Compressed Blocks Durability

By
CraftZSMP

Adds compressed blocks with durability into Minecraft

Description

Compressed Blocks

A building mod for Minecraft 26.1.2 – 26.3 (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 Compressed Blocks?

Compressed Blocks packs 9 blocks into 1. That saves a lot of inventory space, and it also makes the best wall material in the game. Compressed blocks resist the blast of any explosion. Instead of being destroyed, each explosion that reaches them removes one point of durability, so it takes several blasts to break through.

The Blocks

The eight compressed blocks in a row: Compressed Cobblestone, Smooth Stone, Dirt, Sand, Red Sand, Netherrack, End Stone and Obsidian

Block	Made from	Mine with	Explosions to break
Compressed Cobblestone	9 Cobblestone	Pickaxe	4
Compressed Smooth Stone	9 Smooth Stone	Pickaxe	4
Compressed Netherrack	9 Netherrack	Pickaxe	4
Compressed End Stone	9 End Stone	Pickaxe	4
Compressed Dirt	9 Dirt	Shovel	2
Compressed Sand	9 Sand	Shovel	2
Compressed Red Sand	9 Red Sand	Shovel	2
Compressed Obsidian	9 Obsidian	Diamond pickaxe	20

Compressed blocks take about 3× longer to mine than the originals (Compressed Obsidian about 1.5×).
Compressed Sand and Red Sand don't fall. Unlike regular sand, they stay where you put them.
Stone-type blocks and obsidian drop nothing if you break them without the right tool.

Crafting

Compress: fill the crafting grid with 9 of the same block.
Decompress: put 1 compressed block anywhere in the grid to get the 9 blocks back.

All eight blocks work the same way.

Explosion Durability

Chart of how many explosions each block survives: regular blocks 1, compressed dirt, sand and red sand 2, compressed cobblestone, smooth stone, netherrack and end stone 4, vanilla obsidian 5, Compressed Obsidian 20

Compressed blocks aren't destroyed by the blast itself. Instead, every explosion that reaches them removes 1 durability, and they break when it hits zero.

This works with every explosion: TNT, creepers, and the grenades, C4 and airstrikes from Better Explosives.
Vanilla obsidian uses the same system. It used to be immune to explosions, and now breaks after 5 blasts.
Damage is saved with the world, so a wall stays damaged after a restart.

Check a block's durability

A block of Compressed Obsidian with the action bar reading Durability: 12 / 20, and the instruction to right-click with an empty hand

Right-click a block with an empty hand to see its remaining durability above your hotbar, for example Durability: 12 / 20.

Repairing

Mine a damaged block and place it back to restore it to full durability.

Every Block in Range Is Hit

Top-down diagram of a C4 with a blast radius of 5 next to a wall 3 blocks thick. Every wall block inside the dashed circle is marked minus 1, across all three rows; blocks outside the circle are untouched

An explosion damages every compressed block inside its blast radius, even blocks hidden behind other blocks. A 3-block-thick wall right next to a C4 loses durability on all three rows at once.

Only distance protects a block. Anything past the blast radius is untouched.
Build deeper than a blast reaches. C4 reaches 5 blocks and TNT 4, so layers further back stay at full durability.
Mix in Compressed Obsidian where it counts. At 20 blasts, it's the toughest block in the game.

CraftZ Network

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

craftz.net

Learn everything about the server on the CraftZ Wiki

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Built for Minecraft 26.X (Fabric)