Project Hero

Project Hero 0.17.3

This is a big one: eleven new powers, beam clashing, hero landings, and a new Minecraft-style HUD and I menu for every power.

NEW POWER: BLACK PANTHER (MARVEL) T'Challa, king of Wakanda. A stealth melee predator whose suit stores the hits it takes and throws them back as purple kinetic energy.

• Getting it: Heart-Shaped Herbs are rare glowing purple plants that only grow in jungles. Craft a bowl and 3 herbs into Heart-Shaped Herb Soup and drink it. You spend 10 seconds on the Ancestral Plane, then wake up with the power.
• The suit: tap H and the suit runs out of your vibranium necklace pixel by pixel behind a glowing violet edge, mask last. Tap H again to send it back. The necklace stays visible over the suit.
• Hold H for 1.5 s to take the necklace off: no suit and no moves, but you keep the herb's Speed I and Jump Boost I. Hold H again to put it back on.
• N pops three vibranium claws out of each fist (+5 melee while they're out). Shift+N takes the mask off or puts it back on.
• Kinetic Energy (purple bar): the suit soaks 40% of every hit and stores it, and the suit's trim glows brighter as it fills. Arrows and bullets under 15 damage bounce off and charge it.
• Suit on: +8 armour, +2 toughness, no fall damage and night vision.
• R Kinetic Pulse (a purple shockwave) / Shift+R Kinetic Overload (needs a full bar: a 10-block blast for up to 30)
• G Claw Combo (three slashes, the last one causes bleeding) / Shift+G Pounce (lunge, pin, free strike)
• X Panther Leap (a 12-block jump that grabs ledges) / Shift+X Drop Strike (dive down from the air)
• Z Vibranium Dagger (hops between up to 3 enemies and comes back) / Shift+Z Kimoyo Flash (a bead that blinds and slows)
• V Stalk (mobs lose you while you sneak, backstabs do 3x) / Shift+V Panther Senses (see creatures and their footprints through walls)
• C (hold) Absorb Stance (hits from the front go fully into Kinetic) / Shift+C Kinetic Return (fires the last shot that hit you back at the shooter, boosted by stored energy)

NEW MIRACULOUS: RYUKO, THE DRAGON

• The Dragon Choker is now in the Miraculous Box, and a spawn calling can bring it to you. Longg, the Kwami of Perfection, floats at your shoulder and gives calm advice.
• Type "Longg, bring the storm!" for the full transformation scene (wind, a rising wave, lightning, the mask, the sword and a dragon of light). "Bring the storm!" is the quick one, and "Calm the storm!" changes you back.
• Longg is hungry after every change back. Cooked salmon is his favourite, or 10 of any other food.
• V switches between Wind, Water and Lightning. The edge of your sword shows which one is active, and it changes G, Shift+G and X.
• R Blade Combo / Shift+R Fencing Lunge
• G Element Strike / Shift+G Element Burst (gust and whirlwind, slash and wave, or chain lightning and a lightning burst)
• X Element Dash (a wind launch, a water slide or a lightning teleport) / Shift+X Storm Rise (a big jump, then a slow glide)
• Z Sword Throw (comes back to your hand) / Shift+Z Dragon Form (8 s as your element: fast flight, untouchable, hurts everything you pass through)
• V Switch Element / Shift+V Storm Guard (a 6 s aura: Wind reflects arrows, Water heals, Lightning shocks attackers)
• C Parry / Shift+C Riposte

NEW POWER: UNDEAD (UNDEAD UNLUCK) A body that can't die. Every part of you breaks off and grows back, so you fire your fingers, your arm and even your head at enemies.

