i, like many players of minecraft have allways looked for ways to blow thing up in style. Upon the update that stopped tnt blocks from moving in water cannons were more likelys to blow up you own castle than the targerting range. This is my idea that could be made into a future update or mod for a cannon and it ammunition.
cannon
with the stick representing string or a fuse the idea is that you load the cannon, strike the cannon with a flint and steel and it goes off. the wood is like a wheel (square whell?) and gives the cannon recoil, before moving back into its origianl position. the cannon should be ajustable aiming up or down a total of 45 degrees in the direction it is facing. the cannon itself is 2 blocks long (barrel end and wheel + ignition end) and 1 block high, and faces away from you when you place it on the ground. Right clicking on it should ajust the angle it fires by 1 degree (hit to go up to 45 deg then it starts to go down to downards 45 deg)
rail gun
fire = cannon
half slab = minecart
the rail gun is just a cannon in a minecart. the minecart adds recoil to the gun when it fire but allows the gun a full 360 degrees rotation field of fire in any direction. the minecart however stops the gun from being aimed downwards. the rail guns main advantage is its ability to quickly move to the areas in battle where it is needed.
Ammo
to load the gun in any form (rail or placed) you must either place one of the three types of ammo in its barrel end
TNT
tnt will be broken into 4 parts, and shot seperatley allowing you need less materials. the tnt will blow up a hole 1/4 of the size of a regular tnt block.
Grapeshot
Grapeshot is made buy putting a gravel block inside the barrel. the gravel will be shot out in one go in several directions in a sort of shotgun way
Cannonball
a cannonball is made by placing an iron ingot inside the barrel. the ingot will be broken into 2 parts and can be fired seperatley.
--the distance and force of each of the ammo items can be made up by whoever makes it possible, i am not sure what the ideal setting would be--
I think the cannon ball should be able to be made out of smoothstone instead of iron ingots. 4 = one cannon ball.
i had the same idea but changed it on the fact that making smoothstone cannonballs just didnt seem right (in real life and in just about every other game with it uses iron).
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cannon
with the stick representing string or a fuse the idea is that you load the cannon, strike the cannon with a flint and steel and it goes off. the wood is like a wheel (square whell?) and gives the cannon recoil, before moving back into its origianl position. the cannon should be ajustable aiming up or down a total of 45 degrees in the direction it is facing. the cannon itself is 2 blocks long (barrel end and wheel + ignition end) and 1 block high, and faces away from you when you place it on the ground. Right clicking on it should ajust the angle it fires by 1 degree (hit to go up to 45 deg then it starts to go down to downards 45 deg)
rail gun
fire = cannon
half slab = minecart
the rail gun is just a cannon in a minecart. the minecart adds recoil to the gun when it fire but allows the gun a full 360 degrees rotation field of fire in any direction. the minecart however stops the gun from being aimed downwards. the rail guns main advantage is its ability to quickly move to the areas in battle where it is needed.
Ammo
to load the gun in any form (rail or placed) you must either place one of the three types of ammo in its barrel end
TNT
tnt will be broken into 4 parts, and shot seperatley allowing you need less materials. the tnt will blow up a hole 1/4 of the size of a regular tnt block.
Grapeshot
Grapeshot is made buy putting a gravel block inside the barrel. the gravel will be shot out in one go in several directions in a sort of shotgun way
Cannonball
a cannonball is made by placing an iron ingot inside the barrel. the ingot will be broken into 2 parts and can be fired seperatley.
--the distance and force of each of the ammo items can be made up by whoever makes it possible, i am not sure what the ideal setting would be--
i had the same idea but changed it on the fact that making smoothstone cannonballs just didnt seem right (in real life and in just about every other game with it uses iron).