tModLoader Esper Class

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Wiki link here, still being updated for the 1.0 release

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This mod is for 1.3 only. If you're looking for the 1.4 port, it is rolled into a bigger mod: Cerebral Mod

There is a zip file at the bottom of this post containing the latest version of this mod to download, especially useful when the Mod Browser is down.

This open source mod adds a new class, the Esper, who uses telekinetic damage weapons. These are weapons controlled by the cursor, following it like the Magic Missile and Flying Knife. This is a playstyle that allows for the player to attack from around corners and anywhere on screen their weapons can reach.

The wiki for this mod contains a lot more details than listed in this forum post. It will take some time before it is fully updated to cover the new content added in 1.0.

This mod currently has a full release (1.0) on the Mod Browser. There's enough content up to cover the entire game, including post Moon Lord items. In general this mod covers...

  • New class, the Esper, that deals telekinetic damage.
  • Plenty of new weapons.
  • 6 new armor sets, plus 8 individual armor pieces.
  • Some new accessories.

  • The flying knife is now a telekinetic damage weapon.

This class uses a resource named psychosis. By default, players start with 10. Using Esper weapons drains this at a rate of 1 per second, 3 per second for a few Esper weapons. Should the player completely run out (with a bit of leeway below 0), they'll get the Psyched Out debuff, causing further use of Esper weapons to drain HP. In return, telekinetic crit chance is increased by 20% during this state. Psychosis will recover after a moment of not being drained.

Psychic Eyes
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Enemies can sometimes drop these, acting very similar to stars dropped by enemies. These recover 5 psychosis on pickup and is never directly added to the player's inventory. Pickup range increases with base max psychosis.

Lotus Petals
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These permanently increase max psychosis.

Tainted/Sanguine: Permanently increases max psychosis by 1, up to 15. Crafted from 2 corrupt/crimson seeds at a placed bottle or Alchemy Table.
Ancient: Permanently increases max psychosis by 1, up to 20. Requires at least 15 max psychosis. Crafted from 10 bones at a placed bottle or Alchemy Table.
Hallowed: Permanently increases max psychosis by 1, up to 25. Requires at least 20 max psychosis. Crafted from 3 hallowed bars at a placed bottle or Alchemy Table.
Solar: Permanently increases max psychosis by 1, up to 30. Requires at least 25 max psychosis. Crafted from 3 solar tablet fragments and 1 nanites at a placed bottle or Alchemy Table.

Sawblades
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These are the most common telekinetic weapons. They function like the Flying Knife, moving erratic like it.

  • Wooden: 4 damage
  • Rich Mahogany: 4
  • Boreal Wood: 4
  • Palm Wood: 4
  • Ebonwood: 5
  • Shadewood: 5
  • Dynasty Wood: 7
  • Copper: 6
  • Tin: 7
  • Iron: 8
  • Lead: 9
  • Silver: 10
  • Tungsten: 11
  • Gold: 12
  • Platinum: 13
  • Enchanted: 14. Found in underground gold chests.
  • Demon Thorns (Demonite): 15
  • Butcher's Barbs (Crimtane): 18
  • Grass Burr (Jungle): 20 + poisoned
  • Bonesaw (Dungeon): 20. Can be found in locked golden chests or Golden Lock Boxes.
  • Sawflame (Molten): 24 + on fire
  • Night's Shred (Night): 30
  • Giant Gear: 35. Drops from Wall of Flesh with 1/4 chance, 1/3 from treasure bag.
  • Pearlwood: 9
  • Cobalt: 27
  • Palladium: 30
  • Mythril: 33
  • Orichalcum: 36
  • Adamantite: 39
  • Titanium: 42
  • Hallowed: 48
  • Chlorophyte: 60
  • True Night's Shred: 72
  • True Fenrir's Teeth: 66
  • Spooky Wood: 72
  • Life Wheel: 72
  • Accretion Disc: 180. Has a damaging aura that takes a moment to reach full size. Drops from Moon Lord with 1/6 chance, 1/3 from his treasure bag.

Canisters
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These pour down damaging liquid every so often. They deal up to 40% more damage if they fall from high enough. The projectiles also get wider, also up to a limit, not shown in the above gif.

  • Slimy: 9. Drops from King Slime with 1/3 chance or 1/2 from his treasure bag.
  • Pink Slimy: 12. Crafted with Slimy Canister and 20 pink gel an anvil.
  • Vile (Demonite): 12
  • Blood (Crimtane): 17
  • Sludge (Jungle): 20 + poisoned
  • Gooey (Dungeon): 16. Can be found in locked golden chests or Golden Lock Boxes.
  • Lava (Molten): 25
  • Midnight (Night): 30
  • Liquid Nitrogen: 39 + custom slow debuff
  • Ichor: 39 + ichor
  • Hallowed: 48
  • Chlorophyte: 60
  • True Midnight Canister: 72
  • True Goldropper: 66
  • Nature’s Dew: 72

Rifts
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These fire projectiles at the nearest enemy while in use and the early game ones are crafted like gem staffs.

  • Amethyst: 11
  • Topaz: 12
  • Sapphire: 14
  • Emerald: 15
  • Ruby: 17
  • Diamond: 19
  • Amber: 21
  • Prism: 50
  • Shadowflame: 40 + shadowflame. Can drop from the Goblin Summoner.
  • Spectre: 96. Projectiles shoot and aim through solid tiles. Drops from Rusty Bones enemies.
  • Golem Head: 96. Shoots two projectiles at once, a fast laser and bouncing fireball. Drops from Golem or its treasure bag.
  • Sharknado Rift: 80. Fires a Sharknado that spawns a water tornado on impact. Drops from Duke Fishron or his treasure bag.

Bouncers
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These bounce against targets that they hit.

