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Dragon pickaxe

Mid game · Tool · Skilling and utility. Faster mining than rune for the rest of the game.

Some sources are in the Wilderness, where other players can attack you. For a Hardcore Ironman a death there costs Hardcore status, so prefer the other sources.

How to get it

King Black Dragon and Kalphite Queen are the safe choices; several Wilderness bosses drop it too.

SourceRate90% by
Chaos Elemental1/256 per kill589 kills
Callisto1/256 per kill589 kills
Kalphite Queen1/400 per kill920 kills
King Black Dragon1/1,000 per kill2,302 kills

What you need

To equip

  • Attack60Attack

To get, make or use it

  • Mining61Mining

Quests

None

Look yourself up to see what you're still missing for it.

Skilling and utility: upgrade path

  1. Fish barrelEarlyTempoross · 1/400
  2. Tackle boxEarlyTempoross · 1/400
  3. Dragon axeMidDagannoth Rex or Dagannoth Prime +2 · 1/128
  4. Dragon pickaxeMidChaos Elemental or Callisto +2 · 1/256
  5. Bottomless compost bucketMidHespori · 1/35
  6. Crystal toolsLateZalcano · 1/205
  7. Bonecrusher necklaceLateAlchemical Hydra or Vorkath

Requirements, sources and drop rates (rates fetched 2026-10-01) checked against the Old School RuneScape Wiki (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0). Requirements are game facts; the descriptions here are our own.