A Touch of Wickedness

A touch of Wickedness is a mod where doing evil things is punished... but can also be farmed as a resource if you dare face the consequences of your acts.

Killing innocent creatures increases a hidden Wickedness stat which can also be reduced by performing specific acts such as taming and breeding animals, healing your pets or curing zombie villages.

Pushing the villain role too far spawns the Bailiff, a thief who comes for your most precious belongings. Your chest will not be safe from his wrath and even your personal possessions.

You can catch and kill him to get back what he stole and also to get a new resource, a Seal.

To pursue a career of wickedness you must protect your goodies by building unrobbable Strongboxes using Seals. Your current level of Wickedness can be hinted at by crafting a Tally Stick again using Seals.

For pack authors

• What a kill weighs is the data map atouchofwickedness:wickedness_weight on entity types, each entry a whole number: by default 2 for livestock and fish, 5 for wild animals, 15 for rare and companion creatures, 30 for a villager and 50 for a cat or ocelot. A creature the map doesn't list weighs nothing, so a pack can weigh another mod's creatures by adding them. Any tamed creature weighs weights.tamed whatever the map says, a baby weights.babyMultiplier times its weight, and a neutral mob that went for its killer before they struck it nothing.
• What an item is worth to the Bailiff is the data map atouchofwickedness:bailiff_value on items, keyed by item or item tag. The Bailiff takes one stack, each as likely as its share of what all the stacks it may take are worth, a stack being worth its Value times its count, plus bailiff.valuePerEnchantmentLevel per enchantment level. An unlisted item is worth bailiff.unlistedValue, and one valued 0 is never taken. By default stone, dirt, sand, gravel, netherrack, rotten flesh and seeds are worth nothing, and the scale runs from food and lapis at 5 to netherite gear at 900.
• Which containers the Bailiff robs is the block entity type tag atouchofwickedness:seizable, by default chests, trapped chests and barrels. A Bailiff robs only a container its own player opened. Ender chests, shulker boxes and Strongboxes are never robbed, even if a pack adds them to the tag.
• What repairs a Tally Stick in an anvil is the item tag atouchofwickedness:repairs_tally_stick, by default the Seal.
• The Bailiff's drops are the loot table atouchofwickedness:entities/bailiff: the Bailiff's Bag, under the loot condition atouchofwickedness:bag_chance, which reads bailiff.bagChance and bailiff.bagChancePerLootingLevel. The Seals and the stolen haul drop outside the table.
• The recipes are atouchofwickedness:strongbox (four Seals around a chest) and atouchofwickedness:tally_stick (a Seal and a stick), so a datapack can replace them.

Wickedness, the Threshold, the Bailiff's cooldown and the containers a player opened are kept on the player and survive death and restarts. The Bailiff itself is never saved: it is gone once its player logs out or changes dimension, and a visit it left unfinished is still owed.

The terms are in GLOSSARY.md, and what each release changed for a pack is in CHANGELOG.md.

Commands

All at permission level 2:

• /wickedness get <player> shows a player's Wickedness.
• /wickedness set <player> <value> and /wickedness add <player> <value> change it. Reaching the Threshold sends the Bailiff as a kill would.
• /wickedness threshold <player> shows the Threshold they drew.

Configuration

Everything is in one common config, config/atouchofwickedness-common.toml. Times are in seconds.

• weights: tamed (50), babyMultiplier (2), and hitCost (3), what each damaging hit short of the killing blow adds on a creature weighing tormentWeight (30) or more.
• gossip: villagers within radius (16) who see a Wicked kill gain scale (5) times its weight in vanilla's minor negative gossip about the killer. 0 turns it off.
• decay: perDay (10), the Wickedness that falls each in-game day while the player is online.
• atonement: what kind acts take off: breeding (3), taming (10), healingPerHeart (1), curing (40), and gift (2), at most giftsPerDay (5) times a day.
• threshold: min (50) and max (100), the range each player's Threshold is drawn from.
• standing: where Marked (0.5), Overdue (0.75) and Forfeit (0.9) start, as fractions of the Threshold.
• warnings: how often each Warning sounds (secondsBetweenMarked 120, secondsBetweenOverdue 60, secondsBetweenForfeit 30) and how far off (markedDistance 24, overdueDistance 12, forfeitDistance 4). Also how near animals flee from a Forfeit player (fleeRadius 16) and how fast (animalFleeSpeed 1.0, animalFleeSprintSpeed 1.4).
• bailiff:
  • Arriving: how far from its player it arrives (arrivalMinDistance 12, arrivalMaxDistance 24), the wait before another may come (secondsBetweenVisits 300), and how often an owed visit retries (secondsBetweenRetries 3).
  • Its stats: health (60), damage on Normal (4), knockbackResistance (1), speed (0.35) and fleeSpeed (1.4).
  • What it robs: the containers remembered per player (containersRemembered 32), how near where it arrived they must be (robbingRadius 32), how near a ground item must be (pickupRadius 6) and what it must be worth (pickupFloor 5), plus unlistedValue (1) and valuePerEnchantmentLevel (20).
  • Leaving: how long it stays (secondsOnSite 60), how far it flees before it stops (vanishDistance 24), and how long it charges its teleport (secondsToTeleport 2).
  • Its drops: the Seals it drops (sealsMin 1, sealsMax 3), and the chance of a Bailiff's Bag (bagChance 0.05, plus bagChancePerLootingLevel 0.01).
• tallyStick: uses (16).

The numbers are provisional while A Touch of Wickedness is below 1.0.

Compatibility

All optional, and none nested in the jar:

• Jade shows, when you look at a Bailiff, the player it came for and the stacks it has taken, and never anyone's Wickedness.
• A Touch of Madness: a Bailiff nearby drains Sanity like any hostile mob, through an optional entry in #atouchofmadness:unsettling.

Dependencies

None beyond NeoForge, on Minecraft 26.1.2.

This is a hobby project: I’m not monetizing any part of A touch of mods suite. I’m building it for fun, to see how far I can take it.