Pickaxes

Your pickaxe is the tool that turns rock into resources. It grants Mining Speed ⛏ and decides which ores you can break, and it upgrades in a long chain from a humble Wooden Pickaxe all the way to the legendary Deep Breaker.

Overview #

Every pickaxe does two jobs. First, it provides Mining Speed ⛏, the total block damage it deals each second, which sets how fast ore shatters. Second, it caps which ores it can break: a Coal Pickaxe stops at coal, an Iron Pickaxe reaches iron, and so on up the ore ladder.

Like all boostable gear, a pickaxe rolls its exact Mining Speed once when it's created and keeps it forever, so two of the same tier can differ slightly. Every pickaxe also carries a Time Leap requirement checked against your best-ever tier. Once you've reached that tier the pickaxe works forever, even after an Era reset lowers your current tier.

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Pickaxes, like all items, are never lost to any reset. Hitting Seconds, Chrono Dust, a Time Leap, the Intelligence Generator, or an Era reset keeps your gear intact.

The Progression Chain #

Standard pickaxes form one ordered upgrade line, bought from the shop in each mining area. Buying a tier consumes the one directly before it and carries over any applied relic, so upgrading never wastes your work. The line runs Wooden → Coal (I–V) → Bronze (I–VI) → Iron (I–VI) → Diamond (I–IV).

Each pickaxe also has a Time Leap gate: Wooden and Coal pickaxes need Explorer, Bronze needs Miner, Iron needs Caveman, and every Diamond pickaxe needs Diamond Breaker (which also opens the Diamond Mine area).

Tier	Mining Speed	Breaks up to	Rarity
Wooden Pickaxe	6 ⛏	Coal	Common
Coal Pickaxe (I–IV)	10–13 ⛏	Coal	Common
Coal Pickaxe (V)	14 ⛏	Bronze	Uncommon
Bronze Pickaxe (I–V)	15–22 ⛏	Bronze	Uncommon
Bronze Pickaxe (VI)	24 ⛏	Iron	Rare
Iron Pickaxe (I–VI)	25–37 ⛏	Iron	Rare
Diamond Tipped Pickaxe (I)	30 ⛏	Diamond	Rare
Diamond Plated Pickaxe (II)	35 ⛏	Diamond	Epic
Diamond Pickaxe (III)	42.5 ⛏	Diamond	Epic
Reinforced Diamond Pickaxe (IV)	50 ⛏	Diamond	Epic
Deep Breaker	40–75 ⛏	Any ore	Legendary

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The last pickaxe in a metal's line breaks into the next ore. Coal V reaches bronze and Bronze VI reaches iron, so a single well-timed upgrade opens a whole new mining area early.

Passives & Abilities #

The top pickaxes do more than mine fast. Starting at the Diamond Pickaxe (III), every Diamond III / IV pickaxe carries the Miner's Grace passive, a chance while mining to upgrade the block you broke into a richer ore tier.

The legendary Deep Breaker is the crown of the line: it breaks any ore, also carries Miner's Grace, and adds the Mining Surge ability. Right-click it to gain the Mining Surge effect: ×2 Mining Speed ⛏ for 30 seconds, on a 5-minute cooldown.

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The Deep Breaker is forged on the Tectonic path, the only alignment that lets you tear through every ore in the world.

Boosting Mining Speed #

A pickaxe's raw Mining Speed is only the base. You can stack it far higher:

Relics

Take a pickaxe and the Haste Trinket relic to the Relic Smith in the Iron Mine to amplify its Mining Speed by +5–50% ⛏. The Pickaxe Trinket instead boosts passive activation.

Accessories

The Prism accessory adds Crit Power and +5–15% Mining Speed ⛏ while equipped.

Potions & effects

Timed effects like Chronite Rush and Mining Surge (from the Deep Breaker) multiply your Mining Speed for a window. See Potions.

Upgrade Tree

Spend Pure Diamonds in the Upgrade Tree on nodes that permanently raise mining output.

Mining is a core part of Timelords: faster ore means more Coal, Bronze, Iron, and eventually Diamonds to purify into Pure Diamonds. See the Ores page for how the mining chain feeds the rest of your progression, or open the full wiki any time in-game with /guide.