Pneumatic Drill
From Worms Knowledge Base
 Pneumatic Drill
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| Type: | Digging tool |
| Keyboard selection: | F7 (x2) |
| Standard effects: | Vertical tunnel |
| Present in: | W:A, WWP |
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| Each additional strike by the drill delivers a smaller and smaller amount of injury; each entry in this table shows how the values diminish. |
The Pneumatic Drill allows a worm to dig a hole directly downward through the terrain.
Regardless of power setting, it stays active for a maximum of 5 seconds.
By setting its power, not only the damage caused to a worm changes, but the distance it propels the hit worm too. Also, there is a maximum damage that a worm can recieve during a turn by this weapon.
Its maximum damage is "shared" with the blowtorch, which only matters when RubberWorm's shot doesn't end turn mode is on. This means that the sum of the damage dealt by pneumatic drill and blowtorch in one turn to a single worm can not exceed a certain amount defined by the power setting. In case of different settings, the weaker one is used.
The depth of the hole varies randomly, approximating a Gaussian distribution (bell curve). The average (mean) digging depth, calculated from a test sample of 1.5×1012 random drillings on solid flat terrain, is 157.96 pixels, with a standard deviation of 18.35 pixels (also, the median is 157 and the mode is 156). In 95% of drillings, the depth will be within the range 124 to 196 pixels. In 99% of drillings, it'll be from 115 to 208 pixels. In 99.9% of drillings, it'll be from 105 to 223 pixels. (The minimum and maximum depths encountered during the test were 63 and 296 pixels, but these might become even more extreme in a larger sample.) The depth is defined as the lowest height a worm can occupy at the bottom of the hole, minus the height of a worm at the surface.
Criticisms, Problems and Weaknesses
- The direction in which a worm is knocked upon being drilled is randomly left or right; contrary to intuition, it does not depend on the relative positions of the worm being drilled and the one doing the drilling.
Tricks and glitches
- If timed correctly, it is possible to jump right after drilling.
