Mega Bomb
| Mega Bomb | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Crafted Item |
| Recipe | Mining Level 8 |
| Sell Price | 50g |
The Mega Bomb is the strongest bomb in the game, with a blast that clears a huge circle of rock in one go. In the Mines and especially the Skull Cavern, a single Mega Bomb can open up most of a floor, breaking every rock and ore node in reach and revealing the ladder underneath. That makes it a favourite tool for deep runs where speed counts. It also hurts anything caught in the blast, the farmer included, so it needs care. The recipe arrives at Mining level 8, and dwarven shops sell ready-made bombs too.
The in-game description reads: Generates a powerful explosion. Use with extreme caution.
Recipe
Reaching Mining level 8 teaches the recipe. Each Mega Bomb takes several pieces of Gold Ore plus one Solar Essence and one Void Essence. Buying is the simpler route. The Dwarf in the Mines sells Mega Bombs once the Dwarvish Translation Guide lets the two of them talk. A second dwarf, in the shop partway up the Volcano Dungeon, keeps them in stock too. Buying in bulk saves Gold Ore for bars and leaves the essences free for other recipes.
These are the ingredients one batch needs.
| Name | Image | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Gold Ore | 
|
4 |
| Solar Essence | 
|
1 |
| Void Essence | 
|
1 |
Use
A Mega Bomb is placed on the ground like the smaller bombs. After a short fuse it goes off in a wide circle. Every rock inside the blast breaks and drops what it would drop to a pickaxe, including ore and gems from nodes.
The blast also damages monsters, and it can kill the weaker ones outright. It damages the farmer too. Running well clear before it goes off avoids losing a large chunk of health, and carrying healing food covers the occasional mistake.
On the farm the bomb is far more dangerous. It destroys furniture and crafted machines in its radius, and a single misplaced bomb can wipe out a patch of valuable crops. Bombs are best kept for the Mines and the Skull Cavern.
Notes
The Skull Cavern is where the Mega Bomb shines. Its floors are crowded with rocks, and the ladder down is hidden under one of them. A Mega Bomb dropped in the middle of a cluster often uncovers the ladder in one blast, which is far faster than swinging a pickaxe at every stone. Stocking up on bombs before a deep run is common practice for that reason.
A Lava Eel Fish Pond eventually asks for two Mega Bombs before it will grow from five fish to seven. The safe habit is to hand them over early in the day and click carefully, since a bomb placed by mistake near the pond can wreck that part of the farm.
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