⚔️ Engine Config: combat

This section controls custom combat behavior, including legacy mechanics, shield bonuses, attack cooldown modifiers, and how players or mobs interact during battle.

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🔑 Options

Key	Description
legacy-combat	Enables old defense formula (pre-1.9 style).
shield.block.block-rate-bonus	Bonus to BLOCK_RATE stat on vanilla shield block.
shield.block.block-damage-bonus	Bonus to BLOCK_DAMAGE stat on vanilla shield block.
shield.block.cooldown	Cooldown time (in ticks) after successful block.
disable-vanilla-sweep-attack	Disables sword sweep attacks (for AoE clarity).
compress-player-health-bar	Reduces health bar display to 10 hearts (visual only).
fishing-hook-do-damage	Allows fishing rods to damage entities via the hook.
bows-do-full-melee-damage	Allows bows to deal full damage in melee.
damage-modifier-for-cooldown	Modifies base damage based on attack cooldown (1.0 = vanilla).
max-get-target-distance	Max distance for target selection in skills and actions.

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🧪 Example

combat:
  legacy-combat: false
  shield:
    block:
      block-rate-bonus: 100.0
      block-damage-bonus: 35.0
      cooldown: 2
  disable-vanilla-sweep-attack: true
  compress-player-health-bar: false
  fishing-hook-do-damage: true
  bows-do-full-melee-damage: false
  damage-modifier-for-cooldown: 1.0
  max-get-target-distance: 30.0

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💡 Notes

• Legacy Combat is ideal if you're aiming to replicate older PvP behavior.
• Shield Bonuses apply directly to stats when a vanilla block event succeeds.
• Health Compression is purely cosmetic — it only affects the number of visible hearts, not actual health.
• Cooldown Modifier lets you soften or amplify the impact of Minecraft’s native attack delay system.

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🔗 Related

• engine-attributes – To ensure mobs or offhand items apply effects
• engine-lore – For visual formatting of shield and health data