- Pickaxes you can own and equip. Each equipped pickaxe boosts your mining upgrades.
- The Vault (/vault): a new panel to view and equip the pickaxes you own. Auras, cosmetics, effects, and pets are previewed there as coming soon.
- Ore Codex milestones now reward real pickaxes, not just shards. Every ore has its own signature pickaxe to chase.
- The Apex: catalog every ore in the Codex to claim the ultimate pickaxe, the one that pushes your upgrades beyond their normal maximum.
- A server-wide announcement now fires when a player claims The Apex Pickaxe.
- Your equipped pickaxe now shows on your character for other players to see.
- Retuned the endgame rank requirements (Sovereign, Untouchable, Mythic) to better match real mining pace.
- Overhauled the Luck upgrade's cost curve, keeping it from trivializing the climb.
- Recalibrated Ore Codex milestone targets to real mining speed.
- Hovering an ore in the Codex now shows exactly what each milestone rewards, including pickaxe bonuses.
- The upgrade menu now shows the bonus your equipped pickaxe adds to each upgrade.
- Some pickaxe icons are still placeholders while final art is in progress.