Soul Reaper Overview

• Bosses with very high health (200+ HP) that slay another such boss steal 20% of the victim’s max health (capped) as a permanent max-health bonus and get an immediate heal toward the new cap.
• One of the victim’s beneficial effects is taken; if none are present a random buff (Strength, Speed, Resistance, Regeneration, or Fire Resistance) is granted for about 45 seconds, alongside a small attack boost from the Soul Reaper power effect.
• While a stolen ability is active, a purple eye-glow is shown with drifting particles around the face to signal the power being used.
• Health bonuses are stored on the killer and re-applied each tick so they survive world reloads; growth is limited to avoid runaway health stacking.
• Built against NeoForge 20.4.251 (Minecraft 1.20.4, Java 17) as the closest available NeoForge line to 1.20.1.

Notes and Future Ideas

• Trigger checks only consider entities with 200+ max health; other bosses with lower health are ignored.
• The “purple eyes” cue uses particles rather than a full emissive overlay; a custom renderer could make the glow more pronounced.
• Ability stealing currently copies only one beneficial effect or a small vanilla buff set; expanding this list or adding cooldowns/manual activation would deepen the mechanic.