Mason jar mine

The Mason Jar Mine is a cut content mine in Fallout 3.

Background
The mine itself seems to be a combination of nails, possibly Railway Spikes, an empty jar, a stick of dynamite and a lit Cigarette. The cigarette burns down, and eventually ignites the fuse on the dynamite. When it explodes, it sends the nails flying in all directions, but, due to where the explosive (dynamite) is placed, it would send the nails in only one direction (that is on purpose you obviously wouldn't want nails flying at you, works like a claymore using a shaped explosion to send shrapnel towards an enemy and away from the user). Also it seems that this wouldn't be able to function as a mine, due to the fact that cigarettes are not proximity activated bombs. It would instead function something like a Time Bomb. This may explain why there are so many cigarettes in the game.

Appearances
Mason Jar Mine does not appear in the files of Fallout 3, but can be found in the book The Art of Fallout 3.