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Metal effects

Most metals give their gear an effect. Weapon effects work on that metal's sword and weapons, Tools on its tools, Armour while you wear the full set, and Everything on any piece made from it. The names and descriptions are the in-game tooltips.

Picture Metal On Effect What it does
Adamantine Adamantine Armour (full set) Symbiosis Receiving fatal damage will cause one of the armor pieces to sacrifice itself. Every Armor piece will increase the chance of surviving death by 25% (with a maximum of 100% when wearing full set)
Adamantine Adamantine Everything Inclusions Eating food regenerates equipment durability, not eating any food slowly destroys equipment. Durability repair amount depends on how many food points the item gives. Durability decreases with a frequence of 1 to 6 seconds depending on how hungry the player is
Amordrine Amordrine Weapon Divine Grace Bonus Damage depending on target's health, the less health target has the more damage the weapon does (up to 200% damage boost)
Amordrine Amordrine Armour (full set) Sky-High Grants extra jumps (from 1 to 4) depending on how many armor pieces the player is wearing
Amordrine Amordrine Everything Soulbound This item will persist in your inventory after death
Angmallen Angmallen Weapon Reactive I Deals Bonus Damage to armored enemies
Angmallen Angmallen Armour (full set) Reactive II Plays a sound sometimes when you're near some rare ore, every armor piece increases the chance to detect rare ores
Angmallen Angmallen Pickaxe Transmute Mining an ore sometimes drops another ore of +1/-1/+0 harvest level (50% chance)
Astral Silver Astral Silver Weapon Extraterrestrial 45% more damage if the player is in another dimension
Astral Silver Astral Silver Armour (full set) Starlight Gives Night Vision and Speed depending on how many pieces of armor are worn, effects are only applied when the player is directly under the night-sky or in The End.
Astral Silver Astral Silver Tools Extraterrastrial Increased speed when breaking blocks in dimensions that aren't the Overworld
Atlarus Atlarus Weapon Gust of Wind A strong gust of wind pushes enemies away from you and breaks leaves and vines in a range of 5 blocks around you
Atlarus Atlarus Armour (full set) Whirlwind A whirlwind barrier will deviate any projectile going towards you from a certain distance.
Atlarus Atlarus Hoe Wind Scythe Wind helps you remove bushes and crops around you
Black Steel Black Steel Weapon Mountain Tools & weapons act like armor, for example holding a black steel sword while getting attacked will damage the sword but absorb a small portion of the damage.
Black Steel Black Steel Armour (full set) Reinforcement Receiving damage sometimes grants resistance but also slowness, at the same time. ( Repeated strikes stack the effect, aka slowness I and resistance I become slowness II and resistance II. Can stack up to 3 times, chance based.)
Carmot Carmot Weapon Abattoir Attacking a mob will also attack mobs of the same type in a radius around the initial strike
Carmot Carmot Armour (full set) Power User You can consume and use items faster depending on how many armor pieces you wear; if you wear a full set you also get a Haste III buff
Carmot Carmot Tools Autonomous Harvesting a block will mine surrounding blocks of the same type in a spherical range
Celenegil Celenegil Weapon Glory Seeker On right click, Grants a small damage buff to the weapon damage but when you damage an entity without killing it, it'll go on a short cooldown while it will give the player some short speed and strength buff if they manage to kill the entity
Celenegil Celenegil Armour (full set) Perseverance After being attacked five times over a short period, all the enemies are knocked back away from the player and the player receives a very short regen buff and all negative effects are cleared.
Celenegil Celenegil Tools Escalation Continuously breaking blocks without stopping doesn't use durability and increases mining speed. (Resets after pausing for more than a second, the unbreakable effect is enabled after 5 blocks mined)
Ceruclase Ceruclase Weapon Flash Freeze Has a 75% chance to completely freeze an enemy in place on hit for 3 seconds.
Ceruclase Ceruclase Armour (full set) Blizzard Mobs are slowed, fatigued and weakened depending on how much armor you wear, both players and entities are extinguished if they were on fire.
Ceruclase Ceruclase Tools Cold Snap Blocks will be mined instantly if they can be harvested and if they're harvested with the correct tool type.
Damascus Steel Damascus Steel Weapon Brilliance Mobs drop significantly more experience.
Damascus Steel Damascus Steel Armour (full set) Royal Blood A minion will be spawned to aid you in your fights against enemies (minion health will scale with the armor count)
Damascus Steel Damascus Steel Pickaxe Dazzle Mining ores sometimes grants a bit of experience depending on the harvest level.
Deep Iron Deep Iron Weapon Diver Enhanced weapon damage when underwater (+3 hearts of damage)
Deep Iron Deep Iron Armour (full set) Aquatic Grants Water Breathing and improved Mobility in water depending on how many armor pieces are worn (it also grants night vision with 2 or more armor pieces).
