Build-A-Golem: Custom Modular Golems

Why settle for one iron golem when you can build your own?
Build-A-Golem lets you design golems part by part in the Golem Creator: pick a pumpkin head tier, a torso, two arms and legs from 34 vanilla blocks. Every block changes its health, damage and speed and brings its own ability, and the golem is textured with the real blocks you used. Then give it orders, level it up and send it into battle.

Features

• Modular golems: head, torso (2 blocks), left arm, right arm and legs. The torso sets health, the arms set damage, the legs set speed.
• 34 building blocks: clay, calcite, copper, lapis, end stone, prismarine, iron, gold, redstone, amethyst, emerald, diamond, obsidian, crying obsidian, netherite, magma, packed and blue ice, slime, sculk, bone, glowstone, TNT, quartz and 11 kinds of logs and stems.
• 24 abilities that stack when you mix blocks (the full list is below).
• Pumpkin head tiers: carved, copper, iron, diamond and netherite pumpkins multiply every stat by x1, x1.5, x2, x3 and x5.
• Pure Build bonus: torso, arms and legs of the same block give +25% to every stat.
• A unique look: the texture of each golem is baked from the blocks it is made of, so no two builds look alike. It cracks as it gets hurt.
• Orders: Wander, Follow (it walks with you and teleports when left behind) or Guard (it holds a spot and always returns to it).
• Veterancy: every monster it kills counts. Ten levels from Fresh to Legend, +5% health and damage per level.
• Portable: sneak + use folds the golem back into a Golem Core that keeps its parts, its kills and its level.
• Upgrade in place: use a better pumpkin on your golem to swap its head without rebuilding it.
• It defends its owner, helps you in fights, never attacks you, and iron ingots repair it.

Abilities

• Iron Core (iron): iron ingots repair 25 health instead of 15.
• Conductive (copper): immune to lightning, shocks melee attackers.
• Piglin Pact (gold): piglins leave the golem and its owner alone.
• Pristine Edge (diamond): takes 20% less damage.
• Ancient Resilience (netherite): immune to fire, lava and knockback.
• Merchant's Guard (emerald): heals near villagers, kills can drop emeralds.
• Resonance (amethyst): hits splash magic damage around the target.
• Unbreakable (obsidian): immune to explosions and knockback.
• Lament (crying obsidian): once, it cheats death and comes back at half health.
• Overclocked (redstone): regular bursts of speed.
• Enchanted (lapis): hits make enemies glow, kills drop extra experience.
• Aquatic Guardian (prismarine): Conduit Power and +30% damage underwater.
• Calcite Echo (calcite): hits push back every enemy around.
• Void Born (end stone): no fall damage, teleports away when badly hurt.
• Malleable (clay): heals in water and rain.
• Natural Symbiosis (logs and stems): heals on grass and dirt, but burns easily.
• Molten Fists (magma): sets enemies on fire, immune to fire.
• Frostbite (packed ice, blue ice): hits slow and freeze.
• Bouncy (slime): punches launch enemies into the air, no fall damage.
• Echo Roar (sculk): every 8 seconds, a warden sonic boom at a target 4 to 16 blocks away.
• Bonecrusher (bone block): +60% damage to undead.
• Radiant (glowstone): monsters within 16 blocks glow through walls.
• Volatile (TNT): explodes when it dies, hurting only monsters and breaking no blocks.
• Blessed (quartz): Regeneration for its owner and nearby villagers.

How to use it

• Craft the Golem Creator and open it. Put a pumpkin in the head slot, 2 blocks in the torso and 1 in each arm and the legs. The panel shows the stats and the abilities as you build.
• Press Assemble to get a Golem Core. Use it on a block and your golem comes to life.
• Right-click your golem with an empty hand: switch between Wander, Follow and Guard. The action bar shows its mode, level and health.
• Sneak + right-click with an empty hand: fold it back into its Golem Core.
• Right-click with an iron ingot to repair it, or with a better pumpkin to upgrade its head.

Requirements

• TONI's Core Lib (installed automatically by the CurseForge app).
• Fabric: Fabric API.
• The mod is needed on both sides: server and clients.

Versions

• Fabric and NeoForge: Minecraft 1.21 to 26.3
• Forge: Minecraft 1.21 to 26.3, except 1.21.2

Golems built with Golem Forge 1.0.0 keep working: the mod id is the same.

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