• Getting it: the Undead Card turns up rarely in ancient city and stronghold chests. Use it and it sinks into your forehead.
• A body made of pixels: head, body, both arms and both legs each have their own health. A hit breaks the part it lands on, and that part bursts into pixels of your own skin.
• Missing parts matter: no main arm means no attacking or using items, one leg makes you limp, no legs makes you walk on your hands or crawl, and just a head means you roll around.
• Undead: a hit that would kill you shatters everything except your head, and the rest grows back from it. Only /kill and the void can kill you.
• Regeneration: lost parts grow back in order like a real body: bone first, then raw muscle, then skin closing over it pixel by pixel. An arm and its hand grow back together in about a second. A hungry body heals slower, and an empty food bar stops it.
• Passives: Bloody Arts (+3 melee), and Repair Headbutt (a hard hit to your head snaps back with a headbutt).
• Flight: double-tap jump in the air. Your hands and feet blow off and you fly on jets of blood (10 blocks/s, 20 sprinting, no time limit). Hold right-click to boost at 32 blocks/s while your body burns away down to a head. Everything grows back when you land.
• R tap Parts Bullet: Finger (no cooldown, as fast as you can tap) / Shift+R Parts Bullet: Hand / hold R 1 s Parts Bullet: Arm
• G (hold) Blood Spray / Shift+G Blood Whirlwind
• X tap Eject Feet (blasts you about 10 blocks) / Shift+X Combustion Punch / hold X 2 s Head Throw (rip your head off and throw it about 30 blocks, seeing from the head)
• Z Ten Twists: Vortex Bullet (your arm untwists off your shoulder as a drill) / Shift + hold Z 5 s Unluck: Meteor (calls a meteor down: 40 damage, a 10-block blast, no blocks broken)
• V tap Rib Shotgun (your ribs burst out as seven bone spikes) / Shift+V tap Spine Whip / Shift + hold V 1 s Reform (pull your body back together at once)
• Hold V 2 s: Kurikara, the bone katana. You tear off your own arm and it bursts into a curved bone blade. While it's out, R, G, Z and C become its sword skills: Crimson Crescent Moon, Great Deep-Crimson Crescent Moon, Crimson Flash and Blood Whirl.
• C (hold) Deadline (a thin high-pressure blood stream) / Shift+C Division Bullet (a finger grows into a copy of you that guards you for 20 s)
• Shoulder sword: Shift + right-click with any sword to drive it into your shoulder. Your bare-handed hits then use that sword's damage and enchantments. Shift + right-click with an empty hand pulls it out.
• Undead Suit: crafted from iron, bones and red dye. Chestplate, leggings and boots with iron armour protection, and it repairs itself. It falls off parts you lose.

NEW POWER: SAIYAN (DRAGON BALL) A warrior race that grows stronger in battle.

• Getting it: drink Saiyan Blood (a glass bottle, a golden apple, two blaze powder, two gold ingots and a diamond), or roll it from a random power serum.
• A Saiyan body: 40 health, 30% faster, +7 melee, 30% faster attacks, a 2-block jump, Regeneration I and longer-lasting saturation.
• Ki (100) pays for every move. Tap V to charge until full, or hold V to charge while held.
• Rage fills as you fight. At 100 press H to become a Super Saiyan for 3 minutes: +35% damage, faster, +4 armour and double Ki regeneration, with a golden aura. You're exhausted for 60 s afterwards.
• Kaioken: hold Shift+V for 3 s for a red aura, +40% damage and +25% speed, burning your health (it never kills you).
• Zenkai Boost: survive below 3 hearts for 10 s to heal and get 50% stronger for a minute.
• Stronger foe: fighting a boss or anything much bigger than you makes you tougher and hit harder.
• Flight: double-tap jump (costs a little Ki).
• R Punch Combo (five hits) / Shift+R Rising Dragon Kick
• G (hold) Ki Blast Volley / Shift+G (hold) Kamehameha (charge and fire a huge blue beam that can clash with other beams)
• Z Meteor Smash (vanish behind your target and hammer it down) / Shift+Z (hold) Spirit Bomb (rise up and grow a giant bomb for up to 10 s, then throw it for up to 1000 damage. It only leaves a crater with mob griefing on. 5 min cooldown)
• X Ki Dash / Shift+X Dragon Rush
• C Explosive Wave / Shift+C Ki Rain
• V Charge Ki / Shift+V Solar Flare (blinds everyone facing you)
• New flame-shaped 3D auras with charge-up effects, transformation flashes and shockwaves, and a furry monkey tail that sways and swings on springy physics and changes colour with your form.
• Hero landing: come down fast from flight for a one-knee Ki crater landing (bigger as a Super Saiyan).
• Secret: legends say a Saiyan pushed to the very edge by a far stronger enemy, who keeps standing, can find a calm beyond anger...
• Note: there's no Super Saiyan hair for now. The form shows through the aura and the tail.

