Lichdom

Player in Lich Form, wearing Nameless Set and holding a Nameless Staff.

Lichdom is an endgame player transformation that gives them the characteristics of a lich. It is obtained by drinking the Potion of Transformation on a Full Moon. It cannot be reversed without using commands.

Obtaining

If "lichScrollRequirement" under goety.toml is enabled, in order to become a Lich, the player must find/craft Forbidden Pieces and Forbidden Fragments and use them to create the Forbidden Scroll.

The player then must read the scroll in order to be able to perform the Master Necroturgy Ritual, which is needed to craft the Potion of Transformation.

Master Necroturgy Ritual

This ritual has the same requirements as regular Necroturgy Rituals, except that recipes specifying this ritual requires the player to have read the Forbidden Scroll.

It is through this ritual that the Potion of Transformation can be created.

Requires a Villager or Wandering Trader to be sacrificed.

Transformation

The potion, when successfully drunk, turns the drinker into a lich. For a successful transformation, the player must:

• Have an active Arca.
• Drink the potion at night, during a Full Moon.

• Prepare for death (Have enough soul energy in Arca/Holding Totem of Undying offhand)

If the first two conditions are met, drinking the potion will deal 25 hearts of Wither damage and grant the player lichdom. The third condition is more useful to players playing Hardcore mode.

If the conditions are not met properly, the player will get the message "You didn't prepare yourself properly to drink the potion!"

Command

Players with permission level above 2 can use the command /lichdom to grant or revoke lichdom from either themselves or other players.

Abilities

Liches have several innate abilities, both beneficial and detrimental:

• Liches have constant Night Vision effect, if "lichNightVision" is enabled.
• Liches can transform from and into Lich Form by pressing the associated key (Default: N)

• Liches do not have a hunger bar. They can still eat food, but will never be full as their hunger level will constantly be at 17 ().
• Liches are immune to drowning and will never lose air.

• Liches don't get insomnia, preventing Phantoms from spawning on them.
• Liches heal from Instant Damage, while taking damage from Instant Health.
• Liches share immunity towards certain effects with other Undead mobs. (ie, Poison, Regeneration).
• Liches take more damage from Smite Enchantment.
• Liches cannot obtain Blindness, Nausea, Hunger and Saturation effects.
• Liches heal using soul energy. Amount, rate and cost can be configured.

• Liches take 1/2 damage from freezing attacks.

• Liches when punching an mob or a player with an empty hand gives them the Freezing effect.
• If a Lich hurts an entity with an item that's tagged under lich_wither_items (by default, has only air on it, meaning empty hand like above), and the entity in question is not Undead, the entity will also get Wither effect.
• If "lichUndeadFriendly" is enabled, Undead mobs are not hostile to Liches.

  • If a Lich wears the full Necro/Nameless Set, and has taken damage from an entity, every Undead within 16 blocks of the Lich will defend them.

    • If "lichPowerfulHostile" is enabled, this only applies to Undead that have less than 50 maximum hearts of health.

• Liches burn in daylight. Wearing a helmet or drinking Fire Resistance mitigates this weakness.

  • If "lichDamageHelmet" is enabled, being in daylight while not having Fire Resistance damages their helmet.

• Liches will always teleport towards their Arca regardless of the amount of soul energy they possess.

  • However, if they didn't have enough soul energy to have revive without Lichdom, they will gain Soul Hunger effect. If their Arca is removed, the Lich will die normally.

If "lichVillagerHate" is enabled, Liches will gain negative reputation with nearby Villagers, provided said Villager doesn't have a high-enough reputation for the player, and non-player made Iron Golems will be hostile towards them.

Liches also have special 'cantrips' they can cast by pressing certain keys:

• Pressing the "Lich Kiss" key (default: R), while looking at a mob or player will cause a ray of black particles to shoot out from the Lich towards the target. The target will take 0.5 hearts of magic damage from the ray and cause the Lich to gain soul energy.

• Pressing the "Lich Magnet" key (default: M), will cause all nearby items and experience points within 16 blocks of the Lich to fly towards them.

The cantrips requires no soul energy to perform.

Trivia

• The effects liches can be affected by are coded to depend on whether a Zombie can be affected by said effects, aside from Blindness, Nausea, Saturation and Hunger. For example, if a modded effect cannot affect zombies, it cannot affect liches.
• Liches returning to life at the arca is based on how DnD Liches were said to regenerate at their phylactery and are unable to truly die unless it's destroyed.