Create Big Cannons guide for FTB Skies 2: Aero 1.6.0 to 1.7.3

Same as in the FTB Skies 2: Aero 1.10.0 guide

Create Big Cannons has a lot of config, so here are the options you are most likely to touch. The good news: every option in this pack that lists a mod default is sitting at exactly that default. The pack has not retuned any of them, so what you see below is stock Create Big Cannons behaviour.^[1][2]

Cannon failure

Cannons can blow up on you. failure.disableAllCannonFailure is false, so failures are on. If you build a lot and want zero risk, that is the switch to flip.^[1]

• failure.overloadBurstChance is 0.5: the chance that a cannon loaded with more Powder Charges than it can handle fails.^[1]
• failure.squibChance is 0.25: the chance that a fired projectile gets stuck in the barrel after exceeding the squib ratio.^[1]
• failure.failureExplosionPower is 2, scaled by the number of charges used in the shot.^[1]
• failure.barrelChargeBurstChance and failure.interruptedIgnitionChance cover igniting a charge in a barrel-type block and loads with gaps between charges. Both are at the mod default.^[1]

Damage and projectiles

munitions.damageRestriction is set to ALL_DAMAGE. Projectiles destroy what they hit, and explosive ones destroy blocks when they detonate. The other allowed values are NO_EXPLOSIVE_DAMAGE and NO_DAMAGE, which is handy on a server where you only want entity damage.^[1]

munitions.projectilesCanBounce is true, so shells can bounce, ricochet and be deflected. Both munitions.chunkloading.projectilesCanChunkload and munitions.chunkloading.smokeCloudsCanChunkload are true too.^[1]

Impact and inertia fuzes can each hit 3 blocks before breaking, set by munitions.fuzes.impactFuzeDurability and munitions.fuzes.inertiaFuzeDurability. Setting either to -1 makes the fuze never break. The proximity fuze arms after 5 ticks in the air (munitions.fuzes.proximityFuzeArmingTime).^[1]

Both munitions.bigCannonMunitions.trailType and munitions.autocannonMunitions.trailType are SHORT. The allowed values are NONE, LONG and SHORT.^[1]

Loading and size limits

• cannons.maxCannonLength is 64, and kinetics.maxLoaderLength is also 64.^[1]
• The Ram Rod reaches 5 blocks into a cannon (cannons.loadingTools.ramRodReach) and pushes up to 3 munition blocks (cannons.loadingTools.ramRodStrength). The Worm also reaches 5 blocks (cannons.loadingTools.wormReach).^[1]
• cannons.loadingTools.loadingToolCooldown is 20 ticks, which is 1 second, between manual loading tool uses.^[1]
• cannons.loadingTools.deployersCanUseLoadingTools is false, so deployers cannot use loading tools.^[1]
• A built-up cannon block needs 6,000 ticks of heating to become its finished form (crafting.builtUpCannonHeatingTime).^[1]

Stress and Sable

The pack sets these stress impacts: kinetics.stressValues.v2.impact.cannon_loader is 4, kinetics.stressValues.v2.impact.cannon_builder and kinetics.stressValues.v2.impact.cannon_drill are 8 each, and kinetics.stressValues.v2.impact.nethersteel_screw_breech is 40. The sources do not list mod defaults for these, so whether the pack changed them is unverified.^[1]

For cannons on Sable physics objects, compat.sable.sableRecoilMultiplier and compat.sable.sableImpactForceMultiplier are both 40, which is the mod default.^[1]

Client visuals

Screen shake from big cannon blasts and shell explosions is capped at 45 degrees with a power multiplier of 6, via client.bigCannonBlast.screenShakePowerLimit, client.bigCannonBlast.screenShakePowerMultiplier, client.shellExplosions.screenShakePowerLimit and client.shellExplosions.screenShakePowerMultiplier. If the shake bothers you, lower these on your own client.^[2]