Since the release of this sandbox game, Minecraft has been redefining the gaming world. People have built castles, landmarks, whole cities and even worlds. They’ve created elevators, automated growing systems and even basic computers, with the science base this game has to offer. However, one thing was impossible – to destroy a bedrock/adminium block. The keyword here is ‘was’!
Minecraft addicts have found a way to destroy the seemingly invincible blocks of bedrock, proving that it is not really indestructible, but just very, very durable. The blast resistance associated with different kind of blocks in Minecraft is different – for the common wood it is 10, for the cobblestone it is 30. This is something every player knew. The new information is that Bedrock also has a blast resistance, proving its destructibility. However, it is not 10, it is not 30, it is not even 10,000. The blast resistance for the bedrock goes as high as 18, 000, 000, and probably this is the only reason it has seemed like the ‘god’ block for so long.
If we continue to calculate, we need an explosion with power value of more than 30, 000,000 to be able to destroy these solid blocks. Not only that, but as the ‘test’ videos proving these facts show – we need a lot of patience.
Despite the fact that we need so much explosion energy, we have to wait for the single player Minecraft server to calculate the explosion. If we have to be even more precise, the time it takes exactly two hours, thirty minutes and about fifty-nine seconds after the summoning of a fireball with blast power over 30, 000,000 for the bedrock to be destroyed.
Calculations, even for today’s high end computers, even with big bang simulations taking place, require more than two hours destroying a block of bedrock. This just goes to prove that Minecraft is just not your regular game. Despite looking so simple, the game has once again proven its complexity. The only question that is left to be answered is now that even the seemingly impossible thing to do in this game has been done, what will be the stimuli to play it?
The game hasn’t lost its core values and gameplay; however, every game should have an unreachable goal. A thing, which every player desires to have, to do, but isn’t really able to; something, which seems divine, which seems impossible. Up until today, for Minecraft, this was the bedrock – the indestructible block. But now that the Holy Grail has been found and that the secret of the block’s destructibility has been revealed, what will be the next big thing? Only the creators of Minecraft are able to shape up a new block, to give the players another unreachable dream and unexpected goal. Will they? Who knows?! For now, the players can just enjoy their victory and feast their eyes at the long awaited destruction of the seemingly invincible block of Bedrock/Adminium in this yet to be dethroned sandbox game – Minecraft.