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Shulker Bullets & Shulker Lead [tools]

Introduction: A miscellaneous but useful idea for mob transportation.

Suggestion 1: Shulker Bullets (the projectiles that Shulkers shoot at enemies) have a small chance to drop as an item when destroyed with the player's hand. They can either be consumed via RMB to apply their usual 10 seconds of Levitation, or crafted with a Lead into a Shulker Lead.

Suggestion 2: A Shulker Lead can be tied to mobs (and to a fence) just like normal Leads, but they also make the tied mob to levitate between 2 and 3 blocks above the player's feet. (or the fence's position)

The Shulker Lead's maximum length before breaking is two times longer than a normal Lead's.

 

Conclusion: Shulker Bullets would help the player traverse terrain with verticality easier, meanwhile the Shulker Lead would help the player transport other mobs across that terrain as well.

Nebulacrity shared this idea.

• March 23, 2019 20:56
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  SuperTux209319 commented

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  • May 24, 2019 22:51
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  Sounds pretty cool! What if you could also brew a Shulker Bullet into a Levitation Potion that would last even longer?

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  Nizar Nwesser commented

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  • June 19, 2019 14:02
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  well this is actually a good idea . i think we should definitely be able to get shulker bullets as an item .. maybe the potion of levitation should be added ... i think if the bullets can be fetched with a bottle . this will give you an item called Bullet in a bottle which can be worked using a brewing stand to give you Potion of levitation however if you choose to put the bullet in a bottle in the output slots of a brewing stand (instead of water bottles ) and put gunpowder in the input slot you will get the Splash bullets which if splashed will unleash the shulker bullet inside . the shulker bullet unleashed from the splash bullet will target the nearest mob causing the mob to levitate just like if it was hit by a normal shulker bullet .

  i think the shulker leads should be added  . this idea is just too amazing . 

  i can already see my self messing around with animal transportation 

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  Matthew Mickelson commented

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  • August 29, 2019 17:35
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  Considering there's no way to currently apply the Levitation effect to a player without commands or actually getting hit by a Shulker, I think this would be really cool way to put it into the game! It might be good to have it still deal damage to the player whenever the bullet it used, though, or maybe just have it be used as a potion ingredient.

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  sir bruh commented

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  • January 04, 2020 08:52
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  I was thinking a shulker head drop that the player can shoot shulker projectiles.I would like to see a vanilla-based weapon

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  Willem H commented

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  • January 18, 2020 09:27
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  This is an extremely good idea. Considering the method of obtaining the item is so unique and potentially dangerous, it would be a challenge to the game's technical community to design effective ways of farming the bullets. The item's potion variations (as described by previous comments) has applications across lots of playstyles, being useful offensively in splash form, defencively as an escape mechanism, allowing for new types of minigames and parkour courses, transport within bases- the list just goes on and on.

  I have two cents to put in here; the first is that the item may fit better into the game under a different name. "Bullets" is suggestive of guns, which as can be seen by the description of the blocks and items category is a theme being avoided in vanilla gameplay. My second cent is that, should the potion variation be introduced, the Shulker Lead may be redundant except for its extra length.

  All in all, this is the most fitting suggestion I've seen so far. Well done Nebulacrity :)