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