Suggestion
A more expensive variant of the beam reflector, which can target entities in the path of the beam instead of only being able to collide with blocks. Available pre-paths.
Edit/addition: Sensitive beam reflector should also have the beam pass through fewer types of blocks, so that it's able to hit things like crops directly.
Justification
With the beam cannon and beam staff being able to hit entities directly, and the addition of new entity-targeting-specific beam effects (in #214), there is now a clear use and precedent for targeting entities with beams.
Adding a way of doing it pre-technomancy in the same style that we're used to using beams (short range, orthogonal from a block) enables new functionality while being quite simple.
Scope Single new beam reflector variant block.
Suggestion A more expensive variant of the beam reflector, which can target entities in the path of the beam instead of only being able to collide with blocks. Available pre-paths.
Edit/addition: Sensitive beam reflector should also have the beam pass through fewer types of blocks, so that it's able to hit things like crops directly.
Justification With the beam cannon and beam staff being able to hit entities directly, and the addition of new entity-targeting-specific beam effects (in #214), there is now a clear use and precedent for targeting entities with beams. Adding a way of doing it pre-technomancy in the same style that we're used to using beams (short range, orthogonal from a block) enables new functionality while being quite simple.