Currently the only exploding, threatening device in minecraft is tnt. A lot of it. But some people may be thinking we need to take it up a notch. Here's the idea. A bomb with a 1000 block explosion radius. This will be the nuke of minecraft. But no high tech stuff like lasers or uranium. Instead, a wide range of materials will be used, to make this a very hard thing to aquire.
Now just to clarify, this thing is basically gonna be like a real life terrorist bomb. Greifers or menacing trolls will aquire this and wreak havoc on servers. Now anyone can aquire these bombs. A normal player, a greifer or a complete moron. Once everyone on a server nows that it has been crafted, questions will arise like; "Who has the bomb?" "Where is the bomb?" Imagine the arguments, fights and drama that will follow. This will add a more villainous nature to minecraft, an evil part of the game that is fatal for worlds and servers.
Like i said, the materials you will need are going to be hard to obtain, to cancel out the destructive nature of the bomb. You will need to craft parts of the bomb, then put those parts together to make the bomb. On the crafting table of course. Here are the materials. Blaze rods, buckets of lava, TNT, gunpowder, diamonds, obsidian, blaze powder, glowstone, endstone, redstone, iron blocks and the dragon egg. Yeah, i won't bother to explain how all the parts will be crafted, but hopefully you have a good idea of the time it will take getting all the materials. Unless you have a lot of people helping you, this will be hard.
The general appearance of the bomb is a triangular block, like the dragon egg. It will be silver, with blaze rods sticking out of the top and bright panels. It would have to be activated by redstone or another explosion, so you won't make it go off if you hit it. You must have a diamond pick to destroy it and pick it up, so keep that in mind.
A lot of thinking went into this, so suggest new things and say what you think. I would be quite interested if this was a mod. I would also appreciate if someone would tell me a way to simplify the explosion of the bomb, as i know it will cause tremendous lag.
EDIT: Where the bomb has blown up will be ingulfed in flames and colourfal fireballs will go into the sky, to awaken the child in all of us, or something. And if you step in the crater after the explosion you will get food poisoning.
To all of you people who think Notch is still working on the game, he stopped working on Minecraft in late 2011. Get your facts straight and stop spamming his twitter about Minecraft updates.
Yeah, this sounds like a good idea but in servers there could be an option of being able to acquire or not, because i don't think that everyone want's to be blown up in a enormous explosion. And crafting it should be a little less harder. But overall, it a good idea, but unfortunately this type of thing has been suggested many times.
1000 Blast radious? 1000x1000x1000? Oh my gosh are you kidding me? Minecraft is supposed to be a simple game of being able to express you creativity and explore, not run around willy-nilly "OH I HAZ A SINGLE BOMB THAT CAN CRASH A SERVER!" And just why would you want everyone to be able to aquire this bomb? Please elaborate why this should even be in minecraft? I'm sorry but I swear if Jeb/Notch even considered adding this to Minecraft I'd quit because this idea is just preposterous.
By the way, most "terrorist" bombs and just IEDs (Improvised Explosive Devices), simply some mortar shells and other explosives left lying around that they see.
1000 Blast radious? 1000x1000x1000? Oh my gosh are you kidding me? Minecraft is supposed to be a simple game of being able to express you creativity and explore, not run around willy-nilly "OH I HAZ A SINGLE BOMB THAT CAN CRASH A SERVER!" And just why would you want everyone to be able to aquire this bomb? Please elaborate why this should even be in minecraft? I'm sorry but I swear if Jeb/Notch even considered adding this to Minecraft I'd quit because this idea is just preposterous.
By the way, most "terrorist" bombs and just IEDs (Improvised Explosive Devices), simply some mortar shells and other explosives left lying around that they see.
I was just suggesting this to be an optional part of servers or a mod. And a single doomsday device won't replace the point of minecraft, derp. Yeah, guns don't belong in minecraft, so a mod was made. I'm suggesting this as a mod or a plugin, dumbass.
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To all of you people who think Notch is still working on the game, he stopped working on Minecraft in late 2011. Get your facts straight and stop spamming his twitter about Minecraft updates.
A 1000 block blast radius means that everything would be destroyed for 1000 blocks in every direction (2000 block blast diameter).
Good luck laying that fuse. You'd have to make a delay timer so you could leg it out of the way.
A large bomb would be cool to play with, but if it just blasts down to bedrock then the resultant devastation (after a long freeze as the games works out how to update so many blocks) would have a pretty predictable appearance.
I'd go for a smaller explosion with some firery fall out that can fall down and set light to things so that folk can 'enjoy' the aftermath.
Whilst this sort of thing is appealing to the child in all of us, I think it's a toy to play with on your own. Other players suddenly finding themselves dead and all of their building work gone, without even seeing the explosion, wouldn't get much out of it.
Just stick a load of TNT together and set it off to get these destructive thoughts out of your system.
Now just to clarify, this thing is basically gonna be like a real life terrorist bomb. Greifers or menacing trolls will aquire this and wreak havoc on servers. Now anyone can aquire these bombs. A normal player, a greifer or a complete moron. Once everyone on a server nows that it has been crafted, questions will arise like; "Who has the bomb?" "Where is the bomb?" Imagine the arguments, fights and drama that will follow. This will add a more villainous nature to minecraft, an evil part of the game that is fatal for worlds and servers.
Like i said, the materials you will need are going to be hard to obtain, to cancel out the destructive nature of the bomb. You will need to craft parts of the bomb, then put those parts together to make the bomb. On the crafting table of course. Here are the materials. Blaze rods, buckets of lava, TNT, gunpowder, diamonds, obsidian, blaze powder, glowstone, endstone, redstone, iron blocks and the dragon egg. Yeah, i won't bother to explain how all the parts will be crafted, but hopefully you have a good idea of the time it will take getting all the materials. Unless you have a lot of people helping you, this will be hard.
The general appearance of the bomb is a triangular block, like the dragon egg. It will be silver, with blaze rods sticking out of the top and bright panels. It would have to be activated by redstone or another explosion, so you won't make it go off if you hit it. You must have a diamond pick to destroy it and pick it up, so keep that in mind.
A lot of thinking went into this, so suggest new things and say what you think. I would be quite interested if this was a mod. I would also appreciate if someone would tell me a way to simplify the explosion of the bomb, as i know it will cause tremendous lag.
EDIT: Where the bomb has blown up will be ingulfed in flames and colourfal fireballs will go into the sky, to awaken the child in all of us, or something. And if you step in the crater after the explosion you will get food poisoning.
By the way, most "terrorist" bombs and just IEDs (Improvised Explosive Devices), simply some mortar shells and other explosives left lying around that they see.
I was just suggesting this to be an optional part of servers or a mod. And a single doomsday device won't replace the point of minecraft, derp. Yeah, guns don't belong in minecraft, so a mod was made. I'm suggesting this as a mod or a plugin, dumbass.
Good luck laying that fuse. You'd have to make a delay timer so you could leg it out of the way.
A large bomb would be cool to play with, but if it just blasts down to bedrock then the resultant devastation (after a long freeze as the games works out how to update so many blocks) would have a pretty predictable appearance.
I'd go for a smaller explosion with some firery fall out that can fall down and set light to things so that folk can 'enjoy' the aftermath.
Whilst this sort of thing is appealing to the child in all of us, I think it's a toy to play with on your own. Other players suddenly finding themselves dead and all of their building work gone, without even seeing the explosion, wouldn't get much out of it.
Just stick a load of TNT together and set it off to get these destructive thoughts out of your system.
Then it belongs in the "mod suggestion" forum, not the "suggestions" forum.