Minecraft players manage to destroy their server after sending a nuclear reactor into meltdown: 'I snuck a fish into the reactor'

Minecraft players are no strangers to making odd and complex creations in the sandbox game. Previously, we've seen all sorts, like one player who made a redstone PC so they could play Minecraft in Minecraft or when someone else created a word processor in the crafting game. 

Over the last decade or so, I've learned never to underestimate a Minecraft player, which is why when I saw that a group of players had managed to recreate a nuclear reactor in a custom server and then subsequently blow it up, I wasn't actually too surprised. 

«A minor radiological incident occurred on the Minecraft server,» one player on the server tweets. This is also accompanied by a detailed hand-drawn map laying out where the radiological fallout (referred to as a 'Giant fucking cloud of airborne radioactive materials') has landed on the server, which is pretty much everywhere.  

To give some more context to this tragic disaster, the reactor was from Mekanism, a mod on Curseforge that provides players with «a suite of low, mid, and high tier machinery to elevate your archaic home and inefficient resource processing to the 21st century,» according to its description. This gives you access to hydrogen-powered jetpacks, a robot friend, and, crucially, a fusion reactor that «uses advanced [inertial] confinement technology (compressing and heating a small amount of fusion fuel) to harness the power of the sun to run advanced machinery.» You know, it's just basic fusion stuff. 

Apparently, all was going well with the reactor, so well, in fact, that one of the members, who also happens to be a nuclear reactor safety inspector, handed out a certificate to the person operating the reactor to confirm that it was safe. It was shortly after this that the reactor exploded, sending the server into chaos. 

A minor radiological incident occurred on the Minecraft server pic.twitter.com/qp16d7kTdQJuly 12, 2024

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