Dynamite Wagon

Handbook description

Produce dynamite from iron. Handle with care!

Strategy

The dynamite wagon is a very powerful wagon. In order to produce a dynamite, the dynamite car accepts stone as an input. Once provided with stone, a dynamite will be produced after the wagon's 'crafting speed'. Players can pick up the bomb and place it down. If a player is dashed into while holding a dynamite, the dynamite will be dropped on the ground and the fuse is ignited. Once placed on the ground, the dynamite will explode after it's fuse time, destroying all resources within it's radius. A fully-leveled dynamite wagon has a range of 7m or more, creating an explosion that can clear an area of 49 square tiles or more. This allows you to clear entire sections of the level with ease. To get optimal use out of a dynamite, mine into a resource patch a number of blocks equal to the dynamite's radius before placing the dynamite in the center.

Using the storage-pull extension is a good choice for the dynamite wagon as it will ensure that as soon as you pick up the dynamite, a new dynamite will start being crafted automatically. This removes the potential scenario where a dynamite is used, but no stone is input into the dynamite wagon to start production of new dynamite. This can be detrimental, especially if players rely on dynamite to clear levels quickly.

Additionally, the speed-Boost extension is particularly useful on the dynamite wagon as none of the dynamite's upgrades improve the amount of time it takes to produce a dynamite bundle until level 6 or above. The speed-boost extension allows bombs to be produced 4.5s faster for each extension added to the wagon, making it much more effective at reducing the crafting speed than if the player naturally leveled up the wagon.

The range extension is also good extension for the dynamite wagon, but keep in mind that as the dynamite cart's radius increases, the fuse time will also decrease. After the radius is 7m, further extensions will only increase the radius by 0.5m. The dynamite car's range naturally increases to 7m at level 6, making range extensions less effective.

Hydrocharge and supercharge are also useful extensions to consider for the dynamite wagon.

Level States

	Crafting Speed	Blast Radius	Fuse Time
LVL 1	40.0s	2.0m	3.0s
LVL 2	40.0s	3.0m	2.7s
LVL 3	40.0s	4.0m	2.4s
LVL 4	40.0s	5.0m	2.1s
LVL 5	40.0s	6.0m	1.8s
LVL 6	40.0s	7.0m	1.5s
LVL 6+	-1.0s per level	+0.5m per level	1.5s

Extension effects

	Name	Effect
	Storage-Pull
	Storage-Push
	Front-Pull
	Auto-Drop	It doesn't start the fuse.
	Magnet-Pick
	Ghost
	Hydrocharge
	Supercharge
	Range-Extension	Increase blast radius by 1 level.
	Speed-Boost	Decrease crafting speed by 4.5s.
	Stack-Boost
	Time-Extension
	Key	Does nothing