📖About Strike Cannon

☄️ 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 😈