WMD - Weapons of Mass Destruction

Nukes are built from a small set of blocks and items. Ingots, nuggets and full blocks of iron, gold and diamond each correspond to a yield, so a larger block gives a larger detonation. A nuke can be armed by redstone, dropped as a falling device that detonates where it lands, or spawned at the point a player is looking, with the yield set by an item held in the offhand.

The blast is drawn with a GPU-accelerated particle system that uses compute shaders, which makes the effect a rendering feature on the client. Falling nukes detonate where they land, and the landing position is estimated with a semi-realistic calculation based on velocity.

Installation requires Forge for Minecraft 1.20.1. Every player and the server need a copy of the mod. The latest file is 0.1.2, released 2026-05-10 on the beta channel, and the mod is published under All rights reserved, so it is not open source.