☄️ Strike Cannon
Strike Cannon is a high-impact Paper 1.21+ plugin that lets players craft and deploy a devastating orbital weapon. Aim at a target, fire the cannon, and rain massive concentric rings of TNT from the sky, obliterating everything below.
Designed for SMPs, factions, events, and chaos servers — fully configurable and recipe-locked.
✨ Features
🔨 Craftable Weapon Players must craft the Orbital Strike Cannon — no free nukes.
🎯 Targeted Strike System Right-click to fire a particle beam that locks onto where you're looking.
☄️ Massive TNT Orbital Bombardment Spawns hundreds to thousands of TNT in multiple concentric rings at high altitude (Y=120+), creating cinematic destruction.
🌌 Orbit-Style Visuals Particle beam + falling TNT smoke trails for a true "from space" effect.
⚙️ Fully Configurable
- Number of rings
- Ring spacing & density
- TNT fuse times
- Explosion power
- Cooldowns
- Safety TNT cap (TPS-friendly)
🔐 Permission Support
orbitalstrike.use
- 🧠 Persistent Item Tagging Cannon is safely detected via NBT/PDC — no exploits or renaming tricks.
📦 Requirements
- Paper
1.21+ - Java 21
- No dependencies
⚠️ Performance Warning
This plugin can spawn a LOT of TNT (by design).
Use the built-in max-tnt-per-strike setting to protect your server TPS.
Recommended for:
- Event worlds
- Controlled PvP areas
- Late-game SMP content
🛠️ Configuration Preview
strike:
ring-start-radius: 3
ring-end-radius: 75
ring-step: 3
arc-spacing: 2.5
max-tnt-per-strike: 1800
Adjust these values to go from tactical strike → total annihilation.
💥 Perfect For
- SMP end-game rewards
- Factions super-weapons
- Admin-controlled events
- Content creators & clips
- Chaos servers 😈
