Is using Eldritch Cannon a bonus action?

On each of your turns, you can take a bonus Action to cause the Cannon to activate if you are within 60 feet of it. As part of the same bonus Action, you can direct the Cannon to walk or climb up to 15 feet to an unoccupied space, provided it has legs.
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How does the Eldritch cannon work?

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It uses your senses. You are actually making the attack, choosing the target etc, but the attack originates from the cannon. So if you can see the target, the cannon can hit it without issue*, and if you can't then your attack takes the appropriate penalties.
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Can other people use Eldritch cannon?

You can totally put the cannon on another character's shoulder and activate with your bonus action from wherever you are (within 60ft of it). Nice! so ANYONE CAN USE THE CANNON WITH THERE BONUS ACTION. BUT YOU SHOULD BE AWARE THAT THE ELDRITCH CANNON DOES NOT COUNT AS A WEAPON just a magic object.
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Does arcane firearm work with Eldritch cannon?

You can use your arcane firearm as a spellcasting focus for your artificer spells. Since nothing in the Eldritch Cannon description talks about it being usable as a focus, it isn't usable as a focus. But there are other options available. As for transporting the cannon between combat encounters, just pick it up.
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Can Eldritch cannon make Opportunity attacks?

The cannon has legs and is size Large. It has a space where a Small or Medium size creature can sit. When the cannon moves, it and any creature sitting on it do not provoke opportunity attacks.
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Does Eldritch cannon break invisibility?

Likewise, firing from the eldritch cannon would certainly break the invisibility of the artificer, were he invisible while using it, as it activates on his bonus action and it's an attack.
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Can you catapult an Eldritch cannon?

If you can comfortably hold an Eldritch Cannon in your hand, then it's probably light enough to Catapult as well. So you can use an action to cast Catapult on it, then use your bonus action to shoot them (and maybe their friends) after.
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Does Eldritch cannon benefit from Hex?

Yes. The Force Ballista option would indeed trigger the damage from Hex. The wording for Hex specifies that the damage is applied when you hit the cursed creature with an attack.
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Can an artificer carry Eldritch cannon?

As written, Yes. You can hold the legs of the cannon like a gun and fire it. You can also drop it at anytime and it will walk on it's own and still fire it.
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Does elemental adept work with Eldritch cannon?

Yes. It's considered a spell and you cast it through a medium but it's still your spell. It uses your ability modifiers so it should be affected by your skills.
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Can you hold a small Eldritch cannon?

There's no rule that states the cannon must be held in a hand. "A Small eldritch cannon occupies its space, and a Tiny one can be held in one hand." --- that's using a hand as a size indicator --- "can" not "must." A tiny cannon can also crawl around at 15 feet of movement.
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Can a tiny Eldritch cannon have legs?

Yes, a Tiny-sized Eldritch Cannon (with or without legs) can be worn or carried on the body elsewhere than in the hand. rather than a creature.
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How many Eldritch cannons can you have?

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Once you create a cannon, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest or until you expend a spell slot to create one. You can have only one cannon at a time and can't create one while your cannon is present.
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How many times can you use an Eldritch cannon?

The description of the Artillerist artificer's Eldritch Cannon feature (Tasha's Cauldron of Everything, p. 17; emphasis mine): Once you create a cannon, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest or until you expend a spell slot to create one.
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Is Eldritch cannon immune to conditions?

The cannon is a magical object. Regardless of size, the cannon has an AC of 18 and a number of hit points equal to five times your artificer level. It is immune to poison damage, psychic damage, and all conditions. If it is forced to make an ability check or saving throw, treat all it's ability scores as 10 (+0).
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How much damage does an Eldritch cannon do?

Our Artificer Player picked the Artillerist subclass and the Eldritch Cannon seems kinda insane to me. 2d8 force damage on a bonus action every single round without using a spell slot? Isn't that a little bit too much on level 3? However, I took a look at the damage scaling and it only seems to scale to 3d8 at level 9.
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Can a homunculus carry an Eldritch cannon?

Hommunculus servant has a carrying capacity of 30lbs and while the eldritch cannon does not specify a weight it does mention it can be made tiny and easily wielded one handedly (assumedly by a creature in the medium and small size categories) so I can't imagine the weight would exceed 30lbs, only thing I am not sure of ...
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How long does Eldritch cannon last?

The Eldritch cannon lasts one hour, and every bonus action, the Artificer can give multiple creatures within a radius 1d8+int temp HP.
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Does enhanced arcane focus affect Eldritch cannon?

while you hold it, the enhanced arcane focus adds +1 to your spell attack rolls, and the attack ignores half cover. With Eldritch Cannon's Force Ballista, you use your bonus action to make a ranged spell attack from the cannon, using your To-Hit for spell attacks, therefore the +1 should apply to the attack roll.
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Do Hexblades use Eldritch Blast?

You can sling Eldritch Blasts as much as any other Warlock even when you go Hexblade. It's not like the subclass forces you to go Pact of the Blade or be in melee.
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Can you use Hex and Eldritch blast in the same turn?

Eldritch Blast is a cantrip that uses your Action. Because it is a cantrip, it does not limit the use of other spells in the same round. However, because it uses your Action, you will only be able to use spells that require a Bonus Action to cast. (such as Hex).
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Is Eldritch Blast a good spell?

Even so, Eldritch Blast has a few special properties that make it one of Dungeons and Dragons' best cantrips. In fact, the way that warlocks can change Eldritch Blast to their advantage makes it among the best spells in their entire spell list.
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Can you Eldritch blast yourself?

As an action, you can direct the force of your Eldritch Blast against yourself to immediately move in a straight line.
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Does arcane firearm apply to Cantrips?

Cantrips are spells. Ergo, they benefit from Arcane Firearm. The entire intent of that feature is, more or less, to empower the artificer's damaging cantrips in a way that makes them almost competitive with other characters' subclass-less baseline.
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How fast is Eldritch cannon?

I won't bother with posting the whole text in here, but the eldritch cannon can be a small sized object with legs and a walking/climbing speed of 15, and for saving throws, is to use all 10(+0) stats, it also takes any appearance that you want.
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