Golden hammer

This article is about the reward. For the quest item, see Golden hammer (Priest in Peril).

Golden hammer
Release	20 December 2010 (Update)
Members	No
Quest item	No
Properties
Tradeable	No
Equipable	Yes
Stackable	No
Disassembly	Yes
Destroy	You can get another one from a cracker by speaking to Diango in Draynor.
Actions
Backpack	Wield, Info, Destroy
Equipped	Brandish (2009), Spin (2010)
Values
Value	1 coin
High alch	1 coin
Low alch	1 coin
On death	Always kept outside Wild
Weight	0.907 kg
Examine
Celebrating the Golden Joystick awards for Jagex.
Advanced data
Item ID	20084
Links	MRID • recipe
FAQ • doc

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The golden hammer is a reward from using a golden cracker on another player. This item was released on 20 December 2010. It has two right-click options for emotes: Brandish (2009) and Spin (2010). These are the years in which Jagex won the Golden Joystick awards. New players prior to 31 August 2011 received the cracker in their bank and were greeted with a message explaining what the item celebrated; however, an update has removed the message. New accounts may still retrieve the cracker from Diango or Ianto.

The hammer can be wielded and used to train Smithing by using it on bars, Construction, and Crafting (to repair the Blast Furnace). It saved the player an additional inventory slot, since a regular hammer cannot be wielded. However, since the introduction of the tool belt in December 2011, the usefulness of the golden hammer has gone down, since the regular hammer can be added to the tool belt. Its usefulness has also gone down because of the release of the crystal hammer, especially in conjunction with Invention. The hammer cannot be used at barbarian assault.

If a player loses their golden hammer, it can be regained as a golden cracker by speaking to Diango near Draynor Village.

The golden cracker can be stored in the toy box in the costume room of a player-owned house; however, the golden hammer cannot be stored.

Combat stats

Requirements
None
Class			Slot
Melee
Tier
1
Weapons		Main		Off
Damage		22.4		-
Accuracy		110		-
Style		Crush
Range		1
Speed		Average (3.6s)
Attributes						Damage reduction
Armour				0.0		PvM: 0%			PvP: 0%
Life points				0		Style bonuses
Prayer				0		0.0		0.0		0.0
FAQ • docs

• 

  A player performing the Brandish (2009) emote

• 

  A player performing the Spin (2010) emote

• 

  When the cracker is right-clicked "info" the following appears

Clicking 'More info' will open the Golden Joystick Awards page on the RuneScape website.

Disassembly

Golden hammer
Disassembly category	Mauls
Disassembly XP	0.3
Item quantity required	1
Material count	12
Base junk chance	?  98.9% Your actual junk chance depends on your junk chance reduction researched. See the table below for all values, and Junk for more information. Reduction Junk chance None 1 98.9% 1 34 98.0 2 49 96.0 3 64 94.0 4 69 92.0 5 78 90.0 6 83 87.1 7 91 85.1 8 95 82.1 9 105 79.2
Common materials
Base parts	35/100
Head parts	30/100
Plated parts	30/100
Rare materials
Heavy components	3/100
Strong components	2/100

Update history

This information has been compiled as part of the update history project. Some updates may not be included - see here for how to help out!

• patch 19 August 2019 (Update):
  • Smithing with this item now shows it being wielded during the animation.

• patch 9 May 2016 (Update):
  • Fixed an issue with the golden hammer appearing both on the player's back and in their hand when smithing.

• patch 19 May 2014 (Update):
  • The smithing animation now displays correctly when using the golden hammer.

• patch 19 December 2012 (Update):
  • Players can no longer obtain more than one golden hammer.

• patch 4 December 2012 (Update):
  • The diamond sceptre and golden hammer will no longer allow their animations to be performed while sheathed.

• patch 8 March 2011 (Update):
  • This item can now be used to smith brutal arrows.

• patch 1 February 2011 (Update):
  • This item can now be used to make crossbows.

• patch 10 January 2011 (Update):
  • This item now works for the anvil in Elemental Workshop.

• patch 4 January 2011 (Update):
  • This hammer was being seen in animations even if you were using Stealing Creation hammers for their bonuses.
  • This hammer can now be used to repair godswords and upgrade spirit shields while the hammer is equipped.

• update 20 December 2010 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• The head of the hammer appears to be a game controller and the handle appears to be a joystick.
• The hammer can also be used to open the Bandos door in the God Wars Dungeon.
• Despite being a hammer, it cannot be used to smith a Dragonfire shield. However, if it is equipped, it will appear as though it is being used.
• The actions of the golden hammer cannot be used in the Deathcon II Citadel - Theatre; doing so will make this message appear in the chatbox You can only perform theatre sitting emotes in The Horsemen's theatre.. If the player sits, this message will appear in the chatbox You can't do that while sitting down.
• The Golden hammer is one of the few mauls available to free-to-play players, along with the god banner (29 May 2013).
• If a cosmetic overlay for mauls (e.g. Executioner's Axe, Icyenic greathammer, etc.) is activated in the Customisation interface, the emotes for the Golden Hammer can still be activated, but the emote will use the overlay's model.
• When a Golden Hammer is sheathed and used to smith, the player will appear to have two Golden Hammers—one on their back and another one that they're using.
• If the Golden Hammer was keepsaked before the July 2018 update, it would no longer be a keepsaked item when the update happened. The keepsake key was not refunded.
• Keepsaking and using the golden hammer as an override will NOT change the hammer model used when smithing.