Shaped dynamite charges - explosives for digging deeper and wider (multi-level)

57 votes

Please add a dynamite tier-2 option that will dig down 2 levels instead of just one.

Projected cost; 2x explosive, 2x planks, 1x water to create the shaped charge cone that redirects the blast downwards.

I added the water to the recipe because IRL breaching charges used to blast open walls without hurting anyone standing nearby uses water to redirect the force of the blast.

[mod edit]: added picture from suggestion by Babayaga8888

Done Suggestion Suggested by: Vinny P (23 Sep, '21) • Upvoted: 17 Oct, '23 • Comments: 19

Comments: 19

19 Sep, '21
Korathias Merged
As a suggestion, it would be nice to be able to plant two levels of dynamite at a larger cost.
24 Sep, '21
David C Bollinger
maybe also do a 3 tile deep variant as well? it would be a nice quality of life thing for those of us who want to do big terraforming.
13 Oct, '21
doomvader
Yeah this seems great. curently trying to dig a big reservoir is tedious and not very fun. placing the layer, letting the whole layer of dynamite being built than building a staircase down, placing the next layer and so on for a while and requiring frequent management. A least, the blowing up part is fun no matter how often you get to do it.
16 Oct, '21
Babayaga8888 Merged
I am experimenting by building canals. It is time consuming, but a win win scenario. You don't need water dumps. Just build underground canals and in a 16 square radius of the canal, the soil is moist.
But, making the explosives blow up just 1 cube deep is very very time consuming. Wish the devs implemented a bigger bomb. Like blowing 2 cube deep or something
16 Oct, '21
Gin Fuyou Admin
"Bigger explosives" (suggested by Babayaga8888 on 2021-10-16), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
04 Nov, '21
Tony Merged
Have "TNT" a stronger form of dynamite that can destroy 3 blocks down. It will take more resources to "craft" and another late game industry building.
28 Nov, '21
Gin Fuyou Admin
"Bigger dynamit blocks or a more efficient way of placing them" (suggested by Fran on 2021-11-24), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
03 Dec, '21
Chris Luiten Merged
You can also just unlock 2 and 3 lever TNT that you don't need to craft, but just needs 3 stacks of TNT to create. Easier to implement.
01 Jan, '22
Gin Fuyou Admin
"add different size bombs" (suggested by benjamin mccombs on 2022-01-01), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
24 Jan, '22
Eccentric Warmonger Merged
I've got two suggestions:
1. Add the ability for explosions to take out more than one block under the explosion. Similar to Minecraft where TNT blows up a huge area of the map.
2. Allow explosions to destroy paths, buildings, etc. This would come in handy for quick map manipulation. For example, I want to carve out a new river, instead of removing all of the stuff I've got on the map, allow me to blow the $hit out of it. LOL. Okay, but it would be cool to use the explosives to remove buildings and stuff.

Thanks for considering.
22 Jul, '22
Gin Fuyou Admin
"Multi-level Dynamite" (suggested by Korathias on 2021-09-19), including upvotes (19) and comments (2), was merged into this suggestion.
16 Aug, '22
Atomicpotato Merged
Detonating dynamite is fun. Bigger explosions are better. And it's pain to place dynamite button when blowing up a mountain. Please consider adding bundle of dynamite which can blow up multiple tiles at once. Such as Bundle of dynamites: Literally bundle of dynamites powerful enough to blow up adjacent nine tiles at once.
18 Aug, '22
Gin Fuyou Admin
"Bigger dynamite" (suggested by Atomicpotato on 2022-08-16), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
11 Aug, '23
Alfakr0ll Merged
Same as ordinary dynamite but can remove 2 or 3 depths at the same time. So you can quicker get to the depth you want to, and not having to wait for several round trips with micro managing to get the hole done and then start building there.
16 Aug, '23
Gin Fuyou Admin
"double/triple dynamite" (suggested by Alfakr0ll on 2023-08-11), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
20 Oct, '23
cyaziris
I have the experimental mode enabled and this is a great addition, except it doesn't seem to work fully yet. new build options are available, but all of them are currently still only detonating 1 block deep. Looking forward to full implementation!
20 Oct, '23
Gin Fuyou Admin
cyaziris that's not correct new charges work perfectly (unless there is an unknown bug). Perhaps You've placed them too close to lowest level of the map? Game doesn't prevent placing two-deep charge if only 1 layer can be blasted
20 Oct, '23
cyaziris
Yes, I was just about to make a correction, I am indeed on the bottom level of the map. It seems this particular map is pretty shallow, I only dug 1 level below the current riverbed, to what is also the lowest naturally occurring level. I notices I couldn't place any new dynamite on that layer, so I guess that's all the extra depth I'm going to get. My bad!
04 Nov, '23
Gin Fuyou Admin
"Explosions take our more than just the block under it and destroy buildings, etc" (suggested by Eccentric Warmonger on 2022-01-24), including upvotes (3) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.