Explosive Unit

Explosive Unit is a powerful explosive component crafted from Combustible Unit. It serves as an intermediate material in high-end ammunition production and can also be used directly by Icarus as fuel or thrown as a weapon. Compared with Combustible Unit, it is a higher-grade explosive with stronger destructive potential, but it also requires more advanced production and tighter resource planning.

Its main industrial uses are as a component for crafting Supersonic Missile Set and Crystal Explosive Unit, and as a raw material in the production of high-explosive shell ammunition. Because these downstream recipes also require other advanced materials such as High-purity silicon and Titanium Ingot, Explosive Unit becomes most useful once the player has a stable logistics network for silicon and titanium imports.

The recipe itself uses Coal, Stone, Water, and Crude Oil. Coal and Crude Oil are shared with other mid- and late-game production chains, especially Combustible Unit, Plastic, and Sulfuric Acid, so putting everything into one tightly packed production block can make the layout awkward. A cleaner approach is to align Explosive Unit production with Plastic and Combustible Unit, since their factory counts line up well, and supply Sulfuric acid from a separate area instead of forcing it into the same block.

• Explosive Unit is a crafting material, ammunition ingredient, and fuel item.
• It is used in Supersonic Missile Set and Crystal Explosive Unit production.
• It is also a key ingredient for high-explosive shell ammunition.
• Its recipe depends on basic resources plus oil processing, making it a bridge between early chemical manufacturing and advanced munitions.

As a thrown weapon, Explosive Unit is significantly stronger than Combustible Unit. Even against a maximum-level Dark Fog target, with no additional performance upgrades, it can destroy a mobile ground unit in a single hit. Its blast radius, however, is not ideal for Guardian targets, so it is not a reliable answer to them despite its raw damage.

Although it can be burned as fuel, Explosive Unit is generally a poor fuel choice. Each stack contains a large amount of energy, but the production cost is far too high for routine power generation, so using it as fuel is usually wasteful unless there is a surplus.