Pickaxe (Fallout Shelter)

Fallout Shelter weapon
Pickaxe
Damage	11-21
Damage type	Melee
Miscellaneous
Rarity	rare

 

	The following is based on Fallout Shelter or Fallout Shelter Online and some details might contradict canon.

“This far underground, you just may strike gold.”— In-game description

The pickaxe is a weapon that appears in Fallout Shelter. It was added in the 1.6 update.

Background

Unlike most other weapons, only one dweller with a pickaxe can attack a given opponent at a time. So, for instance, if three dwellers are fighting a single deathclaw with a pickaxe, only one of them will actually fight; the other two can't attack.

Characteristics

The pickaxe is a rare weapon featured in Fallout Shelter with a damage ranging from 11 to 21, leading to an average damage of 16.

Locations

• Found by dwellers exploring the wasteland
• Found on quests
• Found in lunchboxes
• Craftable in a weapon workshop

Crafting

A high Endurance statistic is needed to effectively create the pickaxe.

Materials:		Requirements:		Produces:
Duct tape (5) Shovel (3) Globe (2)		Weapon factory or weapon plant Rare weapon recipe Caps x400		Pickaxe (1)

Gallery

Pickaxe card

Weapons in Fallout Shelter Melee weapons Baseball bat · Butcher knife · Fire hydrant bat · Kitchen knife · Pickaxe · Pool cue · Relentless raider sword Conventional Firearms Pistols .32 pistol (rusty, enhanced, hardened, armor piercing, Wild Bill's Sidearm) · 10mm pistol (rusty, enhanced, hardened, armor piercing, Lone Wanderer) · Pipe pistol (hair trigger, heavy, scoped, auto, Little Brother) · Scoped .44 (rusty, enhanced, hardened, armor piercing, Blackhawk) Rifles Assault rifle (rusty, enhanced, hardened, armor piercing, Infiltrator) · BB gun (rusty, enhanced, hardened, armor piercing, Red Rocket) · Henrietta · Hunting rifle (rusty, enhanced, hardened, armor piercing, Ol' Painless) · Lever-action rifle (rusty, enhanced, hardened, armor piercing, Lincoln's repeater) · Pipe rifle (calibrated, long, night-vision, bayoneted, Big Sister) · Railway rifle (rusty, enhanced, hardened, accelerated, Railmaster)  · Sniper rifle (rusty, enhanced, hardened, armor piercing, Victory rifle) Shotguns Combat shotgun (rusty, enhanced, hardened, double-barrel, Charon's shotgun) · Sawed-off shotgun (rusty, enhanced, hardened, double-barrel, Kneecapper) · Shotgun (rusty, enhanced, hardened, double-barrel, Farmer's Daughter) Directed Energy weapons Pistols Alien blaster (rusty, tuned, focused, amplified, Destabilizer) · Institute pistol (incendiary, improved, scoped, scattered, Apotheosis) · Laser pistol (rusty, tuned, focused, amplified, Smuggler's End) · Plasma pistol (rusty, tuned, focused, amplified, MPXL Novasurge) Rifles Gauss rifle (rusty, enhanced, hardened, accelerated, Magnetron 4000) · Institute rifle (excited, long, night-vision, targeting, Virgil's rifle) · Laser musket · Laser rifle (rusty, tuned, focused, amplified, Wazer Wifle) · Plasma rifle (rusty, tuned, focused, amplified, Mean Green Monster) · Plasma thrower (agitated, tactical, boosted, overcharged, Dragon's Maw) Heavy Support weapons Fat Man (rusty, enhanced, hardened, guided, MIRV) · Flamer (rusty, enhanced, hardened, pressurized, Burnmaster) · Gatling laser (rusty, tuned, focused, amplified, Vengeance) · Junk Jet (recoil compensated, tactical, electrified, flaming, Technician's Revenge) · Minigun (rusty, enhanced, hardened, armor piercing, Lead Belcher) · Missile launcher (rusty, enhanced, hardened, guided, Miss Launcher) Parentheses () denote weapon variants.