Electric Saber
alaindustrial:electric_saber
Summary
The Electric Saber is the fifth item in the powered-equipment line and its first weapon: after the Electric Drill (stone), the Electric Chainsaw (wood), the Electric Shovel (earth) and the Electric Hoe (farmland), combat gets its turn. Same contract as the rest of the line: it runs on EU/FE instead of durability, never breaks, and on an empty buffer it degrades instead of switching off.
The saber has three states, and the player controls two of them:
| State | Damage | Reach | Cost | On the target |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charged and switched on | 12 | 4 blocks | 100 EU/FE per hit | Slowness II for 2 s + sparks |
| Switched off (shift-right-click) | 4 | 3 blocks | — | — |
| Flat | 4 | 3 blocks | — | — |
Twelve damage beats every vanilla sword (diamond 7, netherite 8) and our own tempered iron one (6.5). A full 10 000 EU/FE buffer lasts 100 hits; after that the saber hits for 4 — a stone sword's worth, which is still a weapon rather than a stick.
A live blade also reaches one block further: an energy edge is longer than a steel one. A flat saber swings at the vanilla 3 blocks.
The switch (shift-right-click) is the same ergonomic the Electromagnet has: the player decides when to burn charge. A switched-off saber spends nothing and hits like an ordinary sword — handy on the long walk home when slimes keep turning up.
Like the mod's other EU/FE items, the saber has no durability and never breaks: the bar under the icon shows charge (gold, the LV colour), not wear.
Energy
Its own EU/FE buffer, outside the energy network. It charges in the Battery Box slot, from a worn Energy Pack and on the Charging Station, and spends charge only on hits against living targets.
| What | Value |
|---|---|
| Role | powered melee weapon with an EU/FE buffer: a consumer at a charger |
| Buffer | 10 000 EU/FE |
| Charging | Battery Box slot / worn pack, ≤ 32 EU/FE/tick (capped by the LV ceiling) → a full charge in ~16 s |
| Drain | 100 EU/FE per hit on a living target |
| Idle drain | none |
| Component | (Long, persistent + network-synchronised) — shared by every powered item in the mod |
The drain happens server-side only, only after damage actually landed, and only for a player. Creative mode spends nothing.
Low-charge warning. When the charge falls below 10% of capacity, the owner hears a short beep and sees "Low charge: item name — N%" above the hotbar. The warning is personal: only the player using the item gets it. It fires once, on crossing the threshold; while the item stays below it and keeps spending, it repeats no more than once every 60 seconds, and an item picked up already low warns on its first spend. When what is left no longer pays for the next action (a block, a hit or a shot), a separate signal sounds and the line "Out of charge: item name" appears — once, until the item is charged back above the price of an action. Such an item never reaches zero: below the price of an action it works as a plain one, without the electric drive. Creative players and spectators get no warning. The switch is.
Inventory
Not applicable — the saber has no internal item storage (stacks to 1).
Block properties
Not applicable (item).
Recipes
Crafting — the line's usual frame with a diamond sword in the middle: a row of iron ingots on top, two batteries at the sides, two copper coils and an electronic circuit below. Charge held by the batteries carries over into the finished saber. The recipe unlocks once the player has a copper coil, an electronic circuit or a diamond sword (advancement recipes/misc/electric_saber).
- Repair — not applicable: there is no durability to mend; "repair" here means recharging.
Behaviour
- A powered hit. While the blade is on and the buffer holds at least 100 EU/FE, the saber deals 12 damage, spends 100 EU/FE per landed hit and leaves Slowness II on the target for two seconds along with a burst of electric sparks. Attack speed is 1.6 swings per second, a vanilla sword's rhythm.
- Reach. A live blade adds one block of attack reach (4 instead of 3). It is a real item attribute, so client and server agree on the distance and the line shows up in the tooltip next to the damage.
- The switch. Shift-right-click toggles the blade: a line appears above the hotbar, a metallic click plays, and the icon goes dark. A switched-off saber spends no EU/FE, hits no harder, reaches no further and shocks nothing — but it keeps its charge. A plain right-click does nothing, so the saber never gets in the way of other interactions.
- A flat saber. Below 100 EU/FE the damage drops to 4, the reach bonus and the discharge disappear and no EU/FE is spent. There is no message: the bar, the tooltip and the darkened icon already say it.
- Sweep. The saber is in
#minecraft:swords, so the vanilla sweep attack works. Without Sweeping Edge nearby mobs take 1 damage, like with any sword; with it the sweep is computed from the full 12 and hits considerably harder. - Enchantments. That same tag brings the whole melee set: Sharpness, Smite, Bane of Arthropods, Looting, Fire Aspect, Knockback, Sweeping Edge. Unbreaking and Mending can be applied but do nothing on an unbreakable saber — exactly as on the Drill.
- Blocks. Like a vanilla sword: instant through cobwebs and fast through leaves, bamboo and the rest of
#minecraft:sword_efficient. Breaking blocks costs no EU/FE and does not depend on charge. - Charging: the Battery Box slot, a worn Energy Pack and the Charging Station all take the saber automatically, up to 32 EU/FE/tick.
- Readouts: the bar under the icon shows charge (gold, LV colour). The tooltip lists the cost per hit, the blade state and "Charge: X / 10 000 EU/FE"; below the per-hit cost that line turns red. The texture switches to the dark variant when the saber is flat or switched off.
- Drop/death/relog: charge and switch position live in the item and persist.
- In creative: no charge is spent.
Progression
- The mod's first EU/FE weapon and the fifth item of the line; the combat branch is separate from the tool branch but shares the energy model and every charger.
- Available after the Battery Box and the battery: without LV infrastructure the saber can be neither crafted nor charged. The recipe also eats a diamond sword, so the saber replaces finished diamond gear rather than iron.
- LV tier. Its ranged partner is the Electric Bow.
Related
- Electric Drill, Electric Chainsaw, Electric Shovel, Electric Hoe — the tool half of the same line: same energy, same chargers, same unbreakability.
- Electromagnet — the shift-right-click switch this one copies.
- Fluxweave armour — the other item whose attributes follow its charge.
- Battery Box — where the saber charges (charge slot).
- Tempered iron tools — the mod's previous combat step.
Crafting
Shaped Crafting
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Electric Saber