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1. Tanks
No, not that kind of tank. It simply plays off the idea of a tank, a big armored thing with a gun. So whats big and armored to a clay soldier? An iron helm, what would they use as a gun? Sugarcanes. Unfortunately, thats far too cumbersome for one soldier, so they have to coordinate to use it.

Crafting Recipe: Clay Soldier = C, Gravel = G, Iron Helmet = I, Sugarcane = S
[C][C][C]
[G] [I][G]
[C][S][C]
Using colored soldiers will result in a colored tank, dyes will recolor tanks, and waterbuckets will turn them back to grey.

Once you have the tank, simply right click to release it. The five clay soldiers will work together to operate the not-so-complicated machinery. Four will hold up the helmet, the fifth stands in the center with the sugarcane and gravel and shoots from inside the helmet.

Asides from having a whopping amount of health, the iron hide has resistance to numerous devious devices. Redstone will glitter harmlessly on it, gravel will bounce off of it, fire can't scorch it, and mushrooms can't poison metal! However, melee will damage the tank, glue and snow will have an easy time bringing it to a stop, supersoldiers can still beat the clay out of it, and it can still become corrupted if it grabs an enderpearl. Plus, since using such coordination is stressful as it is, the soldiers are unable to grab additional equipment.

If the tank is destroyed, there is no way to reassemble it on the spot! It will break into 5 ingots, meaning that it can either be collected for repair and reuse, or recycled by the survivors as iron skeletons.

2. Gold Ingots
Since the gold nuggets have freed up the use of the actual ingots, why not give them a new use? When a clay soldier grabs a gold ingot, he will become greedy. He will prioritize equipment over combat. When he spots something he'd like to have, he immediately abandons his fight and rushes over to upgrade.

An example over why this might be used, I created an arena with dispensers and pressure plates in it. Thus when in combat, the soldiers could receive potent upgrades or harmful downgrades. But when I initiated the actual battle, the equipment coming out of the dispensers merely piled up, and the soldiers, for the most part ignored the equipment until everyone on the opposite team was dead.

3. Obsidian
Give a soldier some obsidian, he becomes fire/lava proof! Blazerods, blaze powder, lava, all become things of the past!

I did read about the no obsidian thing, to quote, "Obsidian is too overpowered to be included on anything." However, I'm not sure if fire immunity was one possibility considered. And if you think it completely nullifies the fire-based items, well it kinda does. But only on the soldiers with the obsidian. And I presume that most people who use this mod, like me, like to mix-and-match what the soldiers have. Meaning that we won't give every soldier obsidian or blaze powder.

4. Colored Wool Borders
If clay soldiers love their color, wouldn't that mean they hate the opposite? Thus, clay soldiers refuse to stand on or walk over wool that is a different color from their own. This could be used in an attack-defend scenario, with the border of the defenders area in the color of the attackers.
Note: I am referring to placed wool, not dropped wool.

5. Gravel, Snow, Netherack
If a clay soldier runs out of gravel to throw at enemies, but he's standing ontop of gravel, what should he do? He should scoop up some gravel and keep throwing!

A placed gravel block would give soldiers infinite ammo, as long as they were standing directly on the block. Furthermore, they will not use the gravel block unless they've already gotten gravel from the player. So you can still differentiate the melee and range.
The soldiers are smart enough to realize how much of a strategic position the gravel is, so they will attempt to stay on the gravel in order to keep up the relentless onslaught as long as possible.
Also, snow and netherack can be used instead for those who use snowballs or fireballs.

6. High speed collision
When a minecart comes barreling into the arena, hopefully no soldiers are in the way. Because they already get heavily knocked back from a soldier with an iron core, a minecart is 5x that! Thus they will become too battered for combat.

7. Sponges
Allow your clay soldiers to acquire the absorbent powers of sponge! This nasty trick will allow them to take other nasty tricks and use them against their users! For example they could blind an enemy who's using redstone, stick an opponent using slimeballs, or incinerate a hostile using blazepowder!
Note: This is only if sponges are updated to be legitimately acquired ingame.