Exploding rock



The Exploding rock random event (AKA: "smoking rock" or "gas") was a random event in which a player tried to mine a rock after the point at which it began to "steam/smoke/bubble". After mining that rock for more than a few more seconds, the rock would explode, along with the player's pickaxe. It would also damage the player for a number of Life Points and it could even kill them if their Life Points were already greatly reduced.

Using any low-tiered pick axe on a smoking rock would result in your pick being destroyed and not being able to retrieve it, return to any Bob location to buy back that Pickaxe.

This Random Event was coded into the game to prevent macroers. However, players can argue that the rate of this random event should be decreased due to the bubbling rocks being too much of a hassle.

Trivia

 * Using either the Dragon pickaxe or the Inferno Adze will still harvest the rock without breaking the Pickaxe (needs citation).
 * Bubbling Rocks tend to happen more frequently with lower Tier Pickaxes, namely the Iron Pickaxe.
 * This event can happen to any tier of metal rocks (Copper, Tin, Iron, Silver, Gold, Mithril, Coal, Adamant, Runite)
 * The best way to deal with bubbling/smoking rocks is to relog (log out then back in) this way the rock resets itself and you can carry on mining