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Okay, for starters this isnt a ordiary gun post. I want to balance this out to make this work so everyone is happy. If you have played Castle Miner, which is like minecraft, you know it has assault rifles and shotguns and pistols. some minecrafters want that. I for one think that would be to easy so i decided to that the fairest gun would be the flintlock pistol. For those who don't know what it is, its a small pistol made arounf the late 1600's and early 1700's. It is was very commmon among almost all armys around the world, and popular with pirates who used pistols. The flintlock pistol would be the strongest weapon in the game.
Balanced-
The flintlock was powerful and can result in a one shot kill but only up close as it is a short ranged weapon. When firing an arrow at maximum power and aiming straight with no angle shoots 24 blocks, so the flintlock will range half of that at 12 blocks, which is reasonable for a flintlock pistol. Also you can only shoot one bullet at a time so reloading takes plenty of time. also having an ordinary flintlock or a diamond, the power is the same, just the duribility is higher. Lastly it cost plenty of materials to make the gun and to be able to reload it. Also firing a flintlock pistol makes smoke so a small cloud of smoke surrounds you for about a second maybe 2 seconds so it can blind you which could be dangerous. Also firing the flinlock at a window will break the window.
Reloading-
To reload you must take gunpowder and pour it down the muzzle, then place the ball (bullet) on and use the ram rod to push it down into to bottom of the barrel then your ready to fire the gun. It will take either 10 or 15 seconds to reload when stationary, i havent decided which time yet, but if your walking the reload time is doubled and you CAN'T reload while sprinting
Buliding the gun and bullets-
You will need 4 wood 2 flint and two mineral of the following; wood or lapis Luzuli, or iron, or gold, or diamond,or emerald.
from left to right the durability goes higher, so for example if i use two wood and then the other pistol i use two diamonds the diamond is higher durability but both have same power. Lapis Luzuli and emerald pistol is used for looks because when you build it the gun will have the color of the mineral near the end of the barrel as all flintlocks have some kind of metal at the end. Lapis Pistol will be a slight bit better durability as wood and emerald will be slightly better durability than diamond. I chose Lapis and emerald so they both have more of a purpose than just decorating. two iron ingots can make 4 bullets
This is the recipe
Mineral Mineral Wood
Wood Wood
Wood
enchantments-
There are four enchantment ideas i have. One is increased range, which will go up two blocks each level of enchantment which is up to enchantment level IV. Next is power, which is increased by half a heart each level, which is up to level III. Also increased durability which will go up 5 extra shots for each level up to level IV. Last is knockback which knocks back the enemy 1 blocks each level, going up to level IV.
I believe this can fit well into minecraft becase it is balanced and in the era that minecraft seems to take place in the flintolock was in use even when swords and armor and bows and arrows were still being used therfore the flintlock pistol is perfect to make everyone happy
It's not new and please confine all gun discussion to the official gun topic.
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Balanced-
The flintlock was powerful and can result in a one shot kill but only up close as it is a short ranged weapon. When firing an arrow at maximum power and aiming straight with no angle shoots 24 blocks, so the flintlock will range half of that at 12 blocks, which is reasonable for a flintlock pistol. Also you can only shoot one bullet at a time so reloading takes plenty of time. also having an ordinary flintlock or a diamond, the power is the same, just the duribility is higher. Lastly it cost plenty of materials to make the gun and to be able to reload it. Also firing a flintlock pistol makes smoke so a small cloud of smoke surrounds you for about a second maybe 2 seconds so it can blind you which could be dangerous. Also firing the flinlock at a window will break the window.
Reloading-
To reload you must take gunpowder and pour it down the muzzle, then place the ball (bullet) on and use the ram rod to push it down into to bottom of the barrel then your ready to fire the gun. It will take either 10 or 15 seconds to reload when stationary, i havent decided which time yet, but if your walking the reload time is doubled and you CAN'T reload while sprinting
Buliding the gun and bullets-
You will need 4 wood 2 flint and two mineral of the following; wood or lapis Luzuli, or iron, or gold, or diamond,or emerald.
from left to right the durability goes higher, so for example if i use two wood and then the other pistol i use two diamonds the diamond is higher durability but both have same power. Lapis Luzuli and emerald pistol is used for looks because when you build it the gun will have the color of the mineral near the end of the barrel as all flintlocks have some kind of metal at the end. Lapis Pistol will be a slight bit better durability as wood and emerald will be slightly better durability than diamond. I chose Lapis and emerald so they both have more of a purpose than just decorating. two iron ingots can make 4 bullets
This is the recipe
Mineral Mineral Wood
Wood Wood
Wood
enchantments-
There are four enchantment ideas i have. One is increased range, which will go up two blocks each level of enchantment which is up to enchantment level IV. Next is power, which is increased by half a heart each level, which is up to level III. Also increased durability which will go up 5 extra shots for each level up to level IV. Last is knockback which knocks back the enemy 1 blocks each level, going up to level IV.
I believe this can fit well into minecraft becase it is balanced and in the era that minecraft seems to take place in the flintolock was in use even when swords and armor and bows and arrows were still being used therfore the flintlock pistol is perfect to make everyone happy
If you, like many, find the topic confusing, disorganized, or unclear as to its nature as a general discussion (as many do), you can send your complaints to the section Admin, or to LuisAdeur for making the decision to lock the more concise and better organized replacement topic another moderator made that had an active discussion going, and forcing everyone to use the disjointed and unmanaged older topic, that was dead, rather than locking the old topic or merging them.
Oh, ninja'd. By about ten minutes...
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