Fryc's Parry

Adds parry mechanics and allows blocking with items other than shield

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Modrinth

Datapacks:

Modifying pool of items that can parry:

to add item to the pool: data/frycparry/tags/item/items_can_parry.json
to exclude item from the pool (excluding has priority over including): data/frycparry/tags/item/parrying_excluded_items.json

(remember that some directories changed with 1.21, for example items is now item)

Making mobs resistant to disarmed status effect:

data/frycparry/tags/entity_type/disarm_resistant_mobs.json

Modifying parry attributes:

Creating parry attributes:

If existing parry attributes don't satisfy you, in data/frycparry/parry_attributes/ create json file containing:

{
  "parryTicks": 0,
  "meleeDamageTakenAfterBlock": 0.0,
  "projectileDamageTakenAfterBlock": 0.0,
  "explosionDamageTakenAfterBlock": 0.0,
  "cooldownAfterParryAction": 0.0,
  "cooldownAfterInterruptingBlockAction": 0.0,
  "cooldownAfterAttack": 0.0,
  "maxUseTime": 0,
  "blockDelay": 0,
  "explosionBlockDelay": 0,
  "shouldStopUsingItemAfterBlockOrParry": true,
  "knockbackAfterParryAction": 0.0,
  "parryEffects": [
    {
      "statusEffect": "MOD_ID:STATUS_EFFECT",
      "duration": 0,
      "amplifier": 1,
      "chance": 0.0,
      "enchantmentMultiplier": 0.0
    }
  ]
}

Change the values to meet your needs. Name of your file will be used to access them.

Applying parry attributes to selected items:

In data/frycparry/parry_items/ create json file containing:

{
  "parryAttributes": "NAME_OF_PARRY_ATTRIBUTES_FILE_WITHOUT_EXTENSION",
  "items": [
    "some_mod_id:some_item",
    "some_mod_id:another_item"
  ]
}

parryAttributes is name of file from data/frycparry/parry_attributes/ WITHOUT .json

Inside items add items for which selected parry attributes will be applied

Example:

{
  "parryAttributes": "my_parry_attributes",
  "items": [
    "minecraft:diamond_sword",
    "minecraft:diamond_pickaxe",
    "minecraft:stick",
    "minecraft:dirt"
  ]
}

Note:

modifying parry attributes for items that can't parry by default (dirt and stick in example above) doesn't enable parrying for these items (you need to enable them with tag)

Some explanations:

explosionDamageTakenAfterBlock doesn't do anything unless explosionBlockDelay is above -1
for all cooldown fields: if value is below 0, cooldown is based on attack speed and the value is multiplier (-2 means valueBasedOnAttackSpeed x 2)
parry ticks are checked AFTER block delay
negative block delay increases parry ticks
if explosionBlockDelay is below 0, item can't block explosions
blockDelay is still taken into account when blocking explosions
explosionBlockDelay is amount of ticks item must be held for to successfully block explosion (successfully means, the damage from explosion will be multiplied by explosionDamageTakenAfterBlock)
holding block for more ticks than blockDelay, but less than explosionBlockDelay will reduce protection from explosions by 80% (explosion will be blocked, but you will take MUCH more damage than specified in explosionDamageTakenAfterBlock)
setting amplifier of parry effect to a value lower than 1 will prevent parry enchantment from increasing amplifier of that effect (negative amplifiers are corrected AFTER increasing them with parry enchantment)