"I guess we would not have to keep it secret."

“Yeah! We could, like, scatter them around the server, it’d be fun. Like a scavenger hunt.”

"You could potentially test people's navigation and traversal skills. Compete to see who could find and shoot all of them in the shortest possible time."

“…Bet Dream’ll win. That sounds really fun though, yeah!”

"Is it even possible to make something Dream won't win?"

“Probably? I dunno how good he is at redstone, and Techno could beat him in a fair fight. Dream’s scary good at finding things fast, though. It’s, like, his whole thing.”

"Makes sense."

Tubbo is going to parkour somewhere and set up a target, then. "...What should the prize be for hitting them? I don't really have much on me right now. I guess I could go steal from somebody."

"I have a somewhat absurd amount of redstone, but we are probably going to use that. --I have even more absurd quantities of cobblestone, but I doubt anyone would want that much. --I could potentially mine for some netherite, that would be desirable."

"We, uh, probably don't need netherite as a bribe, do you have, I dunno, diamonds or something? One diamond per target seems pretty fair. And Dream probably won't get all of them first."

"I have a few that haven't been earmarked for anything."

"Sweet. We can also just, like, take some from Ranboo or whoever if we run out." In that case he'll set up a redstone contraption that dispenses a diamond when the target is hit!

Jingyan tries to follow along with the redstone. Could be tactically useful.

How much does Jingyan know about logic gates? Because Tubbo will happily babble about logic gates and how redstone works.

He has never heard of a logic gate, but he is very willing to learn.

Logic gates!!!! Tubbo will demonstrate with levers and redstone dust and and lamps. "You can use it for all sorts of stuff, though, not just turning lamps on and off, and you can get way more complicated with gates than this--man, it's been so long since I did some proper redstone, I should do this more often--"

This is very tactically useful.

...also it's good to see Tubbo a) without his shoulders around his ears and b) not walking crooked because of pufferfish.

Well. Tubbo can talk about redstone until Jingyan gets bored. Or, alternatively, until he remembers that they were supposed to be putting up targets. He thinks redstone is SO COOL. Did you know that in theory you could make a computer using redstone, with RAM and everything--here's what that means--he's heard legends of people doing it, Fundy or Sam might know more about that, Tubbo mostly just uses it for traps and pranks, he would make more automated farms too but DreamXD doesn't like those--and now they can go over how the target dispensing a diamond works again, but now Jingyan will get how and why--

He still doesn't know enough to understand all the strategic implications, but he at least understands the diamond dispenser, and also how something similar would work.

Honestly there aren't that many strategic implications except that Traps Are Possible. And TNT cannons! --Oh wait he totally forgot to show Jingyan how TNT cannons work. And those totally do matter strategically. They'll have to go somewhere mostly deserted for that, but once they do, Tubbo can demonstrate! The basic idea of TNT cannons is that TNT doesn't destroy things if it explodes in water, but it can launch things, including lit TNT. They're pretty easy to make; you need cobblestone, water, TNT, redstone dust, redstone lamps, redstone repeaters, and some sort of trigger for the redstone, like a lever or a button. ...Technically you don't need the repeaters and you can just add a second button or lever or whatever but that's harder and also means you don't have time to run away before it explodes. TNT cannons: also SO COOL, according to Tubbo.

He wouldn't call them cool, as such, but the ability to launch explosives is Very Useful.

"I know I am still on a promise with the trebuchet, but I have not quite worked out how to get them to work here."

"Damn. Well, let me know once you figure it out."

"I certainly will. --But I am fairly sure TNT cannons will be more powerful."

"You know, I don't actually think they've been used since the first war."

"Any particular reason? Too powerful, or too impractical?"