User:MrWarnerTheGreat/Shovel Knight DIG - Big Bomb Explosion

Introduction

So in Shovel Knight DIG, there's this big bomb in sub-level three that you use in the true route to destroy some rubble (finding clips for the full explosion is very hard to do).

Before anyone asks, yes this does scale to Shovel Knight and the other knights. Hell, Shield Knight's fucking bird survives the explosion.

The Calculation

Building our Equation

Okay, so for past calculations, we've used in-game doors to compare to Shovel Knight directly, which puts him at a whopping 1.371 meters. Given that Shovel Knight is still tiny in comparison to doors in DIG, this value isn't too bizarre for us to use.

The bomb explosion has a radius of 432px, where Shovel Knight is about 85px in this shot.

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This makes the explosion radius about 14.2716144499 meters. Due to the explosion not being a hemisphere and by proxy not be limited to the ground in-game, we can use the air formula.

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Final Equation

((0.0142716144499/0.28)^3)/1000/2 = 0.0662087249 tons of TNT, slightly above baseline Low 8-C (Small Building level).

Final Answer

0.0662087249 tons of TNT - Small Building level