Bombing Mines

The **Bombing Mines** (formerly and more commonly known as the **Bombing Range**) is a very large area which has been completely annihilated by TNT, ender dragons, and ender crystals. It is estimated to be over 100 metres (or blocks) in each direction.

## Usage

These days, the Bombing Mines are used for destructive testing, particularly for testing WorldEdit and other Minecraft commands.

The Bombing Mines can also be used for mining. The area contains many exposed ores and many areas already touch bedrock. And although it is such a good place for mining, many people do not play in survival mode.

## History

### Early History

*The Forgotten Period*Please note that the following content may contain assumptions as some of the information has been lost or forgotten.The Bombing Mines was likely founded during the Expansion Period and was originally called the Demolition Range, before being shortly changed to the Bombing Range because the only thing you could really do to the range was to blow it up.

The area was blown up by many different people, including the owners. The land was completely ruined. Sometimes owners would even spawn ender dragons.

The Bombing Range soon got its own warp and train station. This was needed because it was very isolated from civilisation. Its train station originally connected to the Zoo, and its warp was likely the first warp in Warp Room 2.

A while later, a TNT factory was built next to the range. It was a building where people could collect TNT to use in the range. This structure was blown up soon after, likely by jacobme32. And has left a crater that still exists today

### Renaming

When Seacraft 2.2.10 was released the Bombing Range could no longer be used for bombing, as the update released the TNT disabler. The Bombing Range was then used for mining and was renamed to the Bombing Mines.

### Survial base

jacobme32, Firecrafter4 and possibly some others created a survival base deep in the Bombing Mines. This was likely inhabited during the New Town Boom and the Five Nights Period.

### Railway upgrades

During Seacraft 2.3, the train station was renovated and the railway lines went down into the TNT factory crater and then into the station, and was released as part of Seacraft 2.3.5. A road was also constructed from Crater Plains to the Bombing Mines, finally giving the mines road access.

The Bombing Mines train station gained a platform at the release of Seacraft 2.4, connecting the station to the newly released Civilisation Line and giving it a direct connection to the new Crater Village.

### Version 3

The Bombing Mines got more use during Version 3 after the introduction of WorldEdit to the server. The Bombing Mines was used as a testing ground for the various WorldEdit functions, particularly by ZacNVR and ItsMoose.

Later, jaykobe spawned a village in the mines using the `/place` command, trying to find a good house design for the villager pen in the new Zoo. ZacNVR did a similar thing with a woodland mansion before destroying it completely.

In the early Fruition Period, ZacNVR used the Bombing Mines to test the placement of Crater Pine trees using structure blocks, in order to populate what would become Craterwood.