Carminite reactor - what is the point of this?

[TangentialThreat]

You turn it on, everything turns to fake gold and diamond blocks that you can't mine, it starts eating nearby blocks (including the fake gold and diamond) and it explodes. When it explodes you are left with a couple of little ghasts.

But... why? Is this just a pointless complicated exploding thing?

 

[Malexion]

Yep, makes a fun trap room.

 

[Seraph089]

Yeah, it's a pointless complicated exploding thing, but that's why it's awesome. Not everything needs to have a point, there's room for fun little things like this too. I think it fits in pretty well with the rest of what's in the towers.

Reminds me that I need to go through one of them since they've been completed. Last time I did was when they were still WIP (before the carminite stuff and Ur-ghast)

 

[Malexion]

Now all we need is a mod that makes a casing around the carmite reactor which can be used to harvest power for BC energy.

 

[Rhodan]

The Carminite Reactor is a miniature version of the experiment that caused the destruction at the top of the tower and summoned the big ghast. It's a plot device.

 

[Necr0maNceR]

Yeah, that's right, it's simply part of the story, and a fun thing that goes boom. The tower was once inhabited by wizards, but their experiments went horribly wrong, and were their undoing.

 

[TangentialThreat]

The Carminite Reactor is a miniature version of the experiment that caused the destruction at the top of the tower and summoned the big ghast. It's a plot device.

And here I was thinking I was the only one who explained most of modded Minecraft's weirdness as wizardry gone wrong.