something else, such as smithing, construction, or crafting.

Bonuses Hover over image for type
Attack bonus
+4	-2	+2	0	0
Defence bonus
0	+1	0	0	0	0
Other bonuses
+5		0		0
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[edit] Experience Bonus

~Warning: At level 88 mining there is currently a bug in the Sacred Clay Pickaxe. You mine half the ores you would normally get at any other mining level. (For example, according to the chart below, you would get 116 gold ores per Pickaxe, at level 88 mining, you would only get around 58.) ~

Ore	Regular XP	Sacred Clay XP	Ores per pickaxe	Total XP per pickaxe (extra XP gained is 1/2 of this)
Pure Ess	5	10	1,400	14,000
Copper	17.5	35	428	17,500
Tin	17.5	35	428	17,500
Iron	35	70	214	17,040
Silver	40	80	200	16,000
Coal	50	100	100	10,000
Sandstone	45	60,70,100,120	Unknown	Unknown
Gold	65	130	116	15,080
Gemstone	65	130	124	15,973
Granite	50, 60, 75	100, 120, 150	About 136	About 15,000
Mithril	80	160	94	15,040
Adamant	95	190	84	15,870
Runite	125	250	33	8,250

• When you mine Sandstone or Granite it depends on which amount(1kg, 2kg, 5kg or 10kg for Sandstone and 500g, 2kg or 5kg for Granite.) you mine how much xp you get.

When ores are mined with a Sacred Clay Pickaxe, the experience gained is doubled, with a few exceptions(see below)

• Daeyalt, Elemental, and 'Perfect' gold ore can be mined but give no experience bonuses.
• Rubium cannot be mined with the Sacred clay pickaxe.
• Extra ores gained by wearing the Varrock armour while mining with the Sacred clay pickaxe give no bonus experience.
• If you get no bonus experience, this does not count as a "use" of the pickaxe - no charge is used up.

[edit] Trivia

• At one time, the pickaxe had the appearance of a bronze pickaxe when mining. The reason for this was the Sacred Clay pickaxe was the same as a bronze pickaxe, but would yield twice the XP.
• At one time, you would get no bonus experience when having a Rune pickaxe in your inventory. You would not mine with the Sacred clay pickaxe but with your rune pickaxe.
• On the day of its release it could not auto mine pure essence, requiring the user to repeatedly click the essence. Now it is able to auto mine pure essence.
• Also note that as of 13 November it does not have an animation for mining mineral veins.
• Since December, Jagex has changed its bonus exp, giving in total double exp per ore.
• At one time, the pickaxe, along with all morphic/volatile tools, would not degrade with each use, but degrade with each morph. They would have 10 charges.
• Some players believe that it is good mining experience to mine shooting stars with the sacred pickaxe. In fact, when using a morphic tool on a shooting star, you gain a total of 16530xp before your axe crumbles. This is a bonus xp of 8265xp.

v • d • e Pickaxe
Bronze • Iron • Steel • Mithril • Adamant • Sacred clay • Rune • Dragon • Inferno adze

v • d • e Sacred clay items
Mage armour	Hat • Robe top • Robe bottoms • Staff
Melee armour	Helmet • Platebody • Platelegs • Scimitar
Ranged armour	Coif • Body • Chaps • Bow
Sacred clay tools	Pickaxe • Hatchet • Harpoon • Butterfly net • Hammer • Needle • Fletching knife
Volatile clay tools	Pickaxe • Hatchet • Harpoon • Butterfly net • Hammer • Needle • Fletching knife