Great news about the upcoming inclusion of diggers in beta 12! Here are some ego ideas in case you're looking for some:
(prefix) Light: Reduces encumbrance value of the pickaxe to 1.
(suffix) of the Badger: increased digging capability.
(prefix) Gemcutter's: small chance when tunneling through stone to produce a random gem.
(prefix) Fletcher's: small chance when chopping trees to produce a stack of random arrows.
(suffix) of Delving: boosts strength and con and light radius.
(suffix) of Moria: gives greater demon telepathy (a relatively recent invention born of hindsight).
Maybe some of these would be more at home on an artifact pickaxe instead.
Diggers!
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Re: Diggers!
(prefix) Devouring: Better dig rate, but chance to destroy anything found as you dig.