Timeline for Why does potion level 128 give some potions weird effects?
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| May 14, 2016 at 6:25 | vote | accept | nelson2tm | ||
| May 13, 2016 at 13:59 | answer | added | Skylinerw | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 13, 2016 at 12:18 | history | edited | nelson2tm | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 13, 2016 at 6:45 | comment | added | Orc JMR | @Liesmith 's guess is very likely, though someone needs to look into game's code to say for sure. According to wiki, enchantment levels are stored on Short numbers, which gives a range of -32768 to 32767 (hence you are able to assign 128 at all), so the conversion to Byte (-128 to 127) happens somewhere during effect calculation. | |
| May 13, 2016 at 6:01 | comment | added | Liesmith | Just a guess, so I won't put it as an answer, but this sounds like an issue with the datatype used to store the potion modifier. For instance, a signed 8-bit datatype has a range of -127 to 127, so if you try to store a 128, it loops back to -127. In this case, it sounds like the potion level is displayed correctly, but when that level is applied to the effect modifier, it overflows. | |
| May 13, 2016 at 5:33 | history | edited | nelson2tm | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 13, 2016 at 5:04 | history | asked | nelson2tm | CC BY-SA 3.0 |