  • Cactus Ball: 8
  • Ebon Cactus Ball: 20
  • Crim Cactus Ball: 20
  • Cursed Bouncer: 48 + cursed flames
  • Pearl Cactus Ball: 64
  • Gravity Crasher: 300 + explodes on every few hits

Twirlers
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These rapidly damage targets, most of them causing On Fire! and a few different damage debuffs. These are crafted with 20 of a given torch.

  • Torch: 7
  • Frostburn: 8
  • Pinky: 10
  • Bright: 12
  • Bone: 13
  • Demon: 15
  • Cursed: 36
  • Ichor: 30
  • Rainbow: 40
  • Blizzard: 32 + custom slow debuff. Can drop from Ice Mimic.
  • Venom: 48
  • Mourning: 48. Spreads out Greek Fire. Can drop from Mourning Wood.

Boulders
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These can roll along the ground and can increased damage based on velocity, much like the Staff of Earth's projectiles.

  • Psi Boulder: 40
  • Bowling Ball: 60. Brought from the Traveling Merchant.
  • Molten Boulder: 80
  • Snowman Boulder: 120. Can drop from Frost Legion enemies.
  • Psi Thorn Ball: 200. Can drop from Plantera or her treasure bag.
  • Psi Pumpking Head: 200. Leaves Greek Fire when rolled on the ground with some horizontal speed. Can drop from Pumpking.
  • Psi Exploding Present: 600. Unlike other boulders, explodes on impact and damage isn't scaled by velocity. Can drop from Santa-NK1.

Jars
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These release homing projectiles every so often. They require shaking up and down a bit before they release projectiles. Once shaken, they last for 8 seconds before requiring more shaking, although this duration can be reset mid countdown with more shaking.

  • Bat: 10. Found in underground gold chests.
  • Eye: 15. Drops from Eye of Cthulhu with 1/3 chance, 1/2 from treasure bag.
  • Bee: 20 + benefit from Hive Pack. Crafted from 14 Bee Wax an an anvil.
  • Hellbat: 28. Found in Shadow Chests.
  • Pixie: 45. Can drop from Pixies.
  • Wasp: 75. Can drop from Planeta or her treasure bag.
  • Dead Doll: 40. Drops from The Possessed. Unlike other jars, this does not release homing projectiles, but rapidly drops down hair.
  • Beetle: 100. Can chase targets in water.
  • Eldritch Eye: 150. Chases through solid tiles. Drops from Moon Lord with 1/6 chance or 1/3 from his treasure bag.

Shooters
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These shoots projectiles in the direction they are facing from movement.

  • Spitting Sandfish: 16. Can be caught while fishing on the desert surface, with double catch chance during sandstorms. Much more likely to catch if the player character has yet to obtain one.
  • Super Spitting Sandfish: 36*3. Can be caught while fishing in the underground desert during Hardmode. Gains the same catching bonus as above if not yet obtained on a character.
  • Icicle Spitter: 48. Rapidly fires icicles with imperfect accuracy. Every second, fires a bigger, more damaging projectile. Drops from Ice Queen during Frost Moon.

Gusts
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These juggles up enemies with weak knockback resistance. Flying enemies are instead knocked down.

  • Feather: 11. Found in Skyware Chests.
  • Forbidden: 30

Orbiters
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These control via a harmless projectile that has 4 harmful orbitting projectiles around it.

  • Shadow: 15. 50% chance to be found in Shadow Orbs after the first one is broken.
  • Cursed Flame: 42. Can drop from Corrupt Mimic.
  • Psi Spike Ball: 288. Only orbits a single projectile that can only hit an enemy once ever 30 (as opposite to the usual 10), but with high knockback. Drops from Blue Armored Bones enemies.
  • Ornaments Orbit: 90. Orbits 8 projectiles. Drops from Everscream during Frost Moon.

Bombers
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This is a harmless projectile that releases timed bombs that explode after a moment, with no self harm or tile damage.

  • Clot: 30. 50% chance to be found in Crimson Hearts after the first one is broken.
  • Ichor: 72. Can drop from Crimson Mimic.
  • Impious Brooch: 72. Bombs leave a lingering explosion. Drops from Hell Armored Bones enemies.

Lobbers
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These lob out spiky balls in the direction it is facing, left or right.

  • Spiky Ball: 20. Drops from Goblin Army enemies with 1/100 chance, 1/50 on expert worlds.
  • Skeleton Bone: 48. Sold by the Skeleton Merchant during Hardmode.
  • Betsy Scorcher: 50. Rapidly blows down fire similar to one of Betsy's attacks. 1/2 chance drop from Betsy or 100% of the time from her treasure bag.

Psi Meteor
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This explodes on contact, dealing 60 damage in a radius not harming the user or causing tile damage.

Psi Cannonball
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200 damage. Like the Psi Meteor in mechanics. Drops from Flying Dutchman.

Psi Rockets
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150 damage. These explode like the Rockets sold by the Party Girl during Hardmode. Letting go of them in mid flight will cause them to rocket off in the direction they were facing. Crafted from 20 of any of the Party Girl's rockets.

Psi Prime Cannon
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200 damage. Drops bombs below it, not passing through platforms.

Psi Prime Saw
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60 damage.

Psi Prime Vice
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160 damage. Like the above, but hits much more slowly.

Psi Prime Laser
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64 damage. Acts like Rifts, except visually the weapon in use will face whatever target it is firing at.

Rolling Neutronium Core
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600 damage. Does not return on use and drains psychosis at triple the rate like other non-returning telekinetic weapons. Infects Irradiated on hit, a debuff that causes a powerful DoT during tis duration. Drops from Martian Saucers.

Binary Rays
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600 damage. Causes enemy immunity frames to last 30 frames. Spins around 2 laser beams.

Black Void Engine
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80 damage. Causes enemy immunity frames to last 6 frames. Sucks in enemies (unless they fully resist knockback) and items.

