Sonic Boom Gun

Quickstart

Craft the gun in a crafting table:

Hold the Sonic Boom Gun and use it (right-click by default) to fire. Aim along the beam’s path to blast living targets and break fragile blocks up to 25 blocks away. It uses no ammunition.

Try a few shots, then pay attention to the gun’s strain: its power falls with repeated firing. After 15 shots, it needs 30 seconds to recover and hurts you for 4 magic damage. Sonic Overdrive books can improve its power and help conserve shots.

Overview

The Sonic Boom Gun fires a straight sonic beam in the direction you’re looking. The beam damages and knocks back living entities, and can shatter fragile blocks along its path. It has a 25-block range.

The mod also includes Sonic Overdrive books for the gun and Crossbow Resonance books for crossbows.

What It Adds

• Sonic Boom Gun: A reusable weapon that fires without ammunition.
• Sonic Overdrive: Three book levels for boosting the gun.
• Crossbow Resonance: Five book levels that can make a player’s crossbow fire a sonic boom instead of its charged shot.

How To Use

• Fire the gun: Hold it in either hand and use it. The beam follows your look direction.
• Apply an enchantment book by hand: Hold the book in one hand and the matching weapon in the other, then use the book. You can also combine a valid weapon and book in an anvil.
• Gun books: Sonic Overdrive books only apply to the Sonic Boom Gun.
• Crossbow books: Crossbow Resonance books only apply to crossbows. When Resonance triggers as you shoot, it fires a sonic boom and clears the crossbow’s charged projectiles.

Crafting And Obtaining

The gun’s beam can break leaves, ice, glass, glass panes, and torches in its path. Its beam also damages living targets and pushes them away.

Craft the book level you want in a crafting table:

Abilities And Mechanics

Sonic Boom Gun

The beam reaches up to 25 blocks. Its damage and knockback are strongest at the start of a firing cycle, then weaken as you keep firing: the first shot is strongest, the second is weaker, and power continues to fall until the cycle resets. At 15 shots, the gun resets its cycle, imposes a 30-second recovery, and deals 4 magic damage to its user.

Enchantments

• Sonic Overdrive (I–III): Each level increases beam strength by 13%. Each level also gives a 13% chance to preserve a shot’s charge, so the shot does not advance the gun’s firing cycle.
• Crossbow Resonance (I–V): Each level gives a 3% chance for a crossbow shot to fire a sonic boom instead of its charged projectiles.

Progression And Strategy

Save the gun’s strongest shots for tough targets or fragile blocks you want to clear. Let it recover after a full firing cycle rather than relying on weakened shots. Upgrade it with higher-level Sonic Overdrive books to increase strength and improve the chance of conserving its charge.

Crossbow Resonance is a chance-based effect: higher levels make sonic booms more likely, but the effect can still fail to trigger on a shot.