Defenders 1.1.0

New material traits

Defender materials now have more distinct identities:

• Wood: Moves at 60% speed while guarding instead of 50%.
• Stone: Perfect parries have 1.0 knockback strength instead of 0.8.
• Gold: Attacks at 2.0 speed and retains Gold's 22 enchantability.
• Iron: Remains the neutral baseline.
• Diamond: Perfect-parry Slowness and Vulnerable effects last 3 seconds instead of 2.
• Steel: Reduces sustained permitted damage by 35% instead of 30%.
• Umbrium: Uses Defiled Lands' enchantability of 20 while retaining Iron-equivalent combat stats.

These bonuses can be adjusted or disabled through the new material_traits configuration category.

New enchantments

• Added Reflexes I–III, increasing the perfect-parry window by 0.1 seconds per level.
• Added Deflection I–III:
  • Adds 5% melee damage reduction per level while guarding.
  • Reduces other incoming damage by 10% per level.
  • Perfect parries remain available.
• Added the very rare 6th Sense I:
  • Has a 10% chance to automatically parry a direct melee attack.
  • All successful parries make the attacker glow for 5 seconds while equipped.
• Deflection is incompatible with Reflexes and 6th Sense.
• Removed the Fortification enchantment.
• Legacy Fortification mappings are safely ignored when loading existing worlds.

Enchantment compatibility

• Added explicit support for Unbreaking and Mending.
• Added optional Advanced Mending support when So Many Enchantments is installed.
• Added a configurable registry-ID list for additional modded enchantments.
• Added master and individual configuration switches for Defender enchantments.
• Disabled Defender enchantments no longer generate or provide effects while remaining registered for world compatibility.
• Fixed enchantment descriptions and percentage formatting.

Guarded combat improvements

• Players can continuously mine blocks while keeping a Defender raised.
• Starting to guard during mining no longer resets block-breaking progress.
• Main-hand attacks continue to use normal Minecraft damage, cooldown, reach, packets, and enchantment behavior while guarding.
• The Defender remains visibly raised in third person during attacks and mining.
• Projectiles can never be perfect-parried.
• Added configurable perfect-parry sound volume.

Documentation

• Added complete material-trait information to the player-facing README.
• Updated configuration and enchantment documentation.
• No additional material-effect lines were added to in-game item tooltips.