Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-30638561-20131030195810/@comment-24108228-20131101233954

You seem to have forgotten of a cave on rockma island. Two iron is not much, as there is a grand total of 4-6 ore veins there, you need no torch, and there is a water supply provided. Bring some bread, and you could live in that cave for a long time. That means a lot of iron. Then you make a few bombs to get your chemistry up, and talk plateu into giving you a handful of mushrooms. You now have enough iron for 30 cannonballs, and a few poisonous ones (and explosive ones). But mainly the poisonous ones. Lauch one at flax island, everyone on that island dies, (100 studs is a lot). Lauch another 2 at bento. Everyone dies. Lauch 2 more poisonous ones at the local mithril tribes huge castle. Everybody dies. It's just too OP.

In fact, the abundance of iron in caves means that your expensive cannonballs are not all that bad. And to defuse this 'vulnerable cannon' you need to be awfully close, close enough to just kill the guy firing them. And the corrosive cannonball is the most overpowered suggestion I have ever seen. As steel works perfectly well, most tribes dont get mithril until a lot later. So let me describe what would happen if the lovely steel tribe on mainland met your corroding cannonball.

First, a few of your corroding cannonballs would be shot into the village. Then a guy with a fire making bow would walk in, and set fire to everything. The steel tribe would be bashing them repetedly with their now broken steel swords, and there would be nothing they can do, as their steel buckets have also stopped working. Their forge is now broken, everything made of wood is gone, and all their hard work ruined. With 3 corroding cannonballs.

But I see your point about the walls. The bombs just cant break them, and we need a more powerful explosive. But making them poison everyone on a small island is rather overpowered, and they should definatly not be able to destroy metal items. That would be game breaking. (And remarkably laggy and hard to code). When I think cannon, I don't think of poison and corrosive acid.