Nuclear Creeper
"I'm nucleaaaaaaar, i'm wiiiiiild"
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| Health | 50 |
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| Hostility | Hostile |
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| Spawn condition | Creeper transformation |
| Spawn rarity | Average |
Background
The Nuclear Creeper is a variant of the normal creeper found in the mod. It does not spawn naturally, instead, a normal creeper must be "transformed" or "mutated" into one. Nuclear Creepers are darker and less saturated in color than the normal creeper. One is actually seen in some of the promotional screenshots for the mod.
Creation
Nuclear Creepers are made from normal creepers being exposed to large amounts of radiation. This is normally done by a normal creeper walking over dead grass, glowing mycelium, getting too close to a desert atom, getting shot with a nuclear bullet, or etc.
If a lightning bolt ever hits a Nuclear Creeper, otherwise, you will meet the infamous Charged Nuclear Creeper who happens to be a walking hydrogen bomb (presumably, as it has the same explosion animation), being much, much, much, much, much, much, much worse than your normal Nuclear Creeper.
Dangers
Nuclear Creepers, as the name suggests, are nuclear "powered" now. It is a mini-nuke on legs, making getting near them incredibly dangerous. As a bonus, they are much tougher to kill with a whopping 50HP (half of an iron golem) with amazing regenerative capability and a bit more speed.
To kill one of these, you will need good firepower to take one down, without it blowing up in the process of course.
Uses/Farming
Nuclear Creepers drop 
TNT blocks instead of
gunpowder. This makes farming Nuclear Creepers more worthwhile, albeit more dangerous, to farm over normal creepers as they provide renewable TNT.
In addition, however, if they are killed by a skeleton or by an arrow with no shooter (such as one fired from a dispenser), they can drop a random item from a list of many very useful mostly nuclear power related items:
Uranium-235 nuggets
Plutonium-238 nuggets
Plutonium-239 nuggets
Neptunium nuggets
Fat Man plutonium cores
Sulfur and 
Niter- AWESOME syringes
Fusion Cores- Stimpacks
- Random
T-45 Power Armor piece and a fusion core
High-Yield Mini Nuke for the 
Fat Man (Gun)
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Nuclear Creeper Coin
Trivia
- Creepers will only transform sometimes, if they do not transform they will just die from the radiation.
- Creepers absorbing and assimilating unusual substances continues with the newer: Tainted Creeper
- Luckily for those who hate normal creepers already, they only spawn where there are large amounts of radiation, such as desert atoms, nuclear detonation sites, and other places with poor radiation containment, naturally spawning or otherwise.
Gallery
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Nuclear Creeper as seen on a promotional image on Planet Minecraft
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The large crater left behind by a Nuclear Creeper explosion.
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Charged Nuclear Creeper
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Charged Nuclear Creeper's explosion crater
