How hard is nether quartz to get? I mean really? I was running around for 1/2 an hour and had stacks of the stuff. Also, I should note that once my pack gets updated and I can use flamestring, I absolutely will since it has the highest fly speed at 1.5 or something like that I believe I saw from an earlier post. The only modifiers I would consider are red stone and pistons. Now, of course rate of fire comes into play, and the a close second for me is durability so for me, the ONLY OPTION for a bow is a green slime bow which has 1.2, faster draw speed and great durability. You should notice the damage go up and it in no way correlates to the bow damage value (which I assume is there for whacking mobs with your bow.) Then use the exact same arrow shooting a mob without armor and compare results. 5 fly speed (paper) 1 fly speed (wood) and then 1.2 fly speed (slime or steel or a number of others) If we're looking for max damage, but aren't concerned about rate of fire, then the only stat that matters is the fly speed.
Although it could be that since I'm playing on hexxit, the mod is somehow balanced differently, and I plan to test it (unless someone else running FTB can confirm my results.) I can't believe so many people test this stuff (I think korsovan got it closest?) and get it so wrong. Arrows themselves are a renewable resource with a skeleton grinder. Honestly, Infinity is probably the worst enchantment in the game. And even 73 nether quarts per STACK of arrows isn't the end of the world.
it's not like the arrows are that expensive. But since you're only really spending cactus, slimeballs, and feathers.
The only thing TiCo is unable to duplicate or exceed is the Infinity enchantment. You've now got a bow which is mechanically superior to a bow that you would be unable to repair because enchantment costs would be too high.
Again, this is in addition to the rate of fire and the ability to repair, auto-repair, or charge the bow with energy. With an Alumite arrowhead you can actually put two pistons on and one set of 72 nether quartz for 10 damage and more knockback than Punch V. Which means you can use one piston for the whole stack to add in additional knockback to the arrows. Since you can get 10 hearts of damage on the cactus head arrows with two modifiers, you still have another modifier available (more if you used paper or thaumium somewhere). In fact, with Manyllium arrowhead arrows, the damage output is SIGNIFICANTLY higher than anything an enchanted bow can bring to the table.įurthermore, the bow itself can be enchanted for more rapid firing with Redstone, further increasing the rate of fire advantage it has against any vanilla bow, which is something vanilla bows are unable to do with enchantments, has thousands of durability, can be given auto-repair or electric modifiers so that the bow itself NEVER BREAKS (a significant advantage over even Unbreaking V, and can be done SIMULTANEOUSLY with the aforementioned 10 heart damage output since you are now modifying the bow rather than the arrows themselves).
Click to expand.This is actually an incorrect statement.Ī TiCo bow made with green slime rods and flamestring bow string in 1.6 firing arrows with cactus head, slime shaft, and feather fletching have not only a more rapid rate of fire (takes less time to get the bow to full draw), but the arrows launched from the bow fly both faster and with less of a curve to their trajectory, which translates to an overall increase in accuracy.įurthermore, putting 73 Nether Quartz on the stack of aforementioned arrows fired from aforementioned bow deals a flat 10 damage per shot, which actually exceeds the damage a Power 5 Bow does (9 hearts).