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By playing the PvP scenario, we discovered that enemy land mines can be detected by spamming a repeating blueprint, say a 20 by 20 grid of solid rails. Wherever a rail ghost does not appear is the location of an enemy mine.

Also, you don't even need to place the blueprint if you just want to temporarily detect enemy land mines. You can just hover your blueprint over the area and the enemy mine locations will be revealed.

https://gfycat.com/ScrawnyImpishKrill

Fun how this only works with rails and not other entities. In any case, fixed in 0.16.23.

You should really add a minesweeper tool.

Oxyd wrote:Fun how this only works with rails and not other entities. In any case, fixed in 0.16.23.

[0.16.28] We did a pvp match yesterday and people were using rocket silo blueprints to do the same thing. Others said they were able to use other kinds of blueprints but I'm not sure what they were composed of.

Yes, thought also that this feature was removed, maybe rocket silo blueprints still work?