When megaton and gigaton exploded onto the scene, it caused a great outcry among the public. Sure these bomb hammers are powerful they said, but I wish they were faster and lasted longer, and if possible were cheaper. Desperate to calm the uproar, our forge scientists went back to the drawing board and typed furiously in their calculators looking for any way to improve on megaton and gigaton. They turned to the scriptures which described a frightful beast - a so called werehammer. Under the light of the full moon, the werehammer transforms from a somewhat weaker than normal tool, to a somewhat more powerful than normal cracking machine. It turns out this extra oomph was just enough for the werehammer to perform the same feat as megaton and gigaton - it too can collect all manner of rock and ore in a single swing. The user of werehammer would still have to drink the concoction of blood and gunpowder that we all know and love, but they would no long need to fill their belly with lean meat pie. What’s more werehammer left room for speed or a bit more durability. Finally, the forgemasters asked, what were people to do if they were not mining in the middle of the day, but in broad daylight? Flipping through ancient lore on the types of afflictions infecting common hammers, it was discovered that the werehammer has its counterpart just like yin has yang. Knowing where it might exist, noonhammer was set free upon the world. Noonhammer had the same advantages during the day that werehammer had at night.
Our forgemasters had to make tremendous sacrifices to bring you these wonderful hammers. In fact, there was hardly a thing they weren’t willing to sacrifice. They sacrificed goats, birds, plants, pretty much anything that could imbue these hammers.
To be clear, you can 1-hit ores with werehammer and noonhammer by using mega strength brew. The hammers will have speed or dura and you are able to use a persisting pie to increase duration.
werehammer:
noonhammer:
The werehammer and noonhammer will soon be available for 15k. In the meantime, the price of the megaton and gigaton will be dropped to 15k and 20k each.