The Balladeer: A Musical Buff Class

Note: Until Instruments updates, this mod will remain in pre-release and use Coral's temporary fork. Get it here.

Introducing the Balladeer!

 

The Balladeer is a utility-focused class which sacrifices a lot of utility with regard to mining and combat in exchange for buffing their fellow Seraphs instead.  As long as they are playing an instrument (specifically an ABC file*) they apply buffs to healing effectiveness, hunger rate, temporal decay, walk speed, and both melee and ranged attacks to any Seraphs within a 20m radius.

Note that this class is more than likely not well balanced, especially in single player where the Balladeer likely suffers without any friends to buff. Use at your own discretion.

 

Requires Instruments** and C&N Effects.

 

* More information about ABC files is available on the Instruments mod page.

** I also recommend Instruments QuackPack for some nice default instruments, including the accordion in the mod image (not needed with Coral's temporary fork).

 

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Buffs:

• Bard: While playing a song, grants +15% healing effectiveness, -20% hunger rate, +10% temporal charge, +10% walk speed, +10% mining speed, +25% melee and ranged weapon damage, and +10% ranged weapon accuracy and speed to all Seraphs in range.
• Fleetfooted: +10% walk speed
• Picky Eater: -5% hunger rate

 

Debuffs:

• Bard: While playing a song, applies +15% animal detection range to all Seraphs in range.
• Brash: +15% animal detection range (Optional since v2.0.0)
• Frail: -2.5 health points, -25% ranged distance (Optional since v2.0.0)
• Claustrophobic: -15% ore drop rate, -10% mining speed (Optional since v2.0.0)
• Overconfident: -15% melee damage, -15% ranged damage (Optional since v2.0.0)

 

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New with v2.0.0:

• Playable bone flute: A custom flute craftable from either a bone or a normal bone flute, exclusive to players with the Bard trait
• Frog-shaped guiro: Croak away on this carved wooden instrument
  • Note: Versions containing the frog guiro before pre.4 may accidentally broadcast certain notes at full volume. Get pre.4 or later to fix
• Configurable traits: Customize the class by enabling or disabling any of the static debuffs
• Bacon Bacon Bacon compatibility: Super secret item for those who are brave enough leave bacon cabbage on
  • Will ye fill the world with sounds of bacon and joy, or will ye tarry and toil in darkness and despair?
  • Now has its own configuration entry
  • Note: Versions containing the bacon flute before pre.4 may accidentally broadcast certain notes at full volume. Discovered while my server's bard was blasting Baby Park from Mario Kart: Double Dash to every player on the server. It was a nightmare of my own creation. Get pre.4 or later to fix.

 

Also, here's an ABC file for yinz saxophones!