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Pickaxe Simulator Best Pickaxe Upgrade Path
This guide focuses on which pickaxe to buy at each stage, when to skip tiers, and when to pause and train instead of rushing the next upgrade.
Recommended basic upgrade sequence
Most Best Pickaxe Upgrade Path suggestions agree on one thing: don't get stuck for too long on mid‑tier pickaxes that cost a lot but barely improve your clear speed. The official pickaxe list gives you concrete numbers, so you can feel each jump:
- Early game: Stone (50 coins, +10% coins/+1% luck/+5 speed) → Iron (500 coins, +20%/+1%/+8).
- Transition: Golden (2.5K, +30%/+1%/+15) → Diamond (10K, +50%/+5%/+20) → Petal (40K, +70%/+5%/+25).
- Mid game: Sunstone (250K) → Toxic Fang (1M) → Solar Spire (10M) → Glacier Core (30M).
- Late game: Gemstone Smasher (750M) → Sledgehammer (25B) → Wood Smasher (100B) → Clown Hammer (750B) before stepping into Epic pickaxes like Ice Cube (5T, +500% coins) and Fragment (20T, +600%).
- Any time: if blocks still feel slow even after an upgrade, invest in training or pets before buying yet another pickaxe.
Tier benchmarks and what they buy you
Use these checkpoints to decide when it's worth grinding for the next pickaxe versus pausing for pets, miners, or training.
- Rare tier: Solar Spire (10M coins, +130% coins/+10% luck/+60 speed) → Glacier Core (30M) → Amethyst Wing (150M) → Gemstone Smasher (750M) → Pencil Pickaxe (5B).
- Epic tier: Ice Cube (5T, +500% coins/+15% luck/+300 speed) up through Hell Fire Scythe (500Qd, +1,500% coins).
- Legendary tier: Crowbar (2.5Qn, +2,000% coins/+20% luck/+1,500 speed) to Twin Fire Scythe (1.55Sp, +9,000% coins/+25% luck/+17,500 speed).
- Mythic & Exotic: Super Void Piercer (5Sp, +12,000% coins), Toxic Pixel (50Sp, +20,000% coins), Radiant Reaper (15Oc, +45,000% coins), Mailbox Pickaxe (17.5Oc, +67,500% coins), up to Inferno Cleaver (200No, +275,000% coins).
- Robux options: Mining Drill (195 Robux) stays 15% better than your best pickaxe, scaling automatically; Frostbite Reaper (995 Robux) is 35% better, Dark Surge (1,995 Robux) is 75% better if you want to skip grinds entirely.
Balancing pickaxe upgrades with training and pets
Even with the Best Pickaxe Upgrade Path, your upgrades will feel weak if you never train, buy miners, or improve your pet team. A good rule is to treat pickaxes, training, pets, and miners as four legs of the same table.
- After each major pickaxe upgrade, spend a short period training to raise your base Power.
- When you unlock a new egg tier, plan to replace at least one or two pets before buying the next pickaxe.
- Recruit miners that match your current economy: Business Man (30B coins) adds +130% coins/+30% luck, while Mr. Robot (125Oc coins) gives +1,500% coins/+200% luck once you're deep in late game.
- If an upgrade barely changes your time‑to‑kill, that's a sign your Power multipliers (training, pets, miners) are lagging behind.
Practical upgrade checkpoints
To make the Best Pickaxe Upgrade Path easier to follow, set a few simple checkpoints you can quickly test in game instead of staring at numbers.
- If most blocks in your current zone die in 1–2 hits, save for the next big pickaxe rather than buying a tiny upgrade.
- If blocks take longer than 5–6 seconds to break even with potions, stop and upgrade both pickaxe and pets before trying to move deeper.
- When entering a new world, expect to feel weaker for a short time; use that moment to decide whether a pickaxe upgrade or a pet upgrade will fix the bottleneck faster.