Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-27831234-20160610214430

Hey guys here is another suggestion of mine that I have about what could be used for ammo while using catapults and trebuchets in the future. Sorry if this has been suggested before:

The ammunition I have in mind will take the form of blocks that already exists in vanilla minecraft and middle earth and one more block I have an idea for. When you left click on the catapult or trebuchet, the block that was in your hand would appear on the bucket of the catapult (once the arm is lowered) or the sling of the trebuchet.

Here are the ammunition types I have thought of:

Standard: Standard type ammunition could be any block that is stone related. So, standard type ammo would be the most common form of ammunition available. The following blocks could be classified as standard ammo:

-cobblestone -regular stone -stone bricks -any stone bricks from the mod -gondor Rock -mordor Rock -chalk?

Since standard ammo can be very common, it should be only as powerful as a single strength Orc bomb. Perhaps it could be stronger on the trebuchet, considering that the catapult was phased out in favor of the trebuchet in history.

Fire ammo: Fire ammo can be hearth. If you guys have any other suggestions of what flammable block can be used that is found in middle-earth, you can tell me. When put into the catapult or trebuchet, the machine won't fire until the hearth is ignited. When lit, the hearth will appear to be on fire in the catapult bucket or trebuchet sling. But, the machine won't catch on fire. Maybe if not fired after a certain amount of time, the fire would die. The hearth could be lit by flint and steel or any torch. Once fired, the ammo moving in the air would look like a fire charge to represent a fireball. To not make fire ammo overpowered, it's damage should be less than that of a single strength Orc bomb. But, it will set anything on fire within a 5 block radius.

Disease ammo: in the past, during sieges, the attackers used the dead bodies of people and animals who died from the plague to hurl over the defenses to cause disease amoung the garrison.now this is the suggestion for a new block I was talking about at the beginning of this thread: a block of rotten flesh. The crafting recipe is quite self-explanatory: fill the crafting table with rotten flesh. Since it is literally a block of meat, it will cause no damage to blocks. Upon impact, instead of a tnt explosion, it will be a red firework explosion, to represent all the blood and parts scattering. It will also drop some rotten flesh upon impact also. This will give any player or Npc (except elves) within a 5 block radius the following status effects.

-instant damage (upon impact) -poison (15 seconds) -slowness (15 seconds) -weakness (15 seconds) -nausea (10 seconds) -blindness for 5 seconds?(To represent getting the meat in your eyes perhaps?)

The ones with the question marks are the ones I'm not to suppress about, but you guys can tell me what you think.

And I'm done. Thank you for reading, kudos, critique, and ideas are appreciated! Good day. 