⚔️ SLM: Elements

SLM: Elements introduces a deep elemental system built around interactions, reactions, and combat strategy.

Infuse your weapons with elements like Ignis, Aqua, Terra, Frost, Volt, Aero, Lumen, and Umbra to trigger reactions.

The combat system is governed by the following logic: Elemental Damage → ICD → Element→ Reaction → ERCS → ERGCS

🔥Core Features

8 Elements

Ignis, Aqua, Terra, Frost, Volt, Aero, Lumen & Umbra

Elemental Reactions System

Combine elements to trigger AoE, DoT, Burst, and Utility effects.
Some reactions can be direct or inverse depending on the order in which they are applied
The type of elemental damage can vary depending on the order in which the elements are applied for some reactions.

Dynamic Damage Scaling: damage adapts based on:

Armor
Max Health
Combat conditions

Advanced Combat Mechanics

Internal Cooldown (ICD)
Per-reaction cooldowns (ERCS)
Global reaction limiter (ERGCS)

Environmental Element System: gain elements from:

Weather
Biomes
Surroundings

Text-based particle feedback

Each element or reaction is indicated in text form in the entity that experiences it; the color is different if it is inverse, direct, or static.

🌍 Environmental Elements

(Optional via config)

Gain elements from:

Water, rain → Aqua
Lava, fire → Ignis
Underground / desert → Terra
Snow / cold → Frost
Lightning → Volt

⚔️ Damage Types

Direct Damage

Causes knockback
Scales heavily with weapon damage
Used in infusions and burst reactions

Tick Damage (DoT)

Ignores 100% armor
No knockback
Scales with diminishing returns
Behaves like “true damage”

🧪 Elemental Damage

Each element interacts differently:

Ignis → Strong vs low armor
Aqua → Strong vs low max HP
Terra → Strong vs grounded targets
Frost → Scales with high max HP
Volt → Strong vs high armor
Aero → Strong vs air targets
Umbra → Strong vs low HP
Lumen → Strong vs high HP

🔽 More Details (Advanced)

⚙️ Advanced Details – Elements & Damage Behavior

🌿 Element Identity & Effects

Each element not only defines damage type, but also introduces unique status effects and gameplay interactions.

🔥 Ignis

Applies Ignis Tick (burning damage over time)
Deals 1 damage per tick
More effective against low armor targets

❗ Will not apply if the target is already burning

💧 Aqua

Currently has no direct status effect
Acts as a reaction enabler and scaling modifier

🌍 Terra

No direct status effect
Strongly tied to positional combat (grounded targets)

❄️ Frost

❄️ Reduces movement speed
🍖 Slows natural regeneration (increases hunger consumption)

⚡ Volt

⚡ Reduces total experience gained by the player

🌪️ Aero

🌬️ No direct debuff
Focused on area propagation and aerial interaction
Core element for AoE reaction spreading

✨ Lumen

💡 No direct debuff
Represents purity and amplification
Strong synergy with high-health targets and utility reactions

🌑 Umbra

🌘 No direct base debuff
Focused on execution, corruption, and scaling with missing health
Enables high-risk / high-reward mechanics

⚔️ Elemental Damage Behavior

Each element modifies how damage is calculated depending on the target’s state.

🔥 Ignis (Anti-Armor – Inverse Scaling)

✔️ Up to +25% damage vs low armor (0–20 Armor)
❌ -10% damage vs high armor (20+ Armor)

💧 Aqua (Anti-Low HP Targets)

✔️ Up to +20% damage vs low Max HP targets (0–60 HP)
❌ -10% damage vs very high Max HP targets

❄️ Frost (Anti-High HP – Boss Killer)

✔️ Up to +25% damage vs high Max HP targets
❌ -10% damage vs low Max HP targets

⚡ Volt (Armor Scaling)

✔️ Up to +25% damage vs high armor targets
❌ -10% damage vs low/no armor targets

🌍 Terra (Ground Control)

✔️ +15% damage if target is grounded
❌ -10% damage if target is airborne

🌪️ Aero (Air Control)

✔️ +15% damage if target is airborne
❌ -10% damage if target is grounded

✨ Lumen (Health-Based – Frontloaded)

✔️ Up to +20% damage at full health
❌ Scales down to -10% as target loses HP

🌑 Umbra (Execution Scaling)

✔️ Up to +25% damage as target HP approaches zero
❌ -10% damage vs full health targets

🧠 Design Philosophy

Elements are not just damage types, they define combat roles:
- Ignis / Volt → Armor interaction
- Frost / Aqua → HP scaling extremes
- Terra / Aero → Position-based gameplay
- Lumen / Umbra → Opposing health-state mechanics

🔄 ICD (Internal Cooldown)

Limits how often elements are applied

~2.5s or 3–4 hits for basic attacks
Skills bypass this restriction

🔽 More Details (Advanced)

🌐 ICD – Internal Cooldown Dealer:

The Internal Cooldown Dealer (ICD) introduces a cooldown mechanism between successive elemental infusions or transfers. It ensures that elemental application does not occur too frequently from regular attacks, maintaining balance between basic attacks and special abilities.

