Sea serpent fang was a fang anywhere: one of them, socketed, worn or held,
and you breathed underwater. It is an armour material now, and worth
something different in hand.
Worn, it grants half a lung per module in each armour slot and the handler
still only reads 1 as breathing, so it takes two worn fang modules - two
sockets, two pieces built of it, or a socketed piece that is both. That is
the trade the space set already makes, and a fang weapon no longer makes it
at all.
Held, it does what a serpent does in its element. Mining needs nothing of
ours: vanilla models underwater digging as an attribute of its own,
minecraft:player.submerged_mining_speed, base 0.2 for the fifth-speed
penalty, and +0.6 a module puts a single fang module four times past a plain
tool and two of them past dry land. Damage and swing speed have no such
switch, so WaterCombat.java registers cmmodular:water_combat the way
FireImmunity and WaterBreathing register theirs. Damage is answered on the
blow. Attack speed cannot be - the game reads it off the attribute map
whenever it likes - so a transient modifier under one id goes on and comes
off as the bearer enters and leaves the water.
The arcana core's recipe puts a trophy from each corner of the game in the
corners of the grid - nether star, dragon's breath, heart of the sea and
Iron's Spells' ancient knowledge fragment - with two cinder and two arcane
essence on the edges and nothing in the middle.
Armory sockets a helmet, a chestplate, a backplate and a belt and stops
there, so an arm or a leg could never hold a gem. Four pieces here finish it:
the heavy pauldron and the heavy pants, left and right, inheriting Armory's
own whole and adding the same gem_armor_medium slot at the same price, 5% of
the piece's armour. Where the gem sits is the other half - out on the
shoulder in the pauldron, forward on the knee in the pants - and the numbers
come from Armory's own art, which lies a sprite proud of the side of an arm
at 2.15 and of the front of a body at 2.35.
Last, a gem case, for anyone running Apotheosis. Its gems are not modules and
never can be, since what makes one worth having is its own rarity and purity
data, but Apotheosis counts sockets in a plain data component and MIAPI's
component property sets any component a module likes. So the case is one line
of data: put it in an armour piece's gem slot instead of a gemstone and the
piece reports an Apotheosis socket, which the gem goes into at a smithing
table. Modular armour extends vanilla ArmorItem, so Apotheosis' LootCategory
already calls it a helmet or a chestplate, and gem bonuses arrive through
ItemAttributeModifierEvent, where MIAPI is not looking. The pack is gated on
Apotheosis and Armory both, which is why a pack can now name more than one
mod.
None of this is compiled or run - there is no JDK on the machine it was
written on.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Amir Alexander Abdelbaki