Dirt Rod

The Dirt Rod is a usable magical tool that moves a single block of dirt around and costs 5 mana to use. It allows the player to place and remove dirt by using the cursor, and when released the dirt will hang in the air (if on a background) or drops and reforms (if there is no background). The dirt can also be flung with momentum.

It is currently bought from the Dryad NPC and costs 20 gold coins. Red, one of the developers, mentioned that the price may be halved due to the supposed uselessnes beyond entertainment value.

It may have a use during a Blood moon to remotely lock the entrances of a player's base, or pour lava onto the zombies, without exposing them to harm. It also has a use in the form of safe obsidian farming by filling a tank with water, and remotely uncorking a pool of lava to pour onto the water to form obsidian.

Using it as a weapon
There is one glitch that allows to use the Dirt Rod as a weapon in single player only :


 * 1) put a sand block on top of a dirt block


 * 1) when picking up the dirt block, the sand block will fall into it


 * 1) the floating dirt will now continuously damage the player and monsters the same way falling sand does : slowly hit the player for 20 damage and fast hit the monsters for 10 damage (reduced by defence)


 * Upon placing of the dirt block the sand will drop out, possibly duping itself.


 * The damage will not change if more than one block of sand is absorbed by the floating dirt. However the visual effect can get pretty cool.


 * This can be a very effective way to remove large piles of sand.

thumb|300px|right|Dirt Rod in action