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You know what i think would be really cool? a grapling hook mod. the grapling hook would be fired at something far away, or close to the player, and he or she would be shot off through the air to the place he/she grappled. that player would also be able to use the grappling hook as a sling shot to climb steep cliffs, or to lower them selves down one to get some precious coal. That would be possible, because he/she would have momentum in the direction they went if they let go before they reached the end of the grapple hook line. and it wouldnt just be a solid line, it would be an actual rope like entity, so the players could swing through towns, and around giant towers like a crazed batman on crack.
AND THAT, is the thing i want most in this game. to go along with my batman character skin.

+2

+1 ! (Spider-Man mod)

rinoux wrote:+1 ! (Spider-Man mod)

+5

Aww man...I was gonna submit this idea ;_; xD

It would basically, when holding a certain item, make every node in the game climbable. As well as a point-and-click teleport method?

IPushButton2653 wrote:It would basically, when holding a certain item, make every node in the game climbable. As well as a point-and-click teleport method?

That's half true. It would be pretty much just point-and-click teleport. Although, it would be limited. Eg. no grappling 10,000 blocks away, or half way across the map, ect.

Right now, off the top of my head, the hook that gets "shot" out, would use throwing mod's physics, and when the hook "hits" a node, it would create (for a short time) a (torchlike?) node that looks like the actual hook, and a shot time later, the player is teleported and the hook is removed/gathered by player.

i like it. grapple DM :D

Death Dealer wrote:i like it. grapple DM :D

A DM is not a node, so the grapple would fail. Plus it would be annoying to teleport into a dm and get killed instantly.

its just a jokeXD and it should put the grappling hook through the DM skull thereby ripping it out and killing him^.^

Death Dealer wrote:its just a jokeXD and it should put the grappling hook through the DM skull thereby ripping it out and killing him^.^

:P Right now, I cannot say if you can get the portion of a entity, that includes players as well. Although, I think there would be a small modification to this for the Legend of Zelda server. Stealing items. Haha.

so,, would it be possible to make a mod like this?

you could, although it will be hard, reminds me of the mc compass teleport.

Scott wrote:so,, would it be possible to make a mod like this?

Yes, but a quick mod for this, wouldn't work like a normal grappling hook. Instead it would hook, then teleport the player to the "hooked" node.

For a better planned mod, it still wouldn't work how people would want it to.

The best I can say, is that it would,

A: Create a climbable rope for scaling large walls/buildings/mountains
B: Point n click teleporting.

Jordach wrote:you could, although it will be hard, reminds me of the mc compass teleport.

Actually, it wouldn't be hard, at least to do the base of it.

What people general want to see from a grappling hook, is being drug to the hook. Which would be hard, or rather a lot of work. Which would probably involve teleporting the player multiple times. Which in the end will probably not look completely right.

Looking at this, it seems plausible. Maybe you teleport to the top of the node at which (in the default range of 8 blocks maybe?) you click with the grappling hook? Looks easy on paper.....