Scythes 2.0 — Toxic & Withering Update

A major update that completely reworks the Plague and Withering Scythes. Version 2.0 adds new abilities, recipes, entities, improved item descriptions, old-world migration, and several technical fixes.

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Highlights

The Plague Scythe has been replaced with the Toxic Scythe

plague_scythe has been replaced with the new toxic_scythe.

To prevent old worlds from breaking, a migration handler has been added: if a player enters a world where they had the old Plague Scythe, it will automatically be replaced with the new Toxic Scythe.

The Toxic Scythe has base stats similar to the Blood Scythe.

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Toxic Scythe

Passive Ability

When attacking, the Toxic Scythe can weaken enemies with poison and damage their armor:

• 30% chance to deal 20 durability damage to the enemy’s entire armor set.
• 25% chance to apply Poison II for 2 seconds.

Special Ability

Right-clicking fires a toxic projectile.

The toxic projectile:

• flies like a fireball;
• has a 5 second cooldown;
• costs 20 scythe durability;
• deals area damage in a 2 block radius;
• deals 2 true damage, ignoring armor;
• applies Poison II for 10 seconds;
• deals 30 durability damage to the entire armor set of affected targets.

Active Ability: Toxic Aura

Activated with the ability key, R by default.

Toxic Aura:

• lasts 10 seconds;
• has a 60 second cooldown;
• costs 100 scythe durability;
• affects enemies within a 5 block radius;
• applies Poison II for 10 seconds and refreshes the effect while the target remains inside the aura;
• deals 1 durability damage to the entire armor set every tick;
• has a 20% chance to deal 1 true damage, ignoring armor;
• has a 15% chance to apply Nausea.

A HUD timer matching the style of the Blood Scythe timer has been added for Toxic Aura.

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Toxic Essence

Added a new item: toxic_essence.

Toxic Essence Recipe

EPE
PFP
EPE

Where:

• E — Spider Eye;
• P — any Poison II potion;
• F — Pufferfish.

Toxic Scythe Recipe

Added a Toxic Scythe recipe similar to the Blood Scythe recipe, but using Toxic Essence instead of Bloody Essence.

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Withering Scythe

The Withering Scythe is now a fully functional weapon with its own mechanics instead of being an empty item.

The scythe has base stats similar to the other scythes.

Passive Ability

On hit:

• 30% chance to apply Wither II for 10 seconds.

The scythe’s owner gains Soul Points from kills:

• 1 Soul Point for killing a mob;
• 12 Soul Points for killing a player.

The current Soul Point count is displayed in the scythe tooltip next to the passive ability description.

Special Ability

Right-clicking in the air summons a minion — a Wither Skeleton.

Summoning a minion:

• costs 10 durability;
• costs 6 Soul Points;
• has a maximum cap of 6 active minions.

Pressing Shift + Right Click in the air dismisses all summoned minions.

Active Ability: Withering Aura

Activated with the ability key, R by default.

Withering Aura:

• costs 100 durability;
• affects enemies within a 5 block radius;
• applies Wither II for 10 seconds;
• refreshes the effect while the target remains inside the aura.

The aura also empowers minions within a 10 block radius:

• applies Strength II for 3 seconds;
• applies Speed II for 3 seconds;
• refreshes the effects while minions remain within the aura radius.

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Withering Scythe Minions

Added a new minion entity based on the Wither Skeleton.

The minion:

• uses the Wither Skeleton appearance;
• has 20 HP;
• has 14 armor;
• is equipped with a Netherite Sword;
• lives for 5 minutes after being summoned;
• follows its owner;
• attacks enemies that attacked its owner;
• attacks enemies that attacked the minion itself;
• attacks the target its owner attacked;
• does not use normal skeleton targeting;
• does not specifically hunt skeletons;
• does not burn in sunlight;
• teleports to its owner if it falls too far behind, similar to a tamed wolf.

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Withering Essence

Added a new item: withering_essence.

Withering Essence Recipe

BIB
HSH
BIB

Where:

• B — Bone;
• I — Netherite Ingot;
• S — Nether Star;
• H — Wither Skeleton Skull.

Withering Scythe Recipe

Added a Withering Scythe recipe similar to the Blood Scythe recipe, but using Withering Essence instead of Bloody Essence.

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Balance and Ally Protection

Toxic Aura and Withering Aura now ignore:

• teammates;
• villagers;
• tamed pets.

Withering Scythe minions are not treated as pets for this check.

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Descriptions and Interface

Updated scythe and ability descriptions:

• old wording such as Passive / Active has been replaced with:

  • Passive Ability;
  • Active Ability;

• Blood, Toxic, and Withering Scythe descriptions are now cleaner and more polished;

• tooltips now display the real numerical values used in the code;

• incorrect placeholder wording such as “same as Blood Harvest” in ability costs has been fixed;

• the Toxic Aura timer now matches the style of the Blood Scythe timer.

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Technical Changes

• Removed the mod configuration file.
• All ability values have been moved directly into the code.