Bamboo Spikes

Bamboo Spikes
Mod	Supplementaries
Items	2
Stackable	Yes (64)
Fuel	0.5 items
Hardness	2
Blast resistance	2
Tool	axe

Bamboo Spikes are a block and item added by Supplementaries. They are cheap, placed hazards that damage and slow any living entity that moves through them. A placed spike can also be tipped with a lingering potion, which turns it into a trap that applies status effects on contact. Tipped spikes are the main reason the block matters beyond decoration: an unattended path lined with them punishes anything that walks into it.

Obtaining

Plain Bamboo Spikes are crafted from bamboo and wooden slabs. Tipped spikes are made by filling a placed plain spike with a lingering potion, and they can be washed back to plain spikes with soap. Both variants also appear as chest loot in several jungle structures.

Crafting

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Bamboo Spikes · Crafting

Bamboo Spikes · Crafting

The plain spike recipe is a shaped grid of four bamboo and three wooden slabs, arranged as shown above, and yields two spikes. The slab slot accepts any wooden slab. Combining a tipped spike with soap gives back a plain spike and removes the potion.

Loot and drops

Item	Chest loot table	Structures	Chance per chest	Avg. stack
Bamboo Spikes	nova_structures:chests/jungle_ruins/jungle_ruins_house		23.7%	1.0
Bamboo Spikes	minecraft:chests/jungle_temple	Bamboo House Small 1, Bamboo Campfire 1, Jungle Temple, Jungle Ruins +3	23.7%	1.0
Bamboo Spikes	nova_structures:chests/stray_fort_tresure	Stray Fort	23.7%	1.0
Bamboo Spikes	betterjungletemples:chests/campsite	Jungle Temple	23.3%	1.0
Bamboo Spikes	nova_structures:chests/jungle_ruins/jungle_ruins_main_temple_wild		22.0%	1.0
Bamboo Spikes	betterjungletemples:chests/treasure	Jungle Temple	20.7%	1.0
Bamboo Spikes	nova_structures:chests/jungle_ruins/jungle_ruins_main_temple	Jungle Ruins	20.3%	1.0
Tipped Bamboo Spikes	nova_structures:chests/jungle_ruins/jungle_ruins_main_temple	Jungle Ruins	16.7%	1.0
Tipped Bamboo Spikes	nova_structures:chests/stray_fort_tresure	Stray Fort	16.3%	1.0
Tipped Bamboo Spikes	nova_structures:chests/jungle_ruins/jungle_ruins_main_temple_wild		16.0%	1.0
Tipped Bamboo Spikes	betterjungletemples:chests/campsite	Jungle Temple	16.0%	1.0
Tipped Bamboo Spikes	minecraft:chests/jungle_temple	Bamboo House Small 1, Bamboo Campfire 1, Jungle Temple, Jungle Ruins +3	15.7%	1.0
Tipped Bamboo Spikes	nova_structures:chests/jungle_ruins/jungle_ruins_house		14.7%	1.0
Tipped Bamboo Spikes	betterjungletemples:chests/treasure	Jungle Temple	13.7%	1.0

Chest loot is spread across the jungle temple, jungle ruins and campsite structures listed above. Plain spikes have a higher per-chest chance than tipped spikes in most of these chests. The percentages are per chest, as shown in the table.

Usage

Placement

Placing a spike sets its facing to the face of the block that was clicked. A spike placed on the top of a block points up. Spikes are waterlogged-capable, and Lava can ignite them.

Damage

A living entity inside a spike takes damage each tick it remains in the block, and vanilla invulnerability frames limit how often the damage repeats. The damage amount depends on the entity's position:

• 3 damage when the entity's feet are above the spike's base, that is, when it stands on or lands on the spike.
• 1.5 damage in all other contact cases, such as walking into the side of the spike.

The damage type is spike impalement, with the death message "was impaled on a spike".

Creative-mode players take no spike damage and are not slowed by spikes. A player sneaking on a spike that points up takes no damage. Fall distance is kept while inside a spike, so a fall onto a spike still counts toward vanilla fall damage.

Movement

Spikes slow movement inside the block. The horizontal motion factor is 0.95. The vertical motion factor is 0.95 for spikes that point sideways or down, and 0.45 for spikes that point up. The block contact is applied through vanilla stuck-in-block logic, so entities move through spikes noticeably slower than through open ground.

Mobs treat spikes as a damaging path type, so their pathfinding avoids them where possible.

Tipping

A tipped spike holds a potion, and its effects are applied to a living entity that touches it:

• Only lingering potions can be used to tip a plain spike.
• A tipped spike holds up to 16 charges.
• When an entity touches a tipped spike, each effect is applied only if the entity can be affected by it and does not already have it. Instant effects apply immediately.
• Timed effects last 0.1 times the potion's duration. A 30-second potion effect, for example, applies for 3 seconds.
• Each contact that applies an effect uses one charge. A spike has a cooldown of 20 ticks (one second) between uses.
• When the charges run out, the potion is removed and the spike returns to plain.

The pack's config sets only_allow_harmful_effects to true, which is also the mod's default. In this mode only harmful potions are accepted, and tipped spikes have infinite durability because harmful effects never consume a charge. The durability bar is hidden. With the setting off, beneficial potions are accepted as well, and charges are consumed normally.

Breaking a tipped spike drops it as a tipped spike that keeps its potion. Washing a tipped spike with soap removes the potion.

Interactions

• Pistons: Spikes are pushed normally by pistons, and they keep ticking while they are being moved.
• Create: With Create installed, spikes on a moving contraption damage entities that pass through their path.
• Potions: Potions for tipped spikes come from Potions and Brewing. Lingering potions are the only type that can tip a spike.

Tips

• Place spikes on the top of a block so they point up. Up-facing spikes slow and damage anything that walks across them, and sneaking over them avoids damage.
• In the default mode, a tipped spike filled with a harmful potion never runs out, so it is the more durable choice for a permanent trap.
• Keep some soap on hand to strip a tipped spike of its potion when it is no longer needed.

Items

Item	Hardness
Bamboo Spikes	2
Tipped Bamboo Spikes	2