Wickpiercer

Quickstart

1. Gather the crafting materials: 3 Candles, 2 Gold Ingots, 1 Trident, 1 Nether Brick, 1 Blaze Rod, and 1 Vex Armor Trim Smithing Template.
2. Craft the Wickpiercer at a Crafting Table (the recipe unlocks when you pick up a Candle):

1. Equip it in your main hand and head into combat.
2. When things get desperate, let the passive Flicker Fury save you automatically — or right-click (use) to trigger the active burst yourself.
3. Listen for the activation sound to know Flicker Fury is live; watch your health bar to confirm the passive proc.

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Overview

Wickpiercer is an epic-rarity melee sword built around a single signature ability: Flicker Fury. It hits hard, lasts a long time, and provides a powerful safety net that can turn certain death into a second chance. Both a passive lifesaver and an active damage burst, it rewards aggressive play while keeping you alive through the worst moments.

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What It Adds

A single item — the Wickpiercer sword — is added to the game. It appears in the Equipment tab of the creative inventory and is crafted at a Crafting Table in survival.

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Abilities And Mechanics

Flicker Fury — Passive (Near-Death Save)

When you are holding Wickpiercer and take damage that drops your health to 1 heart (2 HP) or below, the passive automatically triggers:

• Heals you to full health on the very next tick.
• Grants Resistance IV for 10 seconds, making you nearly immune to damage during recovery.
• Plays a totem-style sound to signal the proc.
• Starts a 15-second cooldown shared with the active use.

Because there is no action-bar message, rely on the sound, the Resistance particle effect, and your health bar to know it fired.

Flicker Fury — Active (Right-Click Burst)

Right-clicking while holding Wickpiercer manually activates Flicker Fury for 1 second:

• A distinct activation sound plays immediately.
• Your attack speed is greatly increased for that 1-second window.
• The first successful hit on a living non-player mob during this window triggers an empowered follow-up strike — a second hit that bypasses vanilla hurt invulnerability, dealing bonus damage immediately after the first.
• Activating immediately puts Flicker Fury on its 15-second cooldown.
• The active window does not persist across a world reload; if you reload mid-window, the boost is gone.

Durability And Wear

• Wickpiercer only loses 1 durability per successful mob hit.
• The empowered follow-up strike from the active burst causes no additional durability loss.
• With 2031 max durability and conservative wear, the sword lasts through enormous amounts of combat.
• Repair it with Diamonds at an anvil, or enchant it with Mending to sustain it indefinitely.

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Crafting And Obtaining

Wickpiercer is crafted at a Crafting Table. Picking up a Candle will unlock the recipe in your recipe book.

Required materials:

• 3× Candle
• 2× Gold Ingot
• 1× Trident
• 1× Nether Brick
• 1× Blaze Rod
• 1× Vex Armor Trim Smithing Template

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Progression And Strategy

• Early activation use: Right-click just before engaging a tough mob or boss to open with maximum attack speed and land the empowered double-hit immediately. This front-loads enormous burst damage.
• Passive as insurance: Keep Wickpiercer in hand during dangerous fights (cave exploration, boss arenas, mob swarms). The passive will catch a lethal blow once every 15 seconds, giving you a full heal and a Resistance buffer to escape or fight back.
• Cooldown awareness: Both the passive and active share the same 15-second cooldown. If you manually activate it, the passive safety net is unavailable for 15 seconds — time your bursts carefully.
• Enchanting: The sword occupies the sword enchantment slot, so Sharpness, Fire Aspect, Looting, and Mending all apply. Mending is especially valuable given how little durability it consumes.
• Repair with Diamonds: Each Diamond restores 390 durability at an anvil, making top-ups cheap even late-game.