I had imagined an idea like this before, but I never posted it. My idea was limited to cannons and ballistae. The cannons could fire cannonballs (two iron ingots) for 6 hearts of damage, TNT with the same effect as a ghast fireball (so that TNT cannons were still useful), stone blocks for 4 hearts of damage, iron blocks for 9.5 hearts of damage, and gravel for 20 small bullets fired in a random pattern for 0.5 hearts of damage each (obviously, the brief invincibility after being hit would make this useless at a close range). Firing would require gunpowder (it acts kind of like a furnace: you put gunpowder in and the cannon is charged for 8 shots, maybe coal for one shot, when it runs out of "shots" it consumes another coal/gunpowder) and the projectiles would fly like fire charges out of a dispenser.
The ballistae would shoot ballistia arrows (not very original) for 4 hearts of damage. I was planning on them being crafted as such:
That's wool in the bottom right corner there. Bad recipe, I know. Spears as ammunition would be a better idea.
Both would be placable blocks.
I was considering arbalests, too, but I decided against it.
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Onagers, bombard cannons, scorpions, OR trebuchets. I think one type of siege weapon would do (considering there is one type of bow and one type of melee weapon in MC).
This has been suggested many times before, And apart from that I don't think it's all that good of an idea considering that a diamond pick is the ULTIMATE siege weapon.
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This has been suggested many times before, And apart from that I don't think it's all that good of an idea considering that a diamond pick is the ULTIMATE siege weapon.
Well, You got me there since people usually don't have the time to build a badass tnt cannon on top of a hill if they're trying to destroy someone else's castle....
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go to this thread to see my vanilla siege engines mod. (Its awesome!) so far i have made just the catapult and it can be rotated, moved, loaded with cobble, loaded with explosives (TNT), fired with cobble, and fired with explosives.
'Nuff said.
I had imagined an idea like this before, but I never posted it. My idea was limited to cannons and ballistae. The cannons could fire cannonballs (two iron ingots) for 6 hearts of damage, TNT with the same effect as a ghast fireball (so that TNT cannons were still useful), stone blocks for 4 hearts of damage, iron blocks for 9.5 hearts of damage, and gravel for 20 small bullets fired in a random pattern for 0.5 hearts of damage each (obviously, the brief invincibility after being hit would make this useless at a close range). Firing would require gunpowder (it acts kind of like a furnace: you put gunpowder in and the cannon is charged for 8 shots, maybe coal for one shot, when it runs out of "shots" it consumes another coal/gunpowder) and the projectiles would fly like fire charges out of a dispenser.
The ballistae would shoot ballistia arrows (not very original) for 4 hearts of damage. I was planning on them being crafted as such:
That's wool in the bottom right corner there. Bad recipe, I know. Spears as ammunition would be a better idea.
Both would be placable blocks.
I was considering arbalests, too, but I decided against it.
If it was a mod though, it would be really cool and I would definitely try it out!
Not ranged.
It wouldn't be useful in single player. This is perfect for multiplayer.
Well, You got me there since people usually don't have the time to build a badass tnt cannon on top of a hill if they're trying to destroy someone else's castle....