Pal Metal Pickaxe
Weapon · WeaponMelee3★A mining pickaxe whose Pal Metal construction pushes its efficiency far beyond the norm.
Pal Metal Pickaxe is 55th of 79 melee weapons by attack, at 120 against the 2,400 of Laser Sword.
Wearing it also carries the effect Mining Yield Up Lv. 4, which matters more than the raw numbers in the biomes that punish you for the wrong outfit.
Nothing is crafted from it — it is an end product, so anything you make is meant to be used rather than banked as a component.
Details
At 25 weight each it eats carry capacity fast, so bring a mount or park a chest nearby. At 112,920 gold it is worth real money to a merchant.
Pal Metal Pickaxe Crafting Recipe
Pal Metal Ingot
High Quality Wooden Board
Stone×100
Corrosive Solvent
Hardwood×100
Wood×100
Ore×40
High Quality Cloth×20
Paldium Fragment×20
Pure Quartz×10
Sulfur×5
Venom Gland×5Crafting it takes 125 materials across 4 types, and the bottleneck is almost always the 100× requirement — line that up first and the rest follows.
Where to Find Pal Metal Pickaxe
Pal Metal Pickaxe is not something you find lying around — you craft it, and the recipe is below.
Using Pal Metal Pickaxe Well
Five stations take this recipe, and the one that matters is the one you already own when the technology unlocks. The weapon line's own rung for it is the Weapon Assembly Line II, but that bench is a level 47 technology while the pickaxe itself unlocks at 44 — for those three levels the recipe is craftable only on the workshop side, at the Production Assembly Line II you built back at 42. Above those two, the Advanced Workshop, the Advanced Weapon Assembly Line and the Ancient Workbench all accept it as well, so there is never a reason to keep an older bench standing for this.
Budget the crafting time before you queue it: the job is four times the work of the Refined Metal Pickaxe below it, so a base that produced the old one in a minute of Handiwork will chew through several on this. Put your highest Handiwork Pals on the bench, or start it and go do something else — the 100 Stone and 10 Pal Metal Ingot are the cheap part of the cost.
What Pal Metal Pickaxe Does
Pal Metal Pickaxe grants Mining Yield Up Lv. 4: Collect Item Drop Natural Object +160.
Alternatives and Upgrades
Pal Metal Axe matches it exactly at 120 attack — those two differ in what they resist and what they weigh, not in raw attack, so picking between them is a swap rather than an upgrade. The next real step is Terraprisma at 125; below it is Terraprisma at 110.
Other melee weapons at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class:
