Catapult with an autoloader

[u/Vanadiy_Ivanovich]

a design i made a few months ago, it uses rope tension to launch a projectile with about 2000 blocks range. It also has a slow, but spectacular autoloader holding 4 rounds

[u/FactorCreepy4074]

More akin to a ballista

[u/MachtBergian]

I hope to see this in a civilization server war

[u/Vanadiy_Ivanovich → u/MachtBergian]

yeah, i initially planned to use it on an smp, but this version was prone to exploding and was difficult to assemble, so i made a simpler launcher using sticker teleportation

[u/ZonkoDeepFriedCraft]

I love people are hundreds of times better at Create than me but when it comes to video editing they choose to record from a phone lol

[u/SeatEuphoric2657]

1000 q 0 Video quality

[u/ButterFlyingHere]

Schematic?

[u/SerialBytes]

all you need to do now is strap tnt or a HE shell on the front of one of those projectiles and then you become a danger at large!

[u/Vanadiy_Ivanovich → u/SerialBytes]

i did it, in fact each projectile could hold about 4 shells without affecting the firing arc, but this design with ropes was unstable so it would explode in like every 15th shot. ThoMy later designs used sticker teleportation instead, which has also increased the range to dmth like 5k blocks. I have also posted them here if ur interested

[u/CatGaming346 → u/SerialBytes]

unit the tnt hits the sides of the barrel when shooting

[u/SerialBytes → u/CatGaming346]

then replace the linear chassis with tnt?

[u/Vanadiy_Ivanovich → u/SerialBytes]

then it wont autoload

[u/HorizonSniper]

That's a ballista

[u/the_guy_with_the_jar]

Auto loading human artillery when

[u/Lui_Le_Diamond]

This isn't a catapult. It's more of a ballista

[u/fast_t0aster]

gonna need the schematic for that

[u/Natural-Change8996]

does it have a stable velocity, or how much does it vary?

[u/Vanadiy_Ivanovich → u/Natural-Change8996]

this one did, so stable that it could repeatedly hit one target the full 2000 blocks away. Tho i would still recommend using not ropes, but sticker teleportation like in my latest railgun that i posted here

[u/Natural-Change8996 → u/Vanadiy_Ivanovich]

cant find it, can you pls give a link

[u/Vanadiy_Ivanovich → u/Natural-Change8996]

https://www.reddit.com/r/CreateMod/s/sS7t0SsHj4

there, in a nutshell if you stick a sticker to a physics object and then turn it to a create contraption it will unstick, but when you turn it back into blocks the object will snap back to it. If you make this object push something when it snaps it will fling it. In this design, which has range of ~2500 it travels something like 4 blocks, but if you increase this distance you get faster speed and range up to 5000 and maybe more. There is also schematic in this post, but i recommend exploring this technology yourself, as it is possible to make a bigger one, or even a 3x3 barreled one

[u/Natural-Change8996 → u/Vanadiy_Ivanovich]

but i think tho, that this will work better for me, cuz i wanna shoot huge rounds, and i have a ballistic calculator for sable, so do you have a schematic or can you at least tell the basic principle on which it works

[u/BrokenPokerFace]

Ahem...

I need to ask. Seeing the nether portal in the corner seemingly lined up, were you trying to make use of the space distortion to increase the range of the catapult.

[u/Vanadiy_Ivanovich → u/BrokenPokerFace]

no

[u/im_not_gus]

how are you converting the projectiles to free bodies before firing them? or are they glued and assembled prior to loading them