Dead’s Mekanism Tweaks

Description

This project is an unofficial fork of Mekanism for Minecraft 1.21.1 NeoForge.

It is not a replacement for, continuation of, or official release from the Mekanism development team. All credit for the original mod, its systems, assets, and architecture belongs to the original Mekanism developers.

This fork exists only to provide a custom MekaSuit rebalance and expansion.

• Original Mekanism on CurseForge
• Original Mekanism on Modrinth
• Original Mekanism source code

Please do not report problems caused by this fork to the official Mekanism developers.

Do not install this fork alongside the original Mekanism release. It uses the same mod identity and is intended to replace it.

Changelog

MekaSuit Rebalance Fork — Initial Release

For Minecraft 1.21.1 NeoForge, based on Mekanism 10.7.19.

Armor and combat

• Removed the MekaSuit’s ability to convert stored energy into near-total damage immunity.
• Powered MekaSuit armor now behaves like high-end conventional armor.
• Players continue to lose health from meaningful attacks and remain killable.
• Full powered armor provides protection slightly stronger than Netherite.
• Defensive modules consume energy based on the damage or effect they prevent.
• Added safeguards against defensive modules combining into practical invulnerability.

Unpowered behavior

• Unpowered armor loses most of its enhanced protection.
• Wearing most or all of an unpowered suit applies Slowness and Mining Fatigue.
• Penalties are removed cleanly when sufficient power returns or the armor is removed.
• Powered modules stop functioning when their armor piece cannot supply enough energy.

Energy system

• Fixed every MekaSuit piece at 20,000,000 energy capacity.
• Full suit capacity is now 80,000,000 energy.
• Energy Unit modules can no longer be installed into MekaSuit armor.
• Added a configurable charging throughput limit for each armor piece.
• Removed unnecessary passive energy drain.
• Movement and utility systems primarily consume power while actively used.
• Defensive systems use high event-based energy costs during combat.

Environmental protection

• Added powered fire-damage reduction.
• Added powered lava-damage reduction with higher energy costs.
• Added strong freezing protection.
• Powered helmet breathing prevents drowning while sufficient energy is available.
• Preserved Mekanism’s existing radiation-protection behavior.
• Armor-bypassing sources such as void damage remain unaffected.

New modules

• Strength Enhancement Unit
• Knockback Stabilization Unit
• Arcane Dampening Unit
• Blast Dampening Unit
• Thermal Regulation Unit
• Fall Dampening Unit

Module behavior

• Strength Enhancement increases melee damage and consumes energy when an enhanced attack lands.
• Knockback Stabilization completely prevents knockback while enabled and powered.
• Arcane Dampening provides configurable magic-damage reduction across four levels.
• Blast Dampening reduces explosion damage without granting explosion immunity.
• Thermal Regulation improves fire and lava protection with event-based energy consumption.
• Fall Dampening completely prevents fall damage when the required energy can be paid.
• Fall-protection energy cost scales with the damage that would have occurred.

Existing modules

• Vision Enhancement now uses a small continuous energy drain while active.
• Locomotive Boosting now provides configurable movement bonuses across four levels.
• Higher movement levels have increasingly expensive energy costs.
• Movement energy is primarily consumed while the player is moving.
• Hydraulic Propulsion consumes energy when an enhanced jump is performed.
• Existing jetpack, elytra, nutritional, breathing, radiation, and module-configuration systems remain intact.

Content and configuration

• Added dedicated recipes for every new module.
• Updated recipes for several existing movement and utility modules.
• Added native-resolution Mekanism-style icons for all new modules.
• Added English names, descriptions, settings, and tooltips.
• Added configuration options for armor, energy, charging, environmental protection, module bonuses, and operating costs.
• Added reusable magic-damage detection based on Minecraft and NeoForge damage classifications.