Non Psi weapons
These weapons mainly exist to give back to other classes if a weapon from them was converted into a telekinetic weapon, like the Flying Knife accounting for both melee and throwing.

  • Crystal Flail: 50 melee damage + Crystal Bullet like shades. Can drop from Big Hallowed Mimic independently of the Crystal Grenade.
  • Crystal Grenade: 60 throwing damage + Crystal Bullet like shades. Non-consumable. Can drop from Big Hallowed Mimic independently of the Crystal Flail.
Desert Wanderer armor
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Crafted from Antlion Mandibles and Silk at a Loom. Hood gives 2 defense and 15% increased telekinetic damage. Robe gives 4 defense and 20% increased telekinetic velocity. Boots give 3 defense and 10% increased telekinetic critical chance. Set bonus reduces life drain while using an Esper weapon with the Over Psyched buff by 25% and gives immunity to Mighty Wind.

Cambrian armor
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Crafted from Sturdy Fossils and Corals at an anvil. Helmet gives 3 defense and 18% increased telekinetic damage. Chestplate gives 5 defense and 25% increased telekinetic velocity. Greaves give 3 defense and 12% increased telekinetic critical chance. Set bonus gives free movement in liquid and makes Psi projectiles no longer slowed down by being in liquid.

Taurus armor
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Crafted from Black Lens (just the helmet), Lenses, and Bones at an anvil. Helmet gives 4 defense and 20% increased telekinetic damage. Chestplate gives 5 defense and 30% increased telekinetic velocity. Greaves give 4 defense and 15% increased telekinetic critical chance. Set bonus allows for Psi Dashing, which works in any cardinal direction. Costs 5 psychosis to use or 20 life if suffering from Psyched Out. Gives 20 immunity frames when used. Doesn't work if any vanilla dash accessory is equipped.

Wyvern armor
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Crafted from Wyvern Scales at a hardmode anvil. Cowl gives 8 defense and 18% increased throwing and telekinetic damage. Vest gives 16 defense and 30% increased throwing/telekinetic velocity. Greaves give 12 defense and 12% increased throwing and telekinetic critical chance. Set bonus increases wing flight time by 50%.

Lihzahrd armor
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Crafted from Solar Tablet Fragments and Nanites at a Lihzahrd furance. Mask gives 10 defense and 20% increased telekinetic damage. Chestplate gives 18 defense and 40% increased telekinetic velocity. Greaves give 14 defense and 12% increased telekinetic critical chance. Set bonus raises a secondary meter that appears on the Psychosis HUD. This increases based on psychosis spent. Once it reaches 30, it'll trigger an explosion at the controlling projectile with a base of 5,000 damage. This build up also multiples (not adds) telekinetic damage up to 30%.

Gravity armor
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Crafted from Luminite Bars and Gravity Fragments at an Ancient Manipulator. Helmet gives 13 defense, 15% increased telekinetic critical strike chance, and 12% increased telekinetic damage. Robe gives 16 defense, 50% increased telekinetic velocity, and 12% increased telekinetic damage. Leggings gives 13 defense, 20% increased movement speed, and 12% increased telekinetic damage. Set bonus allows summoning of a single gravity field at a time, that sucks in enemies (except knockback immune ones) for minor damage and increases flight time while inside. Gravity field is summoned either by double tapping down or up depending on vanilla armor set bonus key config.

Hardmode Ore Headwraps
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Crafted like the other hardmode ore helmets. These increase Esper class stats, along with getting the special effects of any alternate and Chlorophyte hardmode ores.
Psychosis Potions
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These potions restore psychoics, lesser at 10, normal at 20, greater at 40, and super restores all. Using any of these damages the player by the amount of psychosis recovered.

Alertness Potion
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Buffs telekinetic velocity by 30% for 5 minutes. Crafted from bottled water, lens, and death weed at a placed bottle or Alchemy Table.

Focus Potion
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Buffs telekinetic critical chance by 12% for 5 minutes. Crafted from bottled water, lens, and fire blossom at a placed bottle or Alchemy Table.

Will Potion
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Buffs telekinetic damage by 20% for 5 minutes. Crafted from bottled water, lens, and moon glow at a placed bottle or Alchemy Table.
Vial Necklaces
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These imbue telekinetic attacks with debuffs, similar to the Magma Stone for melee attacks.

  • Fire: Enchants telekinetic attacks with pyrokinesis, enabling a chance to cause 'On Fire!' on hit. Crafted with 12 iron/lead bars and 20 gel at an anvil.
  • Frost: Enchants telekinetic attacks with cryokinesis, enabling a chance to cause 'Frostburn' on hit. Crafted with 5 demonite or crimtane bars and 50 ice blocks at an anvil.
  • Poison: Enchants telekinetic attacks with toxikinesis, enabling a chance to cause 'Poisoned' on hit. Crafted with 8 stringers at an anvil.
  • Cursed Flames: Enchants telekinetic attacks with chlorokinesis, enabling a chance to cause 'Cursed Flames' on hit. Crafted with 15 cursed flames at a Hardmode anvil.
  • Ichor: Enchants telekinetic attacks with hemokinesis, enabling a chance to cause 'Ichor' on hit. Crafted with 15 ichor at a Hardmode anvil.
  • Shadowflame: Enchants telekinetic attacks with umbra-pyrokinesis, enabling a chance to cause 'Shadowflame' on hit. Can drop from the Goblin Summoner.
  • Midas: Enchants telekinetic attacks with aurokinesis, enabling a chance to cause 'Midas' on hit. Can drop from the Flying Dutchman.
  • Venom: Enchants telekinetic attacks with venokinesis, enabling a chance to cause 'Venom' on hit. Sold by the Witch Doctor after Plantera is defeated.
  • Terra: Enchants telekinetic attacks with a lot of kinesis, enabling a chance to cause many debuffs on hit. Crafted with all the above vial necklaces, plus 1 beetle husk, 6 shroomite bars, and 3 ectoplasm at a Tinkerer's Workshop.

