What's been Dug Up: Tornadoes

Before I get started, I want to mention that this post along with a few others coming after it will be all about Minecraft mods. The reason is that while I'm done with getting ready to go through a couple of custom maps personally, I still need time to actually get to all of them and then go on to write about them.

If you haven't figured it out yet, this Weather and Tornadoes Mod by Coros adds tornadoes to the weather system of your minecraft world as well as water spouts and hurricanes (though they aren't added in the video.) There are also new sounds and a few new tools for players to use that, in my opinion makes, makes things a whole lot easier.

 

Since tornadoes only spawn naturally, it's useful to have an alarm ready in the area. For this purpose, there are 2 new types of blocks that you can make: sirens and tornado detectors.
As you can probably guess, the siren gives out a loud sound (which you can hear in the video) when the tornado detector, well, detects a tornado.

When Tornadoes spawn, they take a lot of debris from the surrounding environment. This can include dirt blocks, mobs, players, etc. Although, don't ask me about lava or water.
The debris will circle in the new cloud that was formed by the tornado, until it disappears, and the debris simply scatters (I assume a player and any mobs would take fall damage.)

This is 1 of the new tools programmed into this mod: the shockwave tool. Living up to its name, it sends a, I'm assuming, horizontal shockwave from the point the user decided to hit. Any mobs or players within the range of shockwave will be sent flying, so it's good for clearing a path if faced with a large mob.

Another tool that has been added is the drill tool. While it doesn't look like a drill, it definitely does the work of one. At the point of impact, a drill effect will occur in the general direction of the impact. Blocks that are in the path of this effect will be randomly thrown and land in the opposite direction. Because the displacement of the blocks can't be accurately predicted, be aware of possible suffocation damage.


If you want to go ahead and download this mod so you can terrorize mobs everywhere, then you can head over to Coros website. Have a good fall(s)!