Pickaxe Rentals

The pickaxe rental market lets owners earn from spare picks while renters mine with gear far above their own. Open it with /rentals — it only works inside safe zones.

Renting a pickaxe

Renting is free to start. The old 1 White Scroll deposit is gone along with White Scrolls themselves. You just need an empty inventory slot and to meet the pickaxe's own level and prestige requirement. While you mine a rented pickaxe, two cuts come off the top:

• The owner's cut: the cash and Ancient Energy share they set, anywhere from 0–50% each.
• A system fee, scaled to how close the pickaxe is to the current level cap:

So a top-tier rental is the most lucrative to mine with but also the most heavily taxed, while older picks let you keep almost everything.

Meteorite Hunter on a rental

If the pickaxe carries Meteorite Hunter, every meteorite block you mine on the rental counts toward the enchant's daily cap of 2,000 blocks per level, and the count updates live as you mine instead of showing the figure from the start of the lease. When the lease ends, that day's count carries back to the owner's pickaxe, so re-renting the same pickaxe can't be used to farm past the cap.

When a lease ends

A lease ends if you stop mining for too long, log out, or die. Death simply ends the lease — there's nothing to consume any more. The owner can also recall their pickaxe at any time, with a 30-second grace period before it leaves your hands.

However the lease ends, the Ancient Energy banked on the rental is settled up:

• End it normally (or get recalled) and the energy is extracted back to you, taxed at your rank's extract rate if you're outside a safe zone.
• Die and it drops with the rest of your death loot instead.

Warping to Forgotten Polis mid-lease no longer loses that returned energy.

Listing your own pickaxe

To put a pickaxe on the market, open My Listings, click the pickaxe, set your cash and Ancient Energy cut (0–50% each), and confirm. Note that any Ancient Energy stored on the pickaxe is cleared when you list it — bank or spend it first.

Once listed:

• Collect Tax: gather your earnings any time from this page.
• My Listings: recall the pickaxe, unlist it, or blacklist a renter you'd rather not deal with.

Listing out a high-prestige pickaxe is a steady income stream from gear you've already built — someone else does the mining, and you take your cut.