Overview
This project is for the Forge mod loader. To see its counterpart for the Fabric mod loader, please go here.
Colytra is a mod that adds the ability to attach an elytra to any chestplate you want, allowing you to reap the benefits of having an elytra without sacrificing the ability to wear your cool-looking armor. Caelus API is a required dependency for versions on Minecraft 1.13.2+.
Elytra Attachment
To attach an elytra to a chestplate, you just have to place them both in a crafting grid. The output will be the chestplate with a tooltip showing that an elytra has been attached to it.
The colytra has three separate modes depending on the configuration option select:
- Normal: The chestplate and elytra exist separately. They each retain their own enchantments and flight will drain the elytra's durability as normal. The elytra component can be repaired using Phantom Membrane in the anvil as normal, along with the approrpriate prior work penalties. Separation is possible by placing the colytra in a crafting grid again.
- Unison: The chestplate and elytra will fuse together and act as one. All enchantments from the elytra will be merged into the chestplate. Flight will drain the chestplate's durability/energy. Separation is not possible.
- Perfect: Same as Unison mode, except that flight will not drain any durability/energy.
1.12.2 Overview:
Colytra is a mod that adds the ability to attach an elytra to any chestplate you want, allowing you to reap the benefits of having an elytra without sacrificing the ability to wear your cool-looking armor. This mod also includes a bauble version of the regular elytra, allowing you to use it as a body bauble when you have Baubles installed alongside it. Also wondering about Quark's dyable elytras? No worries, they're completely compatible!
Features
Attaching Elytra to Chestplate
To attach an elytra to a chestplate, you'll need an anvil. Simply place the chestplate you want to install it on in the left slot and the elytra you want to install in the right slot, and, at the flat fee of 30 levels, bingo! You've got a chestplate with the power of an elytra! A colytra, if you will! Stupid name? Probably!
Some notes about the colytra:
- This fusion is permanent; there is no way to separate them once the process is completed.
- Prior work penalties for both the elytra and the chestplate will be combined into the new colytra, so be wary of using components that have been worked on multiple times already.
- The elytra and chestplate components function as two separate items in terms of durability and repair. Their durabilities are separate and you can repair each component separately using their respective repair methods. Do note, however, that them being on the same item means that work penalties will apply to either of them cumulatively.
- Enchantments from either component will be combined into the new colytra. Unbreaking and Mending work as usual for both the chestplate and elytra components.
- There is a keybinding to toggle the elytra component on/off for the colytra. This will disable all elytra features and basically act just like the regular chestplate.
- The elytra component will, as usual, be disabled when durability drops to 1. It will never destroy itself. However, the chestplate is under no such restriction. If the chestplate gets destroyed, the elytra component will be destroyed as well.
Configuration Options:
Permission Mode - Set how to manage which chestplates can be attached with an elytra ("Blacklist" or "Whitelist")
Item List - A list of items to be either blacklisted/whitelisted
Colytra Durability Mode - How to handle durability of elytras on chestplates
- Normal - Elytras on chestplates will have a separate durability
- Infinite - Elytras on chestplates will not use any durability
- Chestplate - Elytras on chestplates will use the chestplate's durability or energy, whichever is applicable. It will not have its own separate durability.
Disable Bauble - When Baubles is installed, set to false to disable the elytra bauble
Elytra Bauble
If you have Baubles installed, there will be a new elytra body bauble for you to use. The recipe is simply a regular elytra! You can craft them both back and forth at no cost.
would this work for modded chestplates too? :)
In reply to dipper_lagrange1:
According to other users' comments and the replies they received, it definitely should work with modded chestplates so long as you either add them to a whitelist or leave them out of a blacklist.
In reply to Foxegory5:
thanks! :)
Not sure if you thought of this, but I thought it'd be cool if this used the Smithing Table to combine the armor and elytra. Just seems like that would fit a bit more than simply crafting the two together. If you think this is cool but don't wanna make a permanent change, would you be able to set this as a config toggle, or is that a tad too complex?
In reply to Dawnflare_CB:
Might be too complex, but it's an interesting idea. I'll look into it.
Hello, I seem to be having issues finding how to configure the way durability is drained on my server. I'm new to Minecraft server modding and I don't know how to configure it or if I am missing a config file somewhere. Can you help?
In reply to dinomite1812:
The config file is either in the config folder of your Minecraft in 1.12 or in the serverconfig folder of your world's save in 1.13+.
The way you described how your mod works makes me think that it should be compatible with mods that add more armor (chestplates), is that so?
In reply to Demandro48:
Yes.
In reply to TheIllusiveC4:
Thanks, and sorry for thanking XD
On the 1.12 version, is there any way I can make it so elytras cannot be crafted with a chestplate but still have the elytra bauble feature?
In reply to morekerosine:
Just edit the config so that there's an empty whitelist, essentially disabling all chestplates from fusing with elytras.
In reply to TheIllusiveC4:
I have the exact opposite problem; I have Baubles installed and an empty blacklist (meaning all chestplates should be compatible), but in the game I have no possible way of combining the chestplate and elytra together. Still in 1.12.2, though.
So why is the Caelus API required for 1.16? What happens if I don't use that thing?
In reply to anonymousminecraftrblx:
If you don't use it, you won't be able to run this mod. It's required because Caelus API does the heavy-lifting for manipulating the elytra flight mechanics that allow this mod to be possible.
In reply to TheIllusiveC4:
Thank you. So is this the same for other API things? For example, Serilium's Collective mod API. It says it optimizes and has common code for his mods. What does this mean? Is it required and what happens if I don't use it?
In reply to anonymousminecraftrblx:
It really depends, each API does something different depending on its use-case. You don't really need to worry about that as a user. As a general guide, if a mod says that another mod/API is required, just take their word for it and assume that things will break if you don't use them together.
In reply to TheIllusiveC4:
thank you
I am in 1.15.2 and I just attached my chest plate with the elytra but it just shows it in f5 I'd doesn't actually work as an elytra I just have a chest plate
ii might have a dumb question but is this mod compatiable with the ice and fire mod as well? i would like to use this in my own personal world with the mod and i hate having to switch back and forth between my elytra and chestplate.