Village raid

Village raid

The Stone Warden is a giant who keeps a ring of standing stones behind the village's start. It is too strong for one fighter: a party must fight it together. Four raiders wait at the stones, and join the player's party as the player comes near.

examples/village_raid.mojo draws this picture. A scripted gamepad locks on to the warden, closes in and makes combos. When a red zone holds the player, it dodges out before the zone strikes. When a rockfall marks a member, it runs to them, so they share the boulder. The fight starts with the warden's poise worn low, so it staggers soon. Then the script calls a linked strike.

How the fight goes

The modules are extensions/village/boss.mojo for the rules, extensions/village/party.mojo for the raiders' minds, and extensions/village/raid.mojo for the scene. extensions/village/battle.mojo runs the fight.

1. The raiders wait at the stones. When the player comes within 30 meters of them, they join the party, and the note says THE RAIDERS JOIN YOUR PARTY. They go back when the player is further than 60 meters from them.
2. The warden stands at home until a member comes within 16 meters, or strikes it. Then it walks to its target and makes the attacks of its phase, in turn.
3. Each attack lays its zone on the ground in red light. The zone fills from its middle as the attack winds up, and strikes every member in it as the fill reaches its edge.
4. The warden goes home and heals when every member has fallen, or when the party leads it further than 45 meters from home.

The attacks

BossAttack is a type with is_valid, and so are ZoneShape and BossPhase. A bare integer does not compile.

Attack	Zone	Wind-up	Damage	A guard stops it	What to do
CLEAVE	A cone of 130 degrees, 6.5 m before the warden	1.1 s	180	Yes	The tank guards; the others step out to the side
SLAM	A circle of 3.5 m on its target	1.5 s	260	No	Dodge out
STOMP	A circle of 7.5 m all around the warden	1.8 s	150	No	Get out of melee
CHARGE	A line 18 m long and 3 m wide at a member	1.4 s	220	No	Step across the line; the warden runs along it at 16 m/s
ROCKFALL	A member is marked; the boulder falls on them after 4 s	4 s	640, shared	No	Everyone gathers on the marked member
SUMMON	None	1.2 s			The den's wolves come

The rockfall is the fight's test of the party. Its 640 damage is split evenly between each standing member within 3.5 meters of where it falls. One member alone takes all of it, and falls. Five members each take 128. A gold ring shows the boulder's reach around the marked member, with STACK and the seconds left.

Poise, threat and taunts

Poise. Each blow's stamina damage takes the warden's poise, of 700. The poise comes back at 70 a second, 1.5 seconds after the last blow, so one fighter cannot break it alone. When it breaks, the note says THE WARDEN STAGGERS!. The warden staggers for 6 seconds and makes no attack. Each blow on it is critical, and does 1.5 times its damage.

Threat. Each member's damage adds to its threat. A tank's damage adds 3 times as much, and the player counts as a tank with the mace. Each heal adds half the health healed. The warden turns to the member with the most threat, once that member has 1.1 times the threat of its target.

The taunt. A taunt gives the taunter more threat than any other member, and holds the warden on it for 4 seconds. The player can taunt once every 8 seconds, within 25 meters.

Control	Gamepad	Keyboard
Taunt the warden	Hold the left trigger, and press the east button	U
Call a linked strike	Stand near the staggered warden, and press the north button	G
Revive a fallen raider	Stand by them, and hold the west button	Hold E

The linked strike

A party that strikes together does more than its members can alone. Once in each stagger, the player can call a linked strike on the warden.

1. Break the warden's poise, so that it staggers. The bars show HEAVY: LINKED STRIKE.
2. Stand within 4.5 meters of the warden.
3. Press the heavy attack. The player must have the stamina for a heavy attack.

Each standing raider within 14 meters of the warden makes their heavy attack with the player. The strike does link_damage for the count of members who join. Each member's share is 240, and 25 percent more for each member past the first:

Members	Damage
1	240
2	600
3	1,080
4	1,680
5	2,400

The fight stops for 0.2 seconds, and the camera shakes. The note says LINKED STRIKE x5! for a party of five. Each member's share of the damage adds to their threat. The strike can fell the warden.

