Vampirism

<h1>Become a creature of the night: A Vampire</h1> <p>Hunt down living beings a take their blood and essence for yourself. Use their blood for superhuman feats, dash across gaps, summon spears made of solid blood, and even drain your enemies of blood.&nbsp;</p> <p>A vampire need not fear the night, your eyes now adjust to any darkness.</p> <p>Resurrect your fallen prey as more vampires to join your conquest.</p> <h1>Be wary of the sun and those that follow it</h1> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Strength flows through your borrowed blood, but it can still be reclaimed. Silver burns your flesh, sunlight too, beware of those wielding crosses as their holy power repulses you. You might be an apex predator but you can still be hunted by those willing to clad themselves in silver and hunt you down.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h1>Arm yourself with bloodsteel</h1> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Infuse steel with the blood of the fallen, wearing full bloodsteel prevents the sun from searing your flesh and from weapons tearing you apart. Beware however, silver is still potent against the bloodsteel and the sun will eventually eat through the protection it offers.&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h1>Ferment the blood of your enemies</h1> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Turn blood into wine or even further into blood brandy. Once more and you make Aqua - Mortis. Drink the aqua-mortis as a mortal to shed your humanity and rise again as a vampire.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>create potions using blood brandy and vitae ash to buff yourself, protect yourself from the sun or even healing potions to sell to mortals.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h2>What all does this add?</h2> <p>Vampirism, hearts of most living creatures, new abilities, new mechanics, new ways to play, a cure for vampirism, tons of roleplay potential through raising the dead, embracing others, or even just being a vampire hunter.&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h2>Requirements</h2> <p><a href="https://mods.vintagestory.at/butchering">Butchering</a> - blood&nbsp;</p> <p><a href="https://mods.vintagestory.at/show/mod/26926">Cannibalism</a> - hearts and player-player hunting</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h2>Compatibility</h2> <p>Because this is it's own tab/mechanics it does work with a ton of stuff but there is official compatibility with hydrate or diedrate so that vampires don't need to also deal with a thirst bar.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h2>Goal/Roadmap</h2> <p>My intention when I began working on this mod was to make something that would work really well on civilization servers. I want players to interact&nbsp;<em>THROUGH</em> the vampirism. This is important to me because it means I need to make sure I am not making a character that is so overpowered that they could steamroll anyone. I want there to be reason and possibility for groups of players to hunt down vampires or defend against them and I want it to be a true trade off where players might not want to become vampires. Furthermore, theres very little gameplay to be had&nbsp;<em>SPECIFICALLY</em> at night and I wanted to create roleplay opportunities that arise purely from the time of day within the game. I want mortals to feel safe during the day and have genuine reason to lock up and defend their homes during the night. Moving forward I am going to attempt to stay within these goals, not trying to make something overpowered, my biggest fear would be everyone becoming a vampire and not having a good enough reason for vampirism to be a defined decision WITH trade offs.&nbsp;</p>