Gold Tool

Gold tools are like their non-gold counterparts, but have a unique feature—they can spawn items while being used. The only two currently in the game are pickaxes and spades.

Item Spawn Frequency Chart

The chart below is a collection of data to record the frequency a particular item spawns when using a gold tool. When an item is received, the results are recorded and updated below. To know the frequency percentage, divide the item quantity by the total.

Gold Pickaxe

	Amethyst	Bronze Ingot	Copper Ingot	Diamond	Emerald	Gold Ingot	Iron Ingot	Ruby	Sapphire	Steel Ingot	Time Crystal	Tin Ingot	Total
Stone	102	38	46	6	31	61	29	9	54	42	69	32	519

Gold Spade

	Apple	Carrot	Cherry	Chilli	Clay	Coconut	Coffee Cherry	Corn	Flax Seed	Flint	Mango	Maple Seed	Orange	Pine Cone	Sunflower Seed	Time Crystal	Total
Dirt	6	6	9	9	8	8	8	5	6	4	15	6	8	5	11	23	62

Gold Spade

	Coconut	Glass	Black Sand	Prickly Pear	Time Crystal	Total
Sand	C01	C02	C03	C04	C05	C06

Gold Spade

	Magnet	Black glass	Time Crystal	Total
Black Sand	C01	C02	C03	C04

Notes

Time Crystals can be produced from any block when using a gold tool. Other bonuses may depend on the type of block and where it's located.

A gold pickaxe produces bonuses at slight better than a 5% rate per stroke (about one bonus per 2.5 blocks on average) and may produce variant bonuses when used on blocks other than raw stone. Limestone has produced oil. Marble has produced red marble. Red marble has produced gold ingots. Sandstone has produced gold nuggets. There are no reports of Lapis Lazuli being produced, but using a gold pickaxe on it has produced gold ingots with no reports to date of other bonuses.

Either tool may produce bonuses when used on ore blocks in addition to the ore, such as clay or flint in dirt or coal in stone. The type of bonus seems to depend on the base block, and consists of ten of the ore in question.

Prior to release 1.3, it wasn't unusual for a gold pickaxe used exclusively on raw stone to generate more than five gold ingots before breaking, making it virtually regenerating.

There are no reports of bonuses when using gold tools on non-blocks (creatures or plants) or blocks used in construction.