Dude, I need de mod 🥶

Dude, I've quit Terraria modding since over a year ago

Dude, update the mod

I don't know :P
I mean, it probably would.
Also, https://tryitands.ee/

but does it work with Calamity though?

This seems cool! Might be pretty hard for a challenge.

I might do. I happen to be quite forgetful with my Terraria mods.

Hi can you update this mod for 1.4.4?

1.4.4 its update plz update this mod

I have no idea what is going on for you. In this mod's code, there is nowhere that changes the time so I do not understand.

strange bug:idk what causes this but it skips night? its only with this mod

sound nice, but or you going to make a mod that adds the Halo Shields and leave Max life as it is in the game itself?

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As I said, mod compatibility is not a priority. When I feel like the health system is fully fleshed out, then I will think about mod compatibility.

will u make this compatible with other mods

The fall damage immunity seems to be a misconception. Some research lead me to believe that players should still take fall damage if they have shield. Mod compatibility is not my main concern, but I might think about working on it after 0.3.

More trivia for both the author and people looking to try it out: Mods are wildly incompatible with shields. The infestation debuff from fargos straight up softlocks you, and you are immune to fall damage and to many damage over time debuffs, both vanilla and modded, like poison and calamity's overheating and daytime space burning.

Speaking of calamity, your adrenaline bar does not reset upon taking damage (since you technically took 0 damage) and since all of that mod's bosses are designed around players having limited hp, shields make them trivial, as you can just run away for 3 seconds, and return with full shields, ready to take a beating.

The shields having no defense has not made a large difference yet since they recharge so quickly, but I suspect late hardmode will be a challenge, where some bosses can do upwards of 300 damage in one hit.

Good idea! Having damage reduction actually reduce the shield sounds like a good alternative to defense. This mod is intended to be a challenge rather than an overhaul, mainly because this mod adds in a mechanic from a completely different game.

The fact is, defense plays a massive role in increasing your lifespan. Even 600hp without any defense is suicidal in expert hardmode, let alone master mode. I've currently only played this mod in master pre-hardmode, but I have ample (and painful) experience with 0 defense playthroughs, so in its current state, this mod is more akin to a challenge than a overhaul/sidegrade to normal hp mechanics.


One reccomendation I have is to make damage resist items like endurance and worm scarf have significantly more effect on shields, I'm thinking 33% for worm scarf and 50% for endurance (they add multiplicatively) so that shields can atleast cut master mode enemies' damage in half and allow you to tank more than 3 hits from a bat. Other than that I think having low defense but fast-regen health makes games much more exciting. Terraria before this mod felt slow, and I could not figure out why, but this mod has answered that.

@Jacob Kantor The only reason I added configuration options is because one guy on the tModLoader Discord did not like the sound effects. I do not plan on adding any other configuration options.

@BlueStag do you planning adding more options than turning off sound effects? would be great to customize shield parameters for example speed of recharge.

Version 0.2.1 is out now, fixing a small bug that events based on maximum health would not occur.

@zwetyk Oof. I'll get to fixing that right away.

hi, did you fix the fact that you can't get goblin army and nurse with this mod(one needs you to have 200+ hp, the other one needs you to have 120+ hp)

@The Bendu I was thinking about power ups like the overshield. Once I feel like this mod is right, I'll look into power ups. Armor lock does sound like a good idea.

add armor lock please

0.2 is out! This mod should be a little more balance now.

The next update will allow this mod to increase the amount of shields through other methods.

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It's a decent test. Hopefully the shield's defense and durability can be developed and balanced once the mod passes the required tests. I tested it on a Calamity Revengeance mode world and a Skeleton Archer completely destroyed my shield with one arrow (it did not damage my health, fortunately), but it's understandable as this mod is only testing the shield concept for now.

Look forward to see more and watch this mod grow.