Official Description and User Manual

Standalone Release: 0.7.0 Beta7 - Triple Control / Dual Ultimates

Minecraft 1.21.11 - Fabric

You are not following the rules of this world. In this world, you are the rules themselves.

Host God Core - Make the host the one true god of the world.

The Overworld is yours to command. All things are yours to judge.

Welcome to the God Authority Group - Sword Qi Division.

1. What Is Sword Qi?

Sword Qi is the standalone sword-combat division of the God Authority Group. It transforms Minecraft sword combat from short-range vanilla melee into a visible, directional, long-range combat system built around flying Sword Qi.

The system is not intended to behave like a normal sword with an extra particle effect. For supported swords, Sword Qi becomes the primary combat interaction.

Sword attacks can travel far beyond normal melee reach, strike multiple targets, interact with terrain, change shape, scale with enchantments, and - on the Netherite Sword - switch between multiple control systems and dual-wield ultimate attacks.

The standalone Sword Qi branch predates its later integration into Host God Core and is released here as its own combat module.

2. Core Combat Behavior

When a supported sword is used with Sword Qi:

- the normal vanilla left-click sword attack is replaced by Sword Qi behavior;

- attacks are projected outward rather than being limited to normal melee reach;

- the attack direction follows the player's crosshair and viewing direction;

- Sword Qi is visually represented while travelling;

- different forms can change the angle, width, coverage, and battlefield role of the attack;

- certain Sword Qi attacks can damage terrain as well as entities.

Sword Qi is therefore the sword's combat system, not merely an additional effect attached to vanilla melee combat.

3. Aiming

Sword Qi follows the player's viewing direction.

Where you aim is where the Sword Qi goes.

Small changes in pitch or yaw can create large changes in the final position of a long-range attack. For distant targets, aim first and attack second.

4. Netherite Sword - Three Control Modes

The Netherite Sword contains the most advanced normal Sword Qi control system in this release.

It has three selectable control modes:

- Quick Switch

- Free Control

- Rotating Combo

These modes change how normal Sword Qi forms are selected and released.

5. Switching Between Control Modes

To change the Netherite Sword control mode:

- Hold a Netherite Sword in the main hand.

- Keep the offhand empty.

- Aim at the air.

Then use:

Sneak + Right Click

Each use cycles through:

Quick Switch -> Free Control -> Rotating Combo -> Quick Switch

The selected mode determines how the left and right mouse buttons behave during normal single-sword combat.

6. Normal Sword Qi Forms

The normal Sword Qi forms are arranged in the following order:

- Horizontal Slash

- Vertical Slash

- Left Diagonal Slash (+45 degrees)

- Right Diagonal Slash (-45 degrees)

- Cross Slash (+)

- X Slash

- Eight-Direction Slash / Rice-Shaped Slash

The final form creates a multi-directional pattern that attacks across several directions at once.

7. Mode I - Quick Switch

Quick Switch is the full manual-selection mode. It gives direct access to all seven normal Sword Qi forms.

Selection order:

Horizontal -> Vertical -> Left Diagonal -> Right Diagonal -> Cross (+) -> X -> Eight-Direction -> Horizontal

Quick Switch is best when you want complete manual control over every normal form.

8. Mode II - Free Control

Free Control separates the five basic directional attacks from the two larger multi-directional attacks.

The five-form left-click cycle is:

Horizontal -> Vertical -> Left Diagonal -> Right Diagonal -> Cross (+) -> Horizontal

Free Control is useful when you want precise directional attacks while keeping the larger X-shaped and multi-directional attacks immediately available.

9. Mode III - Rotating Combo

Rotating Combo is designed for continuous combat. The system automatically advances through the first five Sword Qi forms.

Automatic left-click cycle:

Horizontal -> Vertical -> Left Diagonal -> Right Diagonal -> Cross (+) -> Horizontal

This mode removes the need to manually select a new basic form between every strike and is intended for flowing combat.

10. Dual-Wield Netherite Sword Ultimates

Holding a Netherite Sword in both the main hand and the offhand activates a separate ultimate-control layer.

While dual-wielding two Netherite Swords, the normal three-mode single-sword controls are overridden by the dual-wield ultimates.

10.1 Left Click - Azure-Silver Chaotic Afterglow

Control: Left Click while dual-wielding two Netherite Swords.

Azure-Silver Chaotic Afterglow is a large-scale battlefield-clearing attack that releases approximately 50 full Sword Qi waves in dense batches.

It is intended to overwhelm a wide combat area rather than behave like a normal single sword strike.

10.2 Right Click - Moon Breathing, Fourteenth Form

Control: Right Click while dual-wielding two Netherite Swords.

Moon Breathing, Fourteenth Form: Catastrophe, Tenman Crescent Moon releases approximately 42 small curved blade-like Sword Qi attacks with a dark-purple visual style.

The attack also produces major environmental destruction around its effective area, including an approximately 24-block spherical clearing effect.

Do not test this ultimate beside builds or terrain that you intend to keep.

