Cursed Hammer

Type	Flying Enemy
Environment	Underground Corruption
Damage	80
Max Life	200
Defense	30
KB Resist	60%
Banner	Shadow Hammer Banner(Old-gen console version)
Coins	20 SC

Type	Flying Enemy
Environment	Underground Corruption
AI Type	Flying Weapon AI
Damage	80/160/240
Max Life	200/400/600
Defense	18
KB Resist	60%/64%/68%
Banner	Cursed Hammer Banner
Immune to
Debuff	Cursed
Debuff tooltip	Cannot use any items
Chance	33%
Duration	4 seconds8 seconds10 seconds
Coins	10 SC25 SC
Hurt	https://terraria.wiki.gg/wiki/File:NPC_Hit_4.wav
Killed	https://terraria.wiki.gg/wiki/File:NPC_Killed_6.wav

The Cursed Hammer is a rare Hardmode enemy which spawns in the Underground Corruption. It hovers and spins before lunging at the player, traveling through any blocks to reach them. Any knockback stops its attack, forcing it to pause and spin up again. It can inflict the Cursed debuff.

On the Old-gen console version and Nintendo 3DS version, the Shadow Hammer acts as an exclusive version of the Cursed Hammer, featuring increased defense and the chance to drop Hardmode ore bars.

Notes

Like most other enemies with the ability to pass through tiles, Cursed Hammers are unable to spawn if the player is standing in front of valid housing walls.
Like most other Corruption enemies, Cursed Hammers can also spawn on top of Corrupt grass, Ebonstone, Ebonsand, or Purple Ice. They can do so even if the player is not specifically in a Corruption biome.

Tips

The Arkhalis(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions) or Terragrim(Desktop, Console and Mobile versions) are excellent weapons to deal with this enemy, as even a single hit forces to recharge its spin. In effect, these weapons can act as a shield surrounding the player, completely impassable by the Cursed Hammer.

Trivia

On the Nintendo 3DS version, the Cursed Hammer and Shadow Hammer instead have a chance of dropping 2-4 Nature's Gifts, Silver Chandeliers, Band of Starpowers, Clay Pots, or Hellforges, also making it the only way to obtain multiple of an accessory in a single stack ((Desktop, Console and Mobile versions) apart from the Guide Voodoo Doll as of 1.4.4).
Out of the three Flying Weapon enemies, the Cursed Hammer is the only one with a sprite not directly based on an existing item or an item's previous sprite, although its handle appears to be built off of the Enchanted Sword, and by extension the Excalibur's sprites. Furthermore, it is the only one to feature an exclusive variant.

The Bestiary entry for the Cursed Hammer: "Magicked through the pure hatred of the Corruption, this weapon flails about attempting to smash anything that breathes."

History

Desktop version

Desktop 1.4.4: Fixed the issue of Cursed Hammers being dramatically rarer than Enchanted Swords, where they should have been about as common as the latter.