Powder Keg

Powder Keg
A crude explosive for mining. Detonation requires impact.
Category decorative
Rarity Common
Price 25
Colony tags human humanbunker storage
ID powderkeg

The Powder Keg mines background blocks in circular radius of 5 and foreground blocks in circular radius of 7. It's a cheap alternate to Crude Bomb that doesn't require Ammonium Sulfate, but is crafted in bundles of 5 and less effective compared to it (compared for 10 for every other placeable explosives).

How to obtain

Mining tools (they remove blocks from the ground, and then give these blocks to you)
Direct well-controlled mining
Very fast erratic mining Mining Laser
Explosives that mine blocks
(without losing the blocks)
Crude Bomb · Powder Keg · Throwing Dynamite · Blasting Dynamite · C4 Plastic Explosive
Long-distance mining tools Quarry · Blastcap Launcher · Matter Staff · Boom Cannon
Ore detectors Precision Ore Detector · Multi-ore Detector · Cave Detector · Ore Drone I · Ore Drone II · Ore Drone III · Mining Drone
Mech arms for mining Mining Cannons (I, II, III), mech Drills (Iron, Tungsten, Zerchesium, Diamond, Densinium)