shoot

Description

Shoots an arrow or item-projectile at the targeted entity or location that deals damage. The shoot-mechanic has been significantly changed in version 2.4. See below for both how it worked prior and after those additions.

Added most of the options from the Projectile mechanic to Shoot & Volley in MM 4.11

Attributes

Attribute	Aliases	Description	Default
type	t	Type of projectile to shoot.	arrow
damage	d, amount	How much damage the projectile will cause	5
velocity	v	The velocity of the projectile	1
maxDistance	md	The maximum distance the projectile will travel	64
poweraffectsvelocity	pav	Whether the mobs power level should affect the velocity of the projectile	true
interval	int, i	How often per second the projectile creates a tick-event	4
item		The item being shot. Only applicable to some projectile types
ontickskill	ontick, ot, m, meta, s, skill	The meta-skill to execute on each tick/interval of the projectile	None
onhitskill	onhit, oh	The meta-skill to execute when the projectile hits its target
onendskill	onend, oe	The meta-skill to execute when the projectile misses and ends
bounce		Whether the projectile will bounce when it hits something	false
pickup		Can pickup the item.	false
expiration	duration, expire, e	How many ticks should the projectile exist for after it has landed before it gets removed	100
accuracy	ac, a	Accuracy of the projectile	1
knockback	kb	knockback strength of the projectile	0
piercelevel	pl	The amount of times the arrow can pierce through an entity	0
verticaloffset	vo	The vertical offset of the shot projectile	0
horizontaloffset	ho	The horizontal offset of the shot projectile	0
gravity	g	Whether the projectile should be affected by gravity	true
startyoffset	syo	The starting y offset of the projectile	0
adjustvelocity	av	If the caster is a player, adjusts the velocity and direction as if the player was shooting it themselves	true
calculatefiringangle	cfa	If this is set and the projectile has `gravity`, the projectile will trace an arc in the air before landing at the target location	false
verticalnoise	vn	The vertical noise (randomness) of the shot projectile	((1-`accuracy`)*45)/10
horizontalnoise	hn	The horizontal noise (randomness) of the shot projectile	(1-`accuracy`)*45

This mechanic inherits every inheritable attribute of the Damage mechanic

Type Attribute

The types for the projectile can be

Type	Aliases
`ARROW`
`SNOWBALL`
`EGG`
`ENDERPEARL`
`POTION`	`SPLASH_POTION`
`LINGERING_POTION`
`ITEM`
`BLOCK`	`FALLING_BLOCK`
`TRIDENT`

Potion Type Attributes

These attributes apply if the projectile is of type POTION

Attribute	Aliases	Description	Default
potiontype	ptype, effect, pt, pe	The type of the potion applied to the projectile, if POTION	SLOW
potionduration	pduration, pd	The duration of the potion effect	100
force	overwrite, ow, override, or	Whether to override the effect on the target if already applied	false
potioncolor	pc	The color of the potion	#FFFFFF
hasParticles	particles	Whether not to show the status effect particles.	true
hasIcon	icon	Whether not to show the status effect icon.	true
ambientparticles	ambient	Whether to show ambient particles.	false

Trident Type Attributes

These attributes apply if the projectile is of type TRIDENT

Attribute	Aliases	Description	Default
tridentitem	titem, ti	The trident item

Examples

ArrowBarrage:
  Skills:
  - shoot{type=ARROW;velocity=5;damage=10}
  - delay 10
  - shoot{type=ARROW;velocity=5;damage=10}
  - delay 10
  - shoot{type=ARROW;velocity=5;damage=10}
  - delay 10
  - shoot{type=ARROW;velocity=5;damage=10}
  - delay 10
  - shoot{type=ARROW;velocity=5;damage=10}

Aliases

shootprojetile