DROPKICKS?

🦶 Dropkick

**Fight with your feet.** Dropkick adds snappy kicks, flying dropkicks, a skill-based parry, and an anime-style **cinematic ultimate**, all with custom animations in both first and third person.

> ⚠️ **Requires Player Animator** (Forge 1.20.1). Install it on the client **and** the server.

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🥾 Kick: V

A fast front kick that launches mobs back.

• In first person you actually **see your leg** swing up into view.
• **Kicks doors open (or shut).** Wooden doors, **iron doors**, trapdoors and fence gates. No redstone needed.

🚀 Dropkick: G

Launch yourself forward feet-first, body flat in the air.

• Hit a mob and it goes **flying**, while you bounce off it.
• **Bursts doors open** as you fly through them, iron doors included.
• No fall damage from your own dropkick. One per jump.

🛡️ Parry: hold R

Raise your guard. When something hits you while you're guarding:

• Time freezes on the attacker, the camera pulls back, and a **random WASD combo** appears on screen (e.g. W - D - S - A).
• **Nail it:** you take **no damage**, the attacker loses **half its max HP**, you counter-kick it, and your parry is ready again instantly.
• **Miss a key or run out of time:** the hit lands and your parry goes on cooldown.
• Your on-screen keys follow your own movement bindings.

💥 Ultimate Dropkick: B

Unlock it with **/dropkick unlock**, look at a mob, and press B. Then watch a **~10 second cutscene**:

1. You appear behind your target and **shove it back**.
2. A low angle from behind the mob: **you're hanging in the air right in front of its face.**
3. Slow zoom on the mob's face as it **looks up at you**.
4. A close-up of you glaring down.
5. **DROPKICK TO THE FACE.** Black/white/red **impact frames**, hit-stop, and a title slam.
6. The mob is **launched through every block in its path** while the camera **chases it at high speed** with speed lines…
7. …until it **explodes**.

Letterbox bars, camera shake, handheld wobble, fades: the full cinematic treatment. You're invulnerable during the cutscene. Unbreakable blocks (bedrock) stop the flight.

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⌨️ Commands

Command	Who	What
/dropkick unlock [players]	anyone for self*, op for others	Unlock the ultimate
/dropkick lock [players]	anyone for self*, op for others	Lock it again
/dropkick status	anyone	Check your ultimate / cooldown
/dropkick resetcooldown [players]	op	Reset all cooldowns
/dropkick disable [players]	op	Turn **all** Dropkick moves off for someone
/dropkick enable [players]	op	Turn them back on

\* Server owners can require op for self-unlocking in the config.

⚙️ Config

Everything is tunable per world in serverconfig/dropkick-server.toml, and it's synced to clients:

• Kick / dropkick damage, knockback, reach, speed, cooldowns
• Whether kicks open doors
• Parry: number of keys, time window, cooldown, % of max HP taken
• Ultimate: range, cooldown, flight speed and duration, whether it breaks blocks, whether broken blocks drop items, damage to things it crashes into

🎮 Default keys

V Kick · G Dropkick · R Parry (hold) · B Ultimate. Rebind them under *Options → Controls → Dropkick*.

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Compatibility notes

• **Forge 1.20.1** (47.x). Needed on **both client and server**.
• The impact frames use a post-processing shader. With some shader packs they fall back to a simple flash.
• For the ultimate's chase cam, keep flightSpeed × flightTicks within your render distance (the default is ~90 blocks).

Credits

Animations are played with **Player Animator** by KosmX.