NEW POWER: THE SPIN (JOJO: STEEL BALL RUN) The Zeppeli family's Spin, worked through two steel balls.

• Getting it: the Zeppeli Steel Balls are a rare find in desert pyramid chests and trail ruins (brush the suspicious gravel). Right-click them to learn the Spin.
• You get two Steel Ball items and hold them to use your moves. Thrown balls curve after your aim and fly back into the same hand. They're yours alone: you keep them on death, and R with an empty hand calls back a dropped one. A destroyed ball comes back after 30 s.
• Passives: Regeneration I, 15% faster, +4 melee and 15% less damage. Spin bar (100) refills 4 a second.
• Golden Rectangle: holding Golden Spin shrinks a gold rectangle onto your crosshair. Let go when it lines up for a Perfect Spin (double damage, ignores armour).
• On horseback every move hits 30% harder.
• R Steel Ball (the target spins and stumbles) / Shift+R Twin Balls
• G Spin Touch (locks joints, players drop their held item) / Shift+G (hold) Golden Spin
• Z Scan (see creatures through walls) / Shift+Z (hold) Ball Breaker (needs a Perfect Spin: a ghostly figure bursts out of the ball for 100 damage and ages the target)
• X Spin Leap / Shift+X Valkyrie (whistle for your horse, and hold 1 s to send her away)
• C Spin Quake / Shift+C Spin Shield (both balls orbit you and knock away projectiles)
• V Healing Spin (yourself or a squadmate) / Shift+V Face Spin (a 20 s disguise)
• Spinning VFX trails, a custom Ball Breaker model, and steel ball sounds.

NEW POWER: STARFIRE (TEEN TITANS) Koriand'r of Tamaran flies on joy, drinks in sunlight and fires green starbolts.

• Getting it: find a Tamaranean Starstone in End City chests, Meteor Impact site chests, or sometimes at the bottom of a meteor crater. Right-click it in daylight under the open sky.
• 30 health, +6 melee with knockback punches, 20% damage resistance, no fall damage, and she survives space.
• Joy and Fury gauge: Joy (flying, sun, eating, friends nearby) makes flight faster and cheaper. Fury (getting hurt, or a squadmate getting hurt) makes starbolts up to 60% stronger but flight heavier. Sunlight refills starbolts 3x faster.
• Flight: double-tap Space.
• R Starbolt / Shift+R (hold) Star Burst
• G Tamaranean Grab (carry and hurl a creature) / Shift+G (hold) Eye Beams
• Z Starbolt Barrage / Shift+Z Supernova (needs full Fury)
• X Star Dash / Shift+X Comet Dive
• C Tamaranean Charge / Shift+C Ground Pound
• V Language Kiss (better trades with a villager, or see a player through walls) / Shift+V Glorious Radiance (light up the area)
• Her fists glow for a moment after each move. Every move has its own animation in third and first person, plus a green starbolt hero landing.
• No costume item: Starfire keeps your own skin.

NEW POWER: BEAST BOY (TEEN TITANS) Turn into any animal (always green) and chain morphs mid-fight.

• Getting it: a rare green ocelot lives in jungles. Feed it cod or salmon and crouch next to it. It bites you, and after a minute of Sakutia fever you wake up as Beast Boy. A Sakutia Serum can also turn up in jungle temple chests.
• Every animal form has its own health bar. When it runs out you're knocked back to human, with your own hearts untouched.
• Morph Stamina: big forms drain it and human form refills it.
• Morph Chain: hit with a different animal each time to stack up to +40% damage.
• Human-form quick morphs: R Ram (rhino) / Shift+R Pounce (tiger), G Gorilla Smash / Shift+G Snake Strike, Z T-Rex Roar / Shift+Z The Beast (a 30 s rage form), C Elephant Stomp / Shift+C Octopus Grab.
• X Context Morph (cheetah on the ground, hawk in the air, dolphin in water) / Shift+X Fly Morph (tiny, slips through gaps).
• V (hold) Animal Wheel: stay as a T-Rex, gorilla, rhino, elephant, wolf, bear, pterodactyl, hawk, bat, shark, octopus, whale (carries 4 players) or mouse, each with its own R, G and C. Shift+V Animal Senses (footprint trails).
• Every animal has a detailed blocky body, and every form change plays a real morph animation with green energy at the seams.
• Vegetarian: Beast Boy can't eat meat or fish of any kind, in any form.

