Scythe Mod Update

A major scythe-focused update: new abilities, a Blood Scythe rebalance, new advancements, improved minions, and JEI compatibility.

Added

New Blood Scythe Special Ability — “Blender”

The Blood Scythe now has a new special ability activated by right-clicking in the air.

• Pulls all valid targets within a 3-block radius toward the player.
• Ignores teammates, pets, passive mobs, and neutral mobs.
• Deals damage equal to 2 regular left-click scythe attacks.
• Applies Slowness II for 4 seconds.
• Applies Bleeding II for 10 seconds.
• Cooldown: 30 seconds.
• Cost: 50 durability.
• If there are no valid nearby targets, the ability does not activate, does not consume durability, and does not trigger cooldown.

New Advancements

Added new advancements:

• “Internet Forum Extract” — obtain Toxic Essence.
• “King of Withering” — obtain Withering Essence.
• “Soul Eater” — craft the Withering Scythe.
• “Nurgle Fan” — craft the Toxic Scythe.
• “Money, Cards, God of Scythes” — obtain all scythes and activate each scythe’s passive, active, and special ability at least once.
• “Super Necromancer” — have 10 Withering Skeleton minions summoned at the same time.
• “Merciless” — kill a target after using all 3 Blood Scythe abilities on it.
• “Intoxication Impossible” — keep a single target poisoned for 22 consecutive seconds using the Toxic Scythe.

JEI Compatibility

Added JEI compatibility for the Toxic Essence recipe.

• Added a separate recipe category: “Toxic Essence Crafting”.

• The recipe is displayed in JEI as a 3×3 crafting grid.

• The recipe shows:

  • spider eyes in the corners;
  • a pufferfish in the center;
  • Potion / Splash Potion / Lingering Potion of Strong Poison as poison ingredient variants.

• Crafting table is used as the recipe catalyst.

• JEI is optional compatibility and is not required to launch the mod.

Changed

Blood Scythe Rebalance

The Blood Scythe is now more dangerous and more consistent in combat.

• Bleeding chance increased from 35% to 40%.
• Vampirism chance increased from 20% to 25%.
• Vampirism healing increased from 40% to 50% of actual damage dealt.
• Added a 20% chance to ignore 50% of the target’s defense.

Bleeding

Bleeding now properly bypasses defensive mechanics.

• Ignores armor.
• Ignores Protection and other defensive enchantments.
• Ignores Resistance.
• Ignores shields.

Withering Minions

Withering Skeleton minions are now more useful and durable.

• Lifetime increased from 5 minutes to 15 minutes.
• Minion limit increased from 6 to 10.
• If a minion has not taken damage for 5 seconds, it starts passively regenerating.
• 1 HP of minion regeneration consumes 1 durability from the owner’s Withering Scythe.
• If the owner does not have a valid scythe or enough durability, regeneration does not occur.

Scythe Tooltips

• All scythe tooltips now display the real current keybind for the active ability.
• Previously, tooltips always displayed R even if the player changed the keybind.

Renamed Advancements

• “Morality? What’s That?” has been renamed to “Inglorious Bastard”.
• “Forged in Blood” has been renamed to “Birth of the Blood Reaper”.
• The Blood Scythe advancement description was changed from obtaining the scythe to crafting it.

Removed

Removed old advancements:

• advancements for kills with the Blood Scythe;
• advancements for a perfect harvest.