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Historical cannons: ammunition and armor scaling

Minecraft 1.12.2 / AoA 3.3.6. Fifty direct cannon registrations are checked against released constructor windows and item identities. Their ammunition methods are resolved separately. These are reference inputs and selected behavior, not final damage, DPS, blast radius or runtime compatibility results.

Check ammunition before firing

“Cannon” is a weapon family, not a promise that the item consumes Cannonballs. Across these 50 entries, the inspected ammunition references are:

Ammunition	Cannon entries
Cannonball	31
Grenade	12
Discharge Capsule	2
Balloon	2
Cobblestone	2
Carrot	1

Only two classes inherit the base cannon ammo method; the other 48 override it, often to construct a different projectile while retaining the same payment item. Do not infer a different cost just from the existence of an override, or copy the base rule across all items without checking.

The inspected helper calls use the matching item with a requested amount of 1 + Greed level. Their shared inventory helper has the split-stack accounting warning. Test small known balances and preserve metadata/tag matching when porting.

• Carrot Cannon: the inspected item reference is the vanilla Carrot.
• Jack Rocker and Jack Funger: the checked input is the item form of vanilla Cobblestone. The historical tooltip localization key is not a reason to substitute a similarly named decorative block.
• Ancient Discharger and Discharge Cannon: use Discharge Capsules.
• Missile Maker: uses Grenades. Its zero ordinary damage input is not a guarantee of harmless projectile behavior.

Craft Cannonballs

Arrange four Limonite Ingots in a 2×2 square. The released shaped recipe produces 12 Cannonballs. It uses the exact AoA Limonite Ingot ID, not any arbitrary ingot tag.

Open the illustrated exact Cannonball recipe.

This recipe supplies only the Cannonball category above. Do not craft a large batch for a launcher that actually checks Grenades, Balloons or another input.

Compare the 50 source-backed entries

Open a name for its source-model portrait and lazy 1.12.2 cannon inputs · ammunition and armor scaling panel. The historical cannon family filter lists the same 50 records.

Cannon and portrait	Damage input	Delay · ticks	Durability	Recoil input	Ammo item
Ancient Bomber	23.5	28	855	14	Grenade
Ancient Discharger	0	20	850	6	Discharge Capsule
Aqua Cannon	14	35	300	5	Cannonball
Balloon Bomber	12.5	24	505	7	Balloon
Big Blast	28	60	550	19	Cannonball
Blast Cannon	17	27	510	17	Grenade
Blissful Blast	33.5	60	835	19	Cannonball
Bomb Launcher	23	27	840	17	Grenade
Boom Boom	18.5	36	390	11	Grenade
Boom Cannon	17.5	28	510	14	Grenade
Boulder Bomber	18.5	62	475	20	Cannonball
Bozo Blaster	12.5	20	505	11	Cannonball
Bulb Cannon	25	30	860	8	Cannonball
Carrot Cannon	10	16	520	8	Carrot
Clown Cannon	22.5	32	570	10	Cannonball
Clowno-Pulse	35.5	42	845	11	Cannonball
Coral Cannon	12	15	300	5	Cannonball
Discharge Cannon	0	20	400	6	Discharge Capsule
Energy Cannon	18.5	25	610	3	Cannonball
Erebon Stickler	35	48	750	11	Grenade
Floro RPG	14	14	830	7	Grenade
Flower Cannon	14.5	23	510	17	Cannonball
Fungal Cannon	19.5	23	850	17	Cannonball
Ghast Blaster	20	28	600	16	Cannonball
Ghoul Cannon	25.5	34	590	18	Cannonball
Giga-Cannon	25.5	30	700	6	Cannonball
Golder Bomber	26	62	840	20	Cannonball
Hive Blaster	20.5	24	850	13	Cannonball
Hive Howitzer	13	24	375	6.5	Cannonball
Iro Cannon	25.5	36	580	10	Cannonball
Jack Funger	17	20	860	6	Cobblestone
Jack Rocker	10.5	20	400	6	Cobblestone
Luxon Stickler	35	48	750	11	Grenade
Mecha Cannon	26.5	42	525	11	Cannonball
Mini-Cannon	15	30	415	3	Cannonball
Missile Maker	0	60	495	10	Grenade
Moon Cannon	21	25	855	3	Cannonball
Pluton Stickler	35	48	750	11	Grenade
Predatorian Blaster	23.5	28	845	16	Cannonball
Pulse Cannon	26	42	510	11	Cannonball
RPG	14	50	320	24	Grenade
Selyan Stickler	35	48	750	11	Grenade
Shadow Blaster	15	24	515	13	Cannonball
Shyre Blaster	25.5	30	850	12	Cannonball
Smile Blaster	20.5	24	840	13	Cannonball
Super-Cannon	18.5	30	510	4	Cannonball
Ultra-Cannon	22.5	30	605	5	Cannonball
Vox Cannon	15	26	440	13	Cannonball
Water-Balloon Bomber	20.5	24	855	7	Balloon
Wither Cannon	17	30	460	8	Cannonball

What the base armor scaling actually does

For a non-null living target, the selected BaseCannon impact method multiplies the incoming bullet multiplier by:

1 + target armor attribute × 1.5 / 100

It then passes the base damage getter times that adjusted multiplier to the gun-damage helper. The effect hook is called only when that helper reports success.

Target armor attribute	This pre-damage multiplier factor
0	1.00
10	1.15
20	1.30
30	1.45

These are arithmetic examples of this one factor, not net damage after target defenses. The selected method does not establish that armor is ignored, removed or bypassed. A nonliving target does not take the living-target armor branch. Subclass overrides, projectile effects and other mods still require separate checks.

Zero inputs and projectile effects

Ancient Discharger, Discharge Cannon and Missile Maker each receive a zero ordinary damage argument in this registration. Their ammunition methods construct specialized projectiles. The input table alone cannot establish the effect or safety of those projectiles, so do not rank them as doing nothing or test them beside valuable builds on that assumption.

Likewise, a cannon's name or texture does not establish an explosion, a terrain-destruction policy or a fixed radius. Inspect the corresponding projectile/effect path and world settings before promising those behaviors in an overhaul.

Practical and restoration checklist

1. Verify the release and the exact ammunition row before crafting supplies.
2. Test one small known inventory, especially with Greed or multiple matching stacks.
3. Read the base firing requirements, while keeping any subclass overrides distinct.
4. Test living targets with known armor separately from nonliving targets. Record final health changes instead of treating the constructor input as the answer.
5. Check custom projectiles, rejected spawns, resource payment, durability and cooldown together.
6. Preserve original resource semantics in optional remodels. Reloading remains an optional presentation/design choice, not a new mandatory rule inferred from these cannon references.

Released constructors, three base methods, 49 resolved ammunition-method records and Cannonball recipe · Source-model crop provenance.