Tool

Salvaged Hammer

Not a building tool: a heavy scrap-metal club with 500 durability. Worth crafting only when a spare metal pipe has nothing better to go into.

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Characteristics

Category: Tool

Stack size: 1

Durability: 500

Workbench: Level 1

Craftable: Yes

Researchable: Yes · 30 Scrap

Damage: 40

Swing time: 1 s

Overview

In-game description

A Hammer made from a bunch of other crap.

Despite the name, nothing here touches your walls. It won't upgrade or repair a block; for that you still need the wooden hammer. What you get is a lump of scrap on a handle that you swing at people, and now and then at a barrel on the road.

Pros

Cons

500 durability, against 350 for the salvaged sword and 200 for the mace
Only fifty metal fragments besides the pipe
Every swing lands heavy

Needs a metal pipe, which you can only craft at a Level 3 bench, so early on it has to come from loot
Slow swings lose trades against quicker blades
Research costs 30 scrap, three times the hammer's

So when does it make sense? You come back from a road run with a spare pipe, a Level 1 bench is already up, and you want a melee you won't have to replace for a long time. Otherwise the sword does the same job without tying up a pipe that could go into a double barrel.