PickCrafter
Swing the pickaxe, craft the pickaxes that swing themselves: Fiveamp's blocky mining idle.
by Fiveamp LLC (rebranded from Fiveage Games) · 15 August 2014 · iOS / Android / Steam / Poki
PickCrafter is Fiveamp's blocky mining idle, running since August 2014 across every platform that matters: iOS, Android, Steam (appid 734750) and Poki on web. Swing the pickaxe, craft better pickaxes, prestige the pickaxe economy.
What the loop feels like
You tap a block, the block drops ore, and the ore forges a pickaxe that taps for you. That's PickCrafter.
Playing it today
Free everywhere (all store URLs verified 200), with the App Store icon and five screenshots above and the official trailer oEmbed-verified. One package-ID correction on record: the commonly assumed com.fiveage.pickcrafter is a dead 404, the live Android package is com.fiveamp.pickcrafterapp, reflecting the studio's Fiveage-to-Fiveamp rebrand.
The verdict
A decade-running mining idle with the most honest title in the genre: you craft picks, and the picks craft your afternoon.
Gameplay videos
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