Terraria Map
Stats
| Type | Tool |
|---|---|
| Rarity | White |
| Damage | 6 melee |
| Knockback | 2 |
| Critical strike chance | 4% |
| Use time | 21 (Fast) |
| Pickaxe power | 50% |
| Buy price | 75 silver |
| Sell price | 15 silver |
Crafted from
| Makes | Ingredients | At |
|---|---|---|
| Tungsten Pickaxe | 10 × Tungsten Bar, 4 × Any Wood | Iron Anvil |
Tungsten bar forging and meteorite access
Forged at an Iron Anvil or Lead Anvil using 10 Tungsten Bar ingots and 4 wood blocks, the Tungsten Pickaxe offers 50% pickaxe power with useTime 21. Critically, reaching this threshold allows it to mine Meteorite crash sites, Demonite ore, and Crimtane veins, providing players in tungsten-seeded worlds early access to space armor and celestial guns. It serves as a key stepping stone for miners wishing to extract meteorite materials without needing gold tools.
Contrasts with silver tier and excavation prefixes
Unlike its alternate counterpart the Silver Pickaxe, which possesses insufficient pickaxe power to mine Meteorite, the Tungsten Pickaxe unlocks that pivotal resource milestone. While slightly slower than the Gold Pickaxe, it functions as a reliable intermediate digging implement. Reforging it with a Light modifier increases swing speed, reducing the number of frames required to clear cavern corridors.
Trivia
- Unlike the Silver Pickaxe, the Tungsten Pickaxe possesses sufficient pickaxe power to mine Meteorite.
- Requires 10 tungsten bars and 4 wood blocks at an anvil to assemble.