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shoot

Mechanic: Shoot

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. Can be "arrow", "snowball", "egg", "enderpearl", or "potion" added "trident", "splash_potion", and "lingering_potion" in MM 4.11	arrow
damage	d	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
vspread	vs	The vertical hit radius of the projectile	0
hspread	hs	The horizontal hit radius of the projectile	0
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
ontickskill	ontick, ot	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	None
onendskill	onend, oe	The meta-skill to execute when the projectile misses and ends	None
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
ignoreArmor		Whether or not to ignore armor, but will still use enchantment modifiers when calculating total damage
preventImmunity		Whether or not to ignore immunities
preventKnockback		Whether or not to prevent knockback
ignoreenchants		Whether or not to ignore enchantments when calculating total damage. This option is only available for 1.19+)
damageType		Sets the type of damage to be inflicted (Extra info)
damageCause		Sets the damage cause for this damage mechanic (Extra info)

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}