Ascalon¶
Saint George's dragon-slaying sword. Anyone can wield it, but a Boosted Gear holder can keep it inside the gauntlet and fight with its blade coming out of their fist.
Finding it¶
Ascalon waits in a ruined church: a chapel in plains, meadows and forests, about as rare as a pillager outpost. Inside, a dragon's skeleton lies across the nave, and Ascalon is driven down through its skull at the chancel steps, glowing under a hole in the roof.
/locate structure dxdtensura:ascalon_church
Drawing it. Use the skull.
- The first church drawn from in a world gives the true Ascalon. Every later church gives an Ascalon Replica.
- A Boosted Gear holder with the gauntlet out gets it straight into the gear. Anyone else gets it in hand.
- The empty skull can then be mined with a pickaxe and kept as a trophy, the Dragon's Skull.
The sword¶
| Ascalon | Ascalon Replica | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Tensura long sword, High Magisteel strength (22, two-handed) | the same |
| Durability | unbreakable, fire-proof, never despawns when dropped | the same |
| Dragon Slayer holy strike | +100% of the hit on dragons | +50% of the hit on dragons |
Dragon Slayer. A hit on a dragon adds a holy strike. Dragons are:
- the Ender Dragon (and whatever data packs add to
#dxdtensura:draconic); - the Dragonewt, True Dragonewt and Divine Dragon races;
- anyone holding a Heavenly Dragon's Sacred Gear (the Boosted Gear).
It burns dragons. A dragon holding Ascalon in either hand loses 5% of max health a second to holy light, never below one heart. That includes Boosted Gear holders: Ddraig warns you the first time.
Devils too. Ascalon burns a Devil who holds it, as it burns a dragon, and its holy strike hits Devils.
The Blade mode¶
The Ascalon Blade mode (the Boosted Gear's mode 5) appears while you hold Ascalon or keep it in the gear.
- Press it holding Ascalon to put the sword into the gear.
- Press again to slide the blade out, or back in.
- Sneak and press to take the sword back out: into your hand, else your inventory, else at your feet. Handy to lend it.
The blade¶
The blade comes out of the back of your fist, on every form and on the Scale Mail. Hinged at the knuckles, it points ahead like a held sword while your arm hangs, and lines up with your forearm as you strike.
With the blade out and your main hand empty, your hand hits with it: +2 attack, and the sword's speed and reach. These count as bare-handed hits for the gear: the Explosion multiplies them, they train mastery, fill the rage meter, and carry the holy strike on dragons. Holding anything folds the blade away.
Transfer into the blade¶
Boosted Gear Gift. Sneak and Transfer with the blade out, and your stacks go into the blade for 30 seconds.
Its holy strike on dragons is ×2ⁿ for that time (the higher of the charge and a running Explosion, never both). It
releases the Boost like any Transfer. The panel shows Ascalon ×32 25s in green.
Kept safe¶
- The stored sword stays through death and dismissing the gauntlet.
- A clone's copy of the gear never has it.
- Losing the Boosted Gear drops it at your feet.