This is a suggestion I've made about pickaxes. I'm not thinking about Minecraft. It's not even close to Minecraft's methods of pickaxes. Pickaxes take up one weapon slot, and if you hit a mineral with a pickaxe, it'll only take two hits with a chance for the deposit being larger.
Pickaxes:
Has a higher chance of making a larger deposit.
Deals small damage even though their not primarily for fighting.
Takes a smaller time to mine with them.
This is a short suggestion, but feedback is appreciated.
besides that, I don't think people will use it anyway, I really don't think that sacerficing a weapon slot for more minerals, but with the battle sprites update, (which made everyone sick of poison and ice gates) who knows?
I think it should do smaller destroying time for any block 2, and make it have the normal damage as other kinds of swords but with some kind of drawback (or make it less damage then normal)
still don't think that people will bother with the smaller mining time because blitz destroys everything.