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Fluxweave Chestplate

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Summary

Fluxweave armour is the mod's first full EU/FE set and the end of the fibre → flux thread → Fluxweave cloth chain. It is a utility suit rather than a tank: protection sits at the iron line, and what the player is really buying is the kit that switches on while the pieces hold charge.

The rule that matters: charge switches bonuses on, it never switches protection off. At zero EU/FE the set still works as ordinary armour of its material — it does not break, vanish, or lose a single point of defense.

Energy

Field	Value
Buffer (EU/FE)	15,000 per piece
Max input (EU/FE/tick)	32 (LV ceiling)
Passive upkeep	1 EU/FE/second per worn, charged piece
Event cost	200 EU/FE per half-heart of set-bonus regeneration

Charges in the Battery Box slot, from a worn Energy Pack, and from other mods' chargers through the item energy capability (insert only). A full buffer at 1 EU/FE/s lasts roughly four hours of wear.

Bonuses by slot

Every bonus is an attribute, not a potion effect: no particles, no HUD icons, no clash with real potions. They apply only while the piece holds charge.

Slot	Defense	Bonus while charged	Config
Helmet	2	Water breathing (a chance to skip an air tick, Respiration's own mechanic) plus swim speed	3, 50
Chestplate	6	Extra toughness against heavy hits plus knockback resistance	2, 10
Leggings	5	Run speed (passive) plus a toggleable step assist	12, 60
Boots	2	Partial fall-damage softening	50
Set 4/4	—	Slow regeneration below full health	200

The step assist starts switched off. A key binding turns it on (default G, under the Ala Industrial category). The flag lives on the leggings themselves, so it survives a relog and travels with the item. Auto-stepping changes how movement feels and does not suit everyone, so it waits to be asked for.

The boots do not cancel fall damage, they halve it. Cancelling it outright would trivialise a core survival rule, so the percentage is clamped to 90 in code — no config value can make falling free.

The set bonus requires all four pieces to be charged. Three live pieces and one flat one do not heal.

Item Properties

Field	Value
Durability	never spent (wear is paid in EU/FE)
Enchanting	yes, like ordinary armour (enchanting table, anvil)
Repair	tag → Fluxweave cloth
Toughness	1.0 base, +2 on a charged chestplate
Inventory bar	EU/FE charge, in the LV colour

Durability formally exists — the vanilla armour helper wires it — but is never consumed: the equippable component is built with damage-on-hurt switched off. The set therefore cannot break, and the bar in the inventory shows EU/FE rather than wear.

Appearance

Not armour worn over clothes but a single suit: the sleeves run to the wrist and the helmet closes over the head and stops at the mouth line, leaving only the mouth, chin and hands bare. The weave is light and silvery, with dark panel seams at the shoulders, belt, elbows and knees.

A charged suit runs at full brightness and reads at distance; a flat one darkens all over while keeping the same pattern. State is carried by brightness because this set has no gold accent.

Recipes

Each piece takes four different components: Fluxweave cloth, an electronic circuit, a battery and a tempered-iron frame. No recipe collapses to one material in a silhouette.

The charge held by the battery carries over into the finished piece (all four recipes are the type,: a full 2,000 EU/FE battery comes off the table already charged, so the bonuses are available straight away with no separate charging step.

Progression

Tier: LV Requires: the Galvanic Bath, then flux thread and Fluxweave cloth, plus a circuit, a battery and tempered iron. Next: the nano set (tier 2), where night vision and hunger slowdown were deliberately deferred.

Galvanic Bath — produces flux thread Tempered-iron armour — the ordinary set without EU/FE Energy Pack — the reference worn EU/FE item