Deep Iron Deep Iron Tools Diver Improved tool harvest speed when underwater (3 times the normal underwater speed)
Desichalkos Desichalkos Weapon Nullifier When attacking, the damage is dealt straight to the opponent's health bar, unaffected by armor or any resistance the opponent might have.
Desichalkos Desichalkos Armour (full set) Orb The wearer can fully absorb X instances of damage (X scales with armor) without taking damage, the “Layers” regenerate one at a time every 7 seconds after the last time the wearer took damage.
Desichalkos Desichalkos Tools Wormhole Tool Reach is 3 blocks higher than normal (Metal trait) - Block Drops are teleported to the player inventory directly
Electrum Electrum Weapon Magnet Activating the effect with a right click on the weapon will cause entities in line of sight of the player to be moved towards the player.
Electrum Electrum Armour (full set) Static Receiving damage charges items in the player inventory with Energy. Energy is distributed equally among all items. Energy value scales based on damage received prior to armor reduction calculations.
Electrum Electrum Tools Voltage Control Harvesting blocks while the effect is active (right-click) will make the tool use 10x durability but mine significantly faster and gain a higher harvest level.
Etherium Etherium Weapon Siphon When attacking, sometimes extra damage is dealt and the user regenerates health equal to the extra damage. If the player has full HP they gain an absorption buff for that amount of hp (Absorption doesn't stack).
Etherium Etherium Armour (full set) Ethereal Allows the player to clip through walls when sneaking for at most 15 seconds after which the player remains stuck in the wall
Eximite Eximite Weapon Outworlder Grants bonus damage and a looting effect to mobs in the End.
Eximite Eximite Armour (full set) End Domestic Shulkers become neutral, but you're not immune to the effect of lingering bullets.
Haderoth Haderoth Weapon Apex Becomes active only after Metamorph. Builds up bonus damage when continually killing mobs of the same type. Bonus damage per kill: +1.0 Maximum bonus damage: +12.0
Haderoth Haderoth Armour (full set) Adaptability Becomes active only after Metamorph. Helmet: Immunity to hunger effect. Chestplate: Permanent Fire resistance. Leggings: Immunity to slowness effect. Boots: Immunity to levitation effect.
Haderoth Haderoth Everything Metamorph After breaking once, the item is replaced with a new and better version of itself. Along with significantly higher durability, the second generation gains bonuses depending on the item type: Armor: higher protection and toughness values, "Adaptability" effect becomes active. Weapons: higher damage, "Apex" effect becomes active. Tools: higher efficiency when breaking blocks.
Hepatizon Hepatizon Weapon Disarm When attacking you have a chance to rob the enemy of some of their equipment.
Hepatizon Hepatizon Armour (full set) Cloak & Dagger Mobs lose track of you outside of a certain radius depending on how much armor you're wearing.
Ignatius Ignatius Weapon Molten Blade Auto-smelts entity loot if they can be smelted. Auto-smelt chance is based on the Fortune enchantment
Ignatius Ignatius Armour (full set) Hot-Blooded Fire and lava heals you proportionally to the damage it would otherwise deal, but water and rain damages you as if it were lava and fire; The effect of Fire Protection is inverted, to protect water damage.
Ignatius Ignatius Tools Molten Core Auto-smelts block drops if they can be smelted. Auto-smelt chance is based on the Fortune enchantment
Inolashite Inolashite Weapon Time Cleave When attacking, another attack will be time-collapsed to your first attack allowing you to attack two times at full power in quick succession.
Inolashite Inolashite Armour (full set) Warp Shift + Jump will teleport the player back in time of 2..8 seconds depending on how much armor is worn
Inolashite Inolashite Tools Time Leap Upon activation, transports the player 7 blocks in the direction they are looking breaking all the blocks in the way (as long as the tool can harvest them).
Kalendrite Kalendrite Armour (full set) Tranquil If the player has not received any damage for the past 10 seconds and they don't have full hp, they gain a regeneration buff.
Kalendrite Kalendrite Tools Restoration Breaking blocks restores half a heart but tools lose more durability the lower the user's health is.
Krik Krik Weapon Flak Deals double damage to airborne entities and gives a short levitation debuff.
Krik Krik Armour (full set) Weight-Controlled Flight Makes you float at a certain height depending on how much filled your inventory is. You can press the UP arrow or the DOWN arrow to float respectively up and down. You have a height limit you can't go over while floating, that limit depends on how full your inventory is (excluding the hotbar). There's also an HUD in the bottom-right corner of the screen that shows you, your height level and your limit.
Krik Krik Tools Krik-Drives Activating the item launches the player in the general direction of where they are looking.
Midasium Midasium Weapon Bounty Mobs occasionally drop extra loot, has a small chance to convert all drops into gold ingots. Bonus loot chance: 30% / 60% / 90% / 100% Gold chance: 1% / 5% / 12% / 18% (Scales with Looting enchantment)
Midasium Midasium Tools Greed Chance based fortune effect that stacks with the fortune enchantment. All drops have a small chance to be turned into gold ingots.
