Dirt Rod

The Dirt Rod is a usable magical tool that moves a single block of dirt around for a unlimited amount of time and costs 5 mana to use. It allows the player to place and remove dirt by using the cursor. When released, the dirt will hang in the air (if on a background) or drop and reform (if there is no background). The dirt can also be flung. It is currently bought from the Dryad at the price of 20 gold coins.

Red, one of the developers, mentioned that the price may be halved due to the supposed uselessness beyond entertainment value. It may have a use during a Blood moon to remotely lock the entrances of a player's base or to pour lava onto the Zombies without exposing the player 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.

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The Dirt Rod can also be used to remotely add obstacles for the Thorn Chakrum which allows for it to bounce off of more blocks. It potentially it also has a use in removing small amounts of water in a chamber remotely. Rapidly clicking on a dirt block causes water to flow into the block's space upon picking it up and when the block is dropped it then destroys that water. This can destroy one blocks worth of water per 5 mana click.

The Dirt Rod can also be used for entertainment purposes. One example of this is to make a golf course and use dirt as the ball. It has also been used in the making of Hellevators since it has longer range than a pickaxe and there is alot of dirt on the way to hell.

A known and interesting glitch that allows you to bury yourself under ground by making a ditch and dropping the dirt blocks from above. This allows players to move around in dirt as well, as long as the path is stright. There is another glitch that allows you to make infinite amounts of sand.

There is one bug that allows to use the Dirt Rod as a weapon in single player only. You first put a sand block on top of a dirt block. When picking up the dirt block, the sand block will fall into it. The floating dirt will now continuously damage the player and monsters the same way falling sand does. It will slowly hit the player for 20 damage and hit the monsters for 10 damage (reduced by defense) Upon placing of the dirt block the sand will drop out, also doubling itself. The damage will not change if more than one block of sand is absorbed by the floating dirt. However, the visual effect is just fun to watch.



This can be a very effective way to remove large piles of sand. Unfortunatly, as of the v1.0.5 patch, this glitch was fixed and the dirt rod can no longer be used as a weapon (in the same way) or for duplication purposes. If you put a block of sand on top of a dirt block and use the dirt rod on said block in v1.0.5, the sand will still fall but will not be picked up with the dirt block.

You can still use this as a weapon by making a wall of sand with a large amount of dirt underneath and continue to pull out the dirt, dealing damage to any monsters or players that walk into it. However, this method is not entirely practical since it would cost a large amount of mana to do minimal damage.