
Astrunium
Astrunium is a data pack that provides an enhanced vanilla experience through many new enchantments, utility items, better boss fights, new items, and more!
Data Pack Features
This data pack is designed to provide an enhanced vanilla experience and used on its own or with some other very small data packs or any type of mod. The primary additions are enchantments and boss loot.
Vanilla Modifications
Enchantments
Sharpness
- Max level: 5 → 10
Knockback
- Max level: 2 → 4
Specific Protection Enchants
All only apply to 1 armor item. Proj and Blast on chestplates, fire on boots. All go up to level 8.
- Projectile Protection — Apply to: chestplates. Deals a ton of damage to one target when taking damage.
- Blast Protection — Apply to: chestplates. Deals an AoE effect when taking damage.
- Fire Protection — Apply to: boots. At max level, gain fire resistance indefinitely.
Bane of Arthropods
- Max level: 5 → 7
- For each level, strike an additional nearby mob for 75% of your attack damage (cannot crit) as magic damage. The max number of targets is 8 (including the mob you hit).
- Still deals bonus damage to arthropods but does not affect the multistrike attack.
Smite
- This is considered a sword ability.
- At Smite 5, your attacks will strike lightning on the next entity you hit and grant the attacker fire resistance.
Impaling
- Attacks reduce mining and attack speed temporarily.
Sweeping Edge
- Max level: 3 → 1
- Grants +20% attack damage.
- Attacks apply 100% of the attack's damage as an AoE and apply slowness.
Changes to Old Recipes
- Can use copper in place of iron for redstone items (can still use iron too)
- Can use paper or red sand in place of sand for TNT
- All furnace smelting is faster
New Recipes
- Quartz from quartz block
- Nether wart from nether wart block
- Scaled stick from bamboo
- String from wool
Mob Drops
- Creepers drop more gunpowder
- Ghasts drop more gunpowder
- Iron golems drop more iron
- Players drop their head when killed by another player
- Wither skeletons drop skulls more often
- Shulkers always drop 2 shells
Datapack Modifications
Enchantments
Sword abilities are enchantments that are exclusive to one another. Smite is now a sword ability.
Aegis
- Max level: 4 | Apply to: elytra
- Dropped by shulkers
- Grants 2 armor per level. At max level, gain immunity to levitation.
Celerity
- Max level: 1 | Apply to: boots
- Dropped by elder guardian
- Grants +8% movement speed and clears slowness and mining fatigue when you sneak.
Colossus
- Max level: 2 | Apply to: armor
- Dropped from wardens
- Makes your model bigger per level with more damage and reach.
Detonation
- Max level: 3 | Apply to: crossbow
- Makes arrows explode on impact with entities.
Extraction
- Max level: 6
- Mobs drop bonus XP based on level.
Immortal
- Max level: 1 | Apply to: anything that can take unbreaking
- Dropped from wardens
- Makes your items invulnerable to fire, void, and explosions as item entities.
- Items take 0 damage from use and are instantly repaired with any amount of XP if they did not have full durability.
Jump Boost
- Max level: 4 | Apply to: leggings
- Gain levels of jump boost equal to enchantment level.
Lava Walker
- Max level: 2 | Apply to: boots
- Dropped by strider
- Creates basalt on lava like frost walker does with ice to water.
- Grants immunity to step burn damage.
- Grants some fall damage reduction.
Long
- Max level: 3 | Apply to: tools
- Increases block reach by 1 + 1 per level.
Max Health
- Max level: 4 | Apply to: chestplates
- Increases max health by 2 (1 heart) per level.
Phase
- Max level: 3 | Apply to: swords (ability)
- Dropped by ender dragon
- Teleport forward a number of blocks based on level. Cooldown: 10s.
Quasar
- Max level: 4 | Apply to: swords (ability)
- Dropped by ender dragon
- Shoot a wall-piercing laser with range and damage increasing with level.
Reach
- Max level: 2 | Apply to: melee weapons
- Increases melee attack range by 0.5 blocks per level.
