How to Unlock and Craft the Bone Pickaxe in RuneScape: Dragonwilds

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Mining plays a central role in your progression through RuneScape: Dragonwilds, and while the default Stone Pickaxe gets the job done, it becomes a burden once you’re venturing deeper into Ashenfall’s resource-rich but dangerous zones. That’s where the Bone Pickaxe comes in—a critical early-game tool that significantly boosts mining efficiency, durability, and speed.

In this guide, we’ll walk you through how to unlock the Bone Pickaxe in RuneScape: Dragonwilds, the materials you’ll need to craft it, and why it should be one of your first tool upgrades.

🦴 What Is the Bone Pickaxe?

The Bone Pickaxe is an upgraded mining tool that improves upon the Stone Pickaxe by offering:

• Faster mining speeds

• Greater durability

• More effective harvesting of ores like Copper, Tin, and Clay

While it doesn’t mine higher-tier resources than the Stone Pickaxe, the Bone Pickaxe dramatically reduces the time and stamina spent gathering the materials you’ll need for early crafting recipes and base-building.

📜 How to Unlock the Bone Pickaxe Recipe

To unlock the Bone Pickaxe, you must collect your first Animal Bone. This is a natural part of early exploration and combat in Dragonwilds, as most wild creatures drop bones when defeated.

How to Get Animal Bones:

• Kebbits are great early targets and drop bones reliably.

• Cows and Deer also drop bones and are easier to farm once you craft a weapon.

• Spell users can unlock the Bark to Bones ability (Artisan Level 11) to convert Ash Trees into bones for convenience.

🧠 Once you pick up your first Animal Bone, the Bone Pickaxe crafting recipe will unlock automatically, along with several other bone-based gear recipes.

🛠️ Bone Pickaxe Crafting Requirements

To craft the Bone Pickaxe, you’ll need access to a Crafting Table. If you haven’t built one yet, it’s unlocked during early progression via a quest from Doric, and requires:

• Ash Logs ×4

Bone Pickaxe Materials:

• Animal Bones ×8

• Ash Logs ×6

• Leather ×4

Where to Find Each Material:

🪵 Ash Logs

• Found lying on the forest floor around Temple Woods.

• Can also be harvested from Ash Trees using a Stone Axe or relevant spells.

🦴 Animal Bones

• Dropped by most wildlife.

• Easy to stockpile after a few hunts or by using Bark to Bones.

👖 Leather

This is the only resource that takes a bit more effort to obtain.

1. Kill large animals like Cows or Deer to collect Animal Hide or Hide Scraps.

2. Unlock and build a Tannery (unlocked after picking up your first Animal Bone).

3. Use 1x Hide or 3x Scraps per Leather at the Tannery.

🏹 Tip: Craft a bow to hunt deer from a distance without alerting them. Cows are less skittish and can be taken down with melee weapons.

⛏️ Why You Should Upgrade to the Bone Pickaxe

Upgrading your mining tool early will save time, stamina, and frustration. Here’s why the Bone Pickaxe is essential:

💨 Faster Mining Speed

The Bone Pickaxe significantly reduces the time it takes to mine Clay, Tin, and Copper, which are vital for crafting metal bars, weapons, and upgrades.

🔨 Greater Durability

You’ll spend less time repairing tools or crafting replacements. The Bone Pickaxe holds up longer than its stone counterpart, making it a more efficient long-term investment.

🧱 Improved Resource Yield

While it doesn’t change drop rates, the faster mining speed allows you to gather more resources per session, making it easier to stockpile crafting materials like Stone, Clay, and ore.

📈 Better Skill Progression

Raising your Mining skill becomes less of a chore. The Bone Pickaxe helps you hit milestones quicker by speeding up boulder and node destruction.

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🧠 Final Thoughts: The Bone Pickaxe Is a Must-Have Tool

The Bone Pickaxe may not look flashy, but its utility and efficiency make it one of the most important upgrades you can make in the first few hours of RuneScape: Dragonwilds. Whether you’re building your base, crafting armor, or exploring new zones, you’ll need resources—and gathering them faster gives you the upper hand.

Make sure to hunt early for Animal Bones, set up your Tannery for Leather, and build that Crafting Table. Once the Bone Pickaxe is in your hands, you’ll wonder how you ever mined without it.