Lava core

# 🔥 Lava Form

**A core of living lava sleeps inside you. Wake it — and become a being of magma.**

Most of the time you're just a normal player. But when the core awakens, glowing cracks tear across your skin, your eyes ignite, the ground under your feet turns to magma, and nothing in the world can stop you. Not zombies. Not explosions. **Not even the Warden.**

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## 🌋 The Awakening

Use the **Lava Core** (or `/lavaform`) and watch a full cinematic play out:

1. The camera swings around to face you and the ground starts to rumble and crack into magma.
2. A **ball of living lava tears out of the ground**, hovers in front of you, pulsing and wreathed in flame…
3. …then **dives straight into your chest** in a white-hot flash, with a blast of fire that sends everything around you flying.
4. You **crack your knuckles** with smooth, rubbery cartoon arms, and each crack throws sparks.
5. **THE CORE AWAKENS.**

## 💀 A Totem of Lava

Hold the Lava Core in either hand like a Totem of Undying. **If you would die, the core refuses to let you** — you survive, the totem animation plays with the core instead of a totem, and you awaken straight into Lava Form. Unlike a real totem, the core isn't used up.

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## ✨ What Lava Form Looks Like

- **Glowing magma cracks** spread over your whole skin, starting at the chest. They glow in the dark and work with any skin, hoodies included.
- **Blazing lava eyes** that throw sparks, and keep a faint ember glow while the core cools.
- A slow **molten shimmer** flows under the cracks.
- The **ground turns to magma and basalt** in rings with every step, then cools back to normal afterwards.
- Embers and smoke rise off your body, and your screen gets a pulsing heat haze.
- Enemies you hit **crack, glow and slowly burn to ash**.

## 🛡️ Unstoppable

- **Nothing can damage you:** Warden, explosions, arrows, magic, fall damage. Only `/kill` and the void get through.
- **No knockback.** Explosions don't even move you.
- **Arrows and fireballs melt** before they reach you.
- Immune to poison, wither, blindness, darkness and every other harmful effect.
- **+10 hearts, +8 attack damage, +35% speed, faster attacks.**
- **Lava heals you** and refuels the form. Soak in a lava lake and climb out stronger (Strength III, extra hearts, speed).
- **Heat aura:** monsters that get close start burning.
- You can swim through lava and actually see inside it.

## ⚔️ Powers

| Key | Power |
|---|---|
| **Punch** | **Fire Fists:** huge fire damage that blasts enemies across the ground. Look up (or crit) to **uppercut them into the sky**. |
| **R** | **Fire Shockwave:** a ring of fire that knocks back everything around you. |
| **V** | **Heat Burst:** rocket into the air on a blast of fire. **Sneak + V = Flame Dash** through enemies. |
| **G** | **Giant Lava Sword:** pull lava out of the ground and forge a huge glowing greatsword. Hold a normal sword or axe to **set it on fire** instead. |
| **Right-click** (Lava Sword) | **Magma Slash:** a crescent wave of fire that rolls forward. |
| **B** | **Eruption:** a line of lava geysers bursts from the ground and launches enemies. |
| **Z** | **Magma Ball:** hurl an exploding ball of lava. **Sneak to throw three.** |
| **H** | **Meteor Storm** *(ultimate)*: lava meteors rain down wherever you look. |
| **Landing** | Falling from high up cracks the ground with a **slam shockwave**. |

All keys can be rebound under *Options → Controls → Lava Form*. An on-screen ability bar shows every cooldown.

### 🗡️ The Giant Lava Sword
A 32×32 animated greatsword of molten lava, held at twice normal size, that **glows in the dark**. It hits extremely hard, reaches 2.5 blocks farther, **cleaves everything in front of you**, and melts back into lava when the core cools.

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## ⚖️ The Cost

- The form lasts **90 seconds**. Lava refuels it, but **water drains it** fast and makes you steam.
- The Meteor Storm burns 15 seconds of the form.
- When it burns out, the cracks fade and you're left **exhausted** (slowness, weakness, hunger).
- The core then needs to **cool down**. The Lava Core item turns to dark stone and slowly re-ignites over three stages, with a bar showing the time left.

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## 📜 Commands
*(Requires cheats / operator permission level 2.)*

| Command | Effect |
|---|---|
| `/lavaform` | Toggle Lava Form on yourself |
| `/lavaform on [players]` | Awaken, with the cutscene |
| `/lavaform instant [players]` | Awaken instantly, no cutscene |
| `/lavaform off [players]` | Cool the core down |
| `/lavaform core [players]` | Give the **Lava Core** item |
| `/lavaform reset [players]` | Clear all cooldowns |

The Lava Core isn't craftable and isn't in the creative menu. Get it with `/lavaform core` or `/give @s lavapower:lava_core`.

## ⚙️ Config
Everything is adjustable in `config/lavapower-common.toml`: form duration, cooldowns, full immunity on/off, the cutscene on/off, the totem save, every attack's cooldown and damage, and whether the ground scorches and restores itself.

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## ℹ️ Details
- **Minecraft 1.20.1 · Forge 47+**
- Needed on **both client and server**.
- Scorched ground cools back to what it was, and anything left scorched is restored when the world closes, so no permanent damage to your builds.
- Works in singleplayer and multiplayer. Other players see your cracks, eyes, cutscene and attacks.