Orb Necklaces
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These increase the player’s Psi dodge chance. Once a Psi dodge is performed, the 'Less Steps Ahead' debuff is infected, preventing anymore Psi dodges for 5 seconds. This chance caps out at 25%.

Enchanted: Gives 5% chance to Psi dodge attacks. Crafted from 5 gold/platinum bars and 5 obsidian at an anvil.
Night: Gives 10% chance to Psi dodge attacks. Crafted from 5 shadow scales or tissue samples, 2 stingers, 5 bones, and 3 hellstone bars at a demon/crimson altar.
Hallowed: Gives 15% chance to Psi dodge attacks. Crafted from 5 hallowed bars at a Hardmode anvil.
Shroomite: Gives 20% chance to Psi dodge attacks. Crafted from 12 shroomite bars at a Hardmode anvil.
Gravity: Gives 25% chance to Psi dodge attacks. Crafted from 3 luminite bars and 6 gravity fragments at an Ancient Manipulator.

I-Ching
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These increase the player’s psychosis recovery.

Enchanted: Increases psychosis recovery by 20%. Crafted from 5 gold/platinum bars and 5 obsidian at an anvil.
Night: Increases psychosis recovery by 40%. Crafted from 5 shadow scales or tissue samples, 2 stingers, 5 bones, and 3 hellstone bars at a demon/crimson altar.
Hallowed: Increases psychosis recovery by 60%. Crafted from 5 hallowed bars at a Hardmode anvil.
Spectre: Increases psychosis recovery by 80%. Crafted from 12 spectre bars at a Hardmode anvil.
Gravity: Increases psychosis recovery by 100%. Crafted from 3 luminite bars and 6 gravity fragments at an Ancient Manipulator.

Runes
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These increase the player’s max psychosis.

Enchanted: Increases psychosis by 3. Crafted from 5 gold/platinum bars and 5 obsidian at an anvil.
Night: Increases psychosis by 6. Crafted from 5 shadow scales or tissue samples, 2 stingers, 5 bones, and 3 hellstone bars at a demon/crimson altar.
Hallowed: Increases psychosis by 9. Crafted from 5 hallowed bars at a Hardmode anvil.
Beetle: Increases psychosis by 12. Crafted from 8 beetle husks at a Hardmode anvil.
Gravity: Increases psychosis by 15. Crafted from 3 luminite bars and 6 gravity fragments at an Ancient Manipulator.

Charm Necklaces
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These combine Orb Necklaces, I-Ching, and Runes into one. These are crafted with those accessories of the same tier at a tinkerer's workshop.

Esper Emblem
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Increases telekinetic damage by 15%. Drops from the Wall of Flesh with a 25% chance or 33% chance from its treasure bag. Can be crafted into an Avenger Emblem the same way the vanilla emblems can.

Mystical Eyeglass
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Allows zooming with right click while holding an Esper weapon. Sold by the Wizard.

Extravagant Eyeglass
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Allows zooming with right click while holding an Esper weapon. 15% increased telekinetic damage. Crafted with an Avenger Emblem and Mystical Eyeclass at a Tinkerer's Workshop.

Gravity Barrier Platform
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The end game wings for Esper. Holding down and jump allows for hovering much like the hoverboard. When flight time is nearly out, uses psychosis to maintain flight. Will not work during Psyched Out debuff or if anything sets flight time to 0 frames. Crafted with 14 gravity fragments and 10 luminite bars at an Ancient Manipulator.
Gravity Tools
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Includes Pickaxe, Hamaxe, Drill, Chainsaw, Axe, and Hammer. Drill behaves much like 1.4 end game drills. Chainsaw has faster use time compared to axe and hamaxe. Crafted with gravity fragments and luminite bars at an Ancient Manipulator.
Wyvern Scales
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These drop one a piece from Wyverns, solely used to craft Wyvern armor.

Broken Hero Psychic Parts
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Drops from Mothron with a 33% chance normally or 50% chance on expert worlds. Used to craft this mod's True weapons.

Gravity Fragment
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Drops from the Vortex Pillar.

  • Sawblades can get stuck on slopes.
  • Shooters (currently the Spitting Sandfish and Super Spitting Sandfish) can be hard to aim when the screen scrolls.
  • Gravity Barrier Platform will display even when on the ground. Recommended to toggle accessory visibility off for it.

  • More weapons, armors and accessories.
  • Cross mod support to add new weapons and items to fit within the themes of the mods.
  • Better balancing.
  • Add weapons for the following: 1 more Duke Fishron and Martian Madness, and ocean biome chest.
  • Add Esper buff station.
  • Right click function to hold certain Esper weapon types in place.
  • Possible Twirlers rework to be unique.
  • Custom prefixes.

  • Re-Logic: For creating Terraria.
  • tModLoader Development Team: For creating tModLoader.
  • Esper Class Mod Development Team: For making this mod possible.
  • Danny Ω: Former spriter.
  • imkSushi: For cross mod support.
  • Caseratis: For cross mod support.
  • Joost8910: For cross mod support.
  • Geronimo: For cross mod support with Geronimo's Tinkerings mod.
  • Verveine: For some help, including a bit of sprites.
  • Jazzmin (via Discord): For reporting most of the hopefully fixed bugs in 0.6.1's release.
  • direwolf420: For some netcode help.
  • Peb (via Discord): Making the new sound effects.
  • Jook Nookem (via Discord): Some sprite help.
  • Logar (via Discord): Some sprites.

  • TheLoneGamer: Lead design.
  • Technotoad64: Lead spriter.
  • Jook Nookem: Spriter.
  • DomLutch: Spriter.
  • Peb: Sound designer.
  • Logar: Spriter.

