I was pretty excited to finally get a craftable home defense apparatus, but the ballista is unbelievably bad in almost every conceivable way. Here's some ideas (in my opinion) how to make it better:


The arbitrary limit of 20 missiles just adds unnecessary busywork into the game where you're constantly running around reloading this thing, when you should just let me load 100 missiles into it at once. I think we can all agree the 20 missile limit is just not enough.


The 20 missile limit hurts even more when you realize the Ballista has insanely bad accuracy and has no chance hitting a moving target, so 80% of the ammo you load into it is almost guaranteed to miss your target anyway.


If I craft this thing using Eitr and Black Metal, why is it so flimsy? I saw 2 skeletons with bows take down my Ballista in less than a minute, which makes no sense. This thing should be giga sturdy.


I think this is the most obvious question. We're already talking about a magical autonomous turret which doesn't make any sense really, so making it friendly to you is not some massive leap in logic and isn't going to ruin anyone's immersion. Why is this thing shooting me?

Right now the Ballista is just way more tedious than fun. I'm not saying you should make it overpowered but at least you can do some balancing.