Cannons

Cannons can be built at any rank, with better cannons being unlocked at Cadet, Sailor, Gunner, and Firstmate. Alternatively you can bypass all ranking and donate.
At present, there are 17 cannon types that can fire 12 different projectiles. You can build a maximum of 15 cannons as Gunner, 20 as Lieutenant, 30 as Commander, and 50 as Captain.
You can use /cannons in-game for a basic tutorial on how to build a cannon, Watch the video below or follow the how to build steps.

Several blocks of cannon material (grey/black wool, coal/iron/gold blocks)
2 stone buttons (3/4 for double/triple cannon)
(Optional) 1 stone/iron/gold pressure plate for coal/iron/gold mortar
1 torch
1-3 Gunpowder (Per shot)
1 Projectile (Per shot)
(Optional) A clock to auto-aim

How to Build

Once you have the right rank, you can build different cannon types: Carronades, Cast-Iron, Iron, and Bronze cannons. Improving the material of the cannon will increase its range, while increasing its length will improve its accuracy.

All cannons can load a maximum of 3 gunpowder; each gunpowder increases the velocity and range by a small amount. Anyone next to the cannon without a helmet will get 5s blast confusion (potion effect). All cannons have a fuse of 1 second and barrel cooldown of 3 seconds. All cannons have maximum horizontal and vertical angles between -45° to 45°. Cannons have no recoil and can be loaded from any angle. Cannons can be fired by right-clicking the end button or torch, There is an option to auto-reload projectiles & gunpowder via a chest and fire using an attached redstone signal.

Examples

You can view examples of all cannons inside the cannon shop at /warp cove. A working demonstration of manual-firing and redstone-linked auto-loading cannons can be found at /warp tutorials.

Rusty Carronade

Start by building your barrel, 3 long out of grey wool, each end of the cannon needs a stone button, at the rear of the cannon you place a torch on top of the barrel. The rusty carronade shares the same design with the carronade and all medium cannons – but with a different material in place of the wool.

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Iron Short Cannon

Start by building your barrel, 2 long out of Iron blocks, each end of the cannon needs a stone button, at the rear of the cannon you place a torch on top of the barrel.

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Iron Mortar

Start by building your barrel, 2 vertical high out of Iron blocks, top of the cannon needs an iron pressure plate, at the bottom of the mortar you place a torch.

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Cannon Designs

Cannon Name	How to Build	Rank Required	Allowed Projectiles	Range (blocks)	Accuracy	Notes
Rusty Carronade	3 grey wool	Deckhand	Standard, Cannistershot, Shrapnel, Burning	40	Very poor
Carronade	3 black wool	Cadet	Standard, Cannistershot, Shrapnel, Burning	55	Very poor
Cast-Iron Short Cannon	2 coal blocks	Sailor	All	70	Poor
Cast-Iron Medium Cannon	3 coal blocks	Sailor	All	70	Average
Cast-Iron Long Cannon	4 coal blocks	Sailor	All	70	Good
Cast-Iron Mortar	2 coal blocks	Sailor	All	70	Great	Shoots in an artillery style
Iron Short Cannon	2 iron blocks	Gunner	All	90	Poor
Iron Medium Cannon	3 iron blocks	Gunner	All	90	Average
Iron Long Cannon	4 iron blocks	Gunner	All	90	Good
Iron Double Cannon	7 iron blocks	Gunner	All	90	Average	Shoots 2 standard cannonballs
Iron Mortar	2 iron blocks	Gunner	All	90	Great	Shoots in an artillery style
Bronze Short Cannon	2 gold blocks	Firstmate	All	120	Poor
Bronze Medium Cannon	3 gold blocks	Firstmate	All	120	Average
Bronze Long Cannon	4 gold blocks	Firstmate	All	120	Good
Bronze Double Cannon	7 gold blocks	Firstmate	All	120	Average	Shoots 2 standard cannonballs
Bronze Triple Cannon	10 gold blocks	Firstmate	All	120	Average	Shoots 3 standard cannonballs
Bronze Mortar	2 gold blocks	Firstmate	All	120	Great	Shoots in an artillery style

Custom Cannons you can build on PirateCraft

Loading, firing and aiming

You load gunpowder first by right-clicking with gunpowder (sulfur) in hand, you can load a maximum of 3 gunpowder for maximum velocity. Then right-click a cobblestone block (or any other projectile item listed below) onto the barrel (it should disappear). Your cannon is ready to be fired!

Take aim by clicking a clock on the barrel and taking aim or with an empty hand; right-click the side of the barrel to take horizontal aim, Shift right-click will decrease the angle, right-clicking the upper or lower side of the barrel will increase the vertical angle, shift right-click to decrease the angle.
Fire the cannon by right-clicking the torch or back button.

Projectiles to load into Cannons

There are 12 different cannon projectiles that you can load into cannons. Each projectile has a special effect; some projectiles do very high player-damage (enough to 1-shot any player), while others work like long range splash potions.

The type of cannon you load these projectiles will affect its range, but not its damage or effect.

A full list of all projectiles and their stats can be found below.

Projectile Name	Rank	Item	Player damage	Explosive damage	Special Effects
Standard cannonball	Deckhand	Cobblestone	High	Standard
Cannistershot	Sailor	Melon Seed	Low	None	Splits into 16 smaller projectiles over a wide area
Shrapnel	Sailor	Flint	Low	Low	Splits into 4 small projectiles, ideal at damaging blocks with low explosive resistance.
Burning cannonball	Sailor	Fire Charge	High	None	Sets a small area on fire. Fire will not spread.
Hardened cannonball	Gunner	Diamond	Very high	High	Can explode underwater. Can break obsidian.
Clusterbomb	Gunner	TNT	Low	Very high	Spawns TNT nearby.
Penetrating cannonball	Gunner	Firework	Low	Low	Can penetrate up to 16 blocks.
Catapult	Gunner	Lead	None	None	Launches the player.
Cursed projectile	Firstmate	Dragon breath	None	None	Wither II & Slowness II over a small area.
Frozen projectile	Firstmate	Ice	None	None	Slowness IV over a small area.
Corpse	Firstmate	Rotten flesh	None	None	Poison II & Hunger II over a small area.
Blinding projectile	Firstmate	Ink sack	None	None	Nausea & Blindness over a small area.