How do I escape a room without a pickaxe?

I have gone through many battles, slain countless enemies, farmed bosses, and gotten to hardmode. Now I'm faced with my greatest challenge...

A square room.

I have somehow thrown my only pickaxe through a wall and trapped myself. I have my door blocked off with bricks, and I don't have any explosives in my inventory. I have a bed in here with me (which my spawn is set to) and no pick to mine it up to spawn outside of my room. I can't craft a pickaxe or anvil because my iron and anvil are in another house.

So here is the list of things I have access to:

  • a Dye Trader
  • a full set of Crimson armor and accessories
  • a Pwnhammer
  • 3 Goodie Bags
  • Torches, Ultrabright Torches, and Glowsticks
  • Dirt Blocks and other common building items
  • a Work Bench
  • a Campfire
  • an empty Chest
  • 50 Gold Coins

How can I escape this room?


The simplest solution I can see off-hand is to go to another world:

  1. Save and exit the trap world.
  2. Go into a different, second world.
  3. Make a pickaxe, get a bomb, etc.
  4. Save and exit this second world.
  5. Return to your trap world.
  6. Use your item to make your way out.

I solved my own problem by breaking the torches so it was invalid housing, then saving and exiting. I did end up losing my pick (not that big of a deal).

I hope this solves any future problems.


1.3 would have solved this problem, since you can now right-click a bed to remove your spawn point if it's set there. You could have also used the dirt and the hammer to make a simple hoik to glitch through the wall. Those were the first two things that came to mind.

(Sorry for necroposting)