Lightning Red

Messing around more with nether quartz has turned out to be quite successful. It turns out that infusing it with redstone in a certain shape encourages the creation of lightning.

Two guiding rails hold a redstone charge between them when fired.

The rails are made out of nether quartz and guide a concentrated redstone bolt along their length towards the target. In fact, the charge is strong enough to punch through multiple targets and even terrain on its path before dissipating.

This weapon’s redstone consumption is tremendous. So far I’ve only managed to get 2 shots out of each redstone block, for a total of 16 shots.

Update: Ammunition research has taken place here as well. The Lightning Red is now using redstone magazines instead of feeding blocks directly into the weapon.