Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5289656-20130113165500/@comment-4010415-20130608100952

I've heard that Todd Howard, the guy who put the Notched Pickaxe in Skyrim, is actually friends with Notch. Plus there's the fact that Notch made a nod to it by joking on Twitter that he'd put a Toddhowared Pickaxe in Minecraft. See the tweet for yourself: https://twitter.com/notch/status/136469912796401665

It'd be nice to see this info added to the page, by the way. I think the pickaxe really is a reference to Notch.