footwork
by Jackiecrazy
With footwork installed, combat mods built on Project: War Dance gain a shared library of posture, stealth and status-effect hooks.
What it does
footwork is a Library mod for Forge that provides framework code other mods use. It is required by Project: War Dance, and it also serves Cloak and Dagger, Combat Circle and Pocket Legion, which depend on it through the same shared methods and states.
The library adds a combat capability interface that lets custom posture values be read on a per-item-stack basis, and it adds a stealth base that a Stealth Mission override can extend with stronger stealth mechanics, including an awareness status that works without Stealth Mission installed. It also adds two effects, fortification and corrosion, which raise or lower armor by 2 respectively, and a set of sleep, paralysis, petrify and freeze effects that can be applied to an entity. Other attributes and effects it provides are useful without any other mod installed.
Project: War Dance requires footwork. The code is under the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 license and is not open source, though its source is public.
Key features
Per-stack posture values
The combat capability interface reads custom posture values for each item stack, so different weapons can carry their own posture.
Stealth base with awareness
A stealth base can be overridden by Stealth Mission for richer stealth, and an awareness status works even without that mod.
Fortification and corrosion
Two effects raise armor by 2 or lower it by 2, giving combat mods a shared way to change defense.
Control effects
Sleep, paralysis, petrify and freeze effects let other mods immobilize an entity in a consistent way.
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Required by 4 mods
Use cases
Packs built on War Dance
A Forge 1.20.1 pack using Project: War Dance needs this library in place for the combat mods that depend on it to work.
Who it’s for: Players who run Project: War Dance or the combat mods listed above on Forge, and developers who want shared posture and status hooks for combat content.
Questions
Does footwork need another mod to run?
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In the catalog
footwork is one of 3,514 Library mods on ModsFinder, and one of 1,576 Library mods for Forge. 34,764 mods support Minecraft 1.20.1.
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What the author says
This is required by Project: War Dance, Taoism, Cloak and Dagger, and Combat Circle. It adds some methods and states used between all of them. The mod provides the ICombatCapability for ItemStacks, which allows custom posture values interpreted on a per-stack basis without having to necessarily install Project: War…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/footwork
- Owner
- Jackiecrazy
- Published
- 2023-04-19
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-02-01
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15