Tool Material Modifier Ideas

[IntegratedQuantum]

Material should have certain modifiers associated with them, similar to how it's done in Tinker's Construct.
However given that this is a pattern based system, it would also be possible to allow modifiers that only work if certain patterns are made.

If you got any ideas for modifiers, feel free to comment them below.

Ideas

Common/Simple modifiers

Name	Concept	Examples
binding	Adds durability when next to a junction of other materials	sticky materials, fibers
long(?)	Stronger when multiple items of this type are in a straight/diagonal line	sticks/rods
hard	Increases speed when at the tip of a tool	diamond
brittle	Decreases durability depending on the number of neighbors surrounding it	diamond, glass/ceramic
thorny	Inflicts bleeding effect on the target, damages the player when on the handle	cactus
poisonous	Poison damage (damages the player when used for the handle)	lead, radioactive materials
combustible	The tool looses durability when the player is on fire	wood
hot	Burns the player/enemies, interacts with combustible materials	hot stuff?
cold	Protects neighboring combustible blocks from durability damage, looses durability when next to a hot material	ice
soluble	The tool looses durability when the player is under water	some salts/crystals
far-reaching	increases range of the tool
blunt(?)	damage decreases the longer you use it	sulfur

Rare/special modifiers

Name	Concept
single-use	only one material with this modifier can be used per tool, used to prevent overpowered tools
one-hit	increases damage to 1000×, but tools breaks after one use, without options to repair it
unbreakable	tool cannot loose durability
self-repairing	tool slowly heals durability
explosive	triggers a small explosion on use
non-newtonian(?)	looses power when not used, gains power when used often
"zanite"(?)	gains speed on use
life-steal	heals the player when damage other entities
energy-steal	gives energy to the player when damaging other entities
soul-steal	Increases damage for every entity killed

Uncategorized

• The surrounding 3×3 field needs to be filled with mundane items to enable some other modifier
• The tool must contain x copies of this material to enable some other modifier
• Activates another modifier if the tool contains no single-use materials
• Activates another modifier if the tool only contains a small amount of items

Addon options

• Addons could add custom modifiers that enable additional (block) drops

[Quazae303]

rare modifier: non-newtonian: looses power over time when not used, but if used often, gains power.

[IntegratedQuantum]

Material density already impacts these properties. A separate modifier for heavy tools is not needed.

[Argmaster]

It could be of use to add a modifier that would make tool very effective against specific block type/tag. For example, lets assume you want to dig a big hole in a mountain of sandstone. You could just make a pickaxe that is effective against every stone type, but it just happens so the mountain is made solely of stone. In such case you could opt for a tool that is very effective against particular type of material, lets say twice as effective as reachable by other means, while also twice less effective against other materials. This kind of specialization encourages players to craft more and put more effort into what they craft. Ofc this would be magic and noone cares why a pickaxe that can easily break obsydian cant deal with stone 😅

[ikabod-kee]

That's a cool idea