Midasium Midasium Hoe Midas Touch Harvesting crops with this hoe will turn the crop drops into gold items (ingots, dusts and nuggets) instead.
Mithril Mithril Weapon Magic Aspect Deals additional magic damage 1 second after the last entity was attacked
Mithril Mithril Pickaxe Multiply Breaking ore sometimes drops an additional ore along with the one mined. Effect chance scales with Fortune Enchantment
Mithril Mithril Everything Arcane The more enchantments the item has the better it performs. (damage for weapons, mining speed for tools and more protection from armor)
Orichalcum Orichalcum Armour (full set) Berserker Killing a mob grants a strength buff, level of which is equal to the count of every other remaining hostile mob around the wearer. (Max Potion Level: 6) (Armor scales the radius and duration of the bonus)
Orichalcum Orichalcum Everything Champion Killing monsters restores durability to Orichalcum Items (Amount is equal to the max health of the killed monster)
Osmium Osmium Armour (full set) Titan Enemies are knocked back when they attack you
Oureclase Oureclase Weapon Pulverize Deals 2x the original damage to enemies with full health.
Oureclase Oureclase Armour (full set) Stampede Sprinting slightly damages and knocks back nearby entities.
Oureclase Oureclase Pickaxe Crushing Mining ores drops 1 dust of that metal instead of the ore.
Platinum Platinum Weapon Cathartic Strike Extra cathartic damage will be dealt to undead enemies as well as setting them on fire.
Platinum Platinum Armour (full set) Purification Purifies negative effects like Weakness, Slowness and Poison to their positive counterparts.
Platinum Platinum Everything Flawless This tool is unbreakable
Prometheum Prometheum Armour (full set) Freyr Shifting affects nearby crops and grass growth giving it a boost at the cost of a bit of armor durability.
Prometheum Prometheum Hoe Harvest When harvested with this hoe: leaves, crops and grass drops are increased.
Prometheum Prometheum Everything Photosynthesis Item durability regenerates slowly overtime when under direct sunlight.
Quicksilver Quicksilver Weapon Sleight of blade On every successful attack you're launched through the enemy damaging them more.
Quicksilver Quicksilver Armour (full set) Acceleration Sprinting will allow you to build up momentum, once full speed is reached you'll be able to run on liquids, but you will sink as soon as you stop or slow down.
Quicksilver Quicksilver Tools Tailwind Mining speed will remain the same over any block independently from harvest level or block hardness
Quicksilver Quicksilver Everything Aerodynamic Equipping this item gives you a speed boost.
Sanguinite Sanguinite Weapon Devour You deal more damage as you grow hungry, killing enemies appeases your hunger depending on the max health of the enemy but also makes you hungry for more.
Sanguinite Sanguinite Armour (full set) Necromastery Killing a hostile mob might revive its corpse with lower health allowing it to be killed again for more drops and experience.
Sanguinite Sanguinite Tools Blood Tap Activating the tool will exchange some of your life for increased harvest speed and level also restoring a bit of durability
Sanguinite Sanguinite Everything Deceitful This item will disappear completely after death.
Shadow Iron Shadow Iron Weapon Chaos Crit Attacks occasionally become critical hits dealing random increased damage up to more than 3 times the base attack value.
Shadow Iron Shadow Iron Armour (full set) Broken Evasion Has a chance of absorbing attack damage completely at the cost of durability from one of the armor pieces
Shadow Iron Shadow Iron Pickaxe Incompatible Mining Shadow Iron ore will sometimes drop a different ore.
Shadow Steel Shadow Steel Weapon Harmony This weapon hits faster in the dark and stronger in the light.
Shadow Steel Shadow Steel Armour (full set) Eclipse Whether if you're attacked in light or in darkness you either blind and damage enemies with fire or evade anymore damage and gain speed boost for a few seconds
Shadow Steel Shadow Steel Everything Umbral-synthesis This item regenerates durability in the darkness, regen speed is relative to the darkness level
Tartarite Tartarite Everything Paragon absorb Surrounding the item with 4 blocks of another metal will allow it to absorb its effects in an increased ratio while also increasing item durability.
Vulcanite Vulcanite Weapon Fuse Right clicking the weapon ignites it, and on the next strike within 5 seconds will create an explosion whose strength depends on how much time is left on the fuse, if 5 seconds run out before you attack any enemy the explosion will affect the user.
Vulcanite Vulcanite Armour (full set) Explosion Receiving damage causes explosions that damage all the entities around the player damage scales with armor level, when more than 2 pieces are worn explosions also cause fire in the area around and the user is given 10 seconds of fire resistance.
Vulcanite Vulcanite Tools Fissure Breaking a block has a chance of breaking another one adjacent to it, chance scales with fortune.
Vyroxeres Vyroxeres Weapon Toxin Poisons the target on every hit, if the target is already poisoned, the level of poison debuff increases.
Vyroxeres Vyroxeres Armour (full set) Dissolve Additional Damage Reduction for every active potion effect on the user.