Glitchcraft

GlitchCraft

(Doc with more info: docs.google.com/document/d/1yOccyTCb-vL6oxDDPAx…)

Reality is breaking. Glitch Rifts tear open around you, spread a corruption that eats the world, turn mobs into broken versions of themselves and make your game "lag". Fight it, harness it, or face FATAL ERROR.

What it adds

• Glitch Rifts open near players at night and in thunderstorms, on land or in water, and drop a Glitch Heart.
• Six Threat Levels, each with its own Heart color, zone size, mob strength and rewards.
• Spreading corruption that turns ground into missing-texture blocks, stone into Datastone, trees into glitched logs and leaves, and ores into Glitch Ore.
• Every mob has a glitched version. Any mob that touches a zone, including mobs from other mods, becomes a glitched copy of itself. Glitched copper golems sort items badly: sometimes they dupe a stack, sometimes they delete it.
• Glitch mobs: Glitch Walkers, Glitch Crawlers, Pixel Wraiths, Software Bugs, Packet Loss, the Glitch Golem mini-boss and the Trojan Horse (it looks like a normal horse... until you ride it).
• Four bosses: FATAL ERROR, MEMORY LEAK, the Glitched Wither and SEGFAULT, which forks a copy of itself every time you hit it. Leave FATAL ERROR underwater and it turns into DROWNED ERROR, which calls glitched drowned riding glitched zombie nautiluses and drops the Glitched Trident.
• Out of Bounds: clip through the floor of the world with a Null Pointer and land on the empty plane underneath, full of Loot Vaults. The chunk reloads you out after three minutes.
• The Void Buffer, a new dimension of floating corrupted islands reached through a Firewall portal, with its own creatures (Byte Hounds you can tame, Void Rays, Shardbacks, item-hoarding Cache Crabs and Datakin traders), ores, structures and fully glitched villages.
• Data Storms: some thunderstorms turn into a storm of raw data. The clouds turn glitched, Glitch Shards rain from the sky, data bolts strike and Packet Loss swoop in.
• Structures: rift structures that outlive their rift, rare Overworld ruins and half-glitched villages, and Void Buffer towers.
• Gear: Glitchium tools and armor, the Glitchium Spear, the Glitched Trident, the Null Blade, Glitch Bow, Grapple Hook, two glitched music discs, an upgradable Rewind Clock (5, 10 or 15 seconds), water gear (Rebreather Chip and Riptide Drive), Backup Save, Blink Drive, Memory Card, Cache Claw, pads, traps and more.
• Building blocks: Glitch Bricks with stairs, slabs and walls, Chiseled Glitch Bricks, Polished Datastone, Glitched Glass, Flicker Lamps and Missing Texture Blocks.
• The Glitched Enchanting Table and eight glitch enchantments: Lag Switch, Data Siphon, Phase Shift, Rubber Band, Duplication, Aimbot, Desync and Antivirus.
• The Glitched Beacon, built from a Glitched Wither Star, with four new effects: Frame Skip, God Mode, Dupe Glitch and Low Gravity.
• Cinematics: screen shake, camera pans, letterbox bars and title cards for rifts, bosses and System Restore.

Threat Levels

Level · Name · Spawn chance · What changes
1 · Minor · 40% · Small zone, few weak mobs
2 · Moderate · 25% · Slightly larger zone
3 · Serious · 16% · Tougher mobs, Debug Labs
4 · Severe · 10% · Pixel Wraiths, Signal Towers
5 · Critical · 6% · Glitch Golem mini-boss
6 · Catastrophic · 3% · Largest zone, strongest mobs, Void Buffer portals

Stopping it, or using it

Break a Heart and its zone heals. Patches, Reality Stabilizers, Firewalls and Reality Anchors keep the glitch out of your base. Or tame a Heart with a Containment Harness into a Glitch Core that produces Glitch Shards and powers a Duplicator. Defeating FATAL ERROR runs a System Restore that heals the whole world.

Getting started

You get the GlitchCraft Manual the first time you pick up a Glitch Shard. It explains everything in game. Every item also has a tooltip that says what it does, and the GlitchCraft creative tab has it all.

Recipes

Every item also has a tooltip in game, and the GlitchCraft Manual explains how to get the rest (Hearts, ores and boss drops).

Requirements

• Fabric Loader and Fabric API
• Minecraft 1.21.11 or 26.2 (pick the matching version file)
• Needed on both the client and the server (it works on dedicated Fabric servers)

Rifts can be tuned or turned off with /glitchcraft settings and /glitchcraft rifts on|off.