The phases and the enrage

Phase	Health	Wind-ups	Rotation
OPENING	Above 70 percent	As in the table	Cleave, slam, cleave, rockfall, stomp
FURY	Above 35 percent	0.85 times	Summon, then slam, cleave, rockfall, charge, stomp, cleave
LAST_STAND	35 percent or less	0.7 times	Summon, then stomp, slam, rockfall, charge, cleave, stomp, slam

After 5 minutes the warden enrages. Its attacks do 3 times their damage and wind up twice as fast. A timer at the top of the frame counts down to it.

Scaling

The warden's health is boss_health for the size of its party. It is 4,500 for one member, and half of that more for each other member. So a party of five meets a warden of 13,500 health.

The warden's clips

The warden is a person drawn 1.45 times as large, with a mace. It plays a giant's clip for each attack, from extensions/humanoid/rig/giant_clips.mojo. Arms with giant set plays them. puppet_move paces each clip, so it strikes as the attack's zone does.

Attack	Clip	What it shows
CLEAVE	giant_cleave_clip	The mace drawn far back, and swept flat across the front
SLAM	giant_slam_clip	The mace raised in both hands over the head, and slammed down
STOMP	giant_stomp_clip	A knee raised high, and the foot driven down, the arms out
CHARGE	giant_charge_clip	A crouch, the shoulder lowered, and a lunge behind it
ROCKFALL	giant_call_clip	The free hand thrust at the sky, the head thrown back
SUMMON	giant_roar_clip	The arms spread wide, the chest out, the head back

The raiders

Each raider has a PartyMind and a role. PartyRole is a type with is_valid.

Raider	Role	Style	Health	Where they stand	What they do
A shieldwoman in plate	TANK	The mace	900	2.8 m before the warden	Taunts the warden when it fights another member; guards a cleave; strikes when it is open
A monk	HEALER	Magic	420	5 m behind the player, away from the warden	Mends when a member falls below 60 percent of their health, at most once each 7 seconds; else casts bolts; revives a fallen raider
An axeman in a knight's harness	STRIKER	The axe	520	2.6 m behind the warden	Light attacks in a chain, and a heavy attack
A huntress in a ranger's green	ARCHER	Archery	450	11 m off the warden's flank	Quick shots, and an aimed shot every third

Every raider steps out of a zone as it winds up, and dodges out of it at 80 percent of its wind-up. When a rockfall marks a member, every raider gathers on them.

Foes go for the raiders too. Each bandit and wolf goes for the nearest of the player and the raiders who stand with them. Its blows strike that member. So the wolves that the warden summons go for the healer and the archer, and the tank must stand between. The attack token, which lets one foe at a time attack, is for the player alone.

A fallen raider lies in the fight. A member who stands within 1.6 meters of them for 2.5 seconds, holding the use button, revives them with 40 percent of their health. Out of the fight, a fallen raider stands up after 10 seconds.

The loot

The fallen warden gives 60 coins, 3 herbs, and 400 experience to the style the player fights in. It comes back to its home after the fight's respawn time.

What shows

extensions/village/raid_hud.mojo draws these parts over the frame:

• The warden's bars, at the top: its name, its health, its poise, its phase or STAGGERED, and the time to its enrage. While a linked strike is ready, HEAVY: LINKED STRIKE shows under them.
• The party, on the left: each raider's role and health, or DOWN and how far a revive has gone.
• The zones and the mark, on the ground: see above.

In a game of many players

In a game of many players, a player stands in each raider's place, and the mind stays out of it. The library holds no networking. Boss holds no scene, and decides from a BossSight alone, so a game can run it wherever it likes. Its dice come from its seed, so the same fight plays the same way on each machine. See Village netcode for the hooks.

Limits

• A knife thrower throws at the player alone.
• The fight is not saved. A new game starts with the warden at full health.