This is currently content in this mod that's inspired by other mods.

imkSushi's Mod: Some items can be crafted using the tokens provided by this mod.
Loot Bags Mod: Sawblades can be crafted from the cores.
Boss Materials Plus: Some support to craft items from this mod otherwise only obtainable from drops.
Geronimo's Tinkerings: A tiny amount of support thus far for additional crafting recipes.
LuiAFK Mod: This mod's potions can be crafted into unlimited versions with 30 of them and give their buff by being in the inventory.
MorePotions: There's a Gravity Potion that can be crafted that gives 50% increased telekinetic damage, 50% increased telekinetic velocity, and the Gravity Armor set bonus.

Soil Sawblade
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Inspired by the other Soil weapons from JoostMod. By default this only does 1 damage, but every 666 dirt blocks in your inventory will increase the damage by 1. Crafted from 666 dirt blocks at a Demon/Crimson Altar. This is actually fully functional without JoostMod enabled, but the recipe won't be enabled.

Mini Cactuar
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An unusual sawblade that does 120 damage and shoots out a needle 60 times per second (every frame) in a random direction. Based on weapons craftable from the Jumbo Cactuar boss. Crafted with 1 Cactus Token by hand. This is actually fully functional without JoostMod enabled, but isn't obtainable normally otherwise.

Pink Genji Armor
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A head and chest armor to go with JoostMod's Genji Leggings. The head piece gives 25 defense, 60% increased telekinetic damage, and 15 increased psychosis. The chest piece gives 25 defense, 25% increased telekinetic crit chance and 150 increased max life. The set bonus (when wore with Genji leggings) gives 100% increased telekinetic velocity.
Novice Sawblade
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15 damage. Crafted from a novice core and 10 gold/platinum bars at an anvil.

Apprentice Sawblade
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30 damage. Crafted from an apprentice core and 10 hellstone bars at an anvil.

Adapt Sawblade
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45 damage. Crafted from an adapt core and 10 adamantite or titanium bars at a Hardmode anvil.

Epic Sawblade
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60 damage. Crafted from an epic core and 10 hallowed bars at a Hardmode anvil.

Legendary Sawblade
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75 damage. Crafted from a legendary core and 10 beetle husks at a Hardmode anvil.

Godly Sawblade
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90 damage. Crafted from a godly core and 10 luminite bars at an Ancient Manipulator.

So far, no other mods have weapons converted into telekinetic weapons. Due to the nature of this, it would all be done on a case by case basis.

There are six functions included from using Mod.Call...

Mod.Call("IncreaseTelekineticDamage", amount);
Mod.Call("IncreaseTelekineticCrit", amount);
Mod.Call("IncreaseTelekineticVelocity", amount);
Mod.Call("UseTelekineticVelocity");
Mod.Call("AddTKItem");
Mod.Call("AddTKProjectile");

