Defensive retaliate

A chestplate enchant that punishes attackers: when you take a hit, there's a chance to deal damage straight back and knock them away. This recipe shows a defensive trigger and how the target defaults flip on defense.

# content/enchants/retaliate.yml
tier: rare
display: "&cRetaliate"
description: "Strike back at whoever hits you."
trigger: DEFENSE
applies-to: [CHESTPLATE]
group: defense
levels:
  1:
    chance: 30
    effects:
      - { DAMAGE: { amount: 3, who: "@Attacker" } }
  2:
    chance: 40
    effects:
      - { DAMAGE: { amount: 5, who: "@Attacker" } }
  3:
    chance: 50
    effects:
      - { DAMAGE: { amount: 7, who: "@Attacker" } }
      - { VELOCITY: { mode: away, strength: 0.8, who: "@Attacker" } }

How it works

• trigger: DEFENSE fires when the wearer takes a hit.
• who: "@Attacker" is the entity that just hit you. On a defensive trigger, you almost always want to act on the attacker — DAMAGE defaults to @Victim, so you name @Attacker explicitly.
• VELOCITY with mode: away knocks the attacker back from you, scaled by strength.

Variations

• Reflect with a buff for yourself (regen on the wearer — POTION defaults to @Self):

  effects:
    - { DAMAGE: { amount: 5, who: "@Attacker" } }
    - { POTION: { effect: REGENERATION, level: 1, duration: 60 } }

• Summon a guardian to fight back with the GUARD effect, which targets the attacker by default:

  - { GUARD: { type: IRON_GOLEM, ttl: 200, name: "&bGuardian" } }

See the triggers reference for the full list of defensive triggers (DEFENSE, FALL, FIRE) and the two other things-that-happen-to-you triggers you can retaliate from: GUARDIAN_HURT, which fires on the owner when something hits a guardian they summoned, and ITEM_DAMAGE, which fires when their gear takes durability damage.