Missiles

Missiles

Missiles carry a warhead from a launch pad to a target. They fly the whole way as a real entity you can see and shoot down, and the chunks along their path get loaded while they fly.

You launch them from a launch pad, a launch control or the command center. See Launch Pads and Command Center.

Missile types

Missile	Warhead	Range	Top speed	Kill chance per interceptor
Tactical Missile	Heavy conventional explosion with a blast ring	3000	60 blocks/s	60 %
Incendiary Missile	Explosion, then fire on every surface around the impact	3000	60 blocks/s	60 %
Cluster Missile	Opens above the target and scatters 30 bomblets	3000	60 blocks/s	55 %
Bunker Buster	Drills a 5 × 5 shaft almost 50 blocks deep (even through obsidian, not bedrock) and explodes on the way down	4000	64 blocks/s	50 %
Thermobaric Missile	Fuel-air bomb: three blast rings one after another, everything around burns	4000	64 blocks/s	50 %
Nuclear Missile	Little Man	8000	72 blocks/s	42 %
MIRV Missile	Splits into 3 Little Man warheads during the final approach	12000	80 blocks/s	35 % (each warhead 22 %)
Mark 6	Thermonuclear, bigger than Fat Man	unlimited	80 blocks/s	32 %
ICBM	Fat Man	unlimited	90 blocks/s	28 %

Range is horizontal distance in blocks. Every missile needs a target at least 48 blocks away so you don't hit yourself.

Nuclear Missile, MIRV, Mark 6 and ICBM count as nuclear. They only launch from a Nuclear Launch Pad or a Missile Silo, and the command center only fires them once nuclear release is granted.

The explosion sizes for the nuclear warheads are on Nuclear Explosions.

Interceptors

These don't attack ground targets. They hunt other missiles.

Missile	Used by	Top speed	Notes
Interceptor Missile	Missile Defense Battery, Multi Launch Pad	120 blocks/s	Proximity fuze. Self destructs after 20 s. Crafted 4 at a time.
Hypersonic Interceptor	Abort Launch Pad	180 blocks/s	Shoots down one of your own missiles in flight. Always hits if it catches up. 90 s of fuel.

See Air Defense for how interceptors are used.

Kill chance

The kill chance in the table is the base chance that one interceptor destroys the missile. It goes down when:

Situation	Change
Missile is diving steeply onto its target	-12 %
Missile has stealth coating	-15 %
Missile is inside a jammer field	-30 %

It never goes below 5 % or above 90 %. Missile tooltips show the base chance.

Modules

You can upgrade any attack missile with modules. Put the missile and the module into the crafting grid together. Each module fits once per missile, and you can combine all three.

Module	Effect
Stealth Coating	Radar only sees the missile at a quarter of its normal range. Harder to intercept (-15 %).
Jammer	About 650 blocks before the target the missile drops a jammer on a parachute. Within 300 blocks of it, air defense aims badly (-30 % kill chance) and takes twice as long to lock on. The jammer transmits for 2 minutes.
Decoys	About 900 blocks before the target three dummy missiles separate and fly next to the real one. On radar they look exactly the same, so the enemy wastes interceptors on them.

Installed modules show up in the missile tooltip.

Flight

Without a flight plan, missiles climb, cruise at an altitude based on distance and dive onto the target. With the command center you can plan the whole flight: altitude profile, waypoints, approach direction and fuze. See Command Center.

A missile that's still flying after 15 minutes crashes. That's just a safety net, normal flights are much shorter.

When a missile launched from the command center's fire plan gets close to its target, a reconnaissance satellite takes a picture. After the impact you get a damage report with a before and after image.

Test attacks

/atomcraft attack <type> sends a missile at your position from the direction you're looking. Useful for testing air defense. See Commands and Config.

Recipes

See Recipes.