  • - 1.0: Updated for tModLoader v0.11.8.9.
    - Added Gravity Bouncer, Gravity Twirler, Accretion Disc, and Black Void Engine.
    - Added Godly Sawblade (for Loot Bags cross mod).
    - Added Tiny Cactuar (for JoostMod cross mod).
    - Telekinetic projectiles while being controlled no longer move slower up or down compared to left and right.
    - Eldritch Eye Jar damage reduced from 240 to 150 (it was a placeholder), but now the projectiles (but not the jar) can pass through solid tiles.
    - Fixed Eldritch Eye Jar not dropping correctly from the Moon Lord on normal difficulty worlds.
    - Changed Moon Lord Esper weapon drop rates. Has a 50% chance to drop one of the weapons in normal worlds and 100% chance from treasure bags.
    - Added a tooltip to the Gravity Hammer.
    - Changed head and chest item sprites for Desert Wanderer and Wyvern Scale armor.
    - Betsy Scorcher plays its fire sound 1/3 as often as before.
    - Terra Vial Necklace no longer needs any Ectoplasm or Shroomite Bars in its recipe.
    - The Flying Knife now actually gains bonus damage as stated in the tooltip from a prior update.
    - Added Gravity armor.
    - Added Pink Genji Armor (for JoostMod cross mod).
    - Added accessories (enchantments) in the style of Fargo's Souls Mod.
    - Added Gravity Potion (for MorePotions cross mod) and new charms to go with it (via Luiafk cross mod).
    - Wall of Flesh's treasure bag now drops the Giant Gear and Esper Emblem together.
    - Jar projectiles now spawn out of jars in true 360 degrees instead of only 4 diagonal directions.
    - Spitting Sandfish and Super Spitting Sandfish now can be caught much easier if the player hasn't yet obtained one.
  • - 0.9.0.1: Removed testing message for Boulders showing their damage scaling.
  • - 0.9: Lihzahrd Solar armor now requires crafting at a Lihzahrd Furance.
    - Lihzahrd Solar Chestplate now gives 40% increased telekinetic velocity.
    - Added Gravity Pickaxe, Hamaxe, Axe, Hammer, and Chainsaw.
    - Corrected Gravity Fragment rarity from 10 (red) to 9 (cyan).
    - Hallowed accessories now only take 5 Hallowed Bars to craft instead of 10. Reforge value also dropped to 2 gold from 5 gold.
    - Cambrian armor is now crafted at an anvil instead of a loom.
    - Fixed some tooltips due to either not being constant with others (for True Goldropper compared to other canisters) or incorrect (Bowling Ball making mention of being consumable).
    - Standardized the Wyvern Scale Vest to give 30% increased velocity for both throwing and telekinetic instead of different values.
    - Renamed Psy Rockets to Psi Rockets.
    - The rest of the non-sawblade projectiles janky collision should be fixed.
    - Updated Boss Checklist support to correctly show all item drops that were missing from the previous update.
    - Canister projectiles getting wider should no longer touch tiles beyond 10 pixels.
    - Hallowed Lotus Petals now cost 3 Hallowed Bars instead of 5 and adjusted sell price accordingly.
    - Psychosis meter when under the Psyched Out debuff will now animate even if the time of day counts differently.
    - Boulder projectiles lose horizontal velocity slower.
    - Boulder projectiles no longer despawn on collision while being controlled.
    - Added Gravity Furniture in style of the 1.4 fragment furniture sets.
    - Bowling Ball now has a unique sound on crit hits once during its lifespan.
    - Added Icicle Spitter, a new Shooter type weapon that can drop from the Ice Queen. Also added Rolling Neutronium Core, Sharknado Rift, and Betsy Lobber.
    - Buffed Spectre Rift damage from 72 to 96.
    - Buffed Hellbat Jar damage from 24 to 28.
    - Buffed Pixie Jar damage from 36 to 45.
    - Buffed Wasp Jar damage from 50 to 75.
    - Buffed Beetle Jar damage from 75 to 100.
    - Added Gravity Barrier Platform, the endgame wings for Esper.
    - HUD is now much less janky and should position itself much better even when zooming in.
    - Boulders upper damage now capped at 200% and lower damage at 50%.
    - Lihzahrd Solar set bonus damage scaling and explosions now work for non-Esper Class telekinetic projectiles. Thus far, just the vanilla Flying Knife and Omni-Hammer's Telekinetic Hammer.
    - Lihzahrd Solar set bonus explosion should now always deal damage regardless of enemy iframes from penetrating projectiles.
  • - 0.7: Updated for tModLoader v0.11.8.6.
    - Boulders (when held) and Lobber projectiles no longer go through platforms.
    - Added use, held, and release sounds for telekinetic weapons.
    - Added support for W1K's Weapon Scaling mod. This means weapons can be upgraded throughout the game. This is set for tier only, not fine tuned on a per weapon basis, so some weapons may be very powerful when upgraded.
    - Consumable weapons are no longer consumable. They still function and drain psychosis faster as before. Sell prices and obtaining methods adjusted.
    - TK weapons renamed to Psi. Display only name change, not code name change, so existing weapons won't be lost.
    - Rift weapons will now fire at the closest target instead of the first detected enemy in range, much like how the Psi Prime Laser acts.
    - Terra Vial Necklace will now correctly apply all debuffs instead of only 5 of them by using a custom debuff with all of the combined debuffs.
    - Mostly added Boss Checklist's Boss Log support for this mod's loot, with the moon event bosses currently not covered.
    - The method to add critical damage to telekinetic damage based on vanilla crit increases (due to no allCrit stat) no longer accounts for throwing crit chance, since newer mods tend to not touch it.
    - Updated handling of Thorium Mod mod calls.
    - Vortex Tower now drops Gravity Fragments.
    - Canister projectiles now do more damage (up to 40% more) the higher up they fall onto mobs. They also get wider up to a limit as well.
    - Desert Wanderer set bonus now reduces life drained while using Esper weapons in Over Psychosis state by 25% instead of giving 30% more psychosis regen.
    - Taurus set bonus changed to allow a special kind of dashing that gives immunity frames, but costs psychosis to use.
    - Added LuiAFK styled charms. While that mod is loaded, 30 of any Esper Class buff potion can be crafted into an unlimited charm that works while in the inventory. All 3 buff potion charms can also be combined.
    - Fixed most of the janky collision with Esper projectiles, although sawblades remain unaffected.
    - Added Gravity accessories.
    - Added Gravity Drill.
    - Buffed Psi Prime Saw damage from 48 to 60.
    - Buffed damage from boulders rolling fast.
    - Added several new weapons, with content for the hardmode dungeon, most of the moon event bosses (Ice Queen currently missing), Golem, a craftable post Golem weapon, a Solar Eclipse enemy, and even a single post Moon Lord weapon due to when the weapon sprites were made.
  • 0.6.1: Switching away from the current TK weapon while using it now cancels its projectile in use. This should fix free psychosis usage if switching to a non-TK weapon and unintentional psychosis usage if no TK projectile is in use
    - Having Expanded Sentries loaded aside this mod without imkSushi's Mod also loaded should no longer cause an error stopping this mod and Expanded Sentries from loading together.
    - Fixed Torch Twirler having the wrong dust and light.
    - Multiplayer issues with psychosis should be fixed.
  • 0.6: Added several new weapons, a helmet piece, and few accessories to cover the period between post mecha bosses and right after defeating Plantera.
    - Plenty of redone sprites, mostly for weapons.
    - Jar weapons now require shaking in order to release projectiles. Also added shake effects for the Hellbat Jar and Pixie Jar.
    - Standardized Esper buff potion durations to now all be 5 minutes long.
    - Psychosis regeneration is now based on max base psychosis, not total psychosis from temporary boosts.
    - Regenerating to full psychosis now has feedback similar to regenerating mana to full.
    - Pixie Jar projectiles no longer can chase in water, based off of the Pixie NPC behavior.
    - Changed the sell prices for many weapons, massively making them cheaper to reforge, although very few cost somewhat more to reforge.
    - Did an overhaul of the UI code. Most of it is under the hood changes, but should make the UI function just a bit better, especially in regards to UI scaling.
    - Fixed Skeleton Bone Lobber being sold pre-hardmode.
    - The combat text from psychosis restoration is now pink instead of green.
    - Using psychosis potions now damages the player equal to the amount of psychosis restored instead of triggering the Side Effects debuff.
  • 0.5: Added several new weapons, armor, and accessories to cover early hardmode, up and including the mecha bosses. This includes two full armor sets (one in pre-hardmode) and seven armor pieces.- Nerfed damage of Tin Sawblade from 8 to 7.
    - Changed tooltip for the Butcher's Barbs.
    - Molten Boulder crafting changed to now only give 5 instead of 10 per Hellstone Bar.
    - Buffed damage of Eye Jar from 13 to 15 and corrected tooltip saying "eye" instead of "eyes".
    - Added clientside config to show the Esper Class tag on mod related items like other mods that add custom classes, off by default.
    - Psychic Eye grab range now increaes with base max psychosis.
    - Slightly buffed the damage of Cactus Balls, now called Bouncers. Cactus Ball from 8 to 10, evil Cactus Balls from 18 to 20, and Pearl Cactus Ball from 58 to 64.
    - Very slightly buffed the damage of the Shadow Orbit from 14 to 15.
    - Desert Wanderer armor now has an additional set bonus of becoming immune to Mighty Wind.
    - Projectiles released by jars now face the correct way instead of backwards.
    - Soil Sawblade now consumes 1/20 of damage bonus in dirt blocks on use and per second, to match the latest JoostMod update.
    - There is now support for Boss Loot Plus and very slightly Geronimo's Tinkerings.
    - Changed Fire Vial Necklace recipe from Hellstone bars to Iron/Lead bars and Gel, along with rarity, making it an early game accessory.
  • 0.3.2: Changed how item usage psychosis drain is handled, fixing psychosis not being drained while holding onto a rope.
    - Changed naming of telekinesis to telekinetic
  • 0.3.1: Changed Eye Jar to be craftable from Post-Eye Surface Forest Tokens instead of Underground Tokens via imkSushi's Mod.
    - Added mod icon.
  • 0.3: Released.

