Blade

# ⚔️ Blade — weapons that grow with you **Blade** is a **100% server-side** progression weapons & armor plugin for Paper. Your players install **nothing** — custom textures are delivered automatically through a resource pack served by the plugin itself. Drop in one jar and your SMP gets a full gear-progression endgame. ## The loop ``` Hunt mobs → Super Essence → craft a material Essence Explore → find that material's Upgrade Template in its themed structure Smith → base weapon + Essence + Template = a Blade weapon Fight → your weapon levels up, ranks up, tiers up, reforges — forever ``` ## 15 materials × 5 weapon types Swords, Axes, Maces, Greatswords and Warhammers across 15 materials — **~130 items**, all riding real vanilla weapon items so enchanting and combat feel exactly right. What a material gives you is set by its **rarity**: | Rarity | You get | |---|---| | Uncommon | stats only | | Rare | + a **passive** ability | | Epic | + an **active** ability (right-click) | | ✦ **Legendary** ✦ | top-end everything — Echo, Netherite, Sculk, Obsidian | **Rare/Uncommon weapons unlock their active at max Tier instead** — cheap materials have a long-haul payoff. Abilities range from piercing sonic beams and blink strikes to lingering decay fields, chain lightning, leap-slams and frost novas — every material plays differently. ## Real progression, stored on the item - **Levels 1–10** — weapons earn XP from hits, kills and casts; each level adds damage, with a live XP bar right in the tooltip. Every few levels = an ability **Rank** (faster cooldowns). - **Tiers I–V** — re-smith a **max-level** weapon with its Template + a Super Essence. Tiering **resets the level to 1**: every tier is a fresh grind, and Tier V is a genuine achievement. - Everything lives on the item itself — trade it, drop it, die with it; nothing is lost. ## Armor sets Every material has a full 4-piece set with **real worn armor textures** (not dyed leather). Armor strength is **per-material** — a full Obsidian set literally overflows the armor bar. Wear all 4 pieces of one material: - any set → **−30% ability cooldown** - Rare+ → a **set potion effect** (Night Vision, Resistance, Regeneration…) - Epic/Legendary → a **defensive perk**: sonic-blast attackers away, phase out of hits, blunt heavy blows, freeze whoever touches you… ## 🎲 Reforging Drop a weapon, an armor piece — **or even a plain vanilla sword** — into an **anvil** with a Super Essence. The result shows only a masked **✦ REFORGED ✦** preview: the modifier is rolled **the moment you take it**. **30 reforges** across weapon / armor / universal pools, including six combat procs (Flaming, Venomous, Executioner, Vampiric…). ## Built for SMPs - **Nothing to install client-side** — pack auto-served on join (self-host or external URL) - Survival-first: every item is obtainable through play; admin commands are optional - Hardened against dupes & item-loss: currency items can't be burned, placed, thrown or eaten by vanilla recipes; anvil/smithing edge cases are guarded - Super Essence only drops on **player** kills — AFK farms don't print currency - In-game guide book: `/blade codex` — generated from live data, never stale - Every number — XP curves, cooldowns, drop rates, damage — is tunable in `config.yml` ## Versions One jar supports **Minecraft 1.21.11, 26.1.2 and 26.2** (Paper). Note: Paper 26.x itself requires Java 25. *Blade is fully server-side — vanilla clients connect like normal and just accept the resource-pack prompt.*