Digging Bolt

Digging Bolt
A bolt that is ideal for mining operations
Type	Projectile
Mana Drain	0
Cast Delay	+0.02
Recharge Time	-0.17
Damage (Drill)	8
Explosion Radius	6
Digging Strength	10
Lifetime ⓘ	2
Additional Information
ID	DIGGER
Tags	digging
Spawning Behaviour
Spawn chance by Tier ⓘ	000 11/8411.19 21/27510.36 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000

Digging Bolt is a projectile spell that creates a short-lived spherical area at the point of casting which is capable of digging through materials.

Digging Bolt can dig through materials with a durability of 10 and under, meaning it can dig through the 10 durability Dense Rock but not the 12 durability Extremely Dense Rock.

It is not very effective for combat, but can be used in a pinch.

Tips

• A really useful tool if combined with the right wand with sufficiently low cast delay and, to a lesser extent, recharge time (for example the second starting wand).
• It can be used to dig through soft ground very easily, and to get gold really fast. Hundreds of gold can be fairly easily amassed without any real danger, especially in the second biome on the main path, Coal Pits.
• If used with the Increase Duration projectile modifier, the spell will "drip" white balls, digging in the ground beneath the cast area.
• Just like Chainsaw, Digging Bolt can be used to reduce the recharge time of any wand in which it is cast, though with slightly less efficiency due to its small positive modifier to cast delay.
• Along with Digging Blast, this spell has the property of overriding any other sounds generated by the spell. Because of this, adding Explosive Projectile will cause the explosion sound not to play. This is particularly useful when making endgame teleport wands in order to avoid constant loud sounds.
• Be careful when digging in rock or similar hard materials, as it can produce sparks which are capable of igniting you.

Trivia

• When Increase Lifetime is applied, will visibly fall downward. It only applies the digging effect at the end, and by default dies on collision with enemies. Having too many copies out generates a large amount of lag.
• Only collides with "hittable" entities. This excludes, e.g., Pollen projectiles.

Gallery

Can dig through dense rock, but not extremely dense rock

Will damage enemies at close range

Durability test of Digging Bolt

See Also

• Digging Blast
• Chainsaw

History

• Nov 28 2019: Changed damage from 7.5 projectile damage to 7.5 drill damage.