This article is about the reward item purchased with Stealing Creation points for use outside of the minigame. For the pickaxes used inside the minigame, see Pickaxe (Stealing Creation).
Starting at 100% charge, its charge decreases as experience for using it is given. At 0% charge, the pickaxe crumbles to dust (dust being no item). It can be reverted back to a morphic tool without losing any charge and then changed into any morphic item (this loses no charge).
When you mine Sandstone or Granite how much experience is received depends on which amount (1 kg, 2 kg, 5 kg or 10 kg for Sandstone and 500g, 2 kg or 5 kg for Granite) you mine.
While using it inside the Lava Flow Mine, double XP is gained as well. The normal amount of xp obtained in the LFM, is 100 when using the 50% flow rate segments.
Rubium cannot be mined with the Sacred clay pickaxe.
If you get no bonus experience, this does not count as a "use" of the pickaxe - no charge is used up.
Using a Sacred Clay Pickaxe in a Clan Citadel does not yield any bonus experience.File:SCP Mining.pngA player mining for Coal using a Sacred Clay Pickaxe.
Trivia
At one time, you would get no bonus experience when having a Rune pickaxe in your inventory. You would not mine with the Sacred clay pickaxe but with your rune pickaxe.
On the day of its release it could not auto mine pure essence, requiring the user to repeatedly click the essence.
Since December, Jagex has changed its bonus exp, giving in total double exp per ore.
At one time, the pickaxe, along with all morphic/volatile tools, would not degrade with each use, but degrade with each morph. They would have 10 charges.
Some players believe that it is good mining experience to mine shooting stars with the sacred pickaxe. In fact, when using a morphic tool on a shooting star, you gain a total of 16530 experience before your pickaxe crumbles.
The pickaxe itself has two separate heads, in relation to the normal pickaxe having a single head.
When used in conjunction with a filled or partially filled Penance Horn, a player will earn 3x the experience that they normally would, while both the pickaxe and horn drain at their respective rate.
When wearing Varrock armour, when you mine two ores at once the first ore you receive gives the double experience, the second gives the regular amount of experience.
On the few days after its release, it displayed no animation while mining and had the same strength as a Bronze pickaxe. This was quickly fixed.
Attack bonus
Defence bonus
