Pickaxe

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.

Maintenance
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.

Stealing Creation pickaxes
In minigame

Rewards


 * Volatile pickaxe
 * Sacred clay pickaxe

Dungeoneering pickaxes
These pickaxes could only be obtained and used during Dungeoneering.

Trivia

 * 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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