What equipment is publicly confirmed?
| Item or resource | Confirmed purpose | Known acquisition |
|---|---|---|
| Pickaxe | Break frozen earth and reach bedrock for prospecting. | Find one or trade for one in mining camps and Trading Posts. |
| Found weapons | Equip weapons recovered during play and use them to survive. | The Tutorial demonstrates finding and equipping them; full locations are not published. |
| Greenbacks | Currency used to buy gear and special items during an expedition. | Managed through the game economy; exact prices change with the live build. |
| Prospector’s Pass | Allows eligible players to enter the optional prospecting system for a set period. | Available through the Game Lobby. |
| Claims | Provide prospecting attempts; they are not guaranteed gold. | Game Lobby, some camps or Trading Posts, and certain quests according to the FAQ. |
Passes and Claims are access resources
They belong in the equipment plan, but they are not ordinary combat gear. Keep their real-money and eligibility rules separate from item-stat comparisons.
Which equipment serves your actual objective?
Evidence boundary · September 15, 2026: mechanics below are checked against official FAQ and the official Pioneer profiles. Checklists and diagrams are editorial aids, not a recorded playtest. We have not captured the current game client or completed a withdrawal ourselves.
This is a role comparison, not a damage tier list. A named weapon, a pickaxe and an access Pass solve different problems. We do not assign them invented weights, prices, durability or earnings.
| Option | What it solves | Before you rely on it | Important limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Found weapon | Combat; Tutorial teaches finding and equipping weapons. | Check the equipped slot and the live item requirements. | No complete public damage or acquisition table is verified. |
| Justice shotgun | Wyatt Earp’s officially named double-barreled firearm, described for close work. | Confirm whether it is actually available and equipped in your current build. | Association with Wyatt is not proof that buying him grants a transferable weapon. Reload and spread are unmeasured. |
| Pickaxe | Reaching bedrock for prospecting. | Find or trade for one; check its current tooltip and any displayed condition. | A pickaxe alone does not authorize prospecting or guarantee Gold. |
| Prospector’s Pass + Claims | Access and attempts for eligible optional prospecting. | Read live access, remaining duration and attempt rules. | These are not combat items or evidence that a run will make a profit. |
Three loadout decisions without invented stats
- Learning the controls?
- Use the free tutorial to learn equipping, gathering, recovery and trade first. Do not buy access resources just to solve a movement or inventory question.
- Planning a prospecting run?
- Confirm access, Claims and pickaxe separately, then plan extraction. Having one prerequisite is not evidence that the other two are satisfied.
- Planning a combat-heavy route?
- Inspect the weapon you actually possess and your current Pioneer’s traits. Keep room for the return journey; a profile description is not a measured damage comparison.
How to compare two items fairly
Capture each tooltip in the same client build. Keep the Pioneer, equipped traits, target type and displayed distance consistent. Record condition, ammunition or other visible resource use and the result of each repeat. If those controls change, label the observation rather than combining it into a single “best weapon” score. No item ranking is published here until a repeatable test is documented.
How should you pack?
Choose around the Pioneer’s published ranged or melee bonuses and the route’s enemy pressure.
Carry the tool that serves the expedition’s main job instead of packing for every resource.
Leave enough capacity for health, energy and the return journey.
Encumbrance spent before departure cannot carry a valuable find home.
What do we know about durability?
Official update summaries have referenced more visible tool durability, confirming that wear is relevant to equipment planning. The public pages still do not provide a complete durability table, repair formula or per-item cost. Until the current build is captured, this Wiki will explain the risk without publishing unsupported numbers.
What should be captured next?
- Exact item name and category
- Inventory icon and current-build tooltip
- Weight or Encumbrance cost
- Durability, condition and repair method
- Trading price in Greenbacks
- Known source: found, traded, quest reward or Pioneer-bound
Checked September 15, 2026 against the official FAQ for pickaxes, found weapons, Claims and Game Lobby equipment; official Community updates for Early Access durability changes. Illustration is original and unofficial.