# Metal Pickaxe

Metal construction bumps up both how long this mining pickaxe lasts and how fast it works.

Source: https://palworld-db.com/item/Pickaxe_Tier_01

## Basics

- Type: Weapon / WeaponMelee
- Gold value: 4820
- Weight: 15
- Max stack: 1
- attack: 30
- durability: 250

## Recipe

- Stone x15
- Wood x20
- Ingot x15

## Notes we already publish

- (use) The bench you learned to craft on will not build this. A Primitive Workbench is below the floor — the cheapest thing that accepts the recipe is either a High-Quality Workbench or a Weapon Workbench, and from either of those the whole ladder above takes it too: Production Assembly Line, Weapon Assembly Line, both Assembly Line IIs, the Advanced Workshop, the Advanced Weapon Assembly Line and the Ancient Workbench. That is worth knowing before you spend the two points, because the High-Quality Workbench sits low enough in the tree that most bases already have one standing by level 11, and if yours does you need no weapon bench at all for this.
- (use) The upgrade is not only that it lasts longer. Equipping it applies Mining Yield Up Lv. 1, which [[item:Pickaxe_Tier_00]] does not carry at all — so every ore and stone node returns more per swing while this is the tool in your hand, on top of the 250 durability against 150 and 30 attack against 20. The same bonus ladders with the tier: [[item:Pickaxe_Tier_02]] carries Lv. 2 and [[item:Pickaxe_Steal]] carries Lv. 4. It only counts while the pickaxe is the equipped tool, so swapping to an axe mid-run drops it.
- (strategy) Plan on holding this one a long time. Level 11 to the next rung at 34 is twenty-three levels — [[item:Pickaxe_Tier_02]] is a separate two-point node — and the whole stretch where you are stripping ore for Refined Ingot happens on this pickaxe. Two things follow. Keep 15 Ingot spare for a rebuild rather than treating the recipe as one-and-done, since 250 durability is not much across a full ore run. And retire the stone one the moment this is built: it weighs 10 and this weighs 15, so carrying both is 25 weight for a tool that mines slower and yields less.

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Source: Palworld Database — https://palworld-db.com/item/Pickaxe_Tier_01