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Blastoff - A Rocket Launcher Expansion!
   
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Blastoff - A Rocket Launcher Expansion!

Description
If you're like me, you've wanted to go through the entirety of a Terraria playthrough just with rocket launchers. Well, now you can! Not only that, the mod adds unique mechanics revolving around Rocket self-damage, which now sends you flying!

This mod adds:

Rocket Launchers!

Blastoff adds 16 new Rocket Launchers throughout progression!

-9 Pre-Hardmode Launchers: Wood Launcher, Big Iron, Wooden Dragon, Briar Bomber (in both Crimson and Corrupt variants!), Bling Bazooka, Pineapple Launcher, Blurite Multibomber, Ash Kicker, Umbra Blaster
-7 Hardmode Launchers: Swamp Lizard, Bigger Iron, Mystic Mortar, Judgment, Funky Pineapple Launcher, True Umbra Blaster, Terrannihilator

Rockets!

Several new pre-Hardmode Rockets, some with unique effects!
  • Scrap Rocket I (an early, weak Rocket I craftable with Wood, Gel, and either copper or tin ore or tin cans)
  • In hardmode, upgrades to the Box of Scraps (an infinite-use Scrap Rocket I craftable with a Crystal Ball and 3996 Scrap Rocket Is)
  • Scrap Rocket II (an early, weak Rocket II craftable with Scrap Rocket Is and Bombs at a Heavy Work Bench)
  • Flying Scarab (a rocket crafted with Desert Fossils that creates a directional blast)
  • Ice Sheet (a rocket crafted using an Ice Machine that creats a flatter horizontal blast and inflicts Frostburn)
  • Rainfall Retort (a potion that thinks it's a rocket, crafted from rain clouds and bottled water, which drops rain as it flies)
  • Space Rocket (a rocket crafted with Meteorite and Fallen Stars, it has a bonus to crit rate)

And 1 new Hardmode rocket, obtained from defeating Empress of Light during the day

Accessories!

9 new Accessories that improve your rockets:
  • Rocketeer's Gunboats: +30% Blast Jump force and cuts Blast Jump damage to 1/4
  • Merciless Manntreads: +50% Blast Jump force, cuts Blast Jump damage to 15%, and adds +15% damage to Ballistic Strikes
  • Tungsten Reloader: Increases rocket launcher firing speed by 10%
  • Silver Targeting System: Increases rocket launcher crit chance by 4%
  • Hyperdrive: Increases rocket launcher damage by 5% and speeds up rockets
  • The Rocket Booster: Increases rocket launcher damage and crit chance by 6%, firing speed by 15%, knockback by 20%, and speeds up rockets
  • Stinger Missiles: Rockets have bees in them that inherit a little damage from the rocket (5%, or 8% for big bees)
  • Glistering Grapeshot: Rockets inflict Midas and drop golden bomblets (that also inflict Midas)
  • An Academic Treatise On The Physics Of Close Range Combat When You Go Really, Really Fast, Volume I: +20 Armor Penetration on Ballistic Strikes
Rocket-specific effects and accessories apply to any weapon that is shown to have "ranged (Rocket) damage".

Blast Jumps!

Self-damage taken from rocket launchers is reduced, but the knockback is drastically increased and can easily send a player airborne.
When launched in the air by a Blast Jump, players take no fall damage from the next fall and have doubled flight time.
The first close-range weapon attack you make during or immediately after a Blast Jump becomes a Ballistic Strike!
Speaking of which...

Ballistic Strikes!

Similar to TF2's Market Gardener, smacking an enemy with a close range Melee weapon or a whip after a rocket jump will hit them with a Ballistic Strike!
Ballistic Strikes always crit (even Whips!), deal boosted damage on top of that, and give you brief invincibility (boostable by the Cross Necklace).
  • Hitting directly with an item always gives a 4x boost with a slight increase based on how slow the weapon is, and grant a 1.33s dodge (similar to a Hallowed Armor dodge). This should affect items that normally wouldn't get the boost, like Thorium's Life Quartz Claymore.
  • Most close-range Melee weapons with vanilla styles (sword auras, spears, flails), any Calamity True Melee attack, Thorium's Healer Scythes, and Spirit's Dash Swords get a 4x final damage boost and 1.33s dodge frames. Spirit Mod's Clubs get a 3x final damage boost and 1.33s dodge frames. (I'll work on adding compatibility with more close range weapons later down the line.)
  • Whips and Yoyos have a longer range, so they get a 3.5x final damage boost and 0.67s dodge frames.
  • Spirit Mod Clubs get a 3x boost.
  • Orchid's Guardian class gets a 3x boost to shield slams, a 3.5x boost to hammer attacks, and a 4x boost to gauntlet punches.

  • Jousting Lances have the longer dodge frames, but a much smaller boost. You're already launching yourself at the target with a rocket jump, they don't need that much help.

The mod re-enables self-damage if Calamity is active. (This can be turned off in the Crossmod Config)
Originally posted by tModLoader Blastoff:
Developed By Dr. Spacebar
51 Comments
Dusk 21 hours ago 
Are the functions of this mod compatible with modded rocket launchers and their ammunition?

And, speaking of ammunition, do any of the rockets this mod adds destroy terrain? I'm very particular about keeping my world pretty, so i'd like to know what options I can take advantage of.
Soncho 30 Sep @ 12:33pm 
i hope you re consider. as fun as this mod is id love to have more content
Dr. Spacebar  [author] 27 Sep @ 9:53am 
@Soncho: I don't have any plans for crossmod content with Calamity, aside from the config that lets you turn self-damage back on so you can rocket jump.
Soncho 24 Sep @ 7:28am 
Will there be some kind of addition for calamity?
Dr. Spacebar  [author] 10 Sep @ 9:31am 
@real(fake): Fish in the Forest or Jungle in Hardmode.
real(fake) 9 Sep @ 9:39pm 
Where do you get Swamp Lizard?
Читер Кирюшка 29 Aug @ 1:54am 
Perfect for my grenade launcher fixation
Angel_Enriq 20 Aug @ 11:02am 
Podria poner una referencia a tf2 en su descripcion? :GDHard:
Dr. Spacebar  [author] 20 Aug @ 10:59am 
@Dunnie: Sorry about the long wait for an answer, got hella busy. Ruby adds an additional +5% Crit, Diamond adds +5 Armor Pen.

@Rune: The Wood Launcher fires Rockets. You can make Scrap Rocket Is with Wood, Tin/Copper (bars or ores), and Gel at a Furnace.

@Angel_Enriq: Yep!
Angel_Enriq 19 Aug @ 11:14am 
tf2 reference? :GDEasy: