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Gunpowder on fire

 
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Exploding gunpowder

Gunpowder is a Science item. It requires a Rotten Egg, a Charcoal, a Nitre to craft and an Alchemy Engine to prototype. When placed on the ground and lit on fire it will proceed to explode after 3-6 seconds, destroying objects and dealing massive damage in a small radius. It deals 200 damage per charge (can be exploded in stacks).

Recipe

Rotten Egg
Charcoal
1×
Nitre
1×
Interface arrow right
Gunpowder

Trivia

  • This item is added in the A Little Rain Must Fall Update.
  • Gunpowder can only be ignited with some sort of fire or another gunpowder explosion
  • Gunpowder explosions can cause structures to drop their resource, even if they are on fire.
  • Gunpowders explosion has same lighting effect of the lightning strike.


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