Better Explosives

An explosives mod for Minecraft 26.1.2 (Fabric), part of the CraftZ experience. Register at craftz.net Register before launch (23/10) and you'll receive a unique Founding Survivor badge, visible on your profile.

What is Better Explosives?

Better Explosives adds 15 new explosives to Minecraft: tactical grenades, breaching charges, landmines, and airstrikes you call in by radio. Each one has its own 3D model, custom sounds, and effects.

Tactical Grenades

Throw them with right-click. Most recipes make 2, and they stack to 4.

	Item	What it does
	Flashbang	Pops on impact. Anyone within 8 blocks who is looking at it with line of sight gets Blindness (5 s) and Nausea (4 s). Their screen whites out, then fades back through a lingering afterimage of what they were looking at, like the flash in Counter-Strike.
	HE Grenade	Lands, stops dead, and detonates after a 3-second fuse, throwing out a burst of glowing embers. A strong blast for clearing rooms.
	Smoke Grenade	Releases a thick, rolling cloud of smoke for 10 seconds. Use it to cross open ground, revive a teammate, or break line of sight.
	Decoy Grenade	Plays a primed TNT hiss every 2 seconds for 10 seconds. It makes a lot of noise and does no damage, so it's good for pulling attention the wrong way.
	Incendiary Grenade	Sets a 3-block-radius circle on fire on impact and sets every creature within 4 blocks burning. Good for area denial.
	Molotov Cocktail	Trails fire and smoke as it flies, then shatters into a 5×5 patch of flames.

Tip: Zombies don't care about flashbangs or decoys, but they walk straight through fire. A molotov in the path of a horde thins it out before it reaches your walls.

Demolition

Heavier tools for breaching bases and holding ground.

C4 Right-click a block to stick it straight onto that face (walls, floors, ceilings), or right-click the air to throw it so it sticks to whatever it hits. It then counts down 10 seconds, beeping faster as it gets closer to detonating.	Landmine Place it on top of any block. It arms after 1 second, and any creature that steps on it sets it off. Mines within 4 blocks of an explosion set each other off in a chain reaction. Punch a mine to pick it back up safely.
Dynamite & Triple Dynamite A lit stick with a hissing fuse you can hear following it through the air. It blows up on impact or after 3 seconds, whichever comes first. Craft three sticks into a Triple Dynamite bundle for a much bigger blast.	Hand Grenade A classic stick grenade that explodes on impact. Cheap to craft (two per craft).

Physical Debris

Explosions no longer just delete blocks. Every block caught in a blast is thrown outward as a falling block, based on its direction from the center, and then rains back down. Breaching a wall leaves a crater and a pile of rubble around it. (Can be disabled through configuration)

Airstrikes

The Talkie-Walkie lets you call in air support. The bombs you carry are the price of the strike.

How to use:

1. Right-click the radio to cycle its screen between Small Bombs, Large Bombs, and Nuclear.
2. Look at your target, up to 200 blocks away.
3. Press the Call Airstrike key.
   • With enough bombs: they're consumed, a siren sounds, a jet passes overhead, and the bombs fall in at an angle and scatter across the target.
   • Without enough bombs: the radio crackles and nothing happens.

Mode	Cost	What happens
Small Bombs	16 × Small Bomb	16 bombs spread across the target.
Large Bombs	8 × Large Bomb	8 heavier bombs with a much bigger blast.
Nuclear	1 × Nuclear Bomb	The siren sounds, then a 1 min 36 s warhead announcement plays. When it ends, the warhead hits. Anyone nearby has time to hear it coming and run.

⚠️ The Call Airstrike key is unbound by default. Set it under Options → Controls → Better Explosives before you need it.

Crafting

• The Landmine accepts any pressure plate, and the Talkie-Walkie accepts any color of wool.
• C4 and the Nuclear Bomb have no crafting recipe.

Fully Configurable

Every value in this mod can be tuned in the config file located at:

./config/better-explosives.json

Configurable values include:

• Fuse times
• Explosion power of every explosive and bomb
• Flashbang radius and effect durations
• Fire radius and burn time for the Incendiary and Molotov
• Smoke and Decoy durations
• Landmine chain-reaction radius

New options are added to the file automatically after updates.

For reference, vanilla TNT has a power of 4.0. 20 ticks = 1 second.

Just edit and restart.

CraftZ Network

This mod is developed as part of the CraftZ survival network. Experience Better Explosives and other custom features live at:

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Built for Minecraft 26.X (Fabric)