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Data driven potion effects

With banner patterns becoming data driven, and paintings and enchantments on the way, what about data driven potion effects.

Each currently existing effect would be split into the components, so blindness gets "no_sprinting" and "blindness_fog" (used for darkness too).

Darkness and night vision share "light_modifier" that's a negative or positive number respectively.

Strength gets "attribute_modifier", same as haste, speed, etc (there's a lot), this would even allow for effects without them to get negative versions as well.

Levitation gets "no_gliding" that would be useful in maps.

Instant health and damage get corresponding effects, but an extra effect of instant food would fit right in, even if unused in vanilla.

Poison, wither, and regeneration get "heart_effect" because they change how hearts are displayed, same with hunger getting "honch_effect" or something.

Fire resistance gets its own effect but allows a value between 0 and 1 so people could nerf fire resistance to only block some damage instead of full resistance, same with water breathing.

Invisibility could have "invisible" with "body", "armor", "weapons", "items" (armor and weapons), and "all" as accepted values.

Conduit power and dolphin's grace could get "in_water", a list of effects.

"color", "icon", "scaling" how much each level increases values, and "name" outside of effects.

And with the new effects coming, this could even make development easier.

This'd just give more flexibility without relying on plugins and mods.

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• May 11, 2024 00:37
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  • May 11, 2024 01:14
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  • effect_resistance component: Would define resistance to another status effect.
  • screen_shake component: Would define intensity to screen shaking when the effect is active.
  • knockback_resistance potion component: Would define a player’s Knockback resistance when the effect is active. 0% = no Knockback resistance, 100% = Full Knockback resistance.
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  • May 11, 2024 03:34
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  Since I couldn't fit them in the original post, I'll comment with the effects I missed.

  Nausea, slow falling, bad omen, hero of the village, and glowing are pretty unique from what I can tell so they'd get their own unique components.

  The actual raid and trial omens would use the "omen" component with "raid" and "trial" set respectively.

  Infested, oozing, wind charged, and weaving are all pretty similar to how the new enchantment data works, so borrowing from that seems the most reasonable, or adding "when_damaged" and "spawn" components, "when_killed", stuff like that.

  (maybe even add a way to make the sticky effect from the poisonous potato update too, who knows)

  And something important is that I'm not necessarily advocating for new potion effects- like an anti-resistance or large\small effect- to be added, just the capability to modify and add new ones that could accomplish that. While I'd like new effects, I'd prefer having more customization instead, especially with enchantments and paintings getting the data-driven treatment as well, might as well do as much at once as possible so we get all the changes out of the way at the same time instead of needing to update one after another.

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  • July 04, 2024 01:15
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  “instant_food” already exists! We have the saturation effect. I really like this idea as it would expand the capabilities of datapacks!