Shadow Attire

A versatile multitool, an enchanted outfit, and a little luck from a black cat.

Phobos is my real-life black cat. This is my first Minecraft mod, and I wanted to give him a place in a world I could keep coming back to. I imagine his Minecraft counterpart has three priorities. Find the warmest spot, see his human safely home, and leave a little luck at every crossroads.

Fate brings you to the fork in the road. Uncertainty leaves you room to choose.

Concept illustration of Phobos, created with AI assistance.

Meet Phobos

Name a cat Phobos or Фобос with a name tag. It gets black fur and amber eyes, with separate textures for adults and kittens. A tamed Phobos leaves gentle puffs of smoke and gives its owner +2 Luck within 12 blocks. The aura applies once even with several cats nearby.

Meet the Real Phobos

Here’s the real Phobos, whose black coat and amber eyes inspired the cat you can meet in Shadow Attire.

Photo of Phobos. The watermark was removed using AI-assisted retouching.

The Shadow Cane

The cane combines the mining roles of a pickaxe, axe, shovel, hoe, and sword. It automatically uses the right mining behavior for each block. At full charge it deals 8 damage to one target, with 1.6 attacks per second. A direct cane kill has a 15% chance to drop one Smoky Shadow Fragment in a puff of smoke.

Hold the cane and press R to switch its right-click action between tilling soil and making paths. It starts in tilling mode. Each cane remembers its own mode, and you can rebind the key in Controls.

Dress for the dark

• Shadow Top Hat. 3 armor, 3 armor toughness, and 10% knockback resistance, +10 Luck, Night Vision, and Water Breathing.
• Shadow Dress Shoes. 6 armor, 3 armor toughness, and 10% knockback resistance, +2 Luck, +12% movement speed, and immunity to fall damage. A standard jump goes one block higher and roughly one block farther while moving on level ground.
• Full outfit. A direct cane kill grants 3 seconds of Invisibility, with a 20-second cooldown.

Wear the pieces in armor slots or use Curios API for accessory slots. You can mix slot types, and duplicate pieces count once.

Fragments and crafting

Combine one obsidian, one gunpowder, one redstone dust, and one emerald in any order to make a fragment. Fragments are used for crafting and repairs. Some structure chests roll fragments alongside their usual loot.

• 30% chance for 1–2. Monster rooms, abandoned mineshafts, shipwreck supply chests, and ruined portals.
• 35% chance for 4–12. Ancient cities, bastion treasure rooms, and woodland mansions.
• 50% chance for exactly 7. Stronghold libraries and End cities.

The cane recipe uses a gold nugget, iron ingot, and diamond across the top row, with a fragment in the center and another directly below it. The top hat uses five fragments in a helmet pattern with lapis lazuli in the center. The shoes use four fragments in a boots pattern.

Installation and settings

Choose the NeoForge file for Minecraft 26.1–26.1.2, 26.2, or 26.3. For multiplayer, install the matching file on both client and server. Curios API is optional.

After loading a world, edit config/shadow_attire-server.toml to tune combat, mining, fragment drops from mobs, the outfit, and Phobos’s names, smoke, Luck, and aura radius. Restart the world or server to apply all changes.

О Фобосе

Фобос — мой чёрный кот. Я посвятил ему свой первый мод для Minecraft, чтобы у него появилось место в игре. Его тёзка ищет самые тёплые уголки, провожает своего человека домой и оставляет щепотку удачи тем, кто на развилке выбирает дорогу подлиннее. В игре назови кота Фобосом или Phobos, а режим трости переключай клавишей R.

I directed the design and feature choices. Generative AI was used substantially to implement the mod, create its assets, and draft this description.