Builder starts with a hammer and two Storage Pots. Everyone else buys it from the elevator shop for 150 coins, or votes it in for free. It sells for 15 coins. A hazards article that says the hammer costs 15 coins matches the sell value, not the shop price. Use 150 to buy and 15 if you are liquidating the tool.
It is a 2-star tool. The tooltip jokes about being a hammer. Range has no distance limit while you can see the tile. After you select it, you can keep the selection even if a wall breaks sight. Swapping off the tool cancels a move.
Two buttons
Move Tile shows a preview only you can see. Green is a legal spot. Red buzzes and will not place. Placements are allowed inside the elevator, including a second elevator floor if you have unlocked one. You cannot drop a moved tile back out into a hallway.
Delete Tile removes the tile with an explosion sound. You cannot delete the Map Table or the Ore Seller. Deleting a Storage Pot or a Kiwi nest spills the contents. Deleting a Planter or a pot that holds a growing carrot destroys the carrot.
Glass windows are not this tool. Those need a Glass Breaker. Employee Negligence is shattering a window. Team Sabotage is shattering your own glass gate. Repair Crew is fixing that gate afterward.
Defenses that fit the rules
Because you can only place inside the elevator, barricades belong at the cabin threshold, not in a random hall.
Bookshelf V: move two tall bookshelves to the elevator door and angle them into a V with a slit a player can sidestep through. Wide entity hitboxes stop. First person helps you slip the gap.
Pillars: a single-pillar row can take up to four pillars to close a door. A double pillar covers more width.
Thorns: delete the bushes in the choke you actually walk. Some bushes grow back. Clear the door and the vent mouth first.
Kiwi nest, the safe version
- Find the nest while the bird is calm. Floor 6 and up.
- Move Tile the whole nest into the elevator. A bird sitting on it follows or comes with the nest.
- Finish the Coin Meter with normal ore. Do not delete the nest early or she stays hostile on the floor.
- In the last seconds before intermission, Delete Tile. Three eggs drop in the cabin and the bird despawns with the floor change.
Badges that require the move
- Decorator: move a decoration, such as a naturally spawning fountain, into the elevator.
- Bear5 Alert!!!: in the Facility warehouse room, move the Bear5 object into the elevator. Picking it up by hand is not the documented method.