Sir, Sir... I just want to feed my chickens..

[Broccoli Clock]

Many hours after a Temporal Storm, I don't think these guys realise the party is over...

Excuse me while I spend the next few hours knapping some arrow heads...

[Zippy Wonderdust]

I'm aware that this is a shameless plug for my own mods, but I created a mod specifically to help with this situation.  Have a look at Zippy's Bashful Bowtorns.

I also made a related mod, Zippy's Fearless Foes, that will also help out.  I'd recommend trying both of them.

Cheers!

[Broccoli Clock]

+1 for the mod, plug away! 

This is vanilla, and to be honest it was a bit of a nightmare to deal with. I'm in my 2nd year and I've probably died maybe 4 or 5 times over that time. I'm not the best player but I'm decent, and I know how to cheese if the sh~ hits the fan! However, these lot took 16 (six-f-teen!) of my lives (almost a complete temporal gear) simply down to their relentless aim from distance. Cheesing angles, creating dirt block walls, all the tricks, but I still got owned. Most of which was as I exit the house, there'll be 5 or 6 bowtorns all aiming and firing. I had a shield, no armour though.

So, yeah, without even looking at the mod I can assure you that it would have improved the situation. Would be nice for the vanilla AI to tone them down a little, or at least reduce the hit damage, without armour it was 3 hits to KO. All too easy for these Olympic javelin throwers!

Edited March 10, 2025 by ricp

[LadyWYT]

Yeah, there's still a few issues with bowtorn. That being said, it is fun to charge into a big pack of them and watch them scatter.

4 hours ago, ricp said:

I know how to cheese if the sh~ hits the fan!

If nothing else, swap to creative and give yourself the admin blade. Wipe them out, dump the blade, and switch back when you've cleaned everything up.

[Zippy Wonderdust]

My son recently pointed out to me that the Quarry mod adds a pink ban-hammer (actual hammer) to the creative inventory that does ungodly damage. I couldn't stop laughing!

[Maelstrom]

I might suggest adding a back door to the home so that said missile throwing miscreants aren't so maliciuos in their mischievous mayhem.

assuming you don't already have a back door to your home.

[Zippy Wonderdust]

14 minutes ago, Maelstrom said:

I might suggest adding a back door to the home so that said missile throwing miscreants aren't so maliciuos in their mischievous mayhem.

assuming you don't already have a back door to your home.

Wow. You’re like the “M” version of V for Vendetta. 

Edited March 10, 2025 by Zippy Wonderdust
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[Maelstrom]

Nah.  I just have a veritably vast variety to my vocabulary.  

[Zippy Wonderdust]

Oh, well done!

Alas, despite my zeal, I have zero zesty zingers to zap you with!

[Maelstrom]

You did well, grasshoppa.

[Broccoli Clock]

  

12 hours ago, Maelstrom said:

I might suggest adding a back door to the home so that said missile throwing miscreants aren't so maliciuos in their mischievous mayhem.

assuming you don't already have a back door to your home.

Oh, there's a back door alright, it's as surrounded by bowtorns as the front 3 are!

"Why not leave the chunk and let them despawn?", I hear you all collectively cry, and you'd be right as that is the solution. However, after the 8th time of dying to semi-automatic javelin throws, I decided to make a run for it, only to be cut down again in less than 50m. Sure, I could have tried that again, put in a bit of 'bob and weave', shimmy my ass, but no... that 9th death, the one they peppered me with wooden stakes in the back, that's when it became personal.

Yes, I lost a lot of lives, yes my ego and my temporal gear supply is worse off, but damn it I'm not letting any perfidious pixel pirates, no freakishly-festooned firewood flinging fearmongers, get the better of me.