Protection Change

Modifies the protection enchantment's damage reduction formula to be a configurable value.

Ideal for modpacks where enchants can go past the vanilla/default maximum, there's armor sets with higher amounts of armor and armor toughness than netherite, or any other case where using protection becomes cancerous for PvP and/or makes PvE trivial, while keeping protection is preferable.

If you have any questions, concerns, or feature requests, either email me at hahajax@proton.me, DM me on Discord by my handle hahajax, or open an issue on the GitHub

Config Guide

Formula Type

• The type of formula to use in protection's damage reduction calculation
• Can be either LINEAR or SQUARE_ROOT

Max Protection Levels

• The maximum amount of protection levels possible, across all armor, before it's clamped
• Can be calculated by multiplying the maximum level of protection obtainable by 4
• Vanilla is 20, as protection only goes up to 4
• Must be at least 4, for 1 level for every armor piece. If you want to disable the protection enchantment, this mod probably shouldn't be used

Square Root Constant

• Constant to use for the SQUARE_ROOT formula; this is multiplied by the level of protection a player has by the Root Exponent
• Must be between 0 and 1

Root Exponent

• Exponent to use for the SQUARE_ROOT formula
• Set to 0.5 by default. Don't change unless you know how to math and want to change it from square root to another root
• Must be between 0 and 1

Linear Rate

• The rate at which each level of protection increases its damage reduction, represented as a percentage per level
• A rate of 0.04 replicates vanilla's formula, as this is effectively how vanilla does it
• Must be between 0 and 1

AI Disclosure

I only used it to gain my footing with modding, alongside critical thinking skills to determine what exactly was happening with the code, and how to actually use it. Once I learned how to do a thing and how it works by example from gen-ai, I no longer used it whatsoever for that thing and anything similar enough. If there was a good bit of documentation somewhere, I used that instead. The only thing that was guided by ai was the mixin used. The exact mixin and what I put were entirely made by me; I would have had many more headaches trying to figure out how to do a mixin for anything if I had instead tried to understand Neoforge's (kinda bad) documentation the internet for random stackoverflow threads.