When a weapon is infused with an element (e.g. Ignis), it can only apply or transfer that element to a target once every 2.5 seconds, or after 3–4 consecutive hits. This restriction applies to normal attacks only.

Special abilities bypass this limitation and always apply their element.

The ICD behavior is dynamic and depends on:

The source entity’s characteristics.
The weapon’s properties.
Whether the interaction is through basic attack or skill.

Elemental Transfer:

When an element is transferred via ICD, additional data is passed from the Source Entity to the Target Entity. This includes metadata to determine reaction damage scaling, which depends on the source’s weapon stats and base damage.

Reaction damage is categorized into two main types (not detailed here).

Elemental Durations (in Ticks):

Element	Duration
Ignis	120 ticks (~6s)
Aqua	105 ticks (~5.25s)
Terra	140 ticks (~7s)
Volt	80 ticks (~4s)
Frost	105 ticks (~5.25s)
Aero	70 ticks (~3.5s)
Lumen	60 ticks (~3s)
Umbra	60 ticks (~3s)

🔁 Reaction System

Reactions are categorized into:

Direct → Chainable reactions
Reverse → Higher damage, consumes elements
Static → Same behavior regardless of order

🔽 More Details (Advanced)

⚛️Elemental Reactions

Elemental Reactions occur when two elements interact on the same target, producing unique effects that range from burst damage to utility and battlefield control.

Reactions are divided into four main categories:

⚡ Instant Reactions

These reactions are resolved in a single tick, delivering immediate impact.

🔥 Undetermined Reactions (Source-Based)

These reactions scale primarily with the attacker’s weapon, not the target.

💥 Overload (Ignis + Volt)

Deals 125% weapon damage
Triggers an AoE explosion (75%)
Applies knockback
⚠️ PvP: Only direct damage is applied

💧 Vaporized (Ignis + Aqua)

Deals 145% weapon damage
🔁 Reverse (Aqua → Ignis): 170% damage

❄️ Melt (Ignis + Frost)

Deals 165% weapon damage
🔁 Reverse: 170% damage
🔥 Double Ignis setups may reach 200% damage

💥 Flare (Lumen + Ignis)

Deals 55% damage
Applies blindness

💧 Purify (Lumen + Aqua)

Removes negative effects
Deals bonus damage per removed effect:
- +10% / +15% / +20% / +25% (max 4 stacks)

📌 Rule:
The last applied element defines the final damage type.

❄️ Determined Reactions (Target-Based)

🧊 Frozen (Aqua + Frost)

Deals 14% of target's Max HP
Scales with weapon damage (with diminishing returns)
Strong vs high HP targets

Scaling behavior:

40 damage → no penalty
20 damage → -35%
0 damage → -70%

Caps:

Base: 175 damage
With Frost scaling: 262.5 max

☣️ On-Tick Reactions (DoT)

Applies damage over time instead of instant burst.

⚡ Electrocharged (Aqua + Volt)

🌍 Cold (Terra + Frost)

🔥 Burning (Terra + Ignis)

Characteristics:

Ignores 100% armor
No knockback
Scales with weapon damage (flattening over time)
Behaves like poison-type damage

🔁 Reverse Scaling Bonus

Cold (Terra base) → +15% total damage
Burning (Terra base) → +18% total damage

🌍 Decay (Umbra + Terra)

Deals Terra-based damage over time

⚡ Corruption (Umbra + Volt)

Applies scaling DoT
Damage increases as HP decreases

💀 Execution Rule:

If target reaches ≤ 5% HP → instant execution

🧠 Utility Reactions

These reactions do not deal direct damage, but modify combat behavior.

⚡ Conductor (Terra + Volt)

+30% Volt damage taken
10% chance every 3s to trigger lightning strike

❄️ Superconductor (Frost + Volt)

Reduces all resistances by 20%
Fallback: +10% damage taken

🌍 Rooted (Aqua + Terra)

+25% Terra damage taken
-15% movement speed

🛡️ Crystallize (Lumen + Terra)

Removes 45% absorption hearts
Else:
- -10% resistance
- or +5% damage taken (fallback)

❄️ Hyperconductor (Lumen + Frost)

+12% Frost damage from all sources

⚡ Lumishock (Lumen + Volt)

+17% Lumen damage from all sources

🔥 Shrivelled (Umbra + Ignis)

+10% Ignis damage taken

💧 Drowning (Umbra + Aqua)

+15% Aqua damage taken

❄️ Shadowfrost (Umbra + Frost)

+13.5% Umbra damage from all sources

🌪️ AoE Propagation

All Aero reactions are Static and focus on element spreading.

