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Ultima IX: Ascension (1999)

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Always the Covetous explosion barrels were the biggest mechanics mistery for me. From the second playthrough then on, I kept clicking on the barrel in LB's castle in one of the hidden rooms, expecting it to explode. I wondered if it was about the place, so that any small barrel brought to that Covetous wall would cause an explosion or if the barrels are different and those in the dungeon would explode anywhere.
As you can see, none of these possibilities cover the full truth.

You can see that I moved the barrels to the other end of the room, yet clicking them causes the explosion all the same. The glitch-worn barrel is preserved and stays intact upon removal. When I click it, too, it just similarly disappears and triggers the same explosion effect.
As you can see, when I bring to another map (thanks to glitch-wearing, most objects can be moved between maps), clicking it makes it disappear, but since the wall in question is on another map, nothing happens.
At least the game doesn't crash, unlike with other "different map" and "distance" experiments of mine.
Also, glitch-wearing the barrel from the entrance of Covetous to the wall does nothing. I don't show it on video, for it took long even with flying cheat. In fact, it would be entirely impossible without glitch wearing and knowing the exact layout of the maps, even counting the fact that I entered from the backdoor...


So, can this be used for something?
Maybe the exploding version does blow up something on certain other maps (there are similar looking walls on other levels), even outside. For example the blocked entrance of Destard, which has an inactive barrel, so it might was intended to be blown up at some point.
However, it would be a lot of time to check probably without any result. Nothing for a hardcore glitch finder, since they can spend months/years turning up interesting details and triggering unintended behaviour, but as for me, it probably won't be Tidbit #29.


This is probably not the most astounding Ultima IX video I made, but sure is one of the most satisfactory ones for me (along with the Greater Trick videos and the clean Hythloth II walkthrough), since I was wondering about this for two decades.
So, 20 years old persons, while your parents were wondering what should be your names, I was wondering how to blow things up in Britannia.



(Also, I know at least one word for "gunpowder" in three languages (Hungarian, Spanish, German), but I couldn't remember the English words "powder" and "gunpowder" without an online dictionary for my life. This video was almost named "Exploding dust mechanics".)

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