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Arrow Channel Block

When building dungeons I have found that my traps using the dispensers to fire arrows at people are often disabled by the user clicking on the dispenser and removing all the items from it.

This block would act as a barrier to prevent direct access to a dispenser. When placed in front of a dispenser or dropper it would channel the arrow through it, but prevent other players from accessing the dispenser block.

It would have to be able to be placed oriented so that it could channel up, down, or sideways. It would be nice to have it use textures of bricks, stone bricks but with a distinct "hole" However, even if it had its own gray look, it wouldn't matter.

It could be used to cycle dispensers using redstone so that the visible wall would remain unchanged, but the dispenser could be switched with a piston and fire different projectiles at players depending on which dispenser was behind the channeling block.

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    Amazing idea! This would be extremely useful! 

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    This block could essentially be used as a limited one-way projectile block. A different name for this might be an Arrow Slit block. If placed within a wall, this would allow a player to shoot arrows through it freely. Perhaps it even fades to semitransparent when a player stands slightly within it (think the honey block and how it allows a player to stand slightly within it) to allow the player to see more targets. Alternatively, any player shooting from the other side must hit a very small area in the center of the block (think the archery target block and how it knows where it has been hit) in order for a projectile to pass through to the other side. Naturally, this would work with traps as well as clicking or attacking the arrow slit block would do nothing.

    Of course, this would mean that several types of these would need to be available to cosmetically match the structure within which it was placed. Not sure how one would reconcile that.

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    This would work well for survival maps and PVP.

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    Traps would be more dangerous with this, as you couldn't just disable them by emptying the dispenser.