Deal 25% Damage
Consume elements
Apply AoE propagation

Reaction	Effect
Firestorm (Ignis + Aero)	Spreads Ignis
Whirlpool (Aqua + Aero)	Spreads Aqua
Duststorm (Terra + Aero)	Spreads Terra
Blizzard (Frost + Aero)	Spreads Frost
Stormcall (Volt + Aero)	Spreads Volt
Resplendence (Lumen + Aero)	Spreads Lumen
Obscurity (Umbra + Aero)	Spreads Umbra

🌗 Eclipse (Lumen + Umbra)

Emits a symmetrical AoE burst
Applies both light and dark energy

🧠 Reaction Rules Summary

Direct → Chainable, lower burst
Reverse → Higher damage, consumes elements
Static → Same behavior regardless of order

The environment can also trigger reactions, these have lower damage; in turn, if the environment executes a reaction on the player, the damage of this will increase based on the difficulty of the world.

⏱️ ERCS (Reaction Cooldowns)

Each reaction has its own cooldown:

Prevents spam
Not shared between reactions

🔽 More Details (Advanced)

🌐 ERCS – Reaction Shield

The Entity Reaction Cooldown System (ERCS) prevents elemental reactions from being triggered too frequently on the same entity.

Each reaction has its own independent cooldown, meaning:

Reactions do not share cooldowns
Direct and reverse combinations are treated separately (when applicable)
Static reactions behave identically regardless of order

This system ensures combat remains balanced, readable, and non-exploitable.

⚙️ Cooldown Rules

Cooldowns are measured in milliseconds (ms)
Applied per entity, per reaction
If a reaction is not registered → defaults to 100 ms
Works alongside ICD and ERGCS

🔥 Base Reactions

Reaction	Direct (ms)	Reverse (ms)	Static (ms)
Melt	850	925	–
Overload	–	–	420
Vaporized	580	605	–
Frozen	–	–	1200
Electrocharged	–	–	300
Cold	315	380	–
Burning	315	335	–
Conductor	–	–	335
Superconductor	–	–	530
Rooted	–	–	335

🌪️ Aero Reactions (Propagation)

All Aero-based reactions are Static

Reaction	Cooldown (ms)
Firestorm	450
Whirlpool	450
Duststorm	450
Blizzard	450
Stormcall	450
Resplendence	450
Obscurity	450

✨ Lumen Reactions

Reaction	Cooldown (ms)
Flare	400
Purify	500
Crystallize	600
Hyperconductor	550
Lumishock	550
Eclipse	650

🌑 Umbra Reactions (Corruption)

Reaction	Cooldown (ms)
Shrivelled	500
Drowning	550
Decay	450
Shadowfrost	550
Corruption	670

📌 Notes

Frozen (1200 ms) has the highest cooldown due to its scaling with max HP
Corruption (670 ms) is limited due to its scaling DoT + execution potential
Crystallize (600 ms) prevents defensive stacking abuse
Aero reactions (450 ms) are balanced for propagation without spam

🛡️ ERGCS (Global Reaction Shield)

Builds up with strong reactions

Blocks further reactions temporarily
Decays over time and on hit

🔽 More Details (Advanced)

🌐 ERGCS – Global Reaction Shield

The Entity Reaction Global Cooldown System (ERGCS) introduces a global protection layer that prevents entities from being overwhelmed by continuous elemental reactions.

Each reaction adds intensity to a global meter.
When the meter reaches a threshold, the entity becomes temporarily immune to all reactions.

⚠️ Prevents reaction spam
⚖️ Balances high-damage combos
🧠 Especially relevant for bosses or high-HP entities

🔍 More Details

The system works through a cumulative intensity counter:

Each reaction adds a predefined intensity value
When the total reaches 205, reactions are blocked
While blocked:
- ❌ No reactions can be triggered
- ✅ Normal damage still applies

⏳ Decay Behavior

The global shield is not permanent:

🔻 -1 intensity per hit received
🔻 -1 intensity every 2 ticks (passive decay)

Once the value drops below the threshold, reactions can occur again.

⚖️ Reaction Intensity Table

Reaction	Direct	Reverse	Static
Melt	13	17	–
Overload	–	–	8
Vaporized	10	12	–
Frozen	–	–	25
Electrocharged	–	–	3
Cold	4	6	–
Burning	4	5	–
Conductor	–	–	6
Superconductor	–	–	10
Rooted	–	–	6

🌪️ Aero Reactions (AoE Propagation)

Reaction	Intensity
Firestorm	9
Whirlpool	9
Duststorm	9
Blizzard	9
Stormcall	9
Resplendence	9
Obscurity	9

✨ Lumen Reactions

Reaction	Intensity
Flare	7
Purify	11
Crystallize	15
Hyperconductor	13
Lumishock	13
Eclipse	16

🌑 Umbra Reactions

Reaction	Intensity
Shrivelled	11
Drowning	13
Decay	9
Shadowfrost	13
Corruption	17

🧠 Intensity Rules

Direct → Lower intensity, allows chaining
Reverse → Higher intensity, more burst-oriented
Static → Same value regardless of order

✨ Visual Feedback

Custom text particles
Display elemental application and reactions
Integrated with combat feedback

⚙️ Configuration

Located in: .minecraft/config/slm_elements/

Options include:

Enable/disable elements
Enable reactions
Environmental behavior
Particle settings

⚠️ Notes

All values are subject to balance changes