I've been talking with some friends and stuff. One person brought up the idea of a lightning staff.
This sounded like a good idea, so decided to post it. All credit goes to unnamed friend.
HOW TO CRAFT IT
B= Blaze Rod
L= Lightning gem
L
B
B
HOW TO GET LIGHTNING GEM
All mobs in a thunderstorm have 1/25 chance of dropping one.
Dungeon and Abandoned mineshaft chests have a 1/50 chance of having one
Charged creepers 1/5 chance of being dropped when killed. By xplosion or sword.
You could also craft one as so:
Q
E E
Q
Q=quartz
E=eye of ender
DATA VALUES
It hits any entity in a 3x3 square. You point the lightning staff where you want the lightning to hit.
Damage: 3.5 hearts of damage plus the ensueing fire damage
The lightning staff has 50 uses.
After using the staff, you must wait 7.5 seconds before shooting it again.
If lightning strikes a pig, it morphs into a zombie pigman.[2] However, if The Player's difficulty is on peaceful, the zombie pigman immediately despawns.[Except on multiplayer]
If lightning strikes a creeper, it becomes Charged creeper.
If lightning strikes a boat, the boat will disappear and usually destroy the drops.
If lightning strikes floating sand or gravel, it will cause it to fall.
If lightning strikes a painting, it will cause it to fall off of the wall.
If lightning strikes a mob(except pigs) it will cause it to take damage.
If lightning strikes and kills the Player, they will disappear without dropping anything, as opposed to dropping their items and experience orbs.
If lightning strikes a minecart, it will break the minecart and usually destroy the drop.
If lightning manages to strike a portal frame, it will activate the portal
Support. An idea: Putting a lightning staff in a dispenser, instead of dropping it, spawns a lightning bolt and decreases the staff's durability by 1. Could lightning gems be crafted from quartz+diamond+ender eye or something?
interesting, but the recipe could be more expensive shouldn't it? Like a charged Gem, made of Diamonds maybe? Lightning is something very powerful! And it needs charging of course, but good idea!
Support!
interesting, but the recipe could be more expensive shouldn't it? Like a charged Gem, made of Diamonds maybe? Lightning is something very powerful! And it needs charging of course, but good idea!
Support!
Good idea. there is now a lightning gem, but not of diamonds.
Support. An idea: Putting a lightning staff in a dispenser, instead of dropping it, spawns a lightning bolt and decreases the staff's durability by 1. Could lightning gems be crafted from quartz+diamond+ender eye or something?
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If anyone wants to port/remake this, feel free to do that! Or don't. It's up to you, really.
1/7 for any mob in a thunderstorm is ridiculously high. Abandoned chests at 1/8 is also high. This should not be common, and that crafting recipe implies as much.
Like Islacruzes said, the crafting recipe and drops are unbalanced, how about making this 1/50 chance in Mineshafts, to make it more balanced. A durability bar would also be a good idea, or a cooldown time.
Like Islacruzes said, the crafting recipe and drops are unbalanced, how about making this 1/50 chance in Mineshafts, to make it more balanced. A durability bar would also be a good idea, or a cooldown time.
Theres already a durabillty,50.
Added cooltime.
Edited the gem ratio.
The hit-radius also needs to drop drastically. This is lightning we're talking about, not a grenade - you shouldn't be able to just point the thing in a general direction and everything in a 10*10 circle/square shape gets hit by lightning. Remember that a creeper explodes to about 7*7 (radius 3), so might be worth scaling it down to a more reasonable hit radius?
God, everytime you update this post, I have to keep on updating this mod I am working on. Just had it kinda completed other than textures too before the last update you did.
God, everytime you update this post, I have to keep on updating this mod I am working on. Just had it kinda completed other than textures too before the last update you did.
Lol,sorry. didn't know you were making a mod. I'll stop updating for a while. Tell me how the mod goes, and if you can, make a youtube video.
This sounded like a good idea, so decided to post it. All credit goes to unnamed friend.
HOW TO CRAFT IT
B= Blaze Rod
L= Lightning gem
L
B
B
HOW TO GET LIGHTNING GEM
All mobs in a thunderstorm have 1/25 chance of dropping one.
Dungeon and Abandoned mineshaft chests have a 1/50 chance of having one
Charged creepers 1/5 chance of being dropped when killed. By xplosion or sword.
You could also craft one as so:
Q
E E
Q
Q=quartz
E=eye of ender
DATA VALUES
It hits any entity in a 3x3 square. You point the lightning staff where you want the lightning to hit.
Damage: 3.5 hearts of damage plus the ensueing fire damage
The lightning staff has 50 uses.
After using the staff, you must wait 7.5 seconds before shooting it again.
MORE STUFF ABOUT THE STAFF
If lightning strikes TNT it will ignite
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Great idea. This is now part of the OP.
CONCEPT ART(made by tbh1138)
LIGHTNING GEM
LIGHTNING STAFF
Support!
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If anyone wants to port/remake this, feel free to do that! Or don't. It's up to you, really.
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Added cooltime.
Edited the gem ratio.
Lightning gem:
Lightning staff:
If anyone wants to port/remake this, feel free to do that! Or don't. It's up to you, really.