Bleach: Zanpakuto

Alpha 0.2.0

The ritual and your blade

• Craft a Gikongan (soul candy), the only crafting recipe in the mod. No weapon is ever craftable.
• First use pulls you into your Inner World, where a figure asks three questions and offers you a choice: accept the blade assigned from your username, reject it and try again later, or pick your own from all fifteen.
• Fifteen canon Zanpakutō, each with its own name, wielder, lore and release command.
• One blade grows in place from Blank through Awakened, Named, Shikai and Bankai. It is always the same item in your hand, so enchantments survive every stage transition.
• Bankai is not bought with XP. Crossing 2,000 grants eligibility; meditating is what performs the transition.
• Kyōka Suigetsu and Wabisuke cap at Shikai, matching canon.
• Press R to release or seal your blade, cycling sealed to Shikai to Bankai. Holding a released form costs Reiatsu every tick.

Spirit form

• Your body stays where you left it: visible, damageable, and holding your entire inventory. A spirit carries its Zanpakutō and nothing else.
• Separate health pools for spirit and body. Your body mends while you are inside it.
• Get back in by walking to your body and right-clicking within about 6 blocks. There is no teleport home.
• A dropped Zanpakutō flies back to its owner, does not despawn, and is fireproof.
• Dying as a spirit keeps everything your body was carrying.
• The Severing Gikongan resets the ritual and destroys your current blade, for anyone who wants a different fate.

Reiatsu and flight

• Reiatsu replaces the hunger bar in spirit form, since a spirit does not eat.
• Two quantities behind one word: capacity is your permanent power level and only grows, and the pool is what is currently available out of it.
• V to fly. Momentum based, so you accelerate, coast, and have to turn and burn to stop.
• Running the pool dry lowers you gently to the ground instead of dropping you. Landing under power is never treated as a fall.
• Reiatsu drives health regeneration in spirit form. A low pool means a body that mends badly.
• Capacity grows three ways: killing Hollows, drifting slowly upward while in spirit form up to a soft cap, and the Reiryoku Pill.
• No flight in the Inner World. It is a void with one platform, and running dry over it would strand you.

Hollows and combat

• Hollows spawn near players in spirit form and are the only source of sword XP.
• They aggro on eye contact and stalk you until you look at them.
• Ordinary hostile mobs hunt your unattended body and cannot see or damage a spirit. Hollows invert both rules.

Items

• Gikongan. Enter and leave spirit form. The mod's only recipe.
• Severing Gikongan. Reset the ritual and your blade.
• Reiryoku Pill. Raises Reiatsu capacity. Creative only.
• Hollow Shard. Feeds sword XP to a held blade. Creative only.

Visuals

• Your discarded body renders in your real skin, lying down, under a red beacon beam only you can see.
• Hollows render translucent, with the mask and chest hole staying solid.
• Your own spirit renders as a translucent ghost.