Tungsten Hammer

Hammers are the tool nobody thinks about until a background wall is in the way. This tier deals with player placed walls and the ordinary natural ones, which covers almost everything an early world puts in front of you. The walls that refuse to budge are the reinforced ones in the Dungeon and down in the Underworld, and those want a far later hammer.

The other job is shaping. Hitting a placed block cycles it through half height and sloped corners, which is how ramps and smooth cave floors get built. Keep one in your building loadout permanently and prefix it for speed rather than damage, since you will be spamming it across dozens of blocks at a time.