Atomic bomb

Atomic bomb

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Recipe
50 + 10 + 10 + 30 → 1
Total raw
50 + 10 + 10 + 30
Stack size	10
Rocket capacity	Too heavy for a rocket!
Range	54
Damage	Impact: 400 520 640 760 1000 (explosion) Area of effect (first wave): 1000×100 1000×130 1000×160 1000×190 1000×250 (explosion) Area of effect (second wave): 1000×400 1000×520 1000×640 1000×760 1000×1000 (explosion)
Area of effect size	35
Used as ammunition by
Prototype type	ammo
Internal name	atomic-bomb
Required technologies
Boosting technologies
Produced by

Recipe
50 + 10 + 10 + 100 → 1
Total raw
50 + 10 + 10 + 100
Stack size	10
Rocket capacity	Too heavy for a rocket!
Range	54
Damage	Impact: 400 520 640 760 1000 (explosion) Area of effect (first wave): 1000×100 1000×130 1000×160 1000×190 1000×250 (explosion) Area of effect (second wave): 1000×400 1000×520 1000×640 1000×760 1000×1000 (explosion)
Area of effect size	35
Used as ammunition by
Prototype type	ammo
Internal name	atomic-bomb
Required technologies
Boosting technologies
Produced by

Atomic bombs are very expensive alternative ammunition for the rocket launcher, rocket turret and the spidertron. They deal incredible damage over a wide area, capable of wiping out groups of enemies with ease. They can also kill even the most heavily-armored player, so they should be fired from a great distance.

Instead of dealing all of its damage in a single explosion, the atomic bomb creates two waves of 1000 small, high-damage explosions in an expanding ring. One wave of explosions expands to a radius of 7 with each of the 1000 explosions dealing 100 damage in a radius of 3. The second wave of explosions expands to cover a radius of 35 and each of the 1000 explosions deals 400 damage in a radius of 3. This results in high damage at the center of the atomic bomb, which decreases towards the edge of the 35-tile radius.

The impact of the atomic bomb creates a black scorch mark in a 12-tile radius that never disappears and is visible from the map. All tiles in an oval approximately 24 tiles wide and 17 tiles high will be converted into nuclear ground, which affects pollution absorption and prevents the removal of any former landfill and foundation tiles in the blast radius. Furthermore, the atomic bomb will permanently destroy cliffs and decorative objects in a 9-14 tile radius around the center.

In Space Age, detonating an atomic bomb on Vulcanus or Aquilo will replace ground tiles with lava and ammonia respectively instead of nuclear ground. All mineable resources and sulfuric acid geysers on the affected tiles will be destroyed in the process; fluorine vents and lithium brine deposits are unaffected.

Gallery

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  The large epicenter of an atomic bomb explosion.
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  A calcite patch before the bomb...
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  ...and after.

History

• 2.0.44:
  • Atomic bomb now blasts planet-appropriate holes into the terrain of the planet if the terrain is floating on a fluid: Ammoniacal ocean for Aquilo, Lava for Vulcanus. It also destroys space platform tiles.

• 2.0.7:
  • Ingredient rocket control unit has been replaced with Processing unit.
  • Increased uranium-235 cost (30 > 100)

• 1.0.0:
  • New visual effects for the atomic bomb.

• 0.15.0:
  • Introduced.

See also

• Rocket
• Explosive rocket
• Enemies
• Damage
• Uranium processing