I came across an island with an exposed Lava pit. The lava was flowing right out onto the sand, and onto the cobble it made by coming into contact with the sea.
I thought it was neat, how they made water and lava react with each other.
Then I remembered that old Bionicle Movie where Pohatu and Tahu were fighting the Rahkshi, and Pohatu whips up a sandstorm to blind the monsters, and then Tahu sets it on fire to completely encase the Rahkshi in a big chunk of glass. How badass was that, eh?
So, I thought it would be neat for Lava to be able to react with Sand to create Glass.
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Or, if you wanted to take it a step further, since Lava is Molten Rock, and would likely mix in with the Sand a bit, before turning it to Glass, it would create a block of Glass Shards (Or Glass Shavings, Sandy Glass, it's a working name). It would be partially transparent on Fancy Graphics settings, like Leaves, and behave like Gravel or Sand when placed (It falls when there's nothing below it.) Glass Shards would form whenever Lava comes into contact with Sand. If a Sand Block falls into lava, or Lava flows into sand.
You could then use these Glass Shards in Crafting, to create a Shrapnel Bomb.
Shrapnel Bombs are thrown explosives, similar to regular Throwing Potions, but do not require a trip to the Nether. They would have a bit more range, about half that of a Snowball, and would explode on impact with a Mob or Surface, dealing damage with a nice explosion. It would not destroy Blocks, unlike TNT, and could damage you as well if you weren't careful.
The Recipe could be done in multiple ways.
It could be the same as TNT, but with Glass Shards in the place of Sand
Or it could be more expensive, with 1 Gunpowder in the middle, with 4 Glass Shards around it, and 4 Iron ingots in the corners.
The recipe would yield 1 Shrapnel Bomb, which would be able to stack up to 16, like Eggs or Snowballs.
They could also be fired out of Dispensers, making them more similar to actual Cannons.
Would cause 3 Hearts worth of damage on impact, and have a blast radius of 4 blocks, the damage falling off a Heart for each block, where being 4 blocks away would only cause knockback/flinching.
Whaddya think?
Too OP?
Too difficult/easy to obtain?
Too expensive?
Let's go to the phones:
All you would have to do is get a lava bucket and go like 10 feet underground mining to get one...seems too easy.
Big grief possibility, no support.
I didn't know sand spawned underground anywhere besides Deserts, Beaches, and Oceans.
And how would it be a big grief possibility?
Unless you make your house out of Sand blocks, it wouldn't really allow anyone to do anything to whatever you built.
The bombs do about as much damage as a Potion of Harming, which could easily be nerfed down a bit. To make it more balanced.
And if we use the TNT style crafting recipe, you'd still have to kill at least 5 creepers before you could use it.
Unless stacking items counts in crafting, and you'd have to put 5 Gunpowder in with the Iron ingots
I came across an island with an exposed Lava pit. The lava was flowing right out onto the sand, and onto the cobble it made by coming into contact with the sea.
I thought it was neat, how they made water and lava react with each other.
Then I remembered that old Bionicle Movie where Pohatu and Tahu were fighting the Rahkshi, and Pohatu whips up a sandstorm to blind the monsters, and then Tahu sets it on fire to completely encase the Rahkshi in a big chunk of glass. How badass was that, eh?
So, I thought it would be neat for Lava to be able to react with Sand to create Glass.
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Or, if you wanted to take it a step further, since Lava is Molten Rock, and would likely mix in with the Sand a bit, before turning it to Glass, it would create a block of Glass Shards (Or Glass Shavings, Sandy Glass, it's a working name). It would be partially transparent on Fancy Graphics settings, like Leaves, and behave like Gravel or Sand when placed (It falls when there's nothing below it.) Glass Shards would form whenever Lava comes into contact with Sand. If a Sand Block falls into lava, or Lava flows into sand.
You could then use these Glass Shards in Crafting, to create a Shrapnel Bomb.
Shrapnel Bombs are thrown explosives, similar to regular Throwing Potions, but do not require a trip to the Nether. They would have a bit more range, about half that of a Snowball, and would explode on impact with a Mob or Surface, dealing damage with a nice explosion. It would not destroy Blocks, unlike TNT, and could damage you as well if you weren't careful.
The Recipe could be done in multiple ways.
It could be the same as TNT, but with Glass Shards in the place of Sand
Or it could be more expensive, with 1 Gunpowder in the middle, with 4 Glass Shards around it, and 4 Iron ingots in the corners.
The recipe would yield 1 Shrapnel Bomb, which would be able to stack up to 16, like Eggs or Snowballs.
They could also be fired out of Dispensers, making them more similar to actual Cannons.
Would cause 3 Hearts worth of damage on impact, and have a blast radius of 4 blocks, the damage falling off a Heart for each block, where being 4 blocks away would only cause knockback/flinching.
Whaddya think?
Too OP?
Too difficult/easy to obtain?
Too expensive?
Let's go to the phones:
Big grief possibility, no support.
I didn't know sand spawned underground anywhere besides Deserts, Beaches, and Oceans.
And how would it be a big grief possibility?
Unless you make your house out of Sand blocks, it wouldn't really allow anyone to do anything to whatever you built.
The bombs do about as much damage as a Potion of Harming, which could easily be nerfed down a bit. To make it more balanced.
And if we use the TNT style crafting recipe, you'd still have to kill at least 5 creepers before you could use it.
Unless stacking items counts in crafting, and you'd have to put 5 Gunpowder in with the Iron ingots
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The radius would only be about as big as that of a throwing potion.
However it would have a bit further throwing range.