Mattocks

Mattocks
Slot	Main hand
Style	Crush
Speed	4 ticks (2.4s)
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Mattocks are tools used to excavate materials, artefacts, and soil in the Archaeology skill. Mattocks can be held in the backpack, stored in the tool belt, or wielded. There are no plus versions of mattocks. The golden mattock and its override are purely cosmetic and cannot be used in Archaeology.

Skillchompas can be used as alternatives to mattocks and have effectiveness equivalent to their corresponding tier.

Overview

A player's Archaeology level determines the type of mattock they can excavate with.

If multiple mattocks are carried then the order of use is equipped, inventory, and then tool belt. Only unaugmented versions may be stored in the tool belt. Any mattock except bronze mattocks can be removed from the tool belt. This allows mattocks to be swapped and upgraded. Placing a new mattock on the tool belt removes the old one into the inventory. Removing a mattock from the tool belt leaves a default bronze mattock in its place.

Every mattock has two stats: precision and focus. As a general rule, the better the mattock, the more effective it is as an Archaeology tool. It is highly recommended to use the best possible mattock for the player's current Archaeology level. However, there are exceptions when considering augmentable mattocks, as they usually have precision and focus stats equivalent to unaugmentable mattocks of the next tier. For example, the Imcando mattock–which is level 80–has equivalent precision and focus to the level 90 elder rune mattock, with the former also having the ability to be augmented unlike the latter. As a result, the Imcando mattock is the superior option to use when factoring in augmentation benefits, even though it is a lower level mattock.

Precision

Precision is a stat that determines the rate at which a player excavates an artefact at excavation hotspots. The speed at which an excavation progresses (as indicated by the blue progress bar filling) scales linearly with precision. For example, an orikalkum mattock with 40 precision will excavate an artefact in half the time of a mithril mattock with 20 precision.

Mattock precision upgrades permanently increase the precision of any mattock by +2 and are available at the Archaeology Guild Shop starting at the Assistant qualification. These upgrades are non-repeatable, and apply to any mattock used by the player. This increase is reflected in the mattock's tool tip.

Qualification	Chronotes	Precision increase	Cumulative increase
Qualification - Assistant	8,000	+2	+2
Qualification - Associate	30,000		+4
Qualification - Professor	75,000		+6
Qualification - Guildmaster	150,000		+8

Hi-spec monocles will increase the mattock's base precision by 20% for 20 minutes (30 minutes while wearing the master archaeologist's outfit) when consumed. Precision may also be increased by 20% of the base precision with the Flow State relic power.

Focus

Focus is a stat that determines the rate at which materials are found while performing an excavation (at either an excavation hotspot or material cache). This rate is independent of the excavation progress.

Types of mattocks

Level	Mattock		Precision	Focus	Source	Augmentable	Cost
1		Bronze mattock	5	0	Smithing, Matty Ock's Mattock Shop	N/A	2,448
10		Iron mattock	10	1	Smithing, Matty Ock's Mattock Shop	N/A	3,127
20		Steel mattock	15	1	Smithing, Matty Ock's Mattock Shop	N/A	4,851
30		Mithril mattock	20	2	Smithing, Matty Ock's Mattock Shop	N/A	6,870
40		Adamant mattock	25	2	Smithing, Matty Ock's Mattock Shop	N/A	9,696
50		Rune mattock	30	3	Smithing, Matty Ock's Mattock Shop	N/A	11,813
60		Orikalkum mattock	40	3	Smithing	N/A	14,416
60		Dragon mattock	50	4	Ancient casket, Anachronia Big Game Hunter	Augmented	20,741,776
70		Necronium mattock	50	4	Smithing	N/A	20,250
70		Crystal mattock	60	5	Dragon mattock plus 4,000 Harmonic dust	Augmented	20,741,776
80		Bane mattock	60	5	Smithing	N/A	36,599
80		Imcando mattock	70	6	Dragon mattock plus chunk, lump, shard, and slice of imcando metal	Augmented	20,741,776
90		Elder rune mattock	70	6	Smithing	N/A	58,787
99		Mattock of Time and Space	80	7	Crystal mattock plus Imcando mattock and energised meteorite shard	Augmented	109,483,552
99		Guildmaster Tony's mattock	85	9	Display case opened with a shadowy key in the main building of the Archaeology Guild	Augmented	5,317,404,367

Augmentation

Dragon, crystal, imcando, Time and Space, and Guildmaster Tony's mattocks can be augmented using an augmentor. This requires level 22 Invention and having researched the augmented mattock blueprint. The following tool gizmo and ancient tool gizmo perks work when training Archaeology:

• Antitheism
• Brassican
• Butterfingers
• Cautious
• Charitable (applies to materials and soil)
• Committed
• Confused (applies to materials and soil)
• Efficient
• Enhanced Efficient
• Enlightened
• Fatiguing
• Fortune
• Furnace (only applies to gathered materials)
• Glow Worm
• Hallucinogenic
• Hasty
• Hoarding
• Honed (applies to successful action, that is material rate)
• Imp Souled
• Mysterious
• Preservationist
• Prosper
• Refined (only applies to material caches)
• Talking
• Wise

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See also

• Dwarven excavator