[Bug 1.23] ITNT duds?

    So... after my little escapade with the ghost ship, I found myself with some left over ITNT and wanted to do some mining.


    I dug a couple spots in the wall in my mine, stuck the ITNT inside, covered it with cobble for safety reasons, stuck down a lever, lit the charge and stood back. *boom?* Annnnnnd the lever and cobble are still there... so I remove the cobble to find that... the ITNT is gone, but nothing got blown up... So.. I widened the hole a bit, thinking maybe it needed some room to breathe a bit... nope... still nothing... small boom, no bang.


    I was now in the middle of writing this post (previously titled "ITNT broken"), but decided to try a couple more times with a couple variations... first shot, no variation, just tried the test again but placed the lever immediately next to the ITNT this time. BOOM! Blast worked and carved out a nice hole. Around this point I was thinking of not posting here about the bug and continued to slap down another ITNT to continue the mining process. Activate... *boom?* Annnnd nothing... didn't even break the lever sitting next to it.


    Can anyone else confirm if ITNT is being inconsistent? Or is it just me? :S

    I've seen this too (haven't tried 1.337 yet) in multiplayer. Also if you leave off the covering block and just hit it with a flint and steel, instead of having the flickering "lit TNT" block, it just vanishes and then blows up a few seconds later (same with a nuke armed from redstone).

    Actually, TBH, my computer probably can't handle a meltdown. I'm really waiting for RedPower's frames. According to Eloraam, they'll be able to 'inch-worm' along, so I'm designing alternatives for "Big Bertha" the mobile factory / boring machine. It'll (ideally) be able to mine out an area 16x20xN from bedrock up.

    I prefer sticky dynamite for mining, it's so much fun that it's sad how fast I'm full and how fast it's used up : (
    <3 sticky dynamite

    Quote from Alblaka

    On my install Mining Drill doesn't give off any sounds at all o.o
    Help! Somebody fix that please!
    Wait a sec... damnit.

    no idea if he was serious but either way that was damn funny xD

    Quote from Ranakastrasz


    Yea, I love it as well.


    As for the actually OP


    Did you legit get the dynamite, or did you TMI it?


    These were legit. I get everything legit. I don't even have TMI installed (too tempting)


    I haven't tried them with the latest update, will have to give it a go... will also give me a good excuse to use all my collected gunpowder :)

    Quote from Plystire


    These were legit. I get everything legit. I don't even have TMI installed (too tempting)


    I haven't tried them with the latest update, will have to give it a go... will also give me a good excuse to use all my collected gunpowder :)


    Alright, I just had to ask, since SOOO many items dont work with TMI, and SOOO many people fail to read the common-problem thread, It would probably be statistically likely that you were one of them (probably because I am not actually able to get valid statistics, and am just guessing, from the large number of threads that do that)


    And yes, trying the latest version tends to help.

    The best I've managed with ITNT is 54 blocks destroyed (i think it was) and you have to give it some open space for it to have effect.
    However, a single piece of string will turn one ITNT into 8 dynamite sticks. And a single resin makes them sticky. Both dynamite sticks and sticky dynamite will clear a 3x3x3 cube. (no more, no less)
    Simply digging out 2 blocks from a wall and placing them in the hole gives you 25 blocks per stick. That is a total of 200 blocks per ITNT, 4 times the blocks blasted. And ITNT (due to it's inefficiency when contained) is harder to use.
    I strip mine coal and redstone with my sticky dynamite and then use what i have gathered to make more gunpowder from coal dust and redstone. This allows me to make more sticks that i originally started with.
    Though i consume redstone and coal dust in the process. Resources i could be using for other things. Still worth it at time when you need lots of blasting power.


    One could also make a mob farm ofc and have lots of gunpowder trickle in from dead creepers.