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Some gifs of weapons in game could be nice, but sounds like an interesting concept. With some more content to span the whole game it could be pretty neat.
 
Some gifs of weapons in game could be nice, but sounds like an interesting concept. With some more content to span the whole game it could be pretty neat.
Okay, added some gifs. The next major update I plan is to cover early hardmode, up to the mecha bosses, including Hallowed items and weapons from those bosses.
 
I feel like this should be said...



Bioshock reference plz
You're going to have to be more specific. Are you talking about Plasmids, Vigors, or something else? I rather not put in references just for the sake of it, they should at least do something too, like having TF2's Wrangler in Expanded Sentries take on a useful function.
 
You're going to have to be more specific. Are you talking about Plasmids, Vigors, or something else? I rather not put in references just for the sake of it, they should at least do something too, like having TF2's Wrangler in Expanded Sentries take on a useful function.

Well, I think the Telekinesis Plasmid Bottle, could be an accessory.
As in the game it introduces Telekinesis to the player, here it could increase the strength of the players Telekinesis power.

For how to get it, you get it at the bottom of the ocean, as a legitimate reference, in a Rapture Chest of some sort, something that looks like it came from Rapture..
I don't know, if you came up with all this i'm sure you can expand upon the idea
 
Well, I think the Telekinesis Plasmid Bottle, could be an accessory.
As in the game it introduces Telekinesis to the player, here it could increase the strength of the players Telekinesis power.

For how to get it, you get it at the bottom of the ocean, as a legitimate reference, in a Rapture Chest of some sort, something that looks like it came from Rapture..
I don't know, if you came up with all this i'm sure you can expand upon the idea
There are plenty of franchises with psychic powers that could be references. I may or may not want to go with something that has a bigger focus on psychic powers than BioShock, like Psychonauts. I'm not sure how to spawn new chests on world gen, but I can certainly add stuff to water chests. I'm not sure what I want to put in water chests just yet. Ideally, at some point, I'll have an Esper Class item for each vanilla chest that spawns except for the biome chests, of which, I would have one for a TK weapon.

The mod is still early stage, but I rather not have this big focus on putting in references just yet, although what you mentioned does do something useful than just be a reference. I mention this because I feel I may get annoyed with multiple people wanting to put in references and it almost becomes more of a focus on that than original content for the mod.
 
There are plenty of franchises with psychic powers that could be references. I may or may not want to go with something that has a bigger focus on psychic powers than BioShock, like Psychonauts. I'm not sure how to spawn new chests on world gen, but I can certainly add stuff to water chests. I'm not sure what I want to put in water chests just yet. Ideally, at some point, I'll have an Esper Class item for each vanilla chest that spawns except for the biome chests, of which, I would have one for a TK weapon.

The mod is still early stage, but I rather not have this big focus on putting in references just yet, although what you mentioned does do something useful than just be a reference. I mention this because I feel I may get annoyed with multiple people wanting to put in references and it almost becomes more of a focus on that than original content for the mod.

I totally agree with you there as a mod developer, but references bring fun to the player when found.
new chests on world gen isn't too hard if I recall properly.
Take your time as it's a major WIP, but references can never hurt!
 
This looks incredibly interesting! I like the idea of the class. Going to try it out once I get a chance.

Some ideas I have that I think you might find interesting, down in the spoiler below.
First Ideas are mainly references to Earthbound, it only fits.

Ness Outfit
These would be bought from the Clothier at night. Consists of a Cap, Shirt, and Shorts. Each piece gives 10% telekinetic damage, 5% telekinetic crit chance, and the cap would give a bonus 10% telekinetic velocity. Overall the set grants 4/7/6 defense (17 Defense Total) and the set bonus will grant the player 50-100% extra crit damage and a special little effect whenever you get a crit. (SMAAAAASH!!)

Sword of Kings
Functions similarly to the Flying Knife. Deals 30 Damage, and upon hit the enemy will have another Sword of Kings (like the Influx Waver) show up around them that will home onto them and deal extra damage. Sprite would look similar to the katana, as seen here. Could be a 1/128 drop from an enemy that is similar to the starman (or just straight up add a starman reference



Now for non-reference ideas:

For armor, you could consider making a set you craft based of the the moon during early-hardmode. It could be crafted using meteorite and pixie dust and would give ~30 defense (8/12/10) and would grant a various amount of telekinetic bonuses. It's set bonus could be that you will materialize meteorites around you that will circle you, and when an enemy approaches you it will break off from orbiting around you and home onto the enemy and break apart into a bunch of meteorite fragments upon hitting them.

