Frost Lancer

The research team recently returned with more materials from the nether, among them quartz crystals. Messing around with them for a bit gave me a idea for how to improve the Ender Rifle’s scope. In the same vein I did some experiments with silk-touched blocks, like ice. Merging ice with iron projectiles causes the target to experience frost shock (Slowness and Nausea) in addition to regular damage. Here’s the complete package:

An upgrade to the Ender Rifle.

The Frost Lancer is the big brother of the Ender Rifle. It’s heavier, stronger and unfortunately slower. The extra set of pistons extends its power quite considerably, but not as much as I’d have hoped.

As a curious side note: The scope seems to...change its behavior when modified with quartz crystals. The quartz apparently acts as a protective layer between the user and the ender eyes. So far there have been no reports of doom or white noise, which is encouraging, however the testificates reported a general sense of stemmed off unease when around this weapon.

In the same move a clip for easier reloading was designed.

The Ice/Iron mixture, or Cold Iron, as I’d like to call it, is fairly fragile, requiring a special binding agent in the form of a slime coating to stay undamaged. The upside of this is that these clips can be stacked 16 high and get loaded directly into the Frost Lancer. The downside is that this results in a reduced ammo capacity of a mere 4 shots and the damage being somewhat hard to predict.