RELEASED Rockball MOD: Craftable Thrown Rocks

Rockball mod - Craftable Thrown Rocks
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This mod allows players to craft cobblestone into a primitive thrown weapon. These rockballs have an arc of throw, bounce when landing and otherwise behave in accordance with the in-game physics sim. The projectiles will vanish after a few seconds. A single piece of cobblestone currently produces 5 rock balls for your throwing pleasure.

Installation Instructions:

• Download the archive file: http://www.4shared.com/rar/tSge_HJH/rockball.html
• rockball.thrownitem and rockballicon.png must be placed in: assets\items\throwables
• The 'rockball' directory in the archive must be placed in assets\projectiles\throwable
• rockball.recipe must be placed in: assets\recipes\starter\plain

One way to make the rockball mod available (from the start of the game) is via the following method:

• Edit player.config and add the following line in the "tier1" list
  
• Add: { "item" : "rockball" },

The other way is to link the recipe to a player pickup of cobblestone

• Edit the file cobblestone.matitem to include the following:

Code:

  "learnBlueprintsOnPickup" : [
    "rockball"
  ],

 

Nice. How do you calculate the damage? IIRC there's an enemy attack which fires rocks, maybe you could take a look at that one.

 

I wanted the attack to be fairly weak, so I looked at the NPC rock attack (and things like the throwing daggers, etc.) and adjusted accordingly.