🛡️ Aetas Ferrea Mod - Realism & Combat Core

"Ferrum et Sanguis." (Iron and Blood.)

Aetas Ferrea Mod is the core mechanics driver designed for hardcore medieval survival. It overhauls Minecraft's combat physics, armor weights, weapon material progression, and tool behaviors to inject mechanical friction and realism into every encounter.

Compatible with both players and mobs, this mod ensures that combat is tactical, equipment choice is critical, and survival is earned.

THIS MOD IS MAINLY FOR AETAS FERREA MODPACK!!!

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⭐ Feature Overview

⚒️ Golden Dulling & Innate Enchantments

Gold is heavy, soft, and naturally fragile.

• Golden Dulling: Golden weapons, tools, and armor dynamically lose attack damage, attack speed, and block break speed as their durability drops.
• Innate Enchanting: To balance their fragility, gold items instantly receive custom Level II enchantments (Looting II, Fortune II, or Protection II) when obtained or spawned on mobs.
• Hero of the Village: Wearing a full set of golden armor constantly applies the Hero of the Village status effect.

🛡️ Physical Armor Realism Matrix

Armor is no longer a simple defense number. Materials now behave like their real-world counterparts under data-driven tags (#aetasferreamod:slashing_weapons, #aetasferreamod:blunt_weapons, #aetasferreamod:high_mass_weapons):

• Arrow Deflection: Projectiles have a scaling chance to bounce off heavier plates instead of dealing damage (up to 20% for full Iron, and 60% for full Diamond).
• Slashing Immunity: Heavy iron and diamond armor sets neutralize slash and cut damage from bladed weapons.
• Blunt/High-Mass Bypass: Axes and heavy blunt weapons bypass chainmail and iron protections, dealing extra armor-penetrating damage to the wearer.
• Durability Immunities: High-tier armors do not lose durability when struck by weak, low-tier weapons (e.g., Diamond vs Wood/Gold).

🏃 Leather Agility

• Agricola's Speed: Leather armor is lightweight and silent. Each piece worn grants +1.25% movement speed, capping at a clean +5% for a full set.

🧠 Performance-First Architecture

Designed from the ground up to eliminate overhead:

• All calculations are event-driven rather than ticking every frame.
• Durability checks utilize a WeakHashMap to prevent memory leaks.
• Tick events are strictly throttled to run only once per second.

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⚙️ Configuration & GUI Support

Aetas Ferrea includes a dynamic configuration system (aetasferreamod-common.toml) to toggle individual modules and adjust deflection rates, speed bonuses, and caps.

Seamless GUI Integration:

• Configured: If installed, the mod natively maps its settings to Configured's clean, searchable options menu.
• YACL (Yet Another Config Lib): Integrates dynamically to avoid screen handler conflicts.
• Vanilla Fallback: If no config UI mods are present, accessing the mod's configuration opens a fallback helper screen guiding you to edit the configuration file manually.

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🛠️ Data-Driven Customization

All weapon categorizations are fully data-driven. Developers and pack makers can easily add custom modded weapons to the realism matrices by registering them to our item tags:

• #aetasferreamod:slashing_weapons
• #aetasferreamod:high_mass_weapons
• #aetasferreamod:blunt_weapons
• #aetasferreamod:wooden_weapons, #aetasferreamod:iron_weapons, etc.

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🤝 Special Thanks & Compliance

Special thanks to the developers of the Forge framework and the creators of the libraries that made this mod possible.

• Modpack Association: This mod is the core companion developed specifically for the Aetas Ferrea Hardcore Medieval Survival Modpack.