"Why add any form of gun? Wouldn't that ruin the game?"
No, considering that TNT, fireworks, jukeboxes and a variety of other technologies exist in the game, Minecraft doesn't have a super specific theme. Combat is a mostly neglected area and it would be safe to say that 1700s gunpowder weaponry options would make a fine addition.
Guns may be loud and "scary," but in reality they are governed by physics like every other weapon and won't massacre an entire village in one shot. If this is not convincing enough, there is an entire dimension devoted to being hell themed so a gun is unlikely to make the game inappropriate to younger players.
Reminder that these ideas aren’t final and detailed feedback is appreciated. Don’t be that one guy that only puts Y/N because he is no use to anyone.
Physical projectiles
The "bullet": A physical projectile emitted by some of the weapons mentioned below. Its appearance is a small gray ball that emits a particle trail of sparks in its wake (similar to an arrow’s crit particles). It is affected by gravity like an arrow but cannot be retrieved after it hits a block. The bullet’s velocity is not affected as dramatically when it travels through water. Lastly, bullets have no knockback (with the exception of the blunderbuss).
The cannon ball: Used by handcannons (mentioned below). It is larger than the bullet but performs similarly. Being heavy, it travels slower through the air, allowing for arked shots. Upon hitting a block, it will create an explosion with a 3x3x3 blast radius.
Meet the arsenal
The following weapons reload similarly to the crossbow. There is a delay between shots so as to prevent players from rapidly switching hotbar slots for rapid fire. Note that the reload times aren't hyper realistic because otherwise you'd be sitting there forever reloading the next shot. Every one of the weapons below lose durability each time they are used. They cannot be fired underwater.
Flintlock pistol: A small, inaccurate pistol. It has a fast deployment speed and reloads in 10 ticks (I'm going off of repeater delays).
Black powder rifle (Or musket): More accurate/durable than the flintlock and uses the same ammunition. Its reload speed is 12 ticks.
Blunderbuss (Dragon): A multishot weapon that fires a spread of pellets with the possibility of knocking back enemies at close range. It has the lowest range of all the weapons mentioned here, and reloads in 16 ticks. It also uses its own unique form of ammunition.
Handcannon: Perhaps not the most realistic weapon but interesting nevertheless. As the name suggests, it is a small handheld cannon/bazooka. It takes 24 ticks to reload and has a small delay before firing and will make the player explode if it goes off while the player is switched to another item in their hand. It uses cannonballs for ammunition and will hurt the player if they fire it too close to themselves.
Pepper-box pistol (modified): A multi-barrel pistol that has a "staggered fire" effect that acts like rapid fire. It holds 7 rounds that deal a smaller amount of damage than flintlocks and black powder rifles. When the player right-clicks while holding this weapon, it will fire a stream of rounds (with a 1 tick delay between shots) until it is completely emptied.
Repeater Rifle
Possible enchantments:
- Pinpoint I-III (Flintlocks and black powders only): Improves accuracy.
- Duality (Blunderbusses only): Fires a second shot 1-2 ticks behind the first shot.
- Fragmentation I-III (Handcannons only): The projectile will emit several shards of metal upon hitting a block or mob, damaging anything in the surrounding area.
Venting I-II (Repeater rifles only): Increases the amount of time before the weapon overheats.
Fin
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Support. Minecraft villagers are essentialyl toast after 1.14 added pillagers. Iron golems are slow, cumbersome, and there's only ever one. The villagers need to fight back. I don't care what Mojang says about having villagers fight, because if they don't, they'll be dead in seconds flat (the villagers, not Mojang).
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Two words: super laggy. Every block on surface level would have to be updated.
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Then people would bring goats to their bases instead of having cows and sheep, as goats would make cows and sheep redundant.
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How about a pump system that allows us to pump water/lava into tanks?
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Nowhere. They are meant to be fallback blocks for if a texture pack maker wants to add blocks without changing any existing ones.
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Full Suppeprp. The new land/ocean layout would be nice.
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Support. People would explore more. All biomes should also have very slightly different ratios of ores on top of these, so some biomes might have more ores than others.
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Why would this be needed?
Why do we even need this?
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Mojangcrasoft reccomends otherwise. Mojangcrasoft expects you to play vanilla.
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Remember that all players were noobs once. High barrier for entry => less new players => less players overall => Minecraft loses popularity.