Why? Just why?

[McGoodGreen]

Love this game, love everything about it. I have thoroughly defeated it inside and out. I was having a fantastic time playing tonight with my wife (still am having a fantastic time). I was in the skull mines and wanted some bomb back up to take care of those mummy pricks but had neglected to bring my bombs from home.

I asked the wife to pick some up for me. She happily agrees and goes into my home, picks up the bombs, and in her eagerness to deliver quickly, mistakenly dropped a bomb down inside of my home.

I honestly, never...EVER, had any clue, that bombs could destroy your kegs and preserve jars. Now I know. I don't know why in gods green earth it has to be this way. But now I know. 7:00 PM on a great starday that it happened, so we didn't exit to desktop.

Still love the game. Still love my wife. But why?

/rant

[McGoodGreen]

Originally posted by ltree:

Good to know bombs can destroy furniture!

I once dropped a bomb next to my kid, but luckily he was totally cool with that. There was no furniture nearby so all was good.

This probably wins my favorite comment so far! Your kid has maximum chill.

Seriously, we had a good laugh about it. It was an honest mistake, easy to make. She picked up the wrong bombs from a chest and while trying to swap them out for the correct ones she just placed one down.

It was just a little jarring because it doesn't feel like a mechanic that fits.

I mean, yes, it is a bomb. It should blow things up. (Lovely comment from the smartass gallery) But here is my counter point. Swords are sharp, but do not kill our animals. Tools are sharp but do not destroy our crops. In other games, you literally CAN hurt your animals with tools and weapons, and you CAN destroy your crops early with the same items.

So...just odd that this game PROTECTS my assets in ways games don't otherwise, but just kinda randomly choose for this to be a thing that is harmful.

And I have played hundreds upon hundreds of hours of this game and never once had it happen, even by accident. So clearly it isn't a huge deal because it can be avoided easily even without knowing its dangers.

Was just fun to share the experience with a wonderful community, with their own wonderful stories <3 (plus, a google search didn't turn up NEARLY as many threads about this as I thought it would.)

[Maya-Neko]

Why? Because it's funny^^

There are always people out there, who just take a bunch of explosives and throw them at everything. It's also maybe a faster way than just removing all trees, fences and such things by hand, if you want to rebuild your farm layout from scratch^^

And it's always easier to just not having any interactions between specific things like bombs and kegs, crops, etc. (because less interactions equals less potential for bugs), but he added it instead of handling it like any other weapon, so it's most likely an intended feature for whatever reason.

[Tristin]

Originally posted by Maya:

Why? Because it's funny^^

There are always people out there, who just take a bunch of explosives and throw them at everything. It's also maybe a faster way than just removing all trees, fences and such things by hand, if you want to rebuild your farm layout from scratch^^

And it's always easier to just not having any interactions between specific things like bombs and kegs, crops, etc. (because less interactions equals less potential for bugs), but he added it instead of handling it like any other weapon, so it's most likely an intended feature for whatever reason.

Removing trees with explosive is not possible. I needed bunch of wood, so I tried on my tree farm. Didn't work. Welp

[Stardustfire]

it woud already be helpful if a bomb function more like a pickaxe on farm ground and inside houses for example, means it onyl unhinge items from the ground instead vaporate even filled container items inclusive there filling (what somehow comes over like a bug in itself, because last patch let chest inventar fall out when NPC runs over a chest and destroys only the chest itself that way)

[childcrone]

Originally posted by McGoodGreen:

...Tools are sharp but do not destroy our crops.

Ooh, don't be holding your pickaxe around your crops.

[isopawde]

this is really funny to me and i dont know why

[Turtleswatter]

Originally posted by maggie:

this is really funny to me and i dont know why

Excellent. Laughter is good for you

[McGoodGreen]

Originally posted by childcrone:

Originally posted by McGoodGreen:

...Tools are sharp but do not destroy our crops.

Ooh, don't be holding your pickaxe around your crops.

Well, it is good game design to let at least one tool "erase" things. Was kinda referring to other games and how those tools work.

But like not knowing about bombs, I wouldn't be surprised if there were still a few things yet I also haven't noticed. Little surprising considering I am an avid wiki lurker for any title I am currently playing.

[Turtleswatter]

It's not so much that you don't know about bombs so much as your middle mouse button slides and you don't notice :D

[Tristin]

Originally posted by Tristin:

Originally posted by Maya:

Why? Because it's funny^^

There are always people out there, who just take a bunch of explosives and throw them at everything. It's also maybe a faster way than just removing all trees, fences and such things by hand, if you want to rebuild your farm layout from scratch^^

And it's always easier to just not having any interactions between specific things like bombs and kegs, crops, etc. (because less interactions equals less potential for bugs), but he added it instead of handling it like any other weapon, so it's most likely an intended feature for whatever reason.

Removing trees with explosive is not possible. I needed bunch of wood, so I tried on my tree farm. Didn't work. Welp

Actually, I've been bombing my farm for fun and you actually can remove tree with bombs. But it took 4 bombs to remove it. Don't think its worth it. My animals did not mind it at all. Immortals.

[Nulien]

Originally posted by Tristin:

Originally posted by Tristin:

Removing trees with explosive is not possible. I needed bunch of wood, so I tried on my tree farm. Didn't work. Welp

Actually, I've been bombing my farm for fun and you actually can remove tree with bombs. But it took 4 bombs to remove it. Don't think its worth it. My animals did not mind it at all. Immortals.

Yeah, I can confirm that bombs do damage trees. I've cleared my field out that way using the item spawner mod to give myself a ton of bombs. The only things they don't destroy are the large 2x2 tree stumps, logs, and large rocks.