For the last several months, I’ve been developing a long range wither cannon, with the goal of making the cannon an effective enough weapon to be greatly useful in Minecraft PvP, but the 1.21.41 update for the bedrock has greatly nerfed how effective TNT is at propelling withers.
before the update, my wither cannon had a range of about 490 blocks, but after the update, my cannon now only has a range of 320 blocks.
granted, it could also potentially be a change to blue ice in the update, as withers slide across blue ice in my cannon, so the update might have also made blue ice less slippery.
whatever the reason is, I’m asking if you can fix whatever change is causing my wither cannon to have shorter range, so that my months of work aren’t wasted.
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I’ve also test this on myself(my player), by going inside the barrel of the cannon and launching myself, and I get launched at a way slower speed now then I did before. After further testing, I’ve found that the problem is definitely that TNT deals less knockback after the update.
You can watch this video here https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BptGNxgskVM which will tell you exactly how to build the cannon, and my Reddit post here https://www.reddit.com/r/MinecraftPVP/comments/1g86ice/how_effective_is_my_redstone_cannon_for_crystal/ gives a screenshot plus figures for what the range was before the update(though keep in mind, those figures are conservative, as I subtract 30 blocks from the actual range the wither lands at, to make sure I’m not over estimating my invention).
I’ve also test this on myself(my player), by going inside the barrel of the cannon and launching myself, and I get launched at a way slower speed now then I did before. After further testing, I’ve found that the problem is definitely that TNT deals less knockback after the update.
You can watch this video here https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BptGNxgskVM which will tell you exactly how to build the cannon, and my Reddit post here https://www.reddit.com/r/MinecraftPVP/comments/1g86ice/how_effective_is_my_redstone_cannon_for_crystal/ gives a screenshot plus figures for what the range was before the update(though keep in mind, those figures are conservative, as I subtract 30 blocks from the actual range the wither lands at, to make sure I’m not over estimating my invention).
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Could you please provide a video and a repro steps for this issue?
Could you upload a world with the mentioned cannon?
Does the issue only occur on a iOS?
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Could you provide a video or test world so that we can reproduce the issue? Have you tested launching other entities? It is difficulty to know if this is due to a change in withers, or tnt, or explosions. I doubt it is a change to blue ice.