As you dive deeper into Core Keeper, you’ll find yourself mining a lot, starting with dirt blocks to gather copper ores and advancing to more valuable resources in crystalline biomes. You can choose from various pickaxes or use sledgehammers for large-scale demolition, but when it comes to clearing out vast areas quickly, bombs can be your best friends.
Both bombs and grenades let you toss several at once over a wide area, causing them to explode sequentially to yield plenty of ores. You can also connect specific types using electronic wires, creating a chain reaction to clear space for new constructions. Plus, these explosives can effectively deal with enemies.
Crafting Bombs
To create the first tier of bombs, you’ll need to make an Alchemy Table. You can build this once you have a Tin Workbench, which requires eight Woods, eight Slimes, and five Tin Bars.
Placing the Alchemy Table gives you access to basic potions, grenades, and bombs, primarily crafted using Bomb Peppers. These peppers are abundant in the Underground and Clay Cave biomes.
You can also find bombs and grenades in chests, wooden crates, during fishing, and occasionally dropped by certain enemies like Bomb Scarabs.
The mid-tier bombs require a Laboratory Table for crafting. This table can be made at a Scarlet Workbench or higher and needs 15 Planks and 10 Scarlet Bars.
Low-Tier Bombs and Grenades
Most low-tier bombs and grenades can be either thrown or placed, exploding a few seconds later. However, the Dynamite Pack and Explosives Deposit explode only when hit or wired to a lever or pressure plate.
Grenades can also damage blocks like bombs but have the added Wind-Up Throw skill, making them ideal for taking down enemies and bosses.
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Bomb or Grenade Type |
Materials Needed |
How To Obtain Materials |
|---|---|---|
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Crude Bomb |
Bomb Pepper x1 Slime x1 |
Harvest Bomb Pepper plants in The Underground, The Caves, or from a farm. Defeat Red Slimes, Spikey Red Slimes, or Glurch the Abominous Mass. |
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Bomb |
Bomb Pepper x3 Slime x2 |
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Large Bomb |
Bomb Pepper x5 Poison Slime x3 |
Harvest Bomb Pepper plants in The Underground, The Caves, or from a farm. Defeat Poison Slimes or Ivy the Poisonous Mass in Azeos’ Wilderness after clearing the three early game bosses and removing The Great Wall. |
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Mouse Bomb |
Bomb Pepper x2 Slime x2 |
Harvest Bomb Pepper plants in The Underground, The Caves, or from a farm. Defeat Red Slimes, Spikey Red Slimes, or Glurch the Abominous Mass. |
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Dynamite Pack |
Bomb Pepper x2 Slime x2 Tin Bar x1 |
Harvest Bomb Pepper plants in The Underground, The Caves, or from a farm. Defeat Red Slimes, Spikey Red Slimes, or Glurch the Abominous Mass. Smelt Tin Ore in a Furnace. Tin Ore can be found in The Clay Caves. |
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Explosives Deposit |
Bomb Pepper x2 Wood x2 |
Harvest Bomb Pepper plants in The Underground, The Caves, or from a farm. Harvest Roots in The Underground or The Clay Caves. |
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Grenade |
Bomb Pepper x1 Copper Bar x1 |
Harvest Bomb Pepper plants in The Underground, The Caves, or from a farm. Smelt Copper Ore in a Furnace. |
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Stun Grenade |
Bomb Pepper x1 Tin Bar x1 |
Harvest Bomb Pepper plants in The Underground, The Caves, or from a farm. Smelt Tin Ore in a Furnace. Tin Ore can be found in The Clay Caves. |
Mid-Tier Bombs and Grenades
The Blunder Bomb is particularly useful for digging long tunnels to create railway paths to areas lacking nearby waypoints.
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Bomb |
Materials Needed |
How To Obtain Materials |
|---|---|---|
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Blunder Bomb |
Blasting Dung x1 Scarlet Bar x1 |
Defeat Bomb Scarabs in the Desert of Beginnings before they detonate upon death. Smelt Scarlet Ore in a Smelter Kiln. Scarlet Ore is found in Azeos’ Wilderness after defeating the three early game bosses and removing The Great Wall. |
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Proximity Bomb |
Blasting Dung x1 Galaxite Bar x2 |
Defeat Bomb Scarabs in the Desert of Beginnings before they detonate upon death. Smelt Galaxite Ore in a Fury Forge. Galaxite Ore is found in the Desert of Beginnings after defeating the three early game bosses and removing The Great Wall. |
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Sulfur Bomb |
Sulfur Bud x5 Poison Slime x3 |
Defeat Sulfur Worms or fish in the waters found in The Passage. |
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Void Bomb |
Blasting Dung x2 Pandorium Bar x3 |
Defeat Bomb Scarabs in the Desert of Beginnings before they detonate upon death. Smelt Pandorium Ore in a Fury Forge. Pandorium is found in The Passage after defeating the three mid-game bosses. |
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Fire Grenade |
Blasting Dung x1 Magma Slime x2 |
Defeat Bomb Scarabs in the Desert of Beginnings before they detonate upon death. Defeat Magma Slimes in the Molten Quarry sub-biome in the Desert of Beginnings. |
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Poison Grenade |
Blasting Dung x1 Poison Slime x2 |
Defeat Bomb Scarabs in the Desert of Beginnings before they detonate upon death. Defeat Poison Slimes or Ivy the Poisonous Mass in Azeos’ Wilderness after defeating the three early game bosses and removing The Great Wall. |
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Charm Grenade |
Blasting Dung x1 Heart Berry x3 |
Defeat Bomb Scarabs in the Desert of Beginnings before they detonate upon death. Harvest Heart Berry plants in The Underground, The Caves, or from a farm. |