Help with triggering fissures

Jayman1000

Using the upgraded trowel it says I can trigger fissures to create chain explosions. However it never works for me, I use the trowel over the fissures but when I have cleared all the layers on that tile it just disappears, no explosion. It doesnt matter if the surrounding tiles are on the same layer, the fissure always just dissappears.

Any help in how to trigger fissure explosions to clear dirt is appreciated, thanks!

Nairinhe

First of all, do fissures connect with blue-ish path when targeted with trovel selected? There should be same-level paths between two or more fissures to trigger them, AFAIK, not just some tiles around one fissure,and it's the paths that get cleared.
Does trovel has enough charges to get to the bottom in one click?

Edit to add: make sure that you have fully excavated the antiquity itself, otherwise it will be destroyed by the explosion.

Jayman1000

Nairinhe wrote: »

First of all, do fissures connect with blue-ish path when targeted with trovel selected? There should be same-level paths between two or more fissures to trigger them, AFAIK, not just some tiles around one fissure,and it's the paths that get cleared.
Does trovel has enough charges to get to the bottom in one click?

Edit to add: make sure that you have fully excavated the antiquity itself, otherwise it will be destroyed by the explosion.

I see, no there was not a same level path between two fissures, that must be what I am missing.

Also, so if the antiquity is fully escavated it is impossible to damage it by fissure explosion?

zaria

Jayman1000 wrote: »

Nairinhe wrote: »

First of all, do fissures connect with blue-ish path when targeted with trovel selected? There should be same-level paths between two or more fissures to trigger them, AFAIK, not just some tiles around one fissure,and it's the paths that get cleared.
Does trovel has enough charges to get to the bottom in one click?

Edit to add: make sure that you have fully excavated the antiquity itself, otherwise it will be destroyed by the explosion.

I see, no there was not a same level path between two fissures, that must be what I am missing.

Also, so if the antiquity is fully escavated it is impossible to damage it by fissure explosion?

No it can still easily be damaged and even destroyed after excavated.
As far as I have excavated the antiquity is never under an fissure so you can use them finding it.
As long as you are not touching the fissures you are safe.

Simply dig in easy areas afterwards. Yes you can simply use the small digging tool to burn out the rest of your time.
But I got an purple briarheart ring as an secondary treasure on an legendary who was nice

Nairinhe

zaria wrote: »

Jayman1000 wrote: »

Nairinhe wrote: »

First of all, do fissures connect with blue-ish path when targeted with trovel selected? There should be same-level paths between two or more fissures to trigger them, AFAIK, not just some tiles around one fissure,and it's the paths that get cleared.
Does trovel has enough charges to get to the bottom in one click?

Edit to add: make sure that you have fully excavated the antiquity itself, otherwise it will be destroyed by the explosion.

I see, no there was not a same level path between two fissures, that must be what I am missing.

Also, so if the antiquity is fully escavated it is impossible to damage it by fissure explosion?

No it can still easily be damaged and even destroyed after excavated.

How? Are there other ways to damage the antiquity beside hitting it with a trovel or triggering the fissure while it's not unearthed completely?

I'm not sure I understand, but do you propose to never use fissures at all?

Jayman1000

zaria wrote: »

Jayman1000 wrote: »

Nairinhe wrote: »

First of all, do fissures connect with blue-ish path when targeted with trovel selected? There should be same-level paths between two or more fissures to trigger them, AFAIK, not just some tiles around one fissure,and it's the paths that get cleared.
Does trovel has enough charges to get to the bottom in one click?

Edit to add: make sure that you have fully excavated the antiquity itself, otherwise it will be destroyed by the explosion.

I see, no there was not a same level path between two fissures, that must be what I am missing.

Also, so if the antiquity is fully escavated it is impossible to damage it by fissure explosion?

No it can still easily be damaged and even destroyed after excavated.
As far as I have excavated the antiquity is never under an fissure so you can use them finding it.
As long as you are not touching the fissures you are safe.

Simply dig in easy areas afterwards. Yes you can simply use the small digging tool to burn out the rest of your time.
But I got an purple briarheart ring as an secondary treasure on an legendary who was nice

I just had an antiquity lie right next to two fissures. I unearthed the antiquity fully, then made the fissures on the same final layer and used the trovel on one of them; they were connected so both blew up, but antiquity did not get damaged even though they lay right besides the antiquity. Fully unearthing antiquity seems to make it immune to fissure explosion at least from what I can tell from this result

Or was it because I did it with the final layer? What if it wasnt final layer, I'll need to test that too.

zaria

Jayman1000 wrote: »

zaria wrote: »

Jayman1000 wrote: »

Nairinhe wrote: »

First of all, do fissures connect with blue-ish path when targeted with trovel selected? There should be same-level paths between two or more fissures to trigger them, AFAIK, not just some tiles around one fissure,and it's the paths that get cleared.
Does trovel has enough charges to get to the bottom in one click?

Edit to add: make sure that you have fully excavated the antiquity itself, otherwise it will be destroyed by the explosion.

I see, no there was not a same level path between two fissures, that must be what I am missing.

Also, so if the antiquity is fully escavated it is impossible to damage it by fissure explosion?

No it can still easily be damaged and even destroyed after excavated.
As far as I have excavated the antiquity is never under an fissure so you can use them finding it.
As long as you are not touching the fissures you are safe.

Simply dig in easy areas afterwards. Yes you can simply use the small digging tool to burn out the rest of your time.
But I got an purple briarheart ring as an secondary treasure on an legendary who was nice

I just had an antiquity lie right next to two fissures. I unearthed the antiquity fully, then made the fissures on the same final layer and used the trovel on one of them; they were connected so both blew up, but antiquity did not get damaged even though they lay right besides the antiquity. Fully unearthing antiquity seems to make it immune to fissure explosion at least from what I can tell from this result

Or was it because I did it with the final layer? What if it wasnt final layer, I'll need to test that too.

Its probably because you used the trowel I tend to use the shovel, it or the base digging tool can damage or destroy the artifact. At this point I dig up stuff to level alts to get the chest passives.

CP5

The trowel explosion instantly destroys the antiquity if its path goes over any tile the antiquity is in, otherwise using the upgraded trowel won't harm it at all. Also any fissures at the same depth linked together will all explode together so you can often cause chain reactions that clear most of the entire site.

Minyassa

I save fissures for a way to try to get a full three additional treasures after I have dug up the antiquity. If there is a fissure very close to the antiquity in an inconvenient place that will interfere with my using the big square, I will double charge my trowel and blow it up first, that's the safe way to defuse those. Sometimes they're very deep and it takes doing that twice. But generally I save fissure for the big hoorah after the main dig is done. I will pay attention to the surface depth of fissures and only uncover them to the depth of the deepest one, and then connect them all, while charging my shovel for the main dig. By the time I have dug up the antiquity I should almost have them connected, and it only takes a few more brushes to get them all on the same level and connected and then I use my fully charged towel to blow them all up and it's *so* satisfying. If you are not sure if you have all the fissures connected, you can hover the trowel over one and a blue pathway between all connected fissures will appear so you can see where the gaps are.