Sacred clay pickaxe

This article is about the reward item purchased with Stealing Creation points for use outside of the minigame. For the pickaxes used inside the minigame, see Pickaxe (Stealing Creation).

Sacred clay pickaxe
Release	11 November 2008 (Update)
Members	Yes
Members	Yes
Quest item	No
Quest item	No
Tradeable	No
Tradeable	No
Equipable	Yes
Equipable	Yes
Stackable	No
Stackable	No
Disassembly	Unknown
Disassembly	Unknown
Value	21,333 coins
Value	21,333 coins
Alchemy	Not alchemisable
Alchemy	Not alchemisable
Destroy	Drop
On death	Unknown
On death	Unknown
On death	Unknown
Exchange	Not sold
Weight	2 kg
Examine	Your sacred clay tool has transformed into a pickaxe.

The Sacred clay pickaxe is obtained from the Morphic tool (costing 20 Stealing Creation points). It is the 8th pickaxe released 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, disappearing and requiring the player to obtain another. It can be reverted back to a morphic tool without losing any charge and then changed into any morphic item (this also expends no charge).

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

Combat Stats

Requirements
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Class			Slot
Melee
Tier
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Weapons		Main		Off
Damage		24		-
Accuracy		110		-
Style		-
Range		? (edit)
Speed		Fast (3.0s)
Attributes						Damage reduction
Armour				0		PvM: 0%			PvP: 0%
Life points				0		Style bonuses
Prayer				0		0		0		0
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Experience Bonus

Rocks	Regular XP	Sacred Clay XP	Ores per pickaxe	Total XP per pickaxe / Bonus EXP
Pure essence	5	10	1,400	14,000 / 7,000
Copper	17.5	35	428	14,980 / 7,490
Tin	17.5	35	428	14,980 / 7,490
Iron	35	70	214	14,980 / 7,490
Silver	40	80	200	16,000 / 8,000
Coal	50	100	150	15,000 / 7,500
Sandstone	30, 40, 50, or 60	60, 80, 100, or 120	N/A	N/A / N/A
Gold	65	130	116	15,080 / 7,540
Gemstone	65	130	124	15,973 / 7,986
Granite	50, 60, 75	100, 120, 150	About 136	About 15,000 / 7,500
Mithril	80	160	94	15,040 / 7,520
Adamant	95	190	84	15,870 / 7,935
Runite	125	250	61	15,250 / 7,625

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

While using it inside the Lava Flow Mine, double XP is gained as well. The normal amount of xp obtained in the LFM, is 100 when using the 50% flow rate segments.

• If using a Gofannon amulet from the quest Whats Mine is Yours, you get 4X Experience per ore when used with a Proto-Tool Pickaxe. Example: Iron Normal 35xp. With Sacred Clay pick 70xp. with pick and amulet 140xp.

Lava Flow Mine	XP (50% flow rate)	Total XP per pickaxe
Pickaxe	200	15,030 - 1/2 of this is extra XP (needs verifying) 15,357 - using Golden Mining Suit
Pickaxe + Penance Horn	300	22,545 - 1/3 of this is extra XP from the pickaxe (needs verifying)

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

• Daeyalt, Elemental, Lunar ore and 'Perfect' gold ore can be mined but give no experience bonuses.
• Rubium cannot be mined with the Sacred clay pickaxe.
• If you get no bonus experience, this does not count as a "use" of the pickaxe - no charge is used up.
• Using a Sacred Clay Pickaxe in a Clan Citadel does not yield any bonus experience.

Trivia

• 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.
• 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 16530 experience before your pickaxe crumbles.
• The pickaxe itself has two separate heads, in relation to the normal pickaxe having a single head.
• When used in conjunction with a filled or partially filled Penance Horn, a player will earn 3x the experience that they normally would, while both the pickaxe and horn drain at their respective rate.
• When wearing Varrock armour, when you mine two ores at once the first ore you receive gives the double experience, the second gives the regular amount of experience.
• On the few days after its release, it displayed no animation while mining and had the same strength as a Bronze pickaxe. This was quickly fixed.