Cinematic, physics-enhanced explosions that feel powerful and dynamic.

Explosion Overhaul re-imagines Minecraft's vanilla explosion system with immersive visual feedback — perfect for adventure, combat, realism-focused or even tech modpacks.

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Features

• Works with every explosion: All vanilla and most modded explosives (such as creepers, TNT, crystals and fireballs) are all supported!

• Physics Based Debris: Explosions launch nearby blocks into the air as falling block entities with randomized speed, arc, and rotation. Enhances destructive capabilities of explosions.

• Smoke Trails: Exploded blocks have smoke trailing behind them that disperses into the environment.

• Sparks: TNT now releases sparks before it explodes!

• Fully Serverside: Vanilla clients are supported and get to enjoy all the benefits without even having to install the mod!

• Every Feature is Configurable: Alongside tweaking physics, customize all behavior via a config file or through tags.

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What's next?

After the rewrite, you might have noticed the sound effects and screenshake have disappeared, this is because they caused issues and overall weren't up to the standards this mod deserves.

I will start to add back various immersion features including all new smoke trails behind launched blocks, fire particles and more!

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Compatibility

Minecraft 1.21.1 Neoforge

(Fabric supported before the rewrite, but is no longer supported)

Recommended Mods

• Vectorientation Reforged: An in-house rewrite of Vectorientation to make launched rotate in the direction they are moving
• Vectorientation: Makes falling blocks rotate in the direction they are moving
• Supplementaries: Throwable bombs work well with the enhanced explosions

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Legal

License

Apache License 2.0 — open source and ready for use in any project. View Source on GitHub

Credits

Iris, Rethinking Voxels and Vectorientation were used in the creation of some screenshots/promotional material.