Explosion Overhaul

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.

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.
• 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.

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

Legal

License

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

Credits

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