Stormreturn Hammer

Quickstart

1. Gather Netherite Ingots and Blaze Rods, then craft the hammer at a Crafting Table:

1. Hold the hammer in your main hand — you'll gain the ability to fly while holding it.
2. Use (right-click / long-press) to throw the hammer. It flies toward your crosshair, strikes with lightning, and automatically returns to your hand.
3. Swing normally at a mob to deal melee damage and call down a lightning strike on impact.

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Overview

The Stormreturn Hammer is a single, powerful epic-tier war hammer built around three core fantasies: hurling lightning from range, calling storms in melee, and soaring through the air while the weapon is in hand. It never breaks, shines with an enchantment glint, and always comes back to you.

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What It Adds

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Abilities And Mechanics

Throw & Return

Hold Use to charge the hammer, then release to launch it. The hammer flies in a straight arc toward where you are aiming. When it hits an entity, it returns to your hand automatically. If the hammer is in the air for too long (about 10 seconds), it is also pulled back to you. You cannot throw a second hammer while the first is still in flight.

Lightning on Impact

Any entity struck by the thrown hammer — or hit with a direct melee swing — has a lightning bolt summoned at their location. This deals bonus fire and lightning damage on top of the hammer's base attack.

Temporary Flight

While the Stormreturn Hammer is in your main hand, you are granted the ability to fly. This lets you take off and maneuver freely. Flight is also active during the window that the hammer is in the air after a throw, giving you up to ~10 seconds of airborne time per toss. When the hammer returns to your inventory, flight remains available as long as you keep holding it.

Indestructible

The hammer never loses durability no matter how much it is used.

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Crafting And Obtaining

Craft the Stormreturn Hammer at a Crafting Table once you have Netherite Ingots and Blaze Rods in your inventory (the recipe unlocks automatically when you have both materials).

The hammer stacks to 1 and appears in the Equipment tab of the creative inventory.

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Progression And Strategy

• Early throws: Use the throw + return loop to engage enemies from a distance. The lightning strike hits even before the hammer physically reaches you on its return path.
• Flight windows: Time your throws to gain bursts of flight for repositioning, reaching high terrain, or escaping danger. The ~10-second airborne window is generous enough for significant movement.
• Melee combo: When enemies are close, direct melee attacks also summon lightning — saving your throw cooldown while still dealing storm damage.
• Enchanting: The hammer accepts sword-slot enchantments (enchantability 20), so adding Sharpness, Looting, or Fire Aspect pushes its damage and utility even further.
• Never worry about durability — throw, swing, and enchant freely without any resource cost after crafting.