# Pickaxe?

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/pickaxe/2390>\
**Category:** The Drawing Board\
**Created:** [July 24, 2013, 2:36pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/pickaxe/2390 "2013-07-24T14:36:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![Ferodaktyl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/ferodaktyl/32/56_2.png) [@Ferodaktyl](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Ferodaktyl)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 2:36pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/pickaxe/2390/1 "2013-07-24T14:36:36Z")

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I don’t think i’ve seen any - i’d imagine a piercing/bashing attack with a higher time units cost

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**Author:** ![Samscale1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@Samscale1](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Samscale1)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 3:00pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/pickaxe/2390/2 "2013-07-24T15:00:08Z")

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I like this maybe it could be found in the mines that spawn across the map, though it is the future so maybe there wouldn’t be pickaxes anymore

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**Author:** ![i2amroy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/i2amroy/32/909_2.png) [@i2amroy](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/i2amroy)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 6:43pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/pickaxe/2390/3 "2013-07-24T18:43:54Z")

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There actually is a pickaxe in the code, but it was commented out for some reason.

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**Author:** ![kevin.granade](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/kevin.granade/32/1316_2.png) [@kevin.granade](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/kevin.granade)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 8:13pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/pickaxe/2390/4 "2013-07-24T20:13:26Z")

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DarklingWolf was experimenting with making it a functional mining tool, but never got it working the way he wanted it.  
Likely want to add that at some point, but without dwarven magic (or power tools, explosives), tunneling through rock would be pretty much out of the question since it’d take like a week to mine out a single tile.

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**Author:** ![vultures](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/vultures/32/69_2.png) [@vultures](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/vultures)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 8:18pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/pickaxe/2390/5 "2013-07-24T20:18:56Z")

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Guys (inmates) working in shifts dug up a nice corridor, 10 meters long in a week. I imagine there were four of them, without the proper tools.

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**Author:** ![woflsipder](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/woflsipder/32/90_2.png) [@woflsipder](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/woflsipder)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 9:35pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/pickaxe/2390/6 "2013-07-24T21:35:31Z")

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Still , when you’re alone in the apocalyps you gotta focus on gathering food and other stuff while the prisoners have nothing to do all day and they just chop at the wall with their fists.

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**Author:** ![Otaku](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/otaku/32/27_2.png) [@Otaku](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Otaku)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2013, 3:59am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/pickaxe/2390/7 "2013-07-25T03:59:36Z")

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How about creating the time so long that no /regular\*/ survivor would do it.

- Regular means that they dont have stockpiles of food and water, that they are not mad, that they are not creating a superbase, that etc etc.

Maybe something like 10hrs a tile?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/cataclysmdda/original/1X/21b5d044e8473b25d0bf905d60477e25f6fbe0cf.png) [@system](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2013, 8:18am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/pickaxe/2390/8 "2013-07-25T08:18:21Z")

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Eh, I’d imagine pick axes in the near future would be some expensive super engineered hardware. Since demand for metals and such would be vastly greater.

Who knows, maybe it’s got a spring loaded harmonizer that crumbles stone away. (This is a real thing IRL).