How to Make Industrial TNT in Minecraft

Industrial TNT is the controlled blasting block of Industrial Craft 2, built for mining instead of demolition. The crafting recipe packs 3 TNT and 6 flint into 4 Industrial TNT blocks — TNT laid across the middle row between flint rows, or TNT down the center column boxed in flint — which turns 3 vanilla TNT charges (regular TNT from unmodified Minecraft) into 4, a 33% gain in total explosives. The flint works as cutting material and softens every blast: Industrial TNT carries less direct power than vanilla TNT, destroys far less ore, and puts the player at far less risk. Two trade-offs balance the safety — the fuse of Industrial TNT burns slightly shorter, and the blast radius comes out slightly smaller than a regular TNT explosion. One handling difference stands out: a punch detonates an Industrial TNT block instantly, while the same hit does nothing to regular TNT.

The design targets one number: mining with vanilla TNT wastes about 70% of the mineral gain, because the full-power explosion destroys most of the drops before pickup. Industrial TNT answers exactly that problem — a line of gentler charges breaks the stone and leaves the ore lying in the rubble. One stack holds 64 Industrial TNT blocks, sixteen crafting batches in a single inventory slot. Place the charges against the tunnel face, punch, and back away at once — the shorter fuse allows less time than regular TNT — then collect everything the softer blast spared.