NEW POWER: RAVEN (TEEN TITANS) Daughter of Trigon and a magical battlefield controller, held back by her emotions.

• Getting it: find the Book of Azarath in ancient city chests or stronghold library chests and read it at night.
• 30 health, 10% damage resistance, slow fall. Dark Energy (100) pays for everything.
• Composure: below 40 (Unsettled) spells hit 20% harder but can misfire. Below 10 (Rage) four red eyes open, spells hit 40% harder, shields are weaker and Trigon's Wrath unlocks.
• Passives: Demonic Heritage (30% less magic damage), Dark Empathy (kills give back health and energy), Mystical Awareness (nearby hostiles glow through walls every few seconds).
• Flight: double-tap Space for calm levitation.
• R Dark Bolt / Shift+R (hold) Telekinesis (lift and throw a creature, block or item)
• G Soul Shield / Shift+G Soul-Self (steer your raven soul for 5 s, and press again to teleport to it)
• Z Telekinetic Crush / Shift+Z Trigon's Wrath (Rage only: a giant shadow form for 15 s)
• X Shadow Dash / Shift+X Shadow Step Strike
• C Dark Energy Wave / Shift+C Demonic Ascension (15 s power-up)
• V tap casts your chosen spell. Hold V for the Spell Wheel of 10 spells: Void Vortex, Shadow Binding, Soul Detonation, Soul Devour, Debris Storm, Dimensional Rift, Soul Restoration, Telekinetic Pull, Astral Sanctuary and Shadow Veil.
• Shift+V (hold) Meditate to restore Composure and energy.
• Raven keeps your own skin, with dark wisps, glowing casting eyes and a soul-ring hero landing. Only Trigon's Wrath adds a hood and cape.

TITANS TOGETHER

• Starfire, Beast Boy, Raven and Cyborg are all Titans. Within 32 blocks of a Titan squadmate you deal 10% more damage and your bar refills 20% faster. A Titans "T" badge shows on the HUD.

NEW POWER: SHAZAM (DC) Say the magic word and lightning makes you the champion.

• Getting it: during a thunderstorm a very rare old man, Wizard Shazam, appears near villages. Right-click him. If you're pure of heart (no villagers or iron golems killed recently, and no villagers who dislike you) he grants you the power. If not, he won't come back for 5 days.
• Type "Shazam" in chat (just the word) to transform or turn back. The message isn't posted. Everyone nearby sees the lightning instead, and the bolt deals 12 damage to enemies around you. It doesn't work if you can't speak (underwater with no air, for example).
• Transformed: 50 health, 35% damage resistance, +10 melee, +40% speed, no hunger and immune to fear. Magic hurts you 50% more.
• The Lightning bar refills with every transform, and in thunderstorms.
• Flight: double-tap Space.
• R Lightning Hand (chains) / Shift+R Call the Lightning
• G Hercules Punch / Shift+G Atlas Lift
• Z Zeus Storm / Shift+Z Eternity Strike
• X Mercury Dash / Shift+X Thunder Tackle
• C Thunderclap / Shift+C Achilles Stand (no damage taken for 4 s while you draw every enemy's attention)
• V Wisdom of Solomon (see health, armour and weaknesses) / Shift+V Share the Power (a squadmate joins the Shazam Family for 10 minutes and can say the word too)
• Real branching lightning on every move, crackling hands when charged, and a lightning-crack hero landing.
• The Shazam suit goes over your own head and skin, with a cape model. Wide, slim and Shazam Family versions, and a detailed Wizard Shazam with a glowing staff.

