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How to Get Molten Pickaxe – Terraria Guide

We share details on how you can get the Molten Pickaxe in Terraria.

The Molten Pickaxe is a pre-hardmode tool in Terraria that you need for excavating hardmode ores like Cobalt, Palladium, and others. You need these ores for crafting various hardmode items and for many other reasons. Therefore, you must know how to get the Molten Pickaxe in Terraria. And that is where our guide comes in handy. 

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How to Get Molten Pickaxe in Terraria

In Terraria, you can get the Molten Pickaxe via crafting. All you need is twenty Hellstone Bar that you can make using Hellstone and Obsidian at a Hellforge and an Iron or Lead Anvil. 

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Once these two items are ready, interact with the Iron or Lead Anvil and craft the Molten Pickaxe. We highly recommend you to have a Molten Pickaxe as it not only continuously emits light that helps while exploring darker areas, you can even use it as a weapon to apply the On Fire! debuff on enemies. 

That being said, now let us talk about where you can get the Hellstone and Obsidian for crafting the Hellbars needed for crafting Molten Pickaxe.

How to Get Hellstone 

You can get Hellstone Ore from the deepest layer in Terraria, aka The Underworld. The Hellstone deposits are reasonably easy to spot as they give away a faint glow. Once you find a deposit, use the Nightmare or the Deathbringer Pickaxe to mine Hellstone. 

How to Get Obsidian 

You will find Obsidian at locations where water and lava collide. Once you find it, you can mine it using the Gold or the Platinum Pickaxe. 

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That is it. That concludes our guide on how to get a Molten Pickaxe in Terraria. 

For more on Terraria, check out our dedicated guides section. 

Terraria is an action-adventure sandbox game currently available on PS4, Xbox, Android, PC, iOS, and Nintendo Switch platforms.

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Hritwik is a guides writer who has been writing about video games for almost a decade. He is a Computer Science graduate who has always been into gaming. Most of the time, you will find him covering News and Guides for various publications. And when he is not working, you will find him fighting with his friends about how good of a gamer he is. His favorite games include Fallout 76, Borderlands 2, Call of Duty, Apex Legends, Destiny 2, Souls series, Genshin Impact, and The Last of Us.