Voltage Frontier

# Frontier Voltage

Frontier Voltage is a sci-fi western mod for Fabric 1.21.1. It adds an energy revolver and a plasma saber, outlaws to fight, and some structures out in the deserts and badlands.

I spent most of my time on how the weapons feel. They have custom first-person animations, recoil and sounds, and I wanted them to feel close to a proper shooter.

**This is an alpha.** It's the first build I'm putting out, so there will be bugs. Please report anything weird you run into.

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## Weapons

### Arc Revolver
A six-shooter that fires energy cells.

- Click to shoot, right-click to aim, R to reload.
- Hold left-click to overcharge it. Releasing fires the whole cylinder at once as a lightning beam that explodes where it hits and knocks you back pretty hard. Anything it kills disintegrates.
- **Quickdraw.** If you shoot right after switching to the revolver, your aim snaps to the closest enemy's head and the shot does double damage. Time also slows down for a second.
- **Fanning.** Click fast without aiming and you fan the hammer, which empties the cylinder quickly but less accurately.
- Shots leave holes in blocks and marks on mobs.

### Arc Saber
A curved saber with a plasma edge.

- Click to swing. Swings chain into a three-hit combo.
- **Blade Mode.** Hold right-click to slow time down. While it's active, moving the mouse lines up your cut and clicking slices along that line. You can cut mobs, blocks, arrows and other projectiles into pieces, and you can keep cutting the pieces too.
- **Black Flash.** Hit the same enemy five times in Blade Mode to trigger a finisher (there's a short cinematic).

## Mobs

- **Outlaws** carry revolvers. They try to stay at range, strafe around you and have to reload after six shots.
- **Brass Enforcers** are big armored robots with a gun built into one arm that fires in bursts. They're slow but take a lot to bring down.
- **The Duelist** is rare. Instead of attacking, he walks up and challenges you to a duel. Put your gun away and wait for the bell, then draw. If you shoot before the bell rings he'll shoot you right away.

## Structures

These spawn in deserts, badlands and savannas:

- Outlaw camps with a few tents and a loot chest, guarded by outlaws
- Abandoned rail outposts with a vault, guarded by an Enforcer
- Small frontier towns with a saloon, sheriff's office, store, bank and some villagers
- Ruined ranches, where you'll usually find a Duelist

You can find both weapons in chests and vaults in these places. The Duelist also always drops his revolver.

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## Requirements
- Minecraft 1.21.1
- Fabric Loader 0.16 or newer
- Fabric API

## Known issues
- There are no crafting recipes yet. For now you get the weapons from loot, from the Duelist, or in creative.
- The slow motion effects only actually slow the game down in singleplayer. On servers you still get the visuals, just without the slowdown.
- Outlaws don't raid towns yet. That's planned.
- I haven't tested multiplayer much. It does load and run on a dedicated server.

## Support
If you like the mod and want to support it, I have a [Ko-fi](https://ko-fi.com/mssourced).

*All Rights Reserved. You're welcome to use it in modpacks on CurseForge and in videos, but please don't reupload it anywhere else.*