NEW POWER: DOCTOR FATE (DC) The Helmet of Fate makes you one of the strongest magic users in the world, but Nabu wants your body.

• Getting it: find the Tomb of Nabu, a rare small sandstone pyramid in the desert with a burial chamber below, guarded by Tomb Guardians. Use the pedestal and accept Nabu's offer. If you refuse, the helmet stays for someone else.
• The helmet isn't an item: H puts it on or takes it off (Shift+H is still the power wheel). Without it you have weak versions of R, G and X.
• Helmet on: 40 health, 30% damage resistance, flight, immune to Wither and Poison, every spell at full strength.
• Dominion: Nabu's control rises while you wear the helmet and cast. As it climbs he whispers, swaps your spells, pulls your aim toward creatures of Chaos and makes your keys lag. At 100 he possesses you for 15 s (mash Space to struggle).
• Bargains: Nabu offers deals: a rescue at low health, a night quest to banish creatures of Chaos, and permission for your ultimate. Each one costs Dominion.
• R Ankh Bolt / Shift+R Golden Chains
• G (hold) Ankh Shield / Shift+G Banishment
• Z Glyph Storm / Shift+Z Avatar of Order (a 40-block golden giant)
• X Ankh Step (blink) / Shift+X Gate Drop
• C Order Blast / Shift+C Ward of Order
• V Sight of Nabu / Shift+V Amulet of Anubis (-10 Dominion)
• Hold Shift+V for 1 s to enter the Tower of Fate and speak to Nabu directly: ask about your Dominion, take his Blessing, demand Silence, or borrow against your future.
• Glowing golden hieroglyph effects on every spell, a golden ankh hero landing, and the DCEU Doctor Fate suit with a cloth Cloak of Destiny.

NEW POWER: VISION (MARVEL) The synthezoid Ultron built for the Mind Stone.

• Getting it: purge Ultron. The first clear gives you the Mind Stone, and every clear drops Vibranium Plating and an Ultron Core. Craft the Synthezoid Cradle (3 glass, 2 Vibranium Plating, an Ultron Core and 3 iron blocks), then right-click it holding the Mind Stone.
• 45 health, 30% damage resistance, +6 melee, no hunger, no drowning and no fall damage.
• Mind Stone energy refills faster in sunlight and slower in the dark.
• Flight: double-tap Space (free).
• R (hold) Mind Stone Beam / Shift+R Solar Lance
• G Density Punch / Shift+G Phase Strike (ignores armour)
• Z Mind Stone Pulse / Shift+Z Mind Stone Unleashed (a wide sweeping beam)
• X Phase Dash / Shift+X Density Dive
• C Synthezoid Grip / Shift+C Diamond Density (toggle: much tougher but heavy and slow)
• V Human Hologram (toggle: your own skin projected over the suit, and every power still works) / Shift+V Intangibility (toggle: nothing can hit you and you walk through walls)
• Inside a wall you see normally instead of a black screen, with a faint gold glow at the edges. Silver Surfer's phasing gets the same view.
• Vision's suit with a full-length cape model.

OMNITRIX

• Four Arms' right-click show transformation was remade: bending elbows and knees, a closer shot-by-shot match to the show, and a new final stance.
• The Omnitrix info page no longer lists the old N revert line.

STAR PLATINUM REWORK

• Left-click with an empty hand: Star Platinum punches at anything again.
• Mining with an empty hand works at iron tool speed with normal drops.
• Stamina refills 3 a second. The Stand is fully solid, floats behind you and steps out of your body.
• R tap Platinum Smash / hold R ORA Barrage (victims are held, then launched)
• Shift+R Star Finger (22 along 30 blocks)
• G Ora Chase (flies out, grabs, barrages and throws) / Shift+G a real ball-bearing shot
• X Stand Jump / Shift+X Ora Rush
• Z Star Breaker / Shift+Z The World (stops the whole dimension while your Stamina lasts, with +30% damage and flight)
• V Guard (60%, no time limit) / Shift+V Stand Grab (throw it, set it down, or hit it with a 5-hit combo)
• C Inhale / Shift+C Uppercut
• Removed: Precision Sight, Power Grab, Stand Dash and Star Finger's bleed.

