Here are a few ideas that I came up with. They might be impossible to do and probably are a little stupid . 😛

– A new type of projectile and projectile launcher that are expensive to craft and use but can break through <i>almost</i> any block in the game.(every shot would have to count)

-A percentage chance for a diamond shot or something else to destroy or damage the block and surrounding blocks near the point on impact.(slowly degrading the more you hammer the defenders build, kind of goes back to the first idea)

-Possible way to make blocks destroyed in siege not drop as items you can pick up?

-A nexus that the defender must protect that pops up in a random part of their base that they must not let get destroyed. If it is destroyed then the attacker could win the siege that way as well maybe?

I like the idea of being able to break through blocks, but I’m scared people are going to start making more underground boxes, since you would have to break all those blocks before you get to the base itself.

i love jmoos ideas, and i was kinda thinking on the same line, so i may add my thoughts to them 🙂

-be able to fire a diamond BLOCK out of a cannon that has a 50% chance to break any block that is in its blast radius (that can be repaired after siege) and that doesnt have an inventory (chests, hoppers, dispensers, etc.)

EDIT: we would have to work something out so that redstone machines wouldnt get killed due to ^^, like be unable to kill a block that has a redstone piece on it, or just have the redstone suspended and unbreakable in the siege, and when the blocks get repaired after siege, the blocks that had the redstone on top of them would regen and not interfere with the redstone itself.

-i also love the crux idea, if u werent able to kill someone in the siege, and they just hide in a box or something, u can kill a crux instead. i saw this done on one server that used emerald blocks as the cruxes and they had a health bar that was depleted by repeatedly breaking the block. when the crux is destroyed the sieger would win and gain access to the claim as if the defender was killed.

those are my additions to jmoos great ideas 🙂

Make it so that nearby adjacent claims that the person being sieged owns or has perms to are also affected by the siege, many time I have sieged someone and won but their base is separated into millions of different claims.

Ok so to start off, I love the idea of claims and sieges of claims, I just hope it can be redesigned properly to give it meaning.

Honestly if a player just builds a big stonebrick box,  they are usually completely protected. I think sieging should be as affective against deckhands as it is captains. Every base should be siegeable, and every player should have an even edge in their abilities to siege land.

Ok so here are a couple of ways I think siege could be changed

1. I really like the idea of claim blocks being destroyable in a way. What I was talking about above is how maybe a lower rank player might not have a stone brick house so they can be easily sieged. But Someone who has played for a bit longer is completely un-siegable. This will make the game a bit fairer , and actually give higher tier players more to worry about since they wouldn’t be 100% protected.  Now, I’m not  saying bases should be built for just to be sieged by anyone, I think that the more work you put into a base, the harder it should be to siege, but not impossible. So, I think cannons should be able to do it. Maybe more cannons, new projectiles, or just a new form of ranged siege in general (siege weapons anyone?)

2. Thickness of blocks. Ok so the siege system already uses “hard” blocks to tell what can and can not be destroyed during a siege. Well, I think they should go by toughness. So maybe a block with high toughness would take way longer to blow through than a simple dirt house.

3. Timed sieges. This gives players siegeing a bit more challenge, and players being sieged to make a plan of ready themselves to fight.

4. New siege objectives. Since right now the ways to win a siege are to: Kill the player, or have the player leave in some way. I think there should be more objectives like maybe destroying a % of the base. Since the siege will be timed players might opt for vaults to hide in that would take a minute to blow up. So to make the timed sieges more balanced, there should be more options for attackers, and more planning for defenders.

5. A more punishing system. Ok so since blocks would be destructible Some form of block regen should be added. But to make it so that players aren’t completely careless, chests, crops, signs, frames, redstone, ect. would not be re gened. That way Attackers have more ways to raid and defenders have more to worry about. Also when an attacker loses a siege, they should get some kind of punishment. Not like jailing, but maybe it like gives them a long cooldown before they can siege anyone again or join a siege.

6. Defense options. With all the ideas I’ve given it would almost put the sway in the attacker’s favor. They can blow open chests of locks, destroy machines,  and overall screw the defender over during the siege.  So I think their should also be more defense options. Maybe like re inforced blocks or chests (crates?), maybe new defense tools like special traps or cannons that can only be used when you are being sieged. I just think that all players should be able to be siegd, and all defenders at least have a chance.

7. Siege limitations. When there is siegeing, there has to be limits. Maybe like how you have siege cool downs on claims after you siege them (which is already in the game ;P), or that you can’t tp in anyway (people to you, or tp out) when you are siegeing or being sieged. Or you can’t use ep or chorus fruit on claims, but you can if you get sieged.

I’m not sure how good these ideas are but that’st just my two cents.

More siegeing options, everyone can be sieged, more defense options, and giving sieging more rules and worth.

I also disagree with the block projectile breaking. Maybe for a couple new “semi-soft blocks” (Ex: oak logs) but please keep most hard blocks unbreakable.

I also think it would be nice to expand the “soft blocks” during siege. You can’t even break leaves during siege… LEAVES!!!! maybe just a couple new items to mix it up

I am not entirely sure…

On one Hand i like the idea of raiding becoming a thing again just for server dynamics.
On the other Hand i don’t want aggressive raiders to completly demolish the buildings of good architects.
And all of this conflicts with the thought in the back of my head that it should be realistic and force players to rebuild their stuff >_>

In the end the best option from my point of view is the Old model:
Make every Block destroyable by cannons and/or explosives and rebuild everything 3-5 minutes after the siege so the winner has time to loot.