Shilaila
Official Terrarian
The oil pot is a trap, that when broken explodes into fiery pieces (similar to a big molotov cocktail). It resembles the forest pots that are naturally generated and found across the world, but oil pots are bigger than normal pots, do not drop anything when broken, and are crafted. Oil pots can also be used against enemies similar to TNT barrels.
This trap is inspired by the Oil Lantern / Slick traps from Skyrim that can be found in dungeons and are usually hanging but when broken they fall and explode everywhere.
These are animations of what the oil pot trap could look like. From the second animation you may of noticed that the oil pot is hanging from a block and falls down when the block is broken, this is because the oil pots can also be hung from blocks and platforms similar to lanterns and chandeliers. It probably wouldn't be wise to use a hanging oil pot as decoration as it will still violently explode if someone hits it.
here are some sprites of the different oil pot appearances that it will randomly have when placed down or hung (similar to how gnomes have random appearances each time they are placed). the oil pot is crafted at a heavy workbench using:
This means that they can only be crafted in hardmode because of the explosive powder. Currently explosive powder is only used to make explosive bullets (and I highly doubt there will ever be a flask of explosion) so I think it would be cool if you could do more with it.
That's mostly it.
THANKS FOR READING.
This trap is inspired by the Oil Lantern / Slick traps from Skyrim that can be found in dungeons and are usually hanging but when broken they fall and explode everywhere.
That's mostly it.
THANKS FOR READING.
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