Effect ideas

[IntegratedQuantum]

I want effects that would make combat more interesting and strategic, also relevant to #172.

Of course this is an incomplete list and I'm just collecting ideas for now.

Effect name	Description
Fire	progressively damages the player, combustible tools start losing durability when held, increases player speed slightly, makes the players input less precise and jittery, cancels out with frost
Frost	slowly damages the player, decreases player speed including mouse sensitivity, it might also be worth trying to delay inputs by maybe 50-100 ms, cancels out with fire
Stun	stunned players cannot act for a short duration, button events are ignored, stun can be avoided by having a conductive armor, a cooldown or stun resistance effect might be useful to avoid stun locking
Root	rooted players cannot move, but they can still attack and look around
Blindness	blinds the player. Not quite sure on the details, but blurring, darkening or reducing the field of view would be possible ways to handle this.
Enhanced Vision	counteracts blindness, allows seeing dark blocks (If that's not too expensive it would be nice to show unlit blocks in grayscale)
Poison	Slowly damages the player, counteracts all normal healing effects, prevents eating food
Regeneration	Slowly heals the player
bleeding	take damage over time
slowness	slows the player
stomach ache	cannot eat

[Argmaster]

bleeding inflicted by blades with thorny modifier, would stack up to N times and deal small amount of damage per second, like 0.01, 0.02 with 2 stacks etc. Stacks would wear off after N minutes. Compared to fire, it does not cancel with frost and it can not be removed immediately. Player should not receive any special effects (like shaking of screen) when damage is inflicted.

[Argmaster]

root - you can not move, but you can attack and use energy. Imo a funny pun would be to make branches do that effect 😝
silence - you can not use energy (makes sense if we want have magic in form of casting fireballs or whatever
slowness - kind of obvious

[IntegratedQuantum]

Not sure about silence it would only affect accessories,
but in extension I think stomach ache - you cannot eat is similar but could be interesting in other ways too (→potions)

[Argmaster]

What about calling it fatigue and instead of not allowing you to eat it would make refilling energy much less effective?
Generally speaking I am not a huge fan of boolean modifiers, as they are impossible to balance, you either have this effect or not, and either it is useful or not.