When the Mini-Nuke was released, I made a HUGE 1x1 box, somewhere around 40x40x40, and used events to spawnexplosion a Mini-Nuke at the center. It lagged for a bit, then went back to normal as the bricks came back. This was before physics though, and I no longer have the Mini-Nuke.
This Glop Gun(not blaming the Glop Gun for the crash) test happened in single player, of course, but if I did the same thing in a freebuild with a bunch of other players, would I end up crashing the server?