Pickaxes are too weak

[jgudge]

Stone axes can also be used with a travellers' sack, so unless pickaxes are MUCH better than stone axes, I don't see much point in making them, especially considering that they require quite some metal if compared to other tools.

You'd get the same q stone axe from the stone leftover, and the metal hardly matters once you've mined a bit of it.

I've found q30 rock, and that's the highest so far. I need higher q sticks however. Q.Q

If indeed that's what you're saying.

[cgbnab]

I'd say 3x.
That way, his q10 pick would be able to mine the same as his q30 stone axe.

Hooray for metal finally being as strong as slightly better-carved stone!