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Information
Type	Block
Sub-Type	Ore
Damage (?)	20
Use Time	14 (Very Fast)
Placeable	Yes
Max Stack	250
Rarity	Tier 2 (Green)
Sell Value	No Value
Continuous Attack	Yes
Crafting
Material In	Hellstone Bar Hellstone Brick

Hellstone is an ore and material that produces the highest tier items in game until you defeat the Wall of Flesh to activate Hard Mode. It is only found in the Underworld. Mining Hellstone now requires at least a Nightmare Pickaxe. It can be smelted into Hellstone Bars at a Hellforge and Adamantite Forge (obtainable in Hardmode), and as of 1.0.6, it requires only 4 Hellstone and only 1 Obsidian. Like most other ores and soils, it can also be crafted into a Hellstone Brick, but not into Hellstone Wall, at any furnace. When converted to Hellstone Bars, they can be used to create powerful new molten variations of weapons and armor.

Hellstone deals 30 fire damage to the player (before defense) when they touch it, unless they wear an Obsidian Skull, Obsidian Horseshoe, Obsidian Shield, or use an Obsidian Skin Potion. Hellstone has no value when sold to vendors.

Contents 1 Mining Tips 2 Dealing with the Hellstone itself 3 Trivia 4 Update Info 5 Gallery 6 Comments

Mining Tips Edit

Mining Hellstone can be a significant problem, not only because Hellstone deals fire damage to the player (which can be negated with an Obsidian Skull); but mainly because of the dangerous monsters of The Underworld, as well as the fact that Hellstone now spawns lava when mined.

One approach to mining Hellstone can be to just drop down to the Hellstone/Ash "floor" and start digging out the Hellstone. One must keep in mind, however, that Hellstone Bars are very expensive and difficult to acquire as 4 pieces of Hellstone and 1 piece of Obsidian are required to forge only one bar.

A third method requires several Obsidian Skin Potions and a Magic Mirror. You may also want Cloud in a Bottle, a Grappling Hook, or both. Find a large pool of lava, use the potion and jump in. There are usually large. If you have 5 or so potions you can collect 100-200 hellstone very easily and then use your Magic Mirror to escape when you run out.

Dealing with the Hellstone itselfEdit

As for dealing with the lava that is spawned when Hellstone is mined, you can use an Obsidian Skin Potion to negate damage from lava, as well as preparing a lava barrier to keep the lava from spilling onto you, and simply mine the Hellstone from behind the barrier. Prior to Update 1.1, you could also safely mine Hellstone by placing blocks of sand to soak up the lava formed as the Hellstone blocks broke.

TriviaEdit

• Hellstone will not spawn lava when mined if it is located outside of the Underworld.
• Hellstone does not hurt NPCs when they touch it.

Update InfoEdit

v1.1

• Can be destroyed by explosions once the Wall of Flesh has been killed.

v1.0.6

• Now gives off fiery sparks (Graphical effect only).
• Spawns lava when mined, but only when mined in the Underworld.

v1.0.0

• Introduced.

GalleryEdit

Minerals
Copper Ore	Copper Bar	Hellstone	Hellstone Bar
Iron Ore	Iron Bar	Cobalt Ore	Cobalt Bar
Silver Ore	Silver Bar	Mythril Ore	Mythril Bar
Gold Ore	Gold Bar	Adamantite Ore	Adamantite Bar
Demonite Ore	Demonite Bar
Meteorite Ore	Meteorite Bar		Obsidian

Items Requiring Hellstone
Tools	Molten Pickaxe · Molten Hamaxe
Weapons	Fiery Greatsword · Flamarang · Phoenix Blaster · Molten Fury
Armor	Molten Helmet · Molten Breastplate · Molten Greaves
Other	Hellstone Bar · Hellfire Arrow

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