Echoes of the Ancients/Tools

Echoes of the Ancients adds many new tools to the game, typically crafted with new crafting materials and sometimes serving as upgrades to existing tools. The mod also adds items which change the time of day upon use, as well as enable certain new mechanics to affect gameplay.

Pickaxes are used to free placed blocks or furniture for collection. When used on blocks, this is often referred to as "mining" or "digging". Their tier determines which types of blocks they can mine, as well as the number of hits it takes to remove each block type.

Axes are used to harvest background plants like trees, cacti, and Giant Glowing Mushrooms.

Hammers are used to free background walls for collection, to destroy background walls which cannot be collected, to shape foreground blocks to create slopes and half-tiles, and to shape platforms. They are also used to destroy Shadow Orbs and Crimson Hearts.