Changelog

1.3.0

• SEGFAULT, a fourth boss. Overload a Glitch Core by using Source Code on it and SEGFAULT climbs out. Every few hits it forks a stack frame: a weaker copy of itself that flanks you. Let eight frames pile up and it runs out of memory, wipes the stack and heals back to full, so you have to clear the frames as fast as you make them. Killing it unwinds the whole stack at once.
• Out of Bounds, the space under the world. SEGFAULT drops a Null Pointer: right-click it to fall through the floor onto an endless missing-texture plane under a black sky, with Loot Vaults (Glitch Shards, Glitchium, Null Fragments, Source Code, rare gadgets) and Pixel Wraiths. You get three minutes before the chunk reloads and puts you back exactly where you left; right-click the Null Pointer again to leave early.
• Three new advancements: Core Dumped, Out of Bounds and Never Meant to Be Here.
• Source Code is no longer only a Rewind Clock ingredient.
• Fixed: GlitchCraft recipes never showed up in the recipe book.
• Fixed: a Rubber Band cooldown could carry over into another world.
• Fixed: a thrown Glitch Pearl showed an untranslated name.

1.2.0

• Glitched Trident: only dropped by DROWNED ERROR (it wields one). Hits harder against glitch mobs; thrown in water or rain, it arcs to up to 3 nearby monsters, and a moment after it lands it lags straight back into your inventory. Can't be duplicated.
• Glitched Enchanting Table (an enchanting table ringed with Glitch Shards and Glitchium Ingots): works like the normal table but only rolls GlitchCraft enchantments. New ones:
• Lag Switch (weapons, I-III): 5% per level that a hit freezes the target for 1.5 seconds. Bosses are immune. Can't go with Desync.
• Data Siphon (weapons, I-II): melee hits heal you for 10% per level of the damage, up to 1 heart a hit.
• Phase Shift (chestplates, I-III): 4% per level that a hit phases straight through you.
• Rubber Band (boots): falling into the void, into lava or to your death snaps you back to solid ground instead. 2-minute cooldown, costs the boots 20 durability.
• Duplication (tools, I-II): 5% per level that a mined block drops double. Can't go with Fortune or Silk Touch.
• Aimbot (bows, crossbows, tridents, I-II): your shots curve gently onto monsters you nearly hit.
• Desync and Antivirus now come from the Glitched Enchanting Table instead of the normal one.
• New effect, Exploited: your own Glitchium weapons (Glitch Blade, Glitchium Sword, Glitchium Spear, Glitched Trident and Desync) now Exploit what they hit instead of Glitching it. The target is 20% slower, has 30% less armor and hits 15% weaker, and it no longer teleports out of your reach.
• Fixed: Rewind Clock II and III only played back 5 seconds of the rewind before snapping you back. Now every clock plays its whole rewind, and the longer ones play faster so they take as long as a Rewind Clock I.

1.1.0

• Glitchium Spear (a Glitchium Ingot and two sticks, diagonal): hits harder against glitch mobs and Glitches whatever it hits. A charged hit desyncs the target 2 to 4 blocks to the side (not bosses).
• Glitched drowned now ride glitched zombie nautiluses: in water rifts at Threat Level 2 and up, and half of DROWNED ERROR's minions.
• Glitched copper golems: a copper golem that gets glitched keeps sorting, but sometimes dupes the stack it's carrying and sometimes deletes it.

1.0.0

• DROWNED ERROR: keep FATAL ERROR underwater for 10 seconds and it turns into its drowned variant. It swims after you, throws tridents and calls glitched drowned. Its trident moves replace the blink, so it can't pop out of the water.
• DROWNED ERROR drops Waterlogged Data, which crafts two pieces of water gear:
• Rebreather Chip (4 Waterlogged Data around a Glitchium Ingot): anywhere in your inventory, you breathe, see clearly and swim fast underwater.
• Riptide Drive (a Blink Drive plus 3 Waterlogged Data): in water or rain, launches you the way you're looking.
• New Glitch Pearl texture, so it no longer looks like the Blink Drive.
• Tested on dedicated Fabric servers for 1.21.11 and 26.2.

0.13.0

• The Rewind Clock can be upgraded: Rewind Clock II rewinds 10 seconds and Rewind Clock III rewinds 15. Each upgrade is the previous clock plus 2 Source Code and 2 Glitchium Ingots.

0.12.1

• Two music discs, Error 404 and Blue Screen: found in glitch structure chests, or dropped by a Creeper killed by a Skeleton.
• New Grapple Hook texture.
• Fixed: a Data Storm carried over into the next world you opened, and its Packet Loss could linger after a reload.
• Fixed: a Grapple Hook pull carried between worlds and through portals.
• Fixed: glitched storm clouds showed outside the Overworld.
• Item tags now have names in recipe viewers.

0.12.0

• Data Storms: about 1 in 3 thunderstorms becomes a two-minute Data Storm. The clouds go glitched (thicker, lower, violet, flashing magenta, cyan and black), shards rain down, data bolts strike and Packet Loss swoop in. /glitchcraft datastorm start|stop.
• Byte Hounds can be tamed with Glitched Flesh. They follow you, fight for you and sit on command.
• New Void Buffer creature: the Cache Crab, which hoards loose items. It drops the Cache Claw, an item magnet.
• Glitch Brick Stairs, Slab and Wall, Chiseled Glitch Bricks and Polished Datastone.
• Two new advancements: Good Boy.exe and Clear Cache.

0.11.0

• First public release.