Drax

The Drax is a drill and axe combination which can be crafted after all three mechanical bosses have been defeated. It is able to mine any block other than Lihzahrd Bricks.

On the, the Drax can be found in Shadow Chests in The Underworld, making it available prior to Hardmode. The Drax also used to be available prior to Hardmode In the

The counterpart of the Drax is the Pickaxe Axe, which is slightly slower than the Drax but does not have a -1 range penalty.

Tips

 * Due to its rapid attack speed, high damage and low knockback, it can serve as a melee weapon for low-end close-range targets.
 * Finding the Drax in a Shadow Chest will give the player a significant mining advantage, as it can mine all pre-Plantera blocks, at which point the Picksaw is needed. It makes killing the mechanical bosses much easier, as the player will have access to Chlorophyte gear and Turtle armor.

Trivia

 * The tool is named "Drax", a combination of the words "drill" and "axe", because it can perform the actions of both.
 * It was originally called the "Hamdrax", a portmanteau of the words "hammer", "drill", and "axe" and had 85% hammer power in addition to its current abilities. Its hammer ability was removed in 1.2 when hammers were given the ability to create slopes and half-blocks, which would conflict with the Drax's mining functionality. In addition, players often complained that they would accidentally remove background walls when building using the Hamdrax.
 * The projectile created by the drill is still named "Hamdrax", which can be seen in death messages when killing another player with it in PvP.
 * Currently, only the summoned mount has all three abilities.
 * The original tooltip was "Not to be confused with a hamsaw", although a hamsaw (presumably a portmanteau of the words "hammer" and "chainsaw") was never added to the game. The Picksaw and the updated tooltip were added in 1.2.
 * Although hamsaws do not exist in Terraria, there are tools called hamaxes. When it was called the "Hamdrax", the Drax functioned as a hamaxe in addition to its pickaxe functionality (and still has the axe functionality).
 * Unlike most drills, the Drax has a minimal amount of knockback.