proposed change to the hammer animation for realism and seizure avoidance

[percyV13]

When the hammer swings, such as when it's in the off hand while chiseling and you break the block by hand to move it to a better angle, the animation has it come directly towards the character's face/the player's camera, completely filling the screen on standard FOVs.

Especially since well lit environments will be lighter in color than most of the hammers, this creates a mild strobe effect as the screen switches from light to dark rapidly.

I have photosensitive headaches and it's more than enough to start setting one off if I don't close my eyes until I hear the block break (or switch it out of my hand and then switch to another hotbar slot, which gets annoying when doing a lot of chiseling). Given that, it's likely more than enough to set off some people's epilepsy.

Also on a realism standpoint, hammering like that is a really good way to take a hammer to the face lol. When I was metalsmithing studio monitor back in college that was one of the things I was told to look for and correct.

The head of the hammer should be going over the shoulder, so if you do lose grip you kind of throw it over your shoulder instead of breaking your own nose. Or it can be parallel to the plane of the face, which is more the traditional blacksmith swing where they're moving the hammer up and down more than side to side, but depending on the animation that could also trigger strobe sensitivities.

Thank you for all the work you've done, and the number of accessibility settings you've already implemented!

[Facethief]

isn’t there a way to turn chiseled blocks without breaking them? I know that the wrench works, but I think there’s a tool mode that rotates the whole block.

[Never Jhonsen]

4 hours ago, Facethief said:

I think there’s a tool mode that rotates the whole block.

There is a vanilla Rotate option within the chisel. Look at the chisel block, press the tool options key (I think F is default on QWERTY keyboards), and look for the icon that's an arrow in a circular shape.

[Never Jhonsen]

I've had issues with the hammer "strobbing" the screen when it*s in my offhand as well. I get why it's seeable; I would be seeing it like that in real life as well, were I to punch a block whilst holding a hammer,

It's "fixable" by simply just clearing a spot in your hotbar, swapping your hammer into that empty slot, moving off the hammer so it's not in your right hand, doing the action that you wish to preform, then moving it back into your offhand every single time. always.

Sarcasm aside, I too, would like to see an accessibility mode that reduces tool flashing on screen. As realistic as it is, unfortunately it comes off different on a screen in a harmful way to some

[percyV13]

there is rotate options, but sometimes you need to see underneath the block or such which means picking it up off the floor and placing it on the ceiling, or you realize that you can just swap these blocks and not rechisel something, etc, or you just forget that you have the hammer in your off hand