BEAM CLASHING

• When your beam meets an enemy beam head on, the two lock together at a blazing struggle point. Neither side can hurt the other while it lasts.
• Keep holding the beam and click left-click as fast as you can to push the point toward your enemy. Stronger beams push harder, and bosses push on their own.
• Whoever the point reaches takes a big blast and is thrown back. Letting go, running dry or turning away ends it.
• Works with continuous beams: Heat Vision, Kryptonian Heat Vision, the Cosmic Beam, Nova Blast, Green Lantern beams, Thor's Lightning Beam, Freeze Beam, Energy Beam, Holy Light, Hydro Jet, Hellblast, Upgrade's Optic Beam, Feedback's beam, Way Big's Cosmic Ray, the Mark 8 Mega Beam, the Mind Stone, the Kamehameha, Starfire's Eye Beams, and boss beams.
• The Guidebook has a Beam Clashing chapter.

NEW HUD AND I MENU FOR EVERY POWER

• Every power's HUD now uses one Minecraft-style layout: a hotbar-style key strip, boss-bar style meters in the Slab, Meter, Gauge and Hairline styles, and Shift cooldowns shown as durability bars. That covers mutations, Quirks, Miraculous, Thor, Spider-Man, Symbiote, Black Suit, Agent Venom, Hulk, Titan Shifter, Max Steel (still blue), Punisher, Moon Knight, Wolverine, All Might, Speed Force, Flash, Green Lantern, Kryptonian, Nova, Cyborg, Blue Beetle, Ghost Rider, Falcon, Silver Surfer, Super Soldier, Iron Man and more.
• Iron Man keeps his visor, telemetry, dial and target scanner on top of the new layout.
• The I menu is now one see-through page for every power, including the Omnitrix and Iron Man suit info. The HUD hides while it's open, so only the world shows behind it.
• Smooth scrolling everywhere (mouse wheel, draggable scroll bar, click to page, keys) in the Guidebook, Squad, Stand, Pegasus, Stark Gantry and Workbench, Suit Call and Green Lantern Construct menus.

FLIGHT AND LANDINGS

• Shared flight feel for Kryptonian, Nova, Green Lantern, Thor, Max Steel, Cyborg, Blue Beetle, Falcon and hero flight: you bank into turns, your body follows climbs and dives, you bob and sway in a hover, and your legs trail behind instead of running on air.
• New hero landings for Starfire, Raven, Shazam, Doctor Fate and Saiyans.
• Green Lantern's Ring Flight glow is now a thin neon outline around your silhouette.

OTHER CHANGES

• Random power serums can now give any Titan (Attack, Female, Beast or Armoured), not just the Attack Titan.
• New original healing-factor sounds for Wolverine (a quiet crackle, sizzle and surge).
• Ryuko's choker sits neatly at the collar, her sword is held properly in the fist, and suit-ups glow in your element's colour.
• Ryuko's Parry and Riposte are no longer spammable (longer cooldowns, Riposte 15 damage).
• Black Panther: Claw Combo's first slash now hits on the press, and several cooldowns were raised to balance the kit.

FIXES

• Fixed a Guidebook crash when opening the Shazam chapter.
• Fixed the "broken neck" head tilt that stayed after Queen Bee's transformation, even through death and world changes.
• The mod now only loads on Minecraft 1.21.1. On other versions (like 1.21.11) you get the normal incompatible-mod screen instead of a crash at launch.
• Raven's shield dome no longer hides the players and mobs inside it.
• Lost or stuck Spin steel balls come back to you.
• Many smaller visual and animation fixes across the new powers.

CREDITS

• Doctor Fate suit: based on the "Doctor Fate (DCEU)" skin by JMCT on PlanetMinecraft.
• Shazam suit: based on the "Shazam (Justice League)" skin by outofspace2 on PlanetMinecraft.
• Vision suit: based on the "Vision" skin by Doctor_Aurus on PlanetMinecraft.
• Thanks to our testers for all the notes that shaped Black Panther, Ryuko, Undead, the Teen Titans, Doctor Fate, Shazam and the Saiyan.

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