This post regards a simple 4 component redstone set-up that allows arrows to be fired from a dispenser, as fast as you can change the settings on a redstone repeater (I.e. a submachine gun).
This post is NOT about a gun that fires many arrows ridiculously fast. It is meant to be quick to set up, portable, and quicker than a bow in it's firing rate, to possibly be used to quickly set up defenses for a hastily-built PVP base. There are much better guns to build if you have the time.
How to set it up:
Place a dispenser in the direction you want it to fire (Duh)
Place a redstone repeater behind the dispenser, on any side, except the firing/output side
place a redstone torch behind the repeater, at the repeaters redstone-signal input side.
Fill the Dispenser with arrows
And voila. A Simple arrow gun. To fire it, click on the redstone repeater and change the time setting.
The main drawback to this setup is that the arrows do not fire very far when placed at ground level. I find that it works better if the dispenser is raised 1 or 2 blocks.
If this was helpful, drop a reply. If it seems dumb, and you want to complain, well... it's not like I can stop you, so go ahead and drop a reply anyways. Thanks for reading.
Go ahead and feel free to post things you have made with this simple contraption, ideas on what you could make with this contraption, or ways to improve it.
Good to see people like this contraption, and are improving on it.
And through my own testing, I find fire charges on ground level or 1 block above ground level to be the most effective, and they all vary slightly in their trajectory, making them harder to avoid. And also, in reply to KABOOM, while snowballs do almost no damage, if you fire enough of them, enemy players will have a hard time reaching you, if they cannot avoid the snowballs, and you will troll them by decreasing their armor durability a lot.
I also find that, while it is faster than hold down the right mouse button on a lever, holding down the right mouse button on the repeater is not as fast as simply clicking really fast.
You can make the weapon fully automatic following these steps:
Remove Redstone torch, replace with lever.
get 2 more repeaters, place the first one so it powers the block that the dispenser is sitting on, and the second one next to the first repeater facing the opposite way.
Connect the 2 repeaters with redstone.
Power the repeaters and start the pulsing of the two repeaters (remove and place a redstone really quick so they change from on to off really fast.)
When the lever is pulled, it will fire the arrows with amazing speed, when off, it will not fire at all, you can swap the lever for a button if you want a 4 shot burst gun, or a pressureplate if you want a fairly reliable trap.
sounds like a simple way to upgrade it slightly TD, with minimal resources, although it makes it clunky and hard to re-position, as chielbest said. Unfortunately, I find the instructions confusing, so can you post a picture of your setup plz?
This post is NOT about a gun that fires many arrows ridiculously fast. It is meant to be quick to set up, portable, and quicker than a bow in it's firing rate, to possibly be used to quickly set up defenses for a hastily-built PVP base. There are much better guns to build if you have the time.
How to set it up:
And voila. A Simple arrow gun. To fire it, click on the redstone repeater and change the time setting.
The main drawback to this setup is that the arrows do not fire very far when placed at ground level. I find that it works better if the dispenser is raised 1 or 2 blocks.
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If this was helpful, drop a reply. If it seems dumb, and you want to complain, well... it's not like I can stop you, so go ahead and drop a reply anyways. Thanks for reading.
Go ahead and feel free to post things you have made with this simple contraption, ideas on what you could make with this contraption, or ways to improve it.
And through my own testing, I find fire charges on ground level or 1 block above ground level to be the most effective, and they all vary slightly in their trajectory, making them harder to avoid. And also, in reply to KABOOM, while snowballs do almost no damage, if you fire enough of them, enemy players will have a hard time reaching you, if they cannot avoid the snowballs, and you will troll them by decreasing their armor durability a lot.
I also find that, while it is faster than hold down the right mouse button on a lever, holding down the right mouse button on the repeater is not as fast as simply clicking really fast.
sounds like a simple way to upgrade it slightly TD, with minimal resources, although it makes it clunky and hard to re-position, as chielbest said. Unfortunately, I find the instructions confusing, so can you post a picture of your setup plz?