Pickaxe

Pickaxes are tools which are used to mine dirt, stone, ores, and other blocks. They can also be used to harvest objects that aren't solid foreground blocks, such as Heart Crystals or furniture. The only objects which pickaxes cannot be used on are background walls and trees, which are collected by hammers and axes, respectively.

Newly spawned players will start with a Copper Pickaxe which may have a random prefix.

Technical info

Red border = Copper Pickaxe
Purple border = most pickaxes below Chlorophyte
Blue border = Picksaw and Chlorophyte Pickaxe
Green border = Spectre Pickaxe

Depending on which tool is being used, pickaxes can have a range of between 2 blocks (4 feet) vertically/4 blocks (8 feet) horizontally and 6 blocks (12 feet) vertically/8 blocks (16 feet) horizontally.

Different pickaxes also have maximum levels of ore which they can mine. For a full list of which pickaxe can mine which ore, refer to the table below.

Pickaxes generally have high speed (which also affects mining speed) but deal little damage relative to equivalently tiered weapons. All pickaxes have the autoreuse property, and draw from the melee table of prefixes.

List of pickaxes

	Pickaxe	Damage	Pickaxe Power	Speed	Obtained	Crafting materials	Can mine
	Copper Pickaxe	4	30%	Fast	Starter item Merchant Crafting	12 Copper Bars, 4 Wood	Gold/Platinum Ore and lower
	Tin Pickaxe	4	35%	Fast	Crafting	12 Tin Bars, 4 Wood	Gold/Platinum Ore and lower
	Cactus Pickaxe	5	35%	Fast	Crafting	15 Cacti	Gold/Platinum Ore and lower
	Iron Pickaxe	5	40%	Very Fast	Crafting	12 Iron Bars, 3 Wood	Gold/Platinum Ore and lower
	Lead Pickaxe	6	43%	Very Fast	Crafting	12 Lead Bars, 3 Wood	Gold/Platinum Ore and lower
	Silver Pickaxe	6	45%	Very Fast	Crafting	12 Silver Bars, 4 Wood	Gold/Platinum Ore and lower
	Tungsten Pickaxe	6	50%	Fast	Crafting	12 Tungsten Bars, 4 Wood	Up to Meteorite
	Bone Pickaxe	8	50%	Very Fast	Drop from Undead Miner		Up to Meteorite
	Gold Pickaxe	6	55%	Very Fast	Crafting	12 Gold Bars, 4 Wood	Up to Demonite/Crimtane Ore
	Candy Cane Pickaxe	7	55%	Very Fast	Found in Presents		Up to Demonite/Crimtane Ore
	Platinum Pickaxe	7	59%	Very Fast	Crafting	12 Platinum Bars, 4 Wood	Up to Demonite/Crimtane Ore
	Nightmare Pickaxe	9	65%	Very Fast	Crafting	12 Demonite Bars, 6 Shadow Scales	Hellstone, Obsidian, Ebonstone, Crimstone, and dungeon bricks
	Deathbringer Pickaxe	12	70%	Fast	Crafting	12 Crimtane Bars, 6 Tissue Samples	Hellstone, Obsidian, Ebonstone, Crimstone, and Dungeon Brick
	Molten Pickaxe	12	100%	Fast	Crafting	20 Hellstone Bars	Up to Cobalt/Palladium Ore
	Reaver Shark	17	59%	Fast	Fishing in the Ocean		Up to Cobalt/Palladium Ore
	Cobalt Pickaxe	10	110%	Fast	Crafting	15 Cobalt Bars	Up to Mythril/Orichalcum Ore
	Palladium Pickaxe	12	130%	Fast	Crafting	18 Palladium Bars	Up to Mythril/Orichalcum Ore
	Mythril Pickaxe	15	150%	Fast	Crafting	15 Mythril Bars	Up to Adamantite/Titanium Ore
	Orichalcum Pickaxe	17	165%	Fast	Crafting	18 Orichalcum Bars	Up to Adamantite/Titanium Ore
	Adamantite Pickaxe	20	180%	Fast	Crafting	18 Adamantite Bars	Up to Adamantite/Titanium Ore
	Titanium Pickaxe	27	190%	Fast	Crafting	20 Titanium Bars	Up to Adamantite/Titanium Ore
	Chlorophyte Pickaxe	40	200%	Fast	Crafting	18 Chlorophyte Bars	Everything but Lihzahrd Brick
	Spectre Pickaxe	32	200%	Fast	Crafting	18 Ectoplasm	Everything but Lihzahrd Brick
	Pickaxe Axe	36	200% (+ 110% Axe power)	Fast	Crafting	18 Hallowed Bar 1 Soul of Fright 1 Soul of Might 1 Soul of Sight	Everything but Lihzahrd Brick
	Shroomite Digging Claw	45	200% (+ 125% Axe power)	Very Fast	Crafting	18 Shroomite Bar	Everything but Lihzahrd Brick
	Picksaw	34	210% (+ 125% Axe power)	Very Fast	Drops from Golem	(Old gen console) 9999 Lihzahrd Brick	Up to Lihzahrd Brick
	Nebula Pickaxe	80	225%	Very Fast	Crafting	12 Nebula Fragments 10 Luminite Bars	Up to Lihzahrd Brick
	Solar Flare Pickaxe	80	225%	Very Fast	Crafting	12 Solar Fragments 10 Luminite Bars	Up to Lihzahrd Brick
	Stardust Pickaxe	80	225%	Very Fast	Crafting	12 Stardust Fragments 10 Luminite Bars	Up to Lihzahrd Brick
	Vortex Pickaxe	80	225%	Very Fast	Crafting	12 Vortex Fragments 10 Luminite Bars	Up to Lihzahrd Brick

Notes

• Some higher tier pickaxes have drill counterparts.
• Best mining prefix is Light.

Update Info

v1.2.4

• Reaver Shark added.

v1.2.3

• Palladium Pickaxe can no longer mine Titanium and Adamantite.
• Shroomite Digging Claw added.

v1.2.2

• Candy Cane Pickaxe added.

v1.2.0.3

• Chlorophyte Pickaxe can now mine Chlorophyte Ore.

v1.2

• Can be used to interact with foreground objects.
• Added several new pickaxes, including counterparts to drills.

PC release

• Added to the game.