Anvil

[opekope2]

Anvil is shown at 1:58-2:02 and 13:17-13:20, where the handlers couldn't lift it, because it's so heavy.

Attack damage: 40 (20 hearts), because that's the maximum amount of damage a falling anvil does + breaks shield (obviously), like an axe.
Equip time: 4 seconds → DPS: 5 hearts
Movement speed: -100% (can be bypassed by jumping)

Other mechanic ideas:

• Just like falling anvils, anvils could break, when attacking.
• Chipped and damaged anvil could damage less
• Equip time could be reduced with strength status effect (which is easier said than done, but possible)
• Breaking mechanics: instant break up to a certain hardness (to be discussed), but no break after that (because it's heavy, so you can't swing it)

[opekope2]

Another idea from CurseForge comments is to preduce or nullify jump strength. I don't yet know if I want to change vanilla mechanics this much.

[opekope2]

Preventing flight is very similar to it. Holding an anvil staff while flying would drag the player down

[opekope2]

Mojang just added some attribute modifiers in 24w06a, which make jump reduction possible without mixins. I'll definitely implement it once I port the mod to Minecraft 1.20.5.

[opekope2]

An idea I have is to instabreak blocks, which have less hardness than a certain value (0.3, 0.4, or 0.5), and disable breaking blocks harder than that (because "Steve can't swing an anvil fast enough")

[charmander9695]

that is a smart idea

[thr3zims]

There seems to be a glitch with this. If you put it in your off-hand and back to your main hand, It no longer reduces your movement speed.

[opekope2]

I'm aware of this 😅, not sure why Minecraft does this. I'll look into it

[opekope2]

I was curious how long it takes to be noticed

[FuryJack07]

How about instead of attributes, you use effects? Just check if a player is holding the anvil staff and then give them slowness 10

[opekope2]

If I use a different UUID for the offhand slowness, it solves the issue. No need for status effect. I'll fix it in the next release