Dread Hunger: How To Use A Powder Keg

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Dread Hunger is a fantastic multiplayer survival game filled with betrayal, exploration, and some unforeseen tactics from certain players. One such tactic to both take out some players or continue that exploration is the Powder Keg. It's essentially an explosive barrel that can bring down icebergs, kill other player characters, or destroy boats when necessary.

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All this makes it a particularly useful item to craft and use, but it's a bit complicated to master, despite being relatively easy to craft and detonate. Luckily there are a few ways to effectively use a Powder Keg that will get rid of any pesky Thralls or wipe the crew out once and for all if chaos is the agenda. If not, then it will allow that treacherous journey to continue past that seemingly unavoidable iceberg.

Luckily, making a Powder Keg isn't a huge challenge, so long as the player has the right ingredients and the dedication to both find and correctly craft this recipe.

Essentially, the Powder Keg in Dread Hunger requires players to first make a barrel. This can be done by finding:

Once the barrel has been made, the player will need to add gunpowder. The amount players choose to put in will depend on the power they desire. It can have a maximum of 30 pieces of gunpowder for the most powerful explosion. However, the beginning of the game may make finding that much gunpowder a bit of a challenge.

It's also worth knowing that 9 gunpowder will take a player down and 16 will kill them instantly. Although they will need to be relatively near it for this to take full effect.

Before being able to use the Powder Keg in Dread Hunger, players will first need to find the required items. Some are much easier than others but the majority of