SHIELDS: HOW DO THEY WORK?

this was supposed to be a blog post but pmc is silly and would only let me upload one screenshot
These have been in development for quite a while now, and a few people have been asking how they work. You could have downloaded the Anvil or whatever i called it but anyway the shields on that thing are really crap

Basically, these work with dispensers, water, and TNT. Dispenser shoots TNT into water surrounded by *read next sentence i am bad at explaining and inserting sentences into prewritten text* hat you choose to surround the cell is your choice, but I use fences. Why?

Power versus Stability
You can't have both of these at once. If you look through the screenshots, you'll see several designs that, um, exploded, due to the fact that I contained them badly. What these shields are, really, are contained explosions that at full power run at a 1 tick frequency. If the containment is broken, well, then the pictures tell the 1000's of words of bad things needed to describe such a simulation. On the experimental ship, something relating to blacksmithing was its name, it had shields configured for stability, one of my first designs. These, while rarely ever exploding, don't have a great range of deflection, and when they do deflect, it's usually toward the cannons. my bad :/
Recommended containment items:
Fences-good power, 1 hit will breach
End Stone-weak power, will survive most hits
Obsidian-You are a terrible person and you do not need shields
Water-try it. i dare you.

Different Designs

Single Cell
this is what you see on the thingy that's already up. 1 dispenser and 1 tnt into one water block. not that scary.
Linear
A line of dispensers connected to 1 long water stream/source, shot me up 50 blocks when i stepped on it
the other thing
it's just a bigger version of the single cell and it makes a great trampoline

also if you steal this i will eat you