Any point to explosives?

[Nationality]

Excavators seem to do an adequate job taking down structures by themselves. Are explosives just a waste of money?

[dan]

the only thing i like about explosives is the ability to export explosives en masse to simulate the selling of bombs and explosive devices to foreign countries

[Storm]

It makes demolition a lot faster and as @dan says it makes a good export

[gwahazar]

Explosives should be used to speed up tunnel boring, currently it is very boring job (especially road tunnels, or railway tunnel before boring machine is available). Also for mine construction, or faster iron ore mining (no coal, because of methane)

[Silent_Shadow]

There are mod mines now that consume explosives for more output.
IRL explosives are used in coal mining too; ventilation and spraying reduce the risk of uncontrolled explosions.

[MG83]

i have not calculated the feasibility of explosives in terms of profit hmm

[Zizo]

Originally posted by Silent_Shadow:

There are mod mines now that consume explosives for more output.
IRL explosives are used in coal mining too; ventilation and spraying reduce the risk of uncontrolled explosions.

Any link for some of them? I have a loot of mods, but none of like this :( Thanks

[Silent_Shadow]

Just need to look at the "mine" category in mods:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3022640024