Falling Dripstone

⚠️ NOT REGISTERED — this entity does not exist in the game.

Audit correction: this entry previously documented etfuturum.fallingDripstone as a live, registered entity. There is no such registration. The EntityFallingDripstone class exists in the source tree, but its registration is commented out, so the entity is never created and the wiki content below describes dead code.

Evidence — core/proxy/CommonProxy.java:272-274:

//      {
//          ModEntityList.registerEntity(EntityFallingDripstone.class, "falling_dripstone", 18, EtFuturum.instance, 64, 1, true);
//      }

Note also that the block ModBlocks.POINTED_DRIPSTONE it refers to is itself gated by ConfigExperiments.enableDripstone (ModBlocks.java:497), and this feature is not part of the mod’s default configuration either.

Registry name

etfuturum:falling_dripstone — registered name does not exist (registration commented out, core/proxy/CommonProxy.java:273; entity ID 18 is therefore left unused).

Basic info

• Health: Not applicable (falls and breaks or lands)
• Armor: None
• Size: Inherited from EntityFallingBlock
• Spawn conditions: None — never spawned, because the entity is not registered
• Drops: Would be pointed dripstone (1 block, with correct damage value for stalactite vs stalagmite)
• Behaviour: Physics-enabled falling block variant of pointed dripstone. Damages entities on impact if fallen far enough.

The behaviour figures below are transcribed from the un-registered class entities/EntityFallingDripstone.java. They describe code that is compiled but unreachable — they are not observable in-game.

Fall damage

• fallHurtMax = 40: maximum damage amount cap
• fallHurtAmount = 4.0: damage multiplier per block of fall distance
• hurtEntities = true: always hurts entities on landing

Damage formula: min(floor((distance - 1.0) × fallHurtAmount), fallHurtMax)

Example: 10 blocks → (10-1) × 4.0 = 36 damage

Bounce behavior

When hitting ground that is NOT another dripstone block:

• motionX *= 0.7
• motionZ *= 0.7
• motionY *= -0.5 (bounces upward with damping)
• Then dies

When hitting another dripstone block:

• No bounce — immediate death and drop

Block data

• Stores BlockPointedDripstone block type
• Metadata preserved through field_145814_a (block’s own damage/metadata)
• damageDropped() used when creating the drop ItemStack

Despawn conditions

• Falls for >100 ticks and block Y < 1 or >256 → dies and drops item
• Falls for >600 ticks → dies and drops item

Notes

• Extends EntityFallingBlock (base Minecraft falling block entity)
• Unlike generic falling sand/gravel, this has explicit dripstone-specific fall damage
• Used for pointed dripstone physics (stalactites falling from ceilings)
• The parent block ModBlocks.POINTED_DRIPSTONE determines the dripstone type (stalactite vs stalagmite)