Tungsten Pickaxe

The Tungsten Pickaxe is an early-game pickaxe that is stronger than the Iron and Lead Pickaxes, but weaker than the Gold and Platinum Pickaxes. Compared to its alternate ore version, the Silver Pickaxe, it has more pickaxe power but is significantly slower in terms of mining speed. Unlike the Silver Pickaxe, it is able to mine Meteorite.

Its best modifier is Light for harvesting purposes and Legendary for combat purposes.

Crafting[]

Result	Ingredients	Crafting station
Tungsten Pickaxe ( )	Tungsten Bar (10) Any Wood (4)	Iron Anvil or Lead Anvil
Tungsten Pickaxe ( )	Tungsten Bar (12) Any Wood (4)	Iron Anvil or Lead Anvil

When digging stone-like blocks, Tungsten requires 38 ticks.^[1] Thus, it is more efficient to use a Lead (36) or Silver Pickaxe (33), as they will dig faster, despite needing one more hit. However, Tungsten is marginally better than an Iron Pickaxe, which would be 39 ticks.
When digging dirt-like blocks, it is faster to use the Tungsten Pickaxe because it only needs one hit (19 ticks) instead of two.

↑ A tick is a time unit countable by the software. Most of Terraria's updating logic happens every tick. A tick has the length of 1/60th of a second, hence there are 60 ticks in a second and 3600 ticks in a minute.