Explosives change after update - not fun

[FreyaMaluk]

• Explosives will now either do work or do damage, not both. (EDIT)

IMO, this change is not logical and ruins all the fun about letting things explode. Explosives causes massive destruction and "do work" at the same time. It makes absolutely no sense to cause just one or the other effect randomly.

Devs please change this back. It is not very fun if you change everything for the worse. Let us keep having fun with in-game explosions. 

[CheeseburgerCockatoo]

uhm... what? there was no change, unless Obsidian Coconades are messing with it.

[NoQuitting]

2 minutes ago, CheeseburgerCockatoo said:

uhm... what? there was no change, unless Obsidian Coconades are messing with it.

The change I think he is talking about is noted 

• Explosives will now either do work or do damage, not both.

Perhaps he can clarify what exactly this means because it is kind of confusing.

[CheeseburgerCockatoo]

Just now, NoQuitting said:

The change I think he is talking about is noted 

• Explosives will now either do work or do damage, not both.

Perhaps he can clarify what exactly this means because it is kind of confusing.

Oh, that affects Gunpowder?

[NoQuitting]

Just now, CheeseburgerCockatoo said:

Oh, that affects Gunpowder?

Honestly I have no idea, it is kind of confusing to me. I guess I can spawn some in and test it out.

[Machine Reaper]

It might mean that they will either set things to fire or maybe not...

[Bryce]

The change was for objects that could be worked by tools (axe, hammer, shovel, net, etc.) and could be killed. Butterflies are a good example - you catch with a net but you can also kill them. Previously, an explosive would actually "catch" the butterfly by doing work to it, then try to kill it - even though it no longer existed. This caused issues. It also effects walls, which you can both hammer and attack. Now it will only damage their health value instead of also doing the "hammer" action on the wall.

It does not chose to work or damage randomly. If the item can be killed, it will deal damage. Otherwise, it will do "work" to the object. This change is also on a per-item basis, not per explosion. A single explosion can still both kill something and do work to something else. It just won't kill and work the same object.

[TeoSS69]

54 minutes ago, Bryce said:

The change was for objects that could be worked by tools

So that's what's happening with Sea Legs' cannon burning down trees now? Back to using axes like a landlubber then :/

[CheeseburgerCockatoo]

2 hours ago, TeoSS69 said:

So that's what's happening with Sea Legs' cannon burning down trees now? Back to using axes like a landlubber then :/

But on the other hand crabs no longer turn to sand when shot with it.

[Machine Reaper]

6 hours ago, TeoSS69 said:

So that's what's happening with Sea Legs' cannon burning down trees now? Back to using axes like a landlubber then :/

I never knew cannons were soo useful.