AbsorptionEitrShield

AbsorptionEitrShield adds an Eitr-based “shield” that absorbs incoming damage by draining Eitr first, then applying any remaining damage to HP.

How it works

When damage is taken:

• The mod reads how much HP was actually lost after vanilla calculations (armor, resistances, block/parry, etc.)
• That HP loss is absorbed by draining Eitr up to the available amount
• Any remaining damage (overflow) is applied to HP

Modes

Recharge mode (default: ON)

• Shield does NOT absorb damage while Eitr is recharging from 0 up to current max (e.g. after eating Eitr food)
• Shield becomes active when Eitr reaches current max
• If Eitr drops to ~0–1, shield disables again until it fully recharges

Always-on mode (Recharge OFF)

• Shield is always active whenever the player has Eitr (even if Eitr is not full)

NEW in 0.3.14

✅ Multiplayer fixed: shield absorption now works for ALL players, not only host
✅ PvP supported: players can absorb damage from other players correctly
✅ /die command bypass: using /die kills the player and is not prevented by the shield
✅ Damage handling improved: absorption is applied using Character.ApplyDamage, which catches most multiplayer damage sources correctly

Known limitations / not fixed yet

• Always-on mode death issue: if a player has at least 1 Eitr, some lethal hits may fail to kill (HP may not reach 0 as expected). Recharge mode behaves better here, but always-on still needs a fix.
• Block/parry behavior: blocked/parried damage can still drain Eitr (some users may prefer blocked damage to be ignored by the shield).
• DoT effects: some periodic damage (burning/poison/etc.) can still bypass absorption depending on how the game applies the damage.
• This mod intentionally does not modify stagger mechanics (stagger can still build up normally).

Installation

Install via Thunderstore / r2modman, or place the DLL into: BepInEx/plugins/AbsorptionEitrShield/

Configuration

Settings can be changed in-game via Configuration Manager (host/admin authoritative in multiplayer). Client-side config values are ignored.

• ModEnabled
• UseRecharge

Multiplayer / authority

Host/admin settings are authoritative: only host/admin changes are applied.

AbsorptionEitrShield — Changelog

0.3.19

Changed

• Reworked damage absorption logic to apply before vanilla HP reduction:
  • Shield now temporarily buffers HP by the absorbed amount and spends Eitr up-front, so the vanilla damage application results in the correct final HP in a single pass.
  • This removes the need for a secondary “forced kill” hit and prevents duplicate damage numbers.

Fixed

• Removed visible “huge damage” (e.g. 999999 / 1,000,000) on deaths caused by the shield system.
• Greatly reduced/avoided false kill-feed triggers in PvP kill-feed mods (e.g. PvP Tweaks) that react to HP hitting 0 during the damage event, since HP no longer dips to 0 when Eitr should save the player.
• Kept /die command behavior vanilla: shield never absorbs /die damage in any mode.

0.3.18

Added/Changed

• Initial attempt of “no second hit” architecture using pre-buffering approach.
• Began removing next-frame kill invocation and artificial hit values.

Fixed

• Improved stability around lethal scenarios by relying less on post-damage HP restoration and more on single-pass outcomes.

0.3.17

Changed

• Improved death attribution for kill-feed mods by prioritizing a real Damage(HitData) path (with attacker info) before fallback death invocation, to preserve “last attacker” tracking.

0.3.16

Fixed

• Corrected regression introduced by HP clamping (HP not allowed to hit 0 during shield processing):
  • Added explicit “clamp happened” tracking so lethal-hit detection remained accurate even when HP was forced to stay above 0.
• Improved consistency of lethal damage handling so players can die properly when HP + Eitr < incomingDamage.

0.3.15

Fixed

• Addressed immortality edge cases where lethal hits were incorrectly survived.
• Added safeguards around lethal damage application:
  • Ensured lethal outcomes invoke death correctly (instead of leaving player at 1 HP permanently).
  • Ensured players respawn with proper base HP instead of staying stuck at 1 HP after death/respawn in some cases.
• Reduced false kill reports from mods that detect “HP hits 0” by preventing HP from briefly dropping to 0 during shield math.

0.3.14 (baseline reference)

• Working Eitr shield absorption with optional “recharge” behavior:
  • Shield activates when Eitr reaches its current max.
  • Shield deactivates when Eitr is drained to ~0 and only reactivates after full recharge.
• Host-authoritative runtime configuration (clients cannot override host settings).