Describe the bug
Leveled up combat way past level 100, and still cannot seem to use anything other than a wooden sword. Thought I was doing something wrong so I kept leveling it with the wooden one XD

Expected behavior
Expected to be able to use a level 10 sword with 170 combat :(

To Reproduce
Level combat, try a sword

Screenshots
Stone sword: https://i.imgur.com/bCmA8HC.png
Iron sword: https://i.imgur.com/UifwvJe.png
Iron pickaxe: https://i.imgur.com/HzHESOc.png

Versions:

• Minecraft: 1.21.1
• Loader: NeoForge 21.1.92
• PMMO: 1.2.1-2.5.15

The images show the expected settings. When you attempt to attack with those swords what happens? From the images, I also see that the requirements to wear (also hold in hand) the item requires farming levels, which you don't have. I would expect that you have a debuff but can still deal damage. Is that the case?

Holding it in hand does apply debuffs, attacking enemies with them also does nothing (it swings but no damage against them),
seems this issue is only for combat as everything else I tested so far worked as intended for me!
Also tried resetting levels, xp, trying on a different account - all resulted the same

Do swords actually require a farming level to use? Swinging with an iron pickaxe does work against enemies.
If so, that's a very weird requirement :D

edit: this is with all default pmmo settings, I didn't change anything before encountering this issue! Afterwards I dumped the configs and edited so mobs don't scale :x

edit2: Farming is indeed a requirement for swords, I didn't expect it to be even if it showed up on the requirements gui, could this be changed? Farming shouldn't be related to combat imho :x

The debuffs usually include weakness which will drastically reduce the damage dealt, so that tracks. and yes, i plan to push an update that makes swords have combat requirements across the board.

The farming requirement was there because most users typically have farms set up and get a massive amount of passive farming XP, so it effectively gated the farming of swords without impacting combat. You just happened to be one of the few users who didn't do any farming and conflicted with that expectation.