11. Sword Filling System

Sword Qi also contains a filling system that can load certain swords with specific materials and unlock special road-building or terrain effects.

Basic filling control:

Multi-stage fills advance through visible progress states such as Unfilled, 1/3, 2/3, and Filled.

Use the materials in the required order. A filling material is not interchangeable with a visually similar item.

11.1 Wooden Sword - Forest Avenue

The Wooden Sword uses a three-stage fill:

- Stage 1: Cherry Planks

- Stage 2: Oak Planks

- Stage 3: Cherry Leaves

After the full sequence is completed, the sword can access the Forest Avenue road-building effect.

11.2 Stone Sword - Mixed Avenue

The Stone Sword uses a three-stage fill:

- Stage 1: Cobblestone

- Stage 2: Stone

- Stage 3: Ender Pearl

After the full sequence is completed, the sword can access the Mixed Avenue road-building effect.

11.3 Copper Sword - Redstone Rail Avenue

Required filling material:

- Redstone Block

The required item is a Redstone Block, not Redstone Dust.

The filled Copper Sword accesses the Redstone Rail Avenue system, designed as a true straight-line road / rail route that can continue across changes in terrain height rather than acting as a simple decorative strip.

11.4 Iron Sword - Glacier / Permafrost Avenue

Required filling material:

- Blue Ice

The filled Iron Sword accesses the cold-region Glacier / Permafrost Avenue effect.

12. Sword Qi and Vanilla Enchantments

Sword Qi reads several vanilla sword enchantments and uses them as part of the actual projectile / attack behavior.

12.1 Sweeping Edge Width Scaling

- No Sweeping Edge: approximately 24 blocks

- Sweeping Edge I: approximately 28 blocks

- Sweeping Edge II: approximately 32 blocks

- Sweeping Edge III: approximately 36 blocks

Because of this linkage, two otherwise identical swords can produce visibly different Sword Qi behavior depending on enchantments.

13. Terrain Interaction

Sword Qi is not limited to entity damage.

Certain normal Sword Qi attacks can interact directly with blocks and terrain. Standard Sword Qi retains an environmental influence radius of approximately 7 blocks around its affected path, depending on the attack and current implementation.

Higher-level attacks - especially dual-wield ultimates - can create much larger destructive effects.

Back up important worlds before testing destructive Sword Qi near buildings, redstone systems, landscaped terrain, or other structures that you want to preserve.

14. Quick Control Reference

15. Current Release Notes and Limitations

This is an actively developed combat system. Sword Qi deliberately pushes Minecraft sword behavior beyond normal melee combat, so visual, performance, terrain, compatibility, or multiplayer edge cases may still exist.

- Large Sword Qi attacks may cause temporary performance drops on lower-performance systems.

- Destructive attacks can permanently alter terrain.

- Some interactions may behave differently when other combat or item-control mods are installed.

- The strongest attacks are intentionally not balanced like ordinary vanilla PvP weapons.

Future Sword Qi updates may continue to refine particles, performance, destructive behavior, controls, and compatibility.

Credits, Inspiration, and Attribution

The original concept of Sword Qi was inspired in part by the following YouTube video:

Video Title: 《我就不信直接發射劍氣還打不贏PVP？》
Creator / Channel: 认真猫
Platform: YouTube
Original Video URL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhmAcfLSwtQ

The video provided important conceptual inspiration for several foundational ideas used during the early development of Sword Qi, including:

• the core concept of transforming ordinary Minecraft sword attacks into projected Sword Qi;
• the use of water and lava as sword-filling materials;
• the concept of linking vanilla enchantments with Sword Qi behavior, allowing enchantments to affect the resulting Sword Qi attack rather than functioning only as ordinary vanilla sword bonuses;
• several basic Sword Qi attack directions and forms, including the Horizontal Slash, Left Diagonal Slash, and Right Diagonal Slash.

These concepts served as an important starting point for the project.

Sword Qi - God Authority Group was subsequently expanded into a substantially larger and independently developed combat system.

The current project extends beyond the original inspirations with features including:

• additional Sword Qi forms developed for this project, including the Vertical Slash, Cross Slash (+), X Slash, and Eight-Direction / Rice-Shaped Slash;
• unique Sword Qi colors, characteristics, and special abilities for different swords;
• a greatly expanded relationship between vanilla enchantments and Sword Qi behavior;
• additional filling materials and expanded filling systems;
• three independent Netherite Sword control modes;
• manual Sword Qi form selection;
• automatic rotating-combo controls;
• dual-wield Netherite Sword ultimate attacks;
• sword-specific special abilities;
• expanded terrain interaction and destruction;
• additional combat, visual, and control mechanics developed specifically for this project.

The video above is therefore credited as an important source of conceptual inspiration for the original Sword Qi concept and several early mechanics and attack forms.

The current version of Sword Qi - God Authority Group represents a substantially expanded and independently developed implementation that builds upon and extends far beyond those initial inspirations.

Special thanks to 认真猫 for the original inspiration.

Reference

认真猫. 《我就不信直接發射劍氣還打不贏PVP？》. YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhmAcfLSwtQ