Block Break Chaos

Break a block and the world starts falling apart.

Block Break Chaos is a behaviour pack for Bedrock Edition. Break one stone block and the stone around you goes with it. Break dirt and the dirt goes. Pull up a bucket of water and the water goes too.

The pack comes with two sub packs, so it can run on the device you play on.

Lite is the one the game picks by default. The collapse covers the three by three chunks around you, with the chunk you stand in in the middle. No particles, no sound, and only a few items come loose. It runs on old phones and old computers.

Total Collapse reaches nine by nine chunks. Every block that goes down hands over its item, and the collapse follows you around, so every new chunk you walk into falls in behind you. It is meant for a machine that can take it.

Picking one

Open the world settings, go to Behavior Packs and press the gear icon next to Block Break Chaos. The slider switches between the sub packs. You can also do it while you play:

/scriptevent bbc:flavour lite
/scriptevent bbc:flavour ultra

If no sub pack is selected the pack runs the lite rules anyway, so it works everywhere. The middle ground, nine by nine chunks with particles and sound, is one command away:

/scriptevent bbc:flavour standard

The items

Every block that goes down hands over its item. The items go into your inventory first, and whatever does not fit is dropped next to you so you can pick it up. A single collapse can take more blocks down than the game can carry around, so the status command tells you how many items were lost on the way.

Settings

Everything is adjustable while you play:

/scriptevent bbc:radius <chunks>      how far the collapse reaches, 1 to 12
/scriptevent bbc:drops <blocks>       radius in which blocks still drop items
/scriptevent bbc:maxdrops <count>     maximum items per reaction, 0 means unlimited
/scriptevent bbc:spill <count>        item stacks that get put into the world
/scriptevent bbc:particles on|off
/scriptevent bbc:sounds on|off
/scriptevent bbc:announce on|off
/scriptevent bbc:status                the current settings
/scriptevent bbc:help                 every command

The commands need Cheats switched on in the world settings. The collapse itself does not.

Before you try it

The pack deletes blocks in the world around you. That is the idea of it, but it means you should ask the other players on a server before you use it there. Try it on a world you do not care about first.

It needs Minecraft 1.21.90 or newer, because that is where the Script API lives. There is no experimental toggle to switch on.

Credits

This is an independent Bedrock Edition implementation of the idea behind the Java Edition plugin "Minecraft but Every Block Breaks" by cjcameron92, which is published under the MIT license:

https://modrinth.com/project/minecraft-but-every-block-breaks

The code was written from scratch for the Bedrock Script API.

The icon was made with an AI image generator. It shows the effect in a stylised way, the game itself looks like the screenshots in the gallery. (screenshots unavailable for now)