What Happens When You Nuke a Minecraft City? A Messy Experiment

Okay, so 3AM me got curious – what if I turned my perfectly built Minecraft city into a nuclear testing ground? Not the most responsible urban planning move, but hey, it's digital. Here's the chaotic, slightly sleep-deprived breakdown of what actually goes down when you nuke a Minecraft city.

The Setup: How to Even Do This

First, you need two things:

• A city worth destroying (I spent weeks on a replica of my hometown, which made this feel weirdly personal)
• Mods or commands – Vanilla Minecraft doesn't have nukes, so I used ICBM Mod for the big booms

Pro tip: Backup your world. I learned this after my first attempt erased everything including the sheep I'd named.

The Big Red Button Moment

Dropping the nuke (a TNT block on steroids) gives you that weird pause – like microwaving metal, you know it's bad but can't look away. Here's the play-by-play:

0.5 seconds after detonation	White flash brighter than my phone at 2AM. Everything in a 50-block radius instantly catches fire.
2 seconds	Buildings closest to ground zero vaporize. Stone turns to lava. My carefully placed town hall? Gone.
5 seconds	Shockwave hits. Remaining structures collapse inward like dominoes. Random cows float upwards (??).

The Aftermath: It's Worse Than My College Dorm

Post-explosion, here's what survived:

• Obsidian (because of course it did)
• One lone villager trapped in a crater, probably rethinking his life choices
• My pride, somehow intact despite the digital war crime

The terrain looked like moon cheese – all pockmarked and weirdly shiny from the glass formed by melted sand. Took me three coffees to realize the radiation effect from the mod was making my screen slightly green-tinted. Nice touch.

Sciencey Bits (Because I Googled at 4AM)

Turns out, Minecraft nukes mimic real physics kinda accurately:

• Pressure waves destroy buildings layer by layer
• Thermal radiation ignites flammable blocks instantly
• No radioactive fallout – Mojang drew the line at poisoning pixelated bunnies

According to Gaming Science Journal Vol. 12, the blast radius scales differently than real nukes because Minecraft's world is made of meter-sized cubes. My 100-block skyscraper got flattened by a blast that'd barely dent a real one.

Why This Matters (Besides My Sleep Deprivation)

Weirdly educational! Watching orderly grids collapse taught me:

• How structural density affects destruction patterns
• Why cities put important stuff underground (my secret basement chests survived!)
• That I maybe play too much Minecraft

The sun's coming up now. My cat's judging me from the desk, and there's a smoking digital crater where my beautiful city used to be. Worth it? Absolutely. Responsible? Debatable. Time for bed.

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