Cherry Bomb
| Cherry Bomb | |
|---|---|
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| Type | Crafted Item |
| Recipe | Mining Level 1 |
| Sell Price | 50g |
The Cherry Bomb is the smallest and cheapest explosive in the valley, and the first one most players ever craft. It unlocks at the very first Mining level and needs only Copper Ore and Coal, both common in the early Mines. Its blast is small, but it breaks every rock in reach at once, which speeds up early mining runs. It also opens the way to the Dwarf, whose home sits behind a rock that early pickaxes cannot break. Later on, it stays useful as the budget way to finish off Mummies in the Skull Cavern.
The in-game description reads: Generates a small explosion. Stand back!
Recipe
Reaching Mining level 1 teaches the recipe, so it is one of the first mining rewards. Copper Nodes fill the upper floors of the Mines, and plain rocks there sometimes drop a piece of Copper Ore as well. Each bomb also needs one Coal, which comes from breaking rocks, killing Dust Sprites or burning Wood in a Charcoal Kiln.
Copper is cheap and plentiful, which makes this the most affordable bomb to craft in bulk. The Dwarf also sells Cherry Bombs, but bombs crafted from mined ore cost no gold at all. Duggies and some other cave monsters sometimes drop one too.
These are the ingredients one batch needs.
| Name | Image | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Copper Ore | 
|
4 |
| Coal | 
|
1 |
Use
A Cherry Bomb is placed on the ground like any other bomb. Once it goes off, every rock within a few tiles breaks at the same moment. Ore and gem nodes in range release their contents just as if they had been mined. Its reach is the shortest of the three bombs, so it works best on tight clusters of rock rather than open rooms.
The first big job for a Cherry Bomb is the Dwarf's door. Just inside the Mines entrance, a large rock blocks the path to the east. A Steel Pickaxe can break it, but a single Cherry Bomb does the job far sooner. Behind it lives the Dwarf, who runs a shop once the four Dwarf Scrolls have been donated to the Museum.
Players stay at risk too. The blast hurts anyone standing inside it, so stepping back before it goes off is the safe habit. It can also destroy furniture and placed objects, so it belongs in caves and quarries, not the farmhouse.
Notes
Mummies in the Skull Cavern are the Cherry Bomb's late-game target. A Mummy knocked down by a weapon collapses into a heap of bandages and soon rises again. Only an explosion finishes it off for good. Dropping a Cherry Bomb on the pile is the cheapest way to do that.
A Cherry Bomb is weaker than the Bomb and the Mega Bomb, but the low cost makes it the sensible pick for small jobs. The bigger bombs are better saved for large rooms and dense ore fields.
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