TheRealDiggyCheese

I was expecting a fun new way to carve out stone and level hills but as they are currently they seem like a waste of time and resources to craft carry and light. Given stone blasting bombs destroy ores and dont drop whole stone blocks i feel like they should at least have a similar blast radius as the ore bombs when used on the appropriate material, certainly more than 2 blocks anyways. After playing around with them some more they actually blow out a much larger area like you'd expect, but only in ore blocks, so now I'm wondering if they're bugged.

Is it possible to funnel mechanical power indoors in a way that its considered a valid room? The hole needed for the axle invalidates it and i cant seem to fiddle a way around it. Something vanilla would be preferred but a modded solution would also be acceptable.