Digging

One of the best ways to avoid dying in Noita is to avoid danger, and one of the best ways to do that is to dig under it all.

Basic Digging

Digging spells

Spells Tagged with digging

Material Information

Main article: Materials#Material_properties

Durability determines resistance to damage. Projectiles like Luminous Drill, and all explosions such as those from Bomb, have a maximum durability that they can be used to destroy. If a material's durability exceeds this value, the projectile or explosion will not damage or destroy it.

The following table lists the maximum durability threshold of some spells, as well as some examples of materials with those durabilities.

Durability	Materials	Spells
does not destroy materials
4	Sand
5	Cheese
8	Coal, Concrete
9	Meat (Static)
10	Dense Rock, Soil, Rusted Metal (Static)
11	Rusted Steel
12	Extremely Dense Rock, Steel
13	Dense Steel
14	Brickwork, Cursed Rock

Hardness also determines resistance to damage, secondarily to Durability.

Each pixel of material has an 'HP' value in the materials file. An explosion traces multiple rays around the point of explosion. These rays have a maximum "ray energy" that is used to consume the HP of each pixel of the material the ray is travelling through, up to the maximum radius of the explosion. When the "ray energy" is used up, the material is no longer destroyed.

This is why, for example, Unstable Crystal is worse at digging than TNT; TNT, in addition to being able to damage materials up to 11 durability (vs. 10 for Unstable Crystal), has more than 30 times the "ray energy" of Unstable Crystal, meaning that for materials with a lot of hardness like rock, explosions from Unstable Crystal will only destroy 2-3 pixels of material, whereas TNT is likely to remove material up to its full radius of 28 pixels.

Technical Info

ray_energy - Determines how much energy a spell has to destroy materials. max_durability_to_destroy - The highest durability of material this spell can destroy.