Crossbows

Crossbows is the dedicated crossbow combat skill. It makes your bolts hit harder as you level (Powered Shot), lets you ricochet bolts off blocks to reach awkward targets (Trick Shot), and adds extra PVP punch through Limit Break.

You train Crossbows by shooting mobs and players with a crossbow.

Powered Shot: bonus crossbow damage

Powered Shot is the crossbow equivalent of Archery's Skill Shot: it passively increases your bolt damage. It has 20 ranks, and each rank adds a percentage to your damage, up to a hard cap on the total bonus.

The formula

damage bonus % = rank × RankDamageMultiplier ÷ 100      (RankDamageMultiplier = 10.0)
new damage     = old damage + (old damage × bonus %)
                 but capped so the *added* damage never exceeds MaxDamage (9.0)

With the defaults, each rank adds 10%, so at rank 20 you add 200% bonus damage, but the bonus is capped so it never adds more than 9 extra damage to a single bolt.

Crossbows:
    PoweredShot:
        RankDamageMultiplier: 10.0   # +10% damage per rank
        MaxDamage: 9.0               # added damage can never exceed this

Trick Shot: ricochet your bolts

Trick Shot lets your crossbow bolts bounce off blocks. Fire a bolt at a block at a steep enough angle and it ricochets, potentially bouncing several times before hitting a target. The number of bounces you get is exactly your Trick Shot rank (3 ranks).

Bounce count

max bounces = your Trick Shot rank

How bouncing works

• A bolt reflects off a surface like light off a mirror (angle in = angle out).
• The first bounce only happens if the angle isn't too shallow. The incoming bolt must hit the surface at more than a 45° angle to the surface normal, otherwise it just sticks. (This shallow-angle check only applies to the first bounce.)
• The reflected bolt keeps the original's crit state, pierce level, knockback, and any tipped-potion effects.
• Each bounce stops once you reach your rank's max bounce count.

Crossbows Limit Break: PVP damage

Like the other combat skills, Crossbows has a Limit Break sub-skill that adds flat raw damage in PVP (and in PVE only if the server enables it). It has 10 ranks.

The formula

raw bonus = rank, then reduced by the defender's total armor quality:
  armor quality ≤ 4   →  × 0.25  (75% reduction)
  armor quality ≤ 8   →  × 0.50  (50% reduction)
  armor quality ≤ 12  →  × 0.75  (25% reduction)
  armor quality > 12  →  × 1.00  (full bonus)

Against mobs (when PVE Limit Break is enabled) the full rank bonus applies. Limit Break is designed to deal more damage against tough, well-armored opponents.

Earning XP

Crossbows XP comes from the damage you deal with bolts, scaled by the target's combat XP multiplier (the Experience_Values.Combat.Multiplier table in experience.yml).

Standard combat exploit limits apply: the per-hit XP ceiling (ExploitFix.Combat.XPCeiling, default 100) caps the damage counted per shot, and unnaturally-spawned mobs (spawners, eggs, nether-portal spawns) are worth 0 XP by default, so farms built on those give no Crossbows XP.

You can also fine-tune Crossbows XP gain globally with Experience_Formula.Skill_Multiplier.Crossbows (default 1.0).

A note on Super Shotgun

The locale and code contain placeholders for a Crossbows super ability called Super Shotgun, but it is not an active, usable ability in mcMMO 2.2.054. There is no cooldown entry for it and no working activation. Treat Crossbows as a skill with no super ability for now.

Commands & permissions

The real permission nodes have no underscores (e.g. poweredshot, not powered_shot). See Permissions for the full list and how to assign them.

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