Ball and Chain

The Ball and Chain is a hybrid weapon added in the Massive Unfixable Balls update that is both useful for melee and ranged attacking.

## Usage

### Attacking

Left-clicking will yield no effect and do minimal damage to any entities who are left-clicked on.

#### Swinging

Right-clicking once while holding the Ball and Chain will cause the player to begin swinging it around themselves wildly. Any entity that approaches someone swinging a Ball and Chain will be damaged if they touch it. The player will move slower and their hunger meter will rapidly drain all while in this state until the spinning has stopped or the player has right-clicked while spinning once more.

#### Throwing

Right-clicking a second time - while spinning the Ball and Chain - will cause the player to throw the weapon toward wherever they were aiming, which deals the most damage of the two attacking options. After landing, it will stay where it landed for 5 minutes. The weapon can be retrieved by right-clicking on it. **After 5 minutes of being left alone, it will disappear permanently.**

### Damage

From *swinging*, the base damage dealt is 2. The Sweeping Edge enchantment will cause this attack method to deal more damage. ( Formula: (damage = damage + (2 \* (level of sweeping edge) + 1) )

From *throwing*, the base damage dealt is 25. The Sharpness, Smite, and Bane of Arthropods enchantments will cause this attack method to deal more damage. ( Formula: (damage = damage + (4.5 \* (level of sharpness or smite or bane of arthropods) + 0.5) )

### Destruction

Being a heavy weapon, the Ball and Chain has destructive properties. With a new enchantment that was added - Destruction - this weapon can cause explosions anytime it collides with something after being thrown. While spinning this weapon, nearby fragile blocks such as glass and ice will be shattered. If the Ball and Chain collides with a bell, it will ring the bell. The bell will emanate a ringing sound, but will not ring functionally (e.g., villagers reacting to it).

## Enchantments

While the Ball and Chain can be enchanted in an enchanting table by normal means (since it is based off of a sword item), some enchantments applied to the Ball and Chain may not have the expected effects.

The enchantments Fire Aspect, Sharpness, Smite, Bane of Arthropods, and Knockback all have their expected effects.

Fire Aspect will ignite whoever it hits if thrown.

Sharpness, Smite, and Bane of Arthropods will all increase the damage output if thrown.

Knockback will send whoever it hits flying further backward if thrown.

Sweeping Edge will increase the damage output while spinning.

Some enchantments that sword items can normally obtain have no use, those being:

Looting will not increase the drop rate of any mob drops from neither swinging nor throwing.

Unbreaking has no use as the Ball and Chain is an unbreakable weapon.

Mending has no use as the Ball and Chain is an unbreakable weapon.

Aside from the sword-based enchantments, the Ball and Chain can also be enchanted with the following non sword-based enchantments:

Channeling will cause lightning to strike wherever the Ball and Chain lands, if it is raining, when thrown.

Loyalty will cause the Ball and Chain to return to whoever threw it once it lands.

Power will allow for the player to throw the Ball and Chain further.

Finally, there are custom enchantments added to MF-SMP that specifically only the Ball and Chain can use:

Destruction will cause the Ball and Chain to explode with the same power as TNT wherever it lands after being thrown. This can be toggled by sneaking and left-clicking while holding a Destruction-enchanted Ball and Chain. *To obtain this enchantment, drop a plain Book, 3 TNT, and a Nether Star onto the top center of an enchantment table then right-click the enchantment table.*

Helicopter will cause the player to receive the Levitation effect while spinning the Ball and Chain. Once the player stops spinning, the Levitation effect will be removed. *Currently, this enchantment is unobtainable until future updates.*

## Trivia

* The Ball and Chain's functionality and mannerisms in MF-SMP are based off of a weapon that Link can obtain in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.
* The name of the update that this weapon hails from, the Massive Unfixable Balls update, is a reference to how this item requires constant updating from the developers as it breaks often from the addition of new content.
* Though the Helicopter enchantment has complete functionality, it lacks a method of obtaining as of yet.