Hammers

## Overview

Hammers are a new type of tool added by Tetra, and are required for utilizing the mod's crafting mechanics, as well as progressing through the content of the mod.

## Obtaining

   There are two ways of obtaining hammers.

* Wooden and stone ones by crafting in a crafting bench with two sticks and two cobblestone/planks
* by changing the major module of a two-headed tool to hammer in a Workbench.

## Functionality

Hammers are crucial for processing hammerable materials in the workbench. They are most commonly used to change tool heads, modules and upgrade their materials to higher tiers. Materials that require hammers are for example:

* Stones (eg. Stone, Cobblestone, Andesite, Obsidian)
* Metals (eg. Iron, Gold, Copper)
* Gemstones (eg. Diamond, Emerald, Amethyst)

Hammers can break Tetra's Forged blocks (e.g. Forge Hammer and Forged Workbench) commonly found in the Ancient Ruins.

They can also be used to break open the Geodes in the workbench.

## Tiers, Progression

   Hammers differ in their progression from the vanilla material tiers (wood > stone > iron > diamond > netherite) by including additional Blackstone tier (after iron) and Obsidian tier while also disregarding the Diamond tier. Hammers require other hammers to upgrade, which proves to pose a difficulty for upgrading past Blackstone tier. To increase the tier of a hammer, one of the following techniques can be used:

* Use materials of higher tier...
* Use two hammer heads on a double headed tool to gain a synergy bonus of +1 to hammer tier...
* Hone a hammer head module over time until you reach a hammer tier hone upgrade...
* Use Forge Hammer structure which is a tier V hammer without additional upgrades...
* Use Forge Hammer with Combustion Chambers, each one providing a +1 tier bonus.

There is a significant difficulty increase when trying to upgrade to 5+ hammer tiers. The obsidian hammer requires a tier 6 hammer to craft, but obsidian itself is a tier 5 material, a bit of a chicken and the egg problem right? But fret not, there is a way as described in the Forge Hammer Mechanics section to craft your Obsidian Hammer.

In fact you can skip Obsidian Hammer because fully upgraded Forge Hammer becomes a tier 7, which is a requirement to craft the Netherite tier hammer. Just note, that you will have to find ways to increase the integrity of the tool to upgrade to this tier. The simplest way is to upgrade the handle of a tool.

All hammer tiers for now. <No direct material> means that there is no material that gives this tier of a hammer, but such tier can be reached by other means.
 1
 2
 3
 4
 6
 9

### minecraft 1.18

In 1.18 structure generation has been disabled, thus there was no way to access the Forge Hammer. To allow players upgrading beyond tier 4, obsidian hammers requirement was changed to be worked with a tier 3 hammer instead of tier 6.

## Warforging

Hammers can be warforged if you have a Tools Of War: Warhammers schematic placed within a 5\*5 radius of your workbench.

When a hammer is warforged, it gives your tool a special ability if applied to one head, or a passive effect if it's used on the other side. It also adds a modifier to the hammer.

For the hammer, you'll unlock the Slam ability, which upon charging and hitting a block causes a shockwave that knocks enemies up high. A direct hit would increase the damage and blast your enemy away, good for disengaging fights.

Warhammers used off-hand give your tools Momentum. This ability allows your tools to stun or knock enemies back farther, sometimes having both effects on!

As a hammer head, you also gain Crushing, which makes your attacks partially ignore armor

### Tetra's tools

blades

double headed

single headed

shields

toolbelts

bows

crossbows