Steel mattock
Steel mattock is a tier 1 free-to-play main-hand weapon for melee, with a high alchemy value of 240 coins. The simplest way for an Ironman to get Steel mattock is to buy it: Matty Ock's Mattock Shop in Archaeology Guild sells it for 4,000 coins.
“A steel tool for carefully uncovering and excavating artefacts.”
Free-to-playTradeable (not for Ironmen)High alch 240 gp
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Ironman verdict
You can also make it yourself: it takes 20 Smithing and gives 150 Smithing XP, using 2 × Steel bar. Where the materials come from: Steel bar (made with 20 Smithing). Making ten takes 20 × Steel bar and gives 1,500 Smithing XP. Reaching level 20 Smithing takes 4,470 XP in total; the Smithing calculator counts the actions and materials to any target, and the Smithing guide has the Ironman training route. It is worn in the main-hand weapon slot at tier 1 as melee gear; compare it with every other piece on the Main-hand weapons list. Steel mattock is available on free-to-play worlds too. It is tradeable on normal accounts, but an Ironman cannot use the Grand Exchange or trade for it, so the sources on this page are the whole list. High Alchemy turns one into 240 coins, which is 3,760 less than the shop price, so buying it to alch does not pay.
At a glance
- Members
- No (free-to-play)
- Tradeable
- Yes, but not for Ironmen
- High alch
- 240 coins
- Monster drops
- None
- Shops
- 1
- Recipes
- 1
- Used in
- Nothing
- Slot
- Main-hand weapons, tier 1
Make it yourself
Shops
- Matty Ock's Mattock Shop4,000 coins · stock 10
Where it fits for an Ironman
Equipment
- Main-hand weapons, tier 1 · melee
Minigames and places
- Archaeology Guild · Matty Ock's Mattock Shop
Guides
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