Melee
Pick-Axe Location & Stats
A heavy, two handed piercing tool with a wooden oak handle.
Quick answer
You can pick up the Pick-Axe in Main Street (Hardware Store interior). It is strongest for Force compared with other melee weapons.
- Type
- Melee
- First available
- Main Street
- Acquisition
- Confirmed pickup
- Damage per hit
- 80–135
- Strongest effect
- Force
Where to find it
- Main StreetHardware Store interior
Picked up during the chapter "Main Street", in Hardware Store interior.
Main Street walkthrough →
Weapon stats
- Damage per hitDamage dealt on a landed hit.
- 80–135
- Attack powerA separate value from damage. The two are never added together.
- 30
- Stamina per attackCost of a single swing.
- 15–30
- Attack moves
- 5
- Daze buildup
- 5
- Bleed buildup
- 5
- Force
- 100
- Fear buildup
- 15
Damage per hit and attack power are separate values. Daze, Bleed, Force and Fear are four independent systems — they are not damage and are never added together.
What it is good at
Pick-Axe is strongest for Force.
- Force 100 — higher than 10 of the 15 melee weapons that inflict it.
How it compares
Each stat is listed on its own. No weapon tops every one of them, because they measure different things, so this page does not pick a winner.
- Average damage
- 103 · higher than 14 of 15 melee weapons
- Average stamina cost
- 22 · lower than 0 of 15 melee weapons
- Daze buildup
- 5 · higher than 0 of 6 melee weapons
- Bleed buildup
- 5 · higher than 0 of 10 melee weapons
- Force
- 100 · higher than 10 of 15 melee weapons
Weapon executions
This weapon family has cinematic executions.
Weapon executions are cinematic kills tied to a weapon family. They are a different system from environment executions, which use contextual objects or locations.
Can't find it?
Common reasons
- I am in the right chapter and still missed it
- Some pickups only exist during a specific story step. Follow the chapter walkthrough order rather than searching the whole area.
Where to go next
- Weapons guideAll melee weapons and firearms
- Main Street walkthroughObjective order
Related guides
Found here
- Hardware Store guideMain Street
- Main Street walkthroughMain Street
Next step
- Weapon comparisonPut this weapon next to any other one
- Weapons guideAll melee weapons with a side-by-side comparison