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I don't understand the language on the Bore Bomb discovery from the Advanced Race Guide.
The entry says "it ignores half the target's hardness and deals 1 point of damage per saboteur level" is this in addition to normal bomb damage, or instead of it?
According to the text of Bomb(Su):
On a direct hit, an alchemist’s bomb inflicts 1d6 points of fire damage + additional damage equal to the alchemist’s Intelligence modifier.
According to the text of Bore Bomb discovery:
If a bore bomb strikes a wall, gate, siege engine, or similar large, solid, inanimate structure, it ignores half the target's hardness and deals 1 point of damage per saboteur level.
Now let's see what happens if a Bore Bomb strikes a wall.
Once again, this is not a replacement effect. Let's see some examples of replacement effects:
If the weapon's critical multiplier is ×3, it deals an extra 2d10 points of damage instead, and if the multiplier is ×4, it deals an extra 3d10 points instead.
Choose one energy type: acid, cold, electricity, or fire. You may replace a spell’s normal damage with that energy type or split the spell’s damage, so that half is of that energy type and half is of its normal type.
Discoveries, however, don't replace but agument things.
Hope that helps.
Bore bomb is from the advanced race guide, in the book, bore bomb has an asterisk attached (missing from d20pfsrd).
And as the Discovery description states
Some discoveries can only be made if the alchemist has met certain prerequisites first, such as uncovering other discoveries. Discoveries that modify bombs that are marked with an asterisk (*) do not stack.
