Demon Altar

The Demon Altar is a crafting station that can be found in Chasms in the Corruption, Underground and very rarely in water above ground or in Dungeons. 350px The Demon Altar is used to create the following items:


 * Night's Edge
 * Suspicious Looking Eye
 * Worm Food
 * Slime Crown

As of the 1.1 update it is possible to destroy these altars. Destroying them 'blesses' your world with one of the three new ores: Cobalt, Mythril and Adamantite. Blessing your world turns some naturally occuring blocks into the new ores, at underground level and below.

The only way to destroy a demon altar is to use the Pwnhammer or Hamdrax unless it's on sand (removing the sand from underneath an alter will destroy the alter even if you haven't beaten the Wall of Flesh). You can't destroy a Demon altar with the Pwnhammer or Hamdrax when you haven't yet beaten the Wall of flesh. The Pwnhammer is always dropped by Wall of Flesh. If you try to destroy a demon altar with a hammer other than the Pwnhammer or Hamdrax, you will take damage and the altar will be unaffected.

Trivia

 * It is possible to have 3 Altars spawned directly below, and in the vicinity of, the spawn point.
 * In Alpha the Demon Altars were used to make certain armors.
 * If you die from the damage of hammering the altar the text that is supposed to say " was killed by ", will just say the player's name.