Mining with Bombs and/or Dynamite

[The Juggling Hamster]

In the past I've taken my sweet time mining every morsel of a meteorite strike but I'm wondering if I use bombs or dynamite to make the job go faster will I lose any of the resources, or just knock them free so I can easily pick them up?

I've played a bunch of Terraria but I can't seem to find an answer.

[Serpentarius]

use em way faster way safer, provided you don't blow yourself up, even better: mix bombs with gel to make stickybomes, makes mining a meteorite a breeze.

[Michael Lemmons]

...just make sure not to blow too many free at once; I think if there are like 200 loose mats around it starts deleting (not sure on the number, but I'd avoid the bundled dynamite Explosives).

[The Juggling Hamster]

Yes, but is any meteorite ore destroyed in the process of using bombs or dynamite?

(If I don't go over 200 loose)

[Serpentarius]

if you don't go over the entity limit it won't go bb

[AvatarOfWar]

In 1.1 and earlier, you would. Every single block would be a separate resource to pick up, and as Juggler says, if theres more than 200 out at a time, the game starts removing the oldest ones. Its not removed due to explosions however.

But in 1.2, resource drops were changed that multiple resources that drop at the same time merge together as a single item. So when you throw 20 bombs at meteorite, it doesn't create 250 pieces of metorite, maybe 50 pieces of dirt, and remove 100 of those pieces from the game. Instead, it'll create about 20 lumps of meteorite and 20 lumps of dirt totaling 250 and 50 blocks... but only count as 40 objects in the game world.

I mine with bombs quite a bit.

[Michael Lemmons]

...good to know. Didn't think about the merging mats thing. Explosive strip mining!

[Mumblez]

Actually I think the 200 cap is fixxed (or raised) because loose items stack into each other now. So its no longer 200 individual pieces, but its maybe 5 stacks, having 40 each or whatever.

[The Juggling Hamster]

Sweet, thanks for the info.

[Antarctica]

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[Nyaoctix]

Messaggio originale di MercilessAce:

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[Michael Lemmons]

Stoner Necromancer ftw.

[kikikikoboy]

I like pots, mason necromancer ftw.

[Sarkum Crux]

Amazing. Was looking for that info, thank you.

Also, the end of the thread is top notch.

[Rednax910]

As of 1.4 meteorites are bombproof. This won't work.