Cluster Strike Missile

Quickstart

1. Craft the Cluster Strike Missile at a crafting table using the recipe below.
2. Hold it in your hand — it appears in the Equipment tab of your inventory.
3. Aim toward your target, hold use (right-click / hold screen), and release to deploy.
4. Watch for the ⚠ Cluster Missile Deployed! ⚠ action bar message and the ghast-fireball sound confirming launch.
5. Ten fragments will rain down in a spread pattern ~30 blocks ahead of where you're looking, each detonating with a massive explosion. Stay back!

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Overview

The Cluster Strike Missile is a powerful single-use throwable weapon that calls in an airstrike on a targeted area. Upon deployment, it splits into 10 individual fragments that fall from above and detonate across a wide spread, devastating everything in the impact zone.

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What It Adds

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How To Use

1. Equip the Cluster Strike Missile in your hand.
2. Aim your crosshair toward the desired strike zone.
3. Hold and release the use button (like a throwable item). A charge time of up to 1.5 seconds applies — the longer you hold, the more powerful the throw.
4. The missile deploys immediately: 10 fragments spawn ~35 blocks above the target and fall toward the ground in a radial spread up to ~10 blocks wide.
5. Each fragment descends visually as an arrow, then detonates on impact.
6. After firing, the item has a 3-second cooldown before it can be used again.

Safety tip: The strike lands ~30 blocks in the direction you're looking. Do not aim at nearby ground — the blast radius of each fragment is large enough to catch you in the damage.

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Abilities And Mechanics

Cluster Spread

• 10 fragments are launched in a circular pattern around the target point.
• Fragments are staggered, detonating one after another over roughly 2–3 seconds for a rolling barrage effect.
• The spread radius gives the strike a footprint of about 20 blocks across.

Explosion Power

• Each fragment detonates with a blast radius of 8 blocks — approximately twice the radius of standard TNT.
• The explosion deals structural block damage typical of TNT.

Entity Damage

• All entities (mobs, players) within 8 blocks of each explosion take damage equal to 50% of their maximum health.
• This damage scales with the target — a mob with 40 HP takes 20 damage per fragment hit; a player with 20 HP takes 10 damage per fragment.
• The firing player is immune to their own cluster strike.
• A single entity caught by multiple overlapping fragments will take damage from each one.

Durability

• Each Cluster Strike Missile has 1 use and is consumed on firing.
• Stack up to 16 in a single inventory slot.

Enchantability

• Can be enchanted using the sword enchantment table slot (enchantability 10).

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Crafting And Obtaining

Craft at a Crafting Table. The recipe unlocks automatically once you have TNT, Gunpowder, or an Elytra in your inventory.

Ingredients:

• 4× TNT (corners)
• 4× Gunpowder (sides)
• 1× Elytra (center)

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Progression And Strategy

• Crowd control: The wide spread and massive per-fragment blast radius makes the Cluster Strike Missile exceptional against large groups of mobs clustered together.
• Boss fights: The 50%-max-health damage per fragment means a boss caught in multiple detonations can be destroyed in a single strike.
• Resource cost: The Elytra center ingredient makes each missile expensive. Save strikes for high-value targets or emergencies.
• Stacking: Carrying a full stack of 16 gives you a rapid-response airstrike arsenal — fire, wait 3 seconds for cooldown, fire again.
• Positioning: Always strike at least 30+ blocks ahead of your position. Terrain, walls, and enclosed spaces will amplify blast damage unpredictably.
• PvP: A single well-placed strike can down a full-health player (20 HP) with just one fragment hit, making this devastating in open combat.