Refined Metal Pickaxe
Weapon · WeaponMelee2★A mining pickaxe with another step up in how long it lasts and how quickly it works.
Refined Metal Pickaxe is an early melee weapon: 67th of 79 by attack, so treat it as a stepping stone, at 60 against the 2,400 of Laser Sword.
Wearing it also carries the effect Mining Yield Up Lv. 2, 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 20 weight each it eats carry capacity fast, so bring a mount or park a chest nearby. At 10,320 gold it is worth real money to a merchant.
Refined Metal Pickaxe Crafting Recipe
Stone×30
Wooden Board
Refined Ingot
Wood×50
Ore×22
Coal×20Crafting it takes 44 materials across 3 types, and the bottleneck is almost always the 30× requirement — line that up first and the rest follows.
Where to Find Refined Metal Pickaxe
Refined Metal Pickaxe is not something you find lying around — you craft it, and the recipe is below.
Using Refined Metal Pickaxe Well
The craft itself is the expensive part: this pickaxe carries 50,000 work units at the bench, ten times what Metal Pickaxe costs and a hundred times the primitive one. Queue it with a full crew of high-Handiwork pals, or it will occupy a workbench for a very long stretch.
Its material list is the same as Refined Metal Axe down to the last unit — 30 Stone, 4 Wooden Board, 10 Refined Ingot each. Smelt one double batch of Refined Ingot and you can walk away from the same trip with both upgraded tools instead of coming back for the second.
Every Tier of Stone Pickaxe
The same piece exists at 3 rarities, and the gap is not cosmetic: attack runs 20 to 60, a 3x swing. Which one you end up with is decided by the rarity of the schematic you built from, not by the recipe — so a legendary copy of this is worth more than the next item up built from a common one.
| Rarity | Item | Attack | Durability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0★ | Stone Pickaxe | 20 | 150 |
| 1★ | Metal Pickaxe | 30 | 250 |
| 2★ | Refined Metal Pickaxe (this one) | 60 | 300 |
What Refined Metal Pickaxe Does
Refined Metal Pickaxe grants Mining Yield Up Lv. 2: Collect Item Drop Natural Object +80.
Alternatives and Upgrades
Refined Metal Axe matches it exactly at 60 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 Nightglow at 70; below it is Nightglow at 60.
Other melee weapons at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class:
