Description
Torch Launcher
A launcher that fires lit torches. A torch that hits a block places itself there, standing or on the wall. A torch that hits a mob sets it on fire. Light a cave, a ravine or a dark forest without walking there.
The idea comes from iChun's Torched for Minecraft 1.6 and 1.7, which was never ported. This is a fresh rebuild for current Minecraft and shares no code with the original.
Features
Fires torches from your inventory: the off-hand first, then the hotbar, then the rest of the inventory. Hold a kind of torch in your off-hand to pick it.
Torches stay where they land.
Hits on mobs: 1 damage, and the mob burns for 4 seconds. The torch drops.
Four kinds of ammo:
| Ammo | On a hit |
|---|---|
| (Copper) Torch | Sets mobs on fire |
| Soul Torch | Sets mobs on soul fire, which burns twice as hard and shows blue flames |
| Redstone Torch | Sets nothing on fire. Shoot one at a contraption to switch it from afar |
While you hold a launcher, each torch's tooltip says what it does when fired.
Enchantments: Multishot fires 3 torches at once, Quick Charge shortens the cooldown, Piercing lets a torch pass through mobs.
A 3D model that shows the next torch it will fire, lying in its barrel. It recoils when it fires, and with a shader pack, a loaded launcher lights up its surroundings like the torch in it.
Crafting
The launcher has 250 durability and fires every half second.
Dependencies
Required:
- YetAnotherConfigLib (YACL), on every loader: 3.8.2 or later for 1.21.1, 3.9.7 or later for 26.1 and 26.3.
- Fabric API on Fabric and Quilt.
Optional: Mod Menu on Fabric and Quilt, to open the config screen from the mod list.
Quilt on 26.1 and 26.3: for now, clients need Quilt Loader 0.31.0 (a beta). YACL crashes the current stable release, 0.30.1, at startup. 1.21.1 runs on the stable release.
Config
Open the settings with /torch_launcher config, from Mod Menu on Fabric and Quilt, or from the Config button in NeoForge's mod list.
| Setting | Default | |
|---|---|---|
| Hit damage | 1 | Damage a torch deals to a mob it hits |
| Fire duration multiplier | 1 | Multiplies how long a hit burns |
| Cooldown | 10 ticks | Ticks between shots. Quick Charge shortens it in proportion |
| Drop instead of place | off | Fired torches drop as items instead of placing themselves |
Torches from other mods
Datapacks and modpacks can add any torch item as ammo. Add the item to the tag #torch_launcher:launcher_ammo, and describe it in a file in data/<namespace>/torch_launcher/ammo/:
// data/<namespace>/torch_launcher/ammo/soul_torch.json
{
"item": "minecraft:soul_torch",
"on_hit": { // optional
"fire_ticks": 80, // default 80
"fire_type": "soul" // "normal" (default), "soul" or "none"
},
"trail_particle": "minecraft:soul_fire_flame" // optional
}The torch places whatever block its item places, just as when a player uses it. Files for items that don't exist are skipped.
Torch Launcher Team
