Nova Catalyst

Did you ever think TNT was too weak for your tastes? Have you found that 'normal' explosives tend to destroy most of the blocks they extract? Nova Catalysts are a special breed of explosives that do a few things for you:


 * 1) They leave massive craters. They blister through all forms of material with relative ease, and have a very wide area of effect.
 * 2) They won't hurt you, or anything for that matter. You can stand right next to the blast as it safely vaporizes all materials nearby to their appropriate "collectable" forms. This also means no items will ever be "accidentally" vaporized.
 * 3) They don't drop individual items. Much like several of the alchemical items, this explosion drops everything in a neat, lag reducing bundle nearby the player, leaving you free to detonate massive quantities of the stuff in relative safety, and without the worry of losing the items in lava.

Because of the VERY LOW hardness of netherrack, many people use Nova Catalysts in the Nether to produce diamonds. One Nova Catalyst will often produce the equivalent of 2 diamond ores! Players must take caution when using this method, however. Although they don't hurt you, Nova Catalysts usually create a very large blast radius, and many players don't anticipate just how large the blast is. Standing next to a Nova Catalyst while detonating it means that you have a chance of falling into a hole or even lava when it explodes. The Nova Catalyst drops the items near the player, so if you stand far enough away, the items will drop outside of the explosion's crater. You don't even need to go into the crater at all !