Sonic Arrows
- Max level: 1 | Apply to: bow
- Dropped by wardens
- Converts all arrows into high-damage piercing lasers.
Sprite Curse
- Max level: 1 | Apply to: armor (does not stack from multiple pieces)
- Dropped by vexes
- Makes you 87.5% smaller and have 50% less max health.
- Grants jump boost and speed indefinitely.
Wind Jump
- Max level: 1
- When you sneak, fire a wind charge downward, sending you upwards if you were on the ground. Cooldown: 1s.
- Look straight down and sneak to toggle off.
Wind Jump Evolved
- Max level: 4
- Dropped by breeze
- When you sneak on ground, fire wind charges downward equal to the enchantment level. Cooldown: 10s.
- When in the air, sneak to gain slow falling.
- Look straight down and sneak to toggle off.
Warp Enchantments
These apply to echo shards and can be applied to more than one at a time. 1 echo shard with a specific warp enchantment is consumed when the player sneaks with one in their main hand. All have max level 1. All books are dropped by the ender dragon or found in end city treasure. Pre-enchanted echo shards are dropped by endermen in the end.
- Warp: Bed — Teleports you to your bed.
- Warp: Far — Teleports you thousands of blocks in the direction you're looking with some offset.
- Warp: Last Death — Teleports you to your most recent death location.
- Warp: Marked — Must participate in the killing of an ender dragon to use. You can mark a position on top of a lodestone with a recovery compass. Use this shard to teleport to your most recent marked location in any vanilla dimension.
- Warp: Surface — Dropped by warden and found in ancient city chests. Teleports you to the highest vertical position of your horizontal position.
Boss Loot Bags
The warden, ender dragon, and wither all mark players that have damaged them within 1 minute as being in combat. When any player kills one of these, all players "in combat" with that same mob will get a loot bag. These loot bags usually contain XP, life crystals, and other themed items.
Improved Boss Fights
Wither
- Increased health based on the highest number of times withers have been slain of all players within 128 blocks when summoned.
- Minions are spawned.
Ender Dragon
- The fight now includes abilities and phases.
- Health slightly scales with the number of players.
Food Buffs
Various foods have better effects.
Mob Drops
- Elder guardians drop unique enchantments and items.
- Striders drop the Lava Walker enchant.
Items
Life Crystals
- Found in underground chests and dropped by some bosses.
- Place in offhand to gain +2 permanent max health (max +20).
Azure Crystals
- Craftable
- Place in mainhand and weapon in offhand to reduce its repair cost to 0 but consume levels equal to the amount reduced.
Enchanted Emerald
- Craftable
- Allows you to mark and teleport villagers.
Enchanted Prismarine Shard
- Dropped by elder guardian
- Grants increased attack damage and a total attack speed modifier from -50% to 10% (uniform).
Interdimensional Matter
- Dropped by ender dragon
- Allows you to use the Warp: Marked enchantment.
Wither Essence
- Dropped from wither
- Grants +0.5 base attack damage.
Synthetic Experience
- Craftable with 6 different common mob drops.
- Grants some experience.
Gamerules
Reload Message
- Default: Enabled
- Shows a message to all players when this data pack reloads.
Death Loot Bags
- Default: Enabled
- Players drop a white bundle when they die that contains all of their items.
- It cannot be picked up for 60 seconds by anyone except the player that died. After that, anyone can pick it up.
- The player that died can sneak to teleport the loot bag to them if they are within 8 blocks of where they died.
End Warp
- Default: Enabled
- Falling in the end will teleport you to the overworld at the same coords.
Prevent Elytra in Overworld
- Default: Enabled
- Disables the elytra from being used in the overworld. If a player tries to use them, they break.
Hardmode
- Default: Enabled
- When the ender dragon is slain, all players in combat with it enter hard mode.
- Base mobs have a 1/3 chance of being stronger with armor, weapons, effects, or turning into something else.
Progressive Crafting
All vanilla recipes are given when you join the server/world. A few items (trident, elytra, name tag) can only be crafted after completing certain quests.
