#because recoil slamming is harder to aim so the gifs didn't turn out as well

[noita-digging]

Slam Digging (Beta Only):

Max Durability: 14 (Can dig through all materials) Radius: 15 or 30 Mana cost: 5 mana every 5 frames (using the recoil spell) Danger: Player-safe. Examples:

Short version. If you hit something when moving fast enough, it's destroyed. Detailed explanation below:

Basically the game checks Mina's speed every 5 frames, and if the distance traveled between those frames is large enough, it starts playing the "speed" sound cue, and showing the speed line visual effect. After a certain length of time in this state, if Mina collides with a solid material, an explosion sound will play, and a circle of material will be destroyed, and the timer will reset. It seems that the explosion can happen multiple frames in a row (up to 5?) before the timer is reset leading to a slightly longer hole than expected and probably also explains why the sound is so damn loud. There are two hole sizes that can result purely based on the timer, more time flying means that the larger radius of 30 will be used. Less time flying results in a radius 15 hole, or no hole at all. There are two methods I have found to achieve sufficient speed:

Teleporting using teleport bolt or small teleport bolt. Nolla and long-distance cast are not necessary, although they can help reduce cast delay. I don't know if it's possible to use the more niche methods of teleportation like Return, Swapper, or Homebringer to achieve ram digging.

Recoil ramming requires atleast 80 recoil to work if fired every single frame, or atleast 100 recoil if fired every 5th frame. The cheapest option is Recoil on a digging bolt (5 mana for 200 recoil), for a more controllable flight, two Heavy Shot spells or three bloodlusts also work and are relatively cheap mana-wise. some projectiles have enough innate recoil like Ball Lightning and Lightning Bolt also work if you can afford the mana cost every 5 frames. A more complete list of all spells that interact with recoil can be found here.

It's paradoxically easiest to use Ramming to dig when moving slower (around 100 recoil, or nolla small teleport bolt), both because it's easier to aim your flight at lower speeds, and because you don't need to fly as far away to have the necessary flight time to trigger the effect. Ultimately this digging method is very niche because it's very slow and hard to aim, and there's an inherent limit on how fast you can dig with it due to the requirement of moving at sufficient speed for a certain length of time.

#noita #digging #mechanic digging monday #more research is needed to determine the exact time requirements for the large and small impact holes #I did a lot of experiments for this one. probably took like 3h #i thought of including every spell that could potentially be used for slam digging but it's like 40 spells #so I stuck with the cheapest one #even if it doesn't match the one used in the gifs #because recoil slamming is harder to aim so the gifs didn't turn out as well #(also if anyone is still reading this. the first gif is from the first time I encountered this effect)