Rusty Pickaxe

The Rusty Pickaxe is the first tool of the game: you pick it up in the dungeon at the very start and use it to break open the sarcophagus. It has to be on your toolbar, not only in your backpack, for the game to let you use it.

A pickaxe breaks rocks, ore and marble, and clears the blockages in the dungeon under your house. These are Building jobs, and like every tool the Rusty Pickaxe adds Building mastery +1 while it sits on your toolbar, whether or not it is in your hand. With the Rusty Axe that makes Building 2 at the start, enough for your first workbenches but not yet for Wood wedges or Pieces of stone, which need 3.

How to obtain

Quest reward

Given during the story.

Used for

Study

Study requires: Tech points Duration
Science ×2 10 3 ( Researcher −1 )

Each item is studied once, on the Study Table. Studying does not use the item up. With the Scientist perk, a 30% chance of a Story.

Other uses, not in the demo (1)

Can be sold to

Smithy

Notes

  • Big rocks need more. Rocks need Building 1 to 4 by size, and give as many Stones as that number; ore needs Smithing instead (copper 2, iron 3), even though you break it with the pickaxe.
  • The Bronze Pickaxe adds 2 instead of 1. It does not wear out, and neither does this one.