Before you start
- Crafting Table
- A way to obtain animal materials and process leather
Gather the materials in the right order
- Collect Ash Logs from fallen logs or ash trees. Keep the pickaxe’s six logs separate from your station budget.
- Gather Animal Bone and animal hides from wildlife. A ranged option makes fleeing animals easier to approach than a long melee chase.
- Build the Spinning Wheel, then process Flax into Coarse Thread. The Tannery requires two thread alongside logs and bones.
- At the Tannery, turn Animal Hide into Leather. One hide makes one leather; alternatively, three hide scraps make one leather. Make four leather for the pickaxe.
- Return to the Crafting Table with all three ingredients. Craft the pickaxe, then plan an ore trip with room to carry the return haul.
Stuck? How do I get Leather for the Bone Pickaxe?
Hint 1
Hides don't turn into leather on their own. You need a station for that, and building the station takes thread.
Hint 2
Spin Flax into Coarse Thread at a Spinning Wheel. Two thread, with Ash Logs and Animal Bone, builds the Tannery, and the Tannery turns Animal Hide into Leather.
If the recipe is missing
Pick up each ingredient yourself and check the correct station. A material stored in a shared chest is a different question from whether your character has discovered it. MetaForge lists Animal Bone, Ash Logs and Leather as the discoveries associated with this tool.
Do not confuse the pickaxe with a logging axe. This upgrade solves the copper-and-tin mining bottleneck; it does not establish that every wood type is now harvestable.
Stuck? Why can't I see the Bone Pickaxe recipe?
Hint 1
Recipes appear from what your own character has found. Materials sitting in a shared chest may not count.
Hint 2
Pick up Animal Bone, Ash Logs and Leather yourself. Once you have held all three, the recipe unlocks and you can craft the pickaxe at the Crafting Table.
Sources for this section
Recipes for this route
Build menu
Spinning Wheel
- Ash Logs
- 12
- Flax
- 4
- Stone
- 2
Process 1 Flax into 1 Coarse Thread.
Sources for this section
Community database · MetaForge: Spinning Wheel recipe and processing
Build menu
Tannery
- Ash Logs
- 12
- Animal Bone
- 4
- Coarse Thread
- 2
Process 1 Animal Hide or 3 Animal Hide Scraps into 1 Leather.
Sources for this section
Community database · MetaForge: Tannery recipe and leather processing
Crafting Table
Bone Pickaxe
- Animal Bone
- 8
- Ash Logs
- 6
- Leather
- 4
The early mining upgrade for copper and tin.
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Researched 2026-09-23. This edition is source-checked, not an installed-build playtest. Exact rates, quantities and balance remain unconfirmed where a guide marks them. Sources and coverage.
