It can be made from one novite bar, requiring level 2 Smithing and giving 11 experience. It has identical stats to its iron counterpart except for a lower strength bonus of 4. Many players who do not mine in Daemonheim prefer using this pickaxe to clear rocks blocking doors as it is the cheapest pickaxe easily obtainable from the Smuggler, only costing 437 coins. It is a possible drop from the Bulwark beast and an animated pickaxe.