Talk:Explosives (item)/@comment-15695624-20150816033802

I've gotten killed twice by explosives, both in the same world, which was created in 1.1. There were no Detonators pre 1.3, so all explosives traps in worlds created before then are set off by pressure plates.

Tonight I was caving in the same world and came prepared. I was using Dangersense potions (along with Night Owl, Shine, Spelunker and Hunter). I saw something in red which was a single block. It was not a Dart Trap. As I approached closer and moused over it I realized it was explosives.

In the 1.2 versions, you could survive an Explosives Trap if you had full health. But now it appears that once again it is counted as a PvP kill, meaning that even with 500 health, you're going to die from the blast,

There was one instance where I was hit by a skeleton right before setting off an explosives trap. This was within the 2/3 second immunity so I took no damage from it.