Blast resistant blocks

I am playing the mindcrack mod pack along with a few other mods including Mo' Creatures. (twlight forest and mystcraft as well.)

I am having issues with the bloody ogres destroying anything that is on the surface when they get near and start their block destroying attack.

Short of obsidian, CF blocks, reinforced stone/glass, and basalt, are there any other blocks that have some blast resistance and won't be destroyed by creepers or ogres?

 

Iridium Reinforced Stone is the strongest stuff there is (except for maybe the Thaumcraft Reinforced Stone), it can survive a direct blast from a Nuke.

EDIT: 4 Nukes.

EDIT2: 6 Nukes all set off simultaneously.

 

xycraft blocks are supposed to be blast resistant

 

Hardened glass is really blast resistant and is cheap, just 1 piece of obsidian dust + 1 pulverised lead. It can survive any number of tnt, and a 2-thick wall will stop a nuke. Haven't tested a reactor yet, but a 3-thick wall should suffice.

EDIT: Just tested a reactor full of quad-plutonium cells, only needed 2-thick hardened glass to stop it. Kinda OP considereing how cheap it is, but I think i'll use it anyway

 

I don't know if they will stop a blast, but redstone energy conduits are very resistant to being blown up (at least in the Beta, I don't know if it's changed). When my friend reset his server, we nukes the old map and the only thing left of my base were the redstone conduits.

 

Last I checked, oil (yes, oil) is blast-resistant to an absolutely silly extent--it faces down nuclear bombs without even shattering the glass tank I encased it in. I'm pretty sure the reason for this is that it derives its blast resistance from vanilla Minecraft water. Modded water, however, is much less blast resistant because Alblaka changed the blast resistances of obsidian and water so reinforced stone blocks made sense.

Of course, coating your entire house in oil is a tad ugly and somewhat impractical, but unless it was fixed (I haven't played Minecraft lately) it works wonders.

 

concreate(sp) can handle a creeper blast right ontop of it, and can also handle a combustion enginee blowing up without tanking a scratch

 

You silly silly people, if your wanting to protect from an ogre, just use Basalt, it can resist a blast from tnt fairly well. So I would use that

EDIT: Oh wait... No basalt..... Never mind then X_X

 

I don't remember if mindcrack had ee3 in it or not, if it did you could just set up a three high wall of obsidian around anything you wanted to protect, it's pretty cheap(2 wood = 1 obsidian)

 

IC2 nerfed obsidian's explosive resistance.

 

test, Test, TEST

 

I have ee3 in my pack, so that's an option, but honestly with the igneous extruder from TE, it far easier to just set to obsidian and come back later to a chest full of the stuff.

Even with the nerf from IC2, obsidian is still explosion resistant enough to stave off ogre attacks. Ogres destroy any normal blocks, except for ores, in a 2 block wide circle around them when they do their attack. But creepers will destroy ore blocks, so I don't want to use them either.

I forgot entirely about the concrete from railcraft. I will have to try that out. and if xycraft blocks are blast resistant that would be a cool option for adding in some color to the whole thing.

I don't need to protect against a nuke, just ogres and creepers, so any block that doesn't get destroyed by a tnt explosion is fair game.

Thanks for all your help. There are a lot more explosion resistant blocks than what I thought.

 

LOL. I hadn't thought of that. I have a jetpack now, so that does make it quite a bit easier.

 

Modular force fields are your friend...

I remember those orges from my Technic days.. Man they were a pain in the ass... Can't list how many times they destroyed my houses.