In B78 powder kegs were incredibly difficult to get without sulfur, but they were immensely powerful and rewarding as tools for gathering ores or blowing yourself into many small pieces. No longer are they days when we could set one off and gather a chest or two full of ore with a healthy potion of rocks and gems for good measure, but now... A blast radius of 3 blocks in rock. In order to get a keg there's time spent finding sulfur, tool wear acquiring it, time spent finding saltpeter, a fair bit of pick axe wear digging that up, plenty of wear on the axe felling enough trees to fill up a charcoal pit, wear on the shovel digging up 128 pieces of charcoal, put it all together and you're rewarded with a small pop and maybe 8 pieces of ore. I feel the reward is nowhere near enough considering the time and effort to get 128 saltpeters, 128 sulfurs and 128 charcoals, that much charcoal alone could have fueled 4 max size blooms. Gather 384 resources to get about 8 back, and an hour's work for what could be done in a few seconds in a mine. The scarcity of gunpowder in B78 meant that powder kegs weren't so overpowered even though they were re-usable, but now they are so useless I'm not sure why they're still in the game. What do other people think, were B78 kegs too powerful, or okay considering the cost? Would we like B78 proportioned explosions again, or maybe even 50% of the old power?