Cursed Hammer

Cursed HammerHardmode exclusive

 Classic

 Expert

 Master

Statistics

Type	Flying Enemy
Environment	Underground Corruption
AI Type	Flying Weapon AI
Damage	80/160/240
Max Life	200/400/600
Defense	18
KB Resist	60%/64%/68%
Banner	Cursed Hammer Banner
Immune to

Inflicts debuff

Inflicts debuff

Inflicts debuff

Debuff	Cursed
Debuff tooltip	Cannot use any items
Chance	33%
Duration	48 seconds

Drops

Coins	1025

• Item (Quantity)Rate
• Nazar
  1%2%
• Meat Grinder
  0.5%

Sounds

Hurt
Killed

• Internal NPC ID: 83

 Old-gen console and 3DS
Exclusive Variant

Shadow HammerHardmode exclusive

Statistics

Type	Flying Enemy
Environment	Underground Corruption
Damage	80
Max Life	200
Defense	30
KB Resist	60%
Banner	Shadow Hammer Banner

Drops

Coins	20

• Item (Quantity)Rate
• Cobalt Bar (~2-3)
  33.3%
• Mythril Bar (~2-4)
  33.3%
• Adamantite Bar (~2-4)
  33.3%

• Internal NPC ID: 1005

The Cursed Hammer is a rare Hardmode enemy which spawns in the Underground Corruption. It hovers and spins before lunging at the player, traveling through any blocks to reach them. Any knockback stops its attack, forcing it to pause and spin up again. It can inflict the Cursed debuff.

On the  Old-gen console version,  Windows Phone version, and Nintendo 3DS version, the Shadow Hammer acts as an exclusive version of the Cursed Hammer, featuring increased defense and the chance to drop Hardmode ore bars.

Notes

• Like most other enemies with the ability to pass through tiles, Cursed Hammers are unable to spawn if the player is standing in front of valid housing walls.
• Like most other Corruption enemies, Cursed Hammers can also spawn on top of Corrupt grass, Ebonstone, Ebonsand, or Purple Ice. They can do so even if the player is not specifically in a Corruption biome.

Tips

• The Arkhalis or Terragrim are excellent weapons to deal with this enemy, as even a single hit forces to recharge its spin. In effect, these weapons can act as a shield surrounding the player, completely impassable by the Cursed Hammer.

Trivia

• On the  Windows Phone version and Nintendo 3DS version, the Cursed Hammer and Shadow Hammer instead have a chance of dropping 2-4 Nature's Gifts, Silver Chandeliers, or Hellforges, also making it the only way to obtain multiple of an accessory in a single stack.
• Out of the three Flying Weapon enemies, the Cursed Hammer is the only one with a sprite not based on an existing item. Furthermore, it is the only one to feature an exclusive variant.

The Bestiary entry for the Cursed Hammer: "Magicked through the pure hatred of the Corruption, this weapon flails about attempting to smash anything that breathes."

See also

• Enchanted Sword (NPC), the Hallow counterpart
• Crimson Axe, the Crimson counterpart

History

 PC version

• Desktop 1.4.4: Fixing a long standing inconsistency in their spawn code, that resulted in them being dramatically rarer than Enchanted Swords. They should be about as common as Enchanted Swords now

• Desktop 1.4.0.1: Now drops the Meat Grinder.

• Desktop 1.3.5: Sprite updated.

• Desktop 1.2: Can now drop the Nazar.

• Desktop 1.1: Introduced.

 Console version

• Console 1.0.933.1: Removed Shadow Hammer. ()

• Console 1.0.750.0: Removed Shadow Hammer. ()

• Console-Release: Introduced both variants.

 Nintendo Switch version

• Switch 1.0.711.6: Introduced.

 Mobile version

• Mobile 1.3.0.7: Removed Shadow Hammer.

• Mobile-Release: Introduced both variants.

Nintendo 3DS version

• 3DS-Release: Introduced both variants.