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Narthex: A Flying Bloodsword

Hello! Here it is! Starbounds first public flying sword!

This mod is NOT clientside, if you wish to play with this content with a friend or on a server, both you and your friend or server must also be subscribed to this mod. It may be incompatible with mods that use neb-narthex in their id or file paths.
It IS compatible with FU and Elithian Races Mod

Narthex
A Soul-bound Greatsword whose power is drawn from your own life-essence. It is as much a part of you as you are a part of it.
While in its idle state, it hovers beside/behind the user.
- Primary ability:
A fast 6 hit combo where you swing the blade around through your soulbinding connection to it. After each swing, it sits for a moment in place, allowing for chaining hits together. You can hold down LMB to auto combo. If too much time passes between each swing, it returns to its idle state. Has dynamic slash particles that follow the sword.
- Alt ability:
Call the blade to you hand, grab a hold of it and stab the sky, causing a blood explosion. The weapon becomes surrounding in an aura of blood. Have a fast regular sword combo where if SHIFT is held while swinging, the player will have lunges and movement during your combo. Using alt again in this state will cause the player to throw the sword into a slash, causing Bloodbursts on every enemy hit.

- All damage from this weapon inflicts Bloodhold.
- Bloodhold: Enemies killed with this effect causes a Bloodburst.
- Bloodburst: A blood explosion of that has damage scaling based on max health that inflicts Bloodhold.

WARNING - You can only obtain the sword naturally once per character, as it's progression is tied to the player.
Narthex can be obtained by visiting a Blood Altar, which can rarely spawn on any vanilla planet as a micro dungeon. It looks like a small ancient shrine with a bunch of pots and 2 obelisks on it. The first interaction will spawn the sword, a further interactions spawn Sanguine Powerstones.

You can guarentee a visit to a blood alter after defeating Asra Nox and talking to koichi through a short quest line that leads you to a guarenteed altar spawn.

You can also obtain Sanguine Powerstones from Narthex kills occasionally, at a (0.7 * world level)% chance of dropping.
To level the sword, you need to collect and crush Sanguine Powerstones, the sword starts at level 0 and levels up according to the amount of stones the player has collected, they also provide a short burst of healing.
[level] = Total stones used
[1] = 1
[2] = 3
[3] = 5
[4] = 8
[5] = 12
[6] = 17
[7] = 25
[8] = 35
[9] = 50
[10] = 100
Further stones have no benefit to level, and still heal the player.

- Leave any found bugs in the comment section along with your log, located in the local files "/Starbound/storage/starbound.log". Before sending it, to know it is the right one, enable the see file extensions option in the view settings at the top of the file explorer window on Windows. The correct one will have no numbers after log

- May adjust how the sword swings on a revisit, and make it have some tracking and dynamic movement in the swoosh, less rigid basically.
- In the future, if it is commissioned, I will make more flying weapons other than this one, these would all have unique features, as one commission request I had received would involve a wing of lightning blades, could be exciting!
- There may be more weapons related to Narthex and its themes introduced into this mod or another mod, will keep post updates in the Starforge discord if you're curious!

Neb: The swords unique systems, everything was made by me unless specified otherwise.
Credo or [cs]: Drew the sword, and the bloodstarved scrolls for the quest, absolute chad right here.
Teks Fox: Drew the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ brilliant thumbnail for me, 10/10
Ryan: For commissioning this mod and bearing with the roller coaster of my schedule.

Frykas: la creatura
Monica: object

I also have a guide for modding starbound, useful for beginners and veterans! Check it out here!

A teaser of my upcoming mods:
- TurretGuns
A series of weapons that have various forms, but all can be deployed with a turret form, which you can walk away from and use other weapons with while it is out. Pretty tactile!
- CityScaper
A mod similar to the architects table, but is relatively more versatile with some more freedom and control regarding how it works. Allows placing of dungeons and "rooms" which will let you build up cities really quickly! Will release with some modules that add custom modded "rooms" like Arcana or Knightfall!
- Revisualiser
The skin system, it will release very soon! This weapon actually already has 3 built in skins, so get excited for that!
- Animated Armours
This is a package of two mods. One will be the framework and system so other mods can use it, including vanilla compatible ones. And the other is a set of animations for vanilla armour sets to give them some life!
- The Geneforged - A Mewtwo Race Mod
A Mewtwo race, yes you heard me right, a whole ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Mewtwo race, will come with its own energy bar system called "Psionics" or "Psi" used for Geneforged weapons, techs and gear. There will be a custom progression system involving crafting tms and armour centralised around psi, there will also be custom ships, dungeons, maybe an outpost and much more!

If you wish to see ANY of the content I make, before it gets released join these servers, in order of how active I am:
The Starforge server[discord.gg]
The Starbound server[discord.gg]
My Discord Server[discord.gg]
The Eltihian Alliance server[discord.gg]

You can support me at Patreon[www.patreon.com], buy me a Ko-fi[ko-fi.com] or just give me money at PayPal[paypal.me]. Since I am a student at university and I am also employed, my time is scarce, so all modding efforts go towards commissions, and paid content. Supporters let me get more creative and have more freedom with my content as I wouldn't be wasting time.
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I am open to commissions, just DM me on discord at 'nebulox'

I don't play this game with people, please, please, please, please, please, please stop spamming me.
Don't add me on steam, just message me on discord, my friends list is way too cluttered as it stands right now.