How do I blow up powder kegs

[Diannew]

Totally stumped, am in Dwarven mine and need to blow something up. Have powder kegs but no idea how to blow them up. Help would be appreciated.

Thanks

[Sinathor]

You can either shoot them with a bow or magic (shift + click). You can also create a fused keg with a timer.

Alternatively, you can of course poke them with your melee weapon although I wouldn't particularly recommend this, for obvious reasons.

[KillingMoon]

Also ordinary closed barrels can be dealt with in the same way - forcing attack mode by using left-shift. They usually have stuff in them, so you want to open them up.

And left-shift is handy for positioning your character before dropping the powder keg. Left-shift + left-mouse-click will position your character in the way the mouse pointer is facing.

[Farwalker]

Later on you'll come across powder kegs with fuses... as soon as you drop those, you have a set number of turns to clear out of the way before it explodes.

[peko]

As mentioned you can make barrels with fuses yourself, once they're dropped you've got five turns to get to safety.

[+] SPOILER

You can get the recipe from a crazy guy in Deadmans Strand

Even more spoiler

[+] SPOILER

The recipe is a barrel of black powder, a wick and sulfur.

[tungprc]

If you follow the instructions in even more spoiler you will sulfur the consequences

[Farwalker]

If you follow the instructions in even more spoiler you will sulfur the consequences

[Vroqren]

Don't encourage the puns.... There's no emoticon for grimaces...

[Kreador Freeaxe]

Don't encourage the puns.... There's no emoticon for grimaces...

or or work pretty well as grimaces, I think. if you really feel strongly.