Elemental Combat

The 2 new properties are element and style. On hit these properties are checked against the corresponding defense properties of the target and a multiplicator will be calculated for each property. While the factor for style is capped at 0 (meaning no damage will be dealt), the factor for element can be negative, which will result in healing the target.
To compute the scaling I use a similar computation as the vanilla Enchantment Protection Factor-System. This means, that both of the scalings are computed via 1-(factor/maxFactor). You can read my code here.

The mod comes with predifined styles and elements. The elements are fire, ice, water, thunder (aka lightning), darkness, light, wind, earth, flora and normal (the default value) and the styles are explosion, projectile, slash, stab, bash (v. 1.3+), bite (v. 1.3+), magic, hit (the default value) and environment (used for damage like drowning and so on). As you might have guessed I overwrote the behaviour of the vanilla enchantments and potions so they will use my system instead. In addition I added new enchantments and potion effects so you have more flexibility from the get go.

Every item, mob, projectile and natural damage source (like drowning and suffocating in a wall) has a base attack properties which I defined through json files. This means, that they can be overwritten by datapacks. In theory it is possible to define that drowning deals fire damage.
It is also possible to add completly new elements or styles through datapacks. However one needs to supply a resource pack, that includes an icon for the new element or style. Otherwise the ‘missing resource’ image (the black and purple square image) will be shown.

If you are a modpack creator, that wants to use this feature, you should also add Global Data- & Resourcepacks to your modpack. I also started to create datapacks for beloved mods that can be downloaded from my github repository. Any balance feedback is much appreciated here.

In addition to the static base properties (the ones that are can be defined through the datapack) the mod also provides an API that allows more dynamic behaviour. To showcase the power of the API I made a second mod Elemetal Combat - Weaponry, that add a style switching weapon, an element switching sword, an biome depending armor and some other fun stuff too. (However this mod is not balanced at all. I just played around with the elemental combat api to test it)