Sable: Destructive

1.1.0 introduced inertial penetration but kept the per-block thresholds conservative — collisions still felt cosmetic. 1.2.0 retunes the damage model from the ground up so impacts feel like impacts.

What changed

• Default damage is roughly doubled across the board.

  • collisionEnergyMultiplier 1.0 → 2.0
  • collisionStrengthMultiplier 1.0 → 1.5
  • penetrationEnergyMultiplier 1.0 → 0.6 (each consumed block costs less, so chains run further on the same energy)
  • maxPenetrationDepth 16 → 32
  • defaultAttackerMassKg 2000 → 4000

• Speed actually matters now. Two new knobs scale the penetration walk by approach speed:

  • penetrationSpeedEnergyBonus = 0.02 → +2% kinetic-energy budget per m/s above minBreakSpeed. At 50 m/s above the gate that's +100% budget — fast hits chain dramatically further.
  • penetrationDepthPerMs = 0.25 → each m/s above minBreakSpeed extends the depth cap by 0.25 blocks. At 80 m/s a hammer can chain ~18 blocks past the static cap.

• Density actually matters now. The callback no longer hands attackerHardness=0 to BreakResolver — it now passes V_WOOD as a sensible default sub-level toughness plus the configured defaultAttackerMassKg. The asymmetry rule (attackerToughnessRatio) finally engages: a wooden cog smacked into stone won't shatter the stone, an iron block into wood will.

• Self-damage. New: when the attacker is much softer than the defender (attacker toughness < defender · selfDamageThreshold, default 0.6), the defender survives AND the attacker erodes its own contact face for up to selfDamageMaxBlocks (default 4) blocks. A copper hammer slamming an obsidian wall now sheds copper from itself instead of the wall doing nothing — finally that "soft bounces off hard" feel.

• All chain-broken AND self-damage blocks always VANISH (never DETACH) — same crash-safety rule as 1.1.0.

New tuning knobs (all auto-persisted to config/sabledestructive-common.toml, all live-reloadable):

• selfDamageThreshold (default 0.6)
• selfDamageMaxBlocks (default 4)
• penetrationSpeedEnergyBonus (default 0.02)
• penetrationDepthPerMs (default 0.25)

Tweaked defaults (existing knobs):

• collisionEnergyMultiplier 1.0 → 2.0
• collisionStrengthMultiplier 1.0 → 1.5
• penetrationEnergyMultiplier 1.0 → 0.6
• maxPenetrationDepth 16 → 32
• defaultAttackerMassKg 2000.0 → 4000.0

Compatibility

• No breaking changes for end users. Existing 1.1.0 worlds load as-is. The Addon API is unchanged (API_VERSION still 1).
• To restore 1.1.0 feel exactly, set the five "tweaked defaults" above back to their previous values via /sable-dv set.
• To completely disable inertial chains and self-damage: /sable-dv set inertialPenetrationEnabled false /sable-dv set selfDamageMaxBlocks 0

Requirements

• Minecraft 1.21.1
• NeoForge 21.1.227+
• Sable 1.1.3+

Credits

• Code: Xylos_Official
• Visuals: Viaquelt
• Built on top of Sable by ryanhcode

License

• MIT