Expanding on my journey with tracking a bug with slash blade hit detection being broken in my custom pack and from our exchanges on discord, I am making this report to archive and properly report this issue with the mod Better Combat X Apotheosis

What's the issue?

For context and archival sake: this issue revolves around what had been determined to be an issue with the attack range becoming broken and reducing slashblades only working at very close range (impractical for combat). Originally I thought this issue was caused by Better Combat but only found out as of recent it was actually a addon made for it.

what's causing it?

After using item attribute commands and tracking down the culprit mod, I found this issue is caused by the addon mentioned implementing a change that altogether removes the forge:entity_reach attribute in its entirety (or at least for items) in favor of using Apotheosis's attack_range attribute. This is problematic as through using commands to test this with item attributes that Slashblade relies on this to determine if attacks hit the mob.
As a result of its removal, the weapon lacks its addional reach it uses for the weapon to function normally without its +2.5 entity reach stat.

How do I fix this.

Given what the add-on does, I would recommend adding comparability with Apotheosis by having it apply the +2.5 reach through its added attribute (insert attribute value here in post for dev) as fallback.