Combat

Combat on Sunday Market is vanilla refreshed, not replaced. Vanilla swing timing, vanilla damage formulas, vanilla mob AI — all preserved. The custom layer adds:

• 80+ custom enchantments (combat, defensive, utility)
• Recovery chests so death doesn't erase your kit
• A few mob behavior tweaks for quality of life
• Rank-tiered death-recovery windows

Players who love vanilla combat: it's still here. Players who want depth: enchantments and gear builds give it.

What this section covers

• PvP — when PvP is on, consent rules, opt-in zones
• Death & recovery — what happens when you die, the recovery chest flow

What's vanilla

• Sword swing timing and damage formulas
• Bow draw mechanics
• Mob spawn rules (with very minor tweaks for performance)
• Crit hits, knockback, sweeping edge
• Mob AI and pathfinding
• Status effects (poison, regen, weakness, strength)
• Armor damage reduction formulas

What's tweaked

• Recovery chests — your inventory at death lands in a personal locked chest at the death spot, with a window of 5–60 minutes (rank-scaled) to recover. See Recovery chests.
• Death penalty — small coin loss with a 30-second cooldown. Doesn't ruin your wallet for normal combat.
• No keep-inventory — death drops your inventory; the recovery chest catches it. This preserves the death-cost while removing the punitive "lost it all" sting.
• Mob behavior — mobs ignore rails (no more mobs breaking your minecart tracks); pets are immune to owner damage; phantoms only attack genuinely AFK / insomniac players.
• Sleep ignores nearby mobs — vanilla rule says you can't sleep with mobs nearby; ours lets you sleep at your safe-zone base regardless.

What's added

• 80+ custom enchantments — see Enchantments
• Last Call — the signature combat enchantment; harder swings when bloodied
• Lifesteal, First Strike, Vein-Miner-on-mobs, and many more
• Custom armor — set bonuses, escape clauses, environment-specific protection
• Brews with combat effects — Bloody Mothra (Strength + Regen), Hellfire Shot, Sakura Sake (Regen)

The signature enchant

Last CallSignature

Lvl 3

SwordAxe

Damage scales up as your HP drops. Below ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥5/20, every hit lands at +60% (Lvl I), +90% (II), or +120% (III). Built for the "I'm cooked anyway" comeback swing.

A typical PvE loadout

PvE strategy

• Solo mining and exploring — armor + decent weapon + recovery-chest awareness; you can survive most things
• Boss fights — bring a Bloody Mothra brew, equip Last Call gear, drink before engagement
• Cave clearing — Vein Miner on a hammer + a sword swap for clearing mob spawns
• Nether trips — Fire Protection + Nether Affinity armor; the overhauled Nether is dangerous
• End trips — Ender Slayer weapon + End Affinity armor + a feather-falling boots for the void

PvP strategy

The full PvP page covers consent rules, zones, and combat tactics: PvP. Short version:

• PvP is off in spawn, on outside spawn (with consent — see the page)
• A losing PvP fight still drops your inventory to a recovery chest
• Last Call signature works in PvP (you're a more dangerous opponent at low HP)
• Coordinate with willing opponents; don't ambush peaceful players

Why combat matters here

Sunday Market doesn't have a class system, skill trees, or RPG-style combat. We deliberately avoid that. Combat is vanilla mechanics deepened by build choice — your gear and enchantments are your specialization.

This means:

• A new player and a Legend share the same combat formulas
• The Legend's advantage is gear depth, not stat advantages
• A skilled new player can outplay a casual Legend
• Builds matter; raw rank doesn't substitute for gear and timing

This is the "no RPG" principle (see design philosophy) made concrete in combat: mechanical depth, not arbitrary stats.

See also

• Last Call enchantment — the signature combat enchant
• Weapons enchantments — combat enchant catalog
• Armor enchantments — defensive options
• PvP rules — what's allowed in PvP
• Death & recovery (storage side) — the storage perspective