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Mounted Ballista / Pillager outpost improvements

The Village and Pillage update was one of the most exciting updates we've had yet.  The Pillager Outpost was added, and although visually pleasing, but there is little motivation to find it outside of gaining the bad omen status effect. The loot in the chest is at best disappointing and it's not even that difficult to defeat the outpost because the pillagers don't spawn inside the structure.

The solution to all of these problems would be the ballista. A ballista is like a giant crossbow that can be mounted on a block. When you right click on a ballista you would mount it then you hold down right click to load the ballista bolt then aim and fire. It will have slow reload time but much faster bolts and long range. The damage will be dealt on a scale from 16-24 (8-12 hearts) and pierce through multiple mobs.

To add balance, accuracy can be nerfed. Ballista bolts should be crafted similar to a normal arrow recipe but instead of being tipped with flint it should be iron, gold, or even emeralds. The recipe should yield only one ballista bolt and they should be retrievable like arrows. 

Ballistas can only be obtained from an outpost. Pillagers should path find to empty ballistas. Four ballistas should be mounted on either the 2nd or 3rd story as shown. Shields either block only a percentage of the bolts or decrease the damage done to a scale of 8-18 damage points.

This feature would also work well with the  mechanic that pillagers stop spawning if you destroy the banners.

 

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    no comments? darn

     

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    Since the Ballista is bigger than the bow, the recipe should be logs instead of sticks, iron instead of flint, and no feathers, because it would be pointless; stabilizing a projectile at that magnitude just wouldn't work. 

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    @trojanhorse69 yeah the crafting recipe can be changed. As long as it's expensive enough to balance the weapon.

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    That’s way way way to OP

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    Perhaps the ballista could be craftable, but incredibly expensive (iron block expensive) and requires multiple segments: base (iron), pedestal (log) (this is the tipi part of the ballista), Arm and ladder (logs +iron+others) (this is the main part, where the bolts are fired from), and the frame (iron, crossbow, etc). All four of these parts could then be crafted together to get a finished ballista. Why is it in parts? Each part could have variants that affect the finished ballista. EX: the base. A wood base might not hold as well as an iron base. A stationary pedestal isn’t able to move, but one that spins could. The frame of the ballista could be modified to include more power, or special effects, such as, holding a torch to light arrows. Great idea!!

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    I wouldn't even nerf the accuracy, I would set it so you have to leave the ballista, and manually load it, or have a second player be the loader. A better and more logical nerf is to have a fixed rotation speed in order to really feel like a Ballista. The damage could be higher to make it more an anti-tank role to deal with mobs like ravagers, iron golems, withers, and the ender dragon easier. With the given drawback that a ballista is a stationary target with little to no cover. If more nerfs were necessary, have a fixed rotation radius or simply make the recipe more expensive. This could be done by requiring the players to craft multiple parts to put together

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    Maybe only obtainable through trading with weapon smith villagers or stealing from pillagers?