The Lunar Fragments you use could be Comet Fragments. I'd say it fits as comets are near-earth objects that orbit around Earth, similar to the ESP class and how they control objects as if they float and orbit around you. The shape would be a long squiggly path like this, and their color could be fuschia, a color between pink and red. I tried to avoid other colors from different mods used in lunar fragments, but other colors that could work are a color between stardust fragments and a deep blue. I made an example here if you want to see it. If you'd like, you can use it, just throw my name in the credits or something for the sprite in the mod description.

Love the idea, will see how well it is executed tomorrow as i've spent WAAAY too much time up to try it now, I have to do my quarrentine school work tomorrow anyways, haha.
 
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Also, the eyes from the Eye Jar are facing the wrong way, and fly backwards. And I think all of the jars have trouble when they run into a wall or ceiling.
 
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After plenty of work, the wiki for this mod is in a very good state. It's not quite perfect and could use with further improvements, but for the time being, it should be complete and everything should have a page for it. It can be found here. The next major update is going to be 0.5, following a very similar pattern to how I've updated Expanded Sentries. It'll have over 30 new weapons, one or two full armor sets, 7 helmets, and some more accessories. It'll cover early hardmode and up and including the mecha bosses.

This looks incredibly interesting! I like the idea of the class. Going to try it out once I get a chance.

Some ideas I have that I think you might find interesting, down in the spoiler below.
First Ideas are mainly references to Earthbound, it only fits.

Ness Outfit
These would be bought from the Clothier at night. Consists of a Cap, Shirt, and Shorts. Each piece gives 10% telekinetic damage, 5% telekinetic crit chance, and the cap would give a bonus 10% telekinetic velocity. Overall the set grants 4/7/6 defense (17 Defense Total) and the set bonus will grant the player 50-100% extra crit damage and a special little effect whenever you get a crit. (SMAAAAASH!!)

Sword of Kings
Functions similarly to the Flying Knife. Deals 30 Damage, and upon hit the enemy will have another Sword of Kings (like the Influx Waver) show up around them that will home onto them and deal extra damage. Sprite would look similar to the katana, as seen here. Could be a 1/128 drop from an enemy that is similar to the starman (or just straight up add a starman reference



Now for non-reference ideas:

For armor, you could consider making a set you craft based of the the moon during early-hardmode. It could be crafted using meteorite and pixie dust and would give ~30 defense (8/12/10) and would grant a various amount of telekinetic bonuses. It's set bonus could be that you will materialize meteorites around you that will circle you, and when an enemy approaches you it will break off from orbiting around you and home onto the enemy and break apart into a bunch of meteorite fragments upon hitting them.

The Lunar Fragments you use could be Comet Fragments. I'd say it fits as comets are near-earth objects that orbit around Earth, similar to the ESP class and how they control objects as if they float and orbit around you. The shape would be a long squiggly path like this, and their color could be fuschia, a color between pink and red. I tried to avoid other colors from different mods used in lunar fragments, but other colors that could work are a color between stardust fragments and a deep blue. I made an example here if you want to see it. If you'd like, you can use it, just throw my name in the credits or something for the sprite in the mod description.

Love the idea, will see how well it is executed tomorrow as i've spent WAAAY too much time up to try it now, I have to do my quarrentine school work tomorrow anyways, haha.

A whole armor set is quite a lot to add for a suggestion. Yes, it has a unique function and the Desert Wanderer armor is a reference, but that's secondary to being a pre-boss armor. A weapon or accessory is much easier to manage. I do have plans for an early hardmode armor set that's not just helmets. Still, the orbting meteorites ideas could maybe be used in some sort of fashion. I already have in mind what lunar fragments this mod could use, but thank you for your suggestion. I'll see what happens when I get to the point to add end game items.

Also, the eyes from the Eye Jar are facing the wrong way, and fly backwards. And I think all of the jars have trouble when they run into a wall or ceiling.

Thanks for bringing that to my attention. I should have that fixed for the next update. When you say trouble when they run into a wall or ceiling, could you be a bit more specific? As in the projectiles face the wrong way compared to what they're moving afterward?
 
This is a super cool mod! This is such a unique idea for a new class! But just to make sure I understand better, would the Bloodboil from the Thorium Mod count as a telekinetic weapon?

(Here's a link if you don't know what that is)
 
This is a super cool mod! This is such a unique idea for a new class! But just to make sure I understand better, would the Bloodboil from the Thorium Mod count as a telekinetic weapon?

(Here's a link if you don't know what that is)
So far, no modded weapons have been converted to telekinetic weapons. It has crossed my mind to turn the Cosmic Dagger into one. The Bloodboil doesn't count since it's not making an object follow the cursor, but rather, creating magic at the cursor.
 
So far, no modded weapons have been converted to telekinetic weapons. It has crossed my mind to turn the Cosmic Dagger into one. The Bloodboil doesn't count since it's not making an object follow the cursor, but rather, creating magic at the cursor.
Thanks, I think I understand better.
 
Just been playing around a little bit with this mod... Is it okay if I tinker around in the code so I can help support this mod through adding in new weapons, armour, etc?
If not then how about sprite work? I'm not good with spriting but I'd like to improve so... please?
Oh and finally I was thinking some of these weapons, like the saw blades for instance, could have a right-click ability that causes them to orbit around you indefinitely, however, while orbiting around you it consumes 2 psychosis permanently. So you could either choose to have a ring of orbitals or use the weapons normal, or both!
Anyway, would really like to support this mod in any way I can and hope to see it grow, but for now, cya!
 
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