Gray wiggly thing..?

[andryw]

ok, just a little confused, not sure if this is explained later, but i couldn't find anything on the wiki about it. it's marked on map as a trophy(the weird pink symbol) but every time i mine it, it just explodes, and doesn't give any items. is there some special way to harvest it? or is it just an exploding nuisance to avoid?

[astatine0thew]

I wondered over these a few times, too. I experimented a little with them, but came to no other conclusion that those "potatoes", as I came to call them, are in fact nothing other than explosive traps.
If at least they would be able to provide one with plasma upon exploding. A missed opportunity in my opinion.