Tear It Down

Teardown's destruction, in Minecraft: five tools, and buildings that actually fall down.

The tools

Find them in the Teardown Tools creative tab, with /teardown give, or craft them in survival.

• Sledgehammer: right- or left-click to smash a ragged hole through wood, glass, stone and brick.
• Blowtorch: hold right-click to melt through one block at a time, even metal.
• Pipe bomb: throw it and run. Three seconds later it blows a room-sized hole and sends debris flying.
• Rocket launcher: unlimited rockets that explode on impact, with a short reload.
• Physics gun: hold right-click on falling debris to grab and carry it, or on a wall to rip a chunk out. Let go to drop it; sneak and let go to throw it.

Real collapses

Cut through a building's supports and everything no longer connected to the ground comes down as one rigid piece: it tips, rotates, bounces and smashes what it lands on, then turns back into blocks right where it lies, still leaning if it landed leaning.

Materials, Teardown-style

Wood, glass and dirt are soft; stone, brick and concrete are medium; metal blocks and obsidian are hard, and only the blowtorch gets through them. Bedrock and anything that holds items (chests, furnaces) never break, so you never lose your stuff.

Good to know

• Single-player, in any world, creative or survival. Runs on Minecraft: Java Edition 1.21.1 with Fabric, which Melty sets up for you.
• Very big collapses are capped at 32 moving pieces at once; anything beyond that crumbles to dust to keep the game smooth.
• Falling pieces pass through players and through each other.
• Inspired by Teardown (Tuxedo Labs). It uses none of Teardown's files, and it isn't affiliated with Tuxedo Labs or Mojang.

Credits

Built with AI help (Claude). Sounds and item art are original, made for this mod. Includes Prism Launcher (GPL-3.0) and Fabric API (Apache-2.0, FabricMC). The mod is MIT licensed.