Pyrows Shards SMP

Collectible shards, ritual crafting and 13 unique weapons for Minecraft Bedrock survival multiplayer.

Turn ordinary diamond and netherite tools into shard weapons with their own passive powers and right-click abilities. Shards aren't crafted in a crafting grid. Each one is made at an Impution Table through a 30-minute ritual that the whole server can see, so getting one is an event.

Features

• 13 shards with different powers: invisibility, frost, dashing, life steal, poison, confusion, backstabs, executions, extra hearts, ore pinging, double ore drops, a smashing mace and a flying dragon blade
• Ritual crafting at the Impution Table with a 30-minute timer, server-wide announcements and coordinates, and first-come-first-served claiming
• Fuse a shard onto your own gear. Enchantments, durability, name and lore carry over
• Shard weapons hit as hard as the normal tool (diamond sword 7, netherite sword 8, and so on)
• Heavy Mace with a real smash attack, Wind Burst and a lunge
• Dragon Blade with creative-style flight and dragon breath and lightning that never hurt you
• In-game guide: a panel explains everything the first time a player joins, and can be reopened from the ritual menu
• Particle effects and a floating display on the table, with custom icons and creative-menu groups
• Shards and weapons don't stack
• The Ender Dragon drops netherite gear at 75%, 50%, 25% of its health and on death
• Easy to tweak: ritual length, ability numbers, damage and more live in one config file

How it works

1. An operator loads an Impution Table with the shard it will produce. Each table makes one shard.
2. Bring the ingredients and right-click the table. The menu shows what you have (green) and what you're missing (red). Press Begin ritual.
3. Wait 30 minutes. Everyone on the server is told where the ritual started, when it finishes and when the shard is claimed.
4. Claim it. When the ritual is done, anyone can right-click the table to claim the shard, so guard it.
5. Fuse it. Hold the shard in your main hand and a matching diamond or netherite tool in your off hand, then right-click.
6. Use it. Passive powers work while the weapon is in your main hand. Right-click for its ability.

Most recipes also need 1 Echo Shard and 2 Netherite Ingots. Vampire and Dragon use their own lists and need an Echo Shard on top.

The Heavy Shard ritual only has a 2 in 7 chance of success. If it fails, the materials are lost.

The shards

Which tool? Swords for most shards (and Heavy and Dragon), an axe for Vitality, a pickaxe for Prospecting and Wealth. Heavy always makes the Heavy Mace and Dragon always makes the Dragon Blade.

Heavy Mace

Fall a couple of blocks and hit something to smash: big bonus damage that grows with every block you fell, plus a shockwave that damages and knocks back everything close.

• Wind Burst: a successful smash throws you back into the air so you can chain smashes, and it softens your landing
• Lunge: right-click to dash forward
• Launch: sneak + right-click to launch straight up

Dragon Blade

While held you get Strength II, Resistance II, Regeneration II, Speed II, fire resistance and slow falling. Hold jump to climb, let go to drift down and sprint to glide. Right-click for dragon breath and lightning that never hurt you.

Weapon damage

For server owners and operators

• Only operators can load, change or clear a table, cancel a running ritual, and break an Impution Table. If your server can't use isOp(), give a player the tag shards_admin instead.
• Regular players who right-click an empty table are told an operator needs to set it up.
• Abilities never hurt villagers, wandering traders, golems, NPCs or tamed pets.
• Open the guide for yourself any time with /scriptevent shards:guide.
• Configuration: open scripts/config.js in the behavior pack. You can change the ritual length, Heavy success chance, ability radii and cooldown numbers, the Wind Burst and lunge settings, the target weapon damage, the welcome panel (WELCOME_PANEL) and a damage debug mode (DEBUG_DAMAGE) that prints the real damage of every hit.
• Item damage values are stored in each item file. After changing the targets in config.js, run the included sync_damage.mjs tool to copy them into the item files.

Installation

1. Download the .mcaddon file and open it. Minecraft imports both the behavior pack and the resource pack.
2. Create or edit a world and activate both packs (Behavior Packs and Resource Packs).
3. Make sure at least one player is an operator so a table can be loaded.
4. On a dedicated server, copy both folders into the server's pack folders and add them to the world's pack lists.

Requires Minecraft Bedrock 1.21.90 or newer. The behavior pack uses the Script API (@minecraft/server and @minecraft/server-ui 2.0.0).

Changelog

1.1.14 - New: welcome panel on first join, with a "How it works" button in the ritual menu

1.1.13 - Heavy Mace now has Wind Burst and a lunge (sneak + right-click keeps the old launch)

1.1.12 - Shard weapon damage values corrected to hit the target totals - Shards are now unstackable - Added the damage debug mode and the damage settings in config.js