Bombs and Mining Experience

[qaija]

The wiki details the amount of experience gained when breaking open certain nodes. If those nodes are opened by a bomb you drop, do you get experience? My guess is no but is there a definitive answer to the question?

 

[PoppyForPenny]

Under the "mining skill" section of the mining wiki page, it says that the points are awarded when the rocks are destroyed, including by bombs.

 

[Elenna101]

As @PoppyForPenny said, yes, you get mining XP for bombing nodes.

For some reason you don't get foraging XP for destroying trees with bombs, though. But since it takes more than one bomb to fell a tree, you can still weaken the tree with bombs. As long as the last hit that causes the tree to fall comes from the axe, you will get the full foraging XP.

 

[Rhiannon]

I must be the only player on this forum who doesn't use bombs regularly.

 

[FilthyGorilla]

You get mining experience from nodes/regular rocks with extra drops by either bombing or using a pickaxe to mine them.

 

[Hill Myna]

I must be the only playing on this forum who doesn't use bombs regularly.

Bombs are great! Wherever you prefer to mine, whether that be the normal Mines, Skull Cavern, the Volcano Mines, or the dangerous Mines, I would always recommend them.

Benefits of using Bombs:

• You'll end up coming out of a mining session with several hundred Stone, dozens of Geodes and loads of Coal that you wouldn't have got otherwise.
• You'll find ladders faster.
• You'll be more manoeuvrable.
• You'll save energy by not spending it all on pickaxing rocks.

Downsides of using Bombs:

• The cost of mining is more expensive. However, the Iron and Coal that you mine can negate that cost, and the extra resources that you gather can be sold in order to buy Bombs from the Dwarf. This leaves you pretty much neutral in terms of resources spent, but you still get all the other benefits!

 

[Lew Zealand]

I must be the only playing on this forum who doesn't use bombs regularly.

I don't use them regularly, instead only for Skull Cavern deep dives which are very rare for me, and...

just for the LOLs. Sometimes it's just fun to Bomb the snot out of the Quarry you've let go too long. Or the rare really dense level in the Mines as it really is quite pleasant to pick up all that loot with 2 Magnet Rings' worth of Magnetism, even if it's mostly Stone. Actually it's these dense levels which make me not want to Bomb mine in general as without all those dense rock or ore nodes, the Bombing feels empty. When throwing big BOOMS over your screen, the last thing you want to feel is meh.

 

[PoppyForPenny]

You get mining experience from nodes/regular rocks with extra drops by either bombing or using a pickaxe to mine them.

Also when the coal sprites break the rocks! Pretty cool

 

[Jayamos]

I must be the only playing on this forum who doesn't use bombs regularly.

I just recently started using them and now I hate breaking out the pickaxe.

 

[FilthyGorilla]

Also when the coal sprites break the rocks! Pretty cool

Yeah definitely, I was about to point that out, thanks for doing it for me!