Guide: Obtaining and Using Stands
Stands are an essential part of Roundabout: The JoJo Mod. There are currently 12 stands in the mod, 7 Main Stands and 5 Secondary Stands, with many more planned for the future. You can get a stand by crafting a Stand Arrow and using 15 levels of experience (or for free if obtaining a Secondary Stand).
To summon or de-summon your stand, press the "R" key by default (can be changed in the Minecraft controls menu). While your stand is summoned, controls for most of its moves will appear in the upper left corner of the screen. If you crouch or block, the icons may change, allowing other moves to be used.
Many stands with humanoid bodies also have additional moves such as punches and barrage attacks that replace your left click input while summoned. Left-clicking will cause your stand to use its normal attack, often a punch. Right-clicking, in most cases, will make your stand block, similar to using a shield.
To perform a Barrage attack, tap left-click while blocking with your stand. So long as you continue to hold block, your barrage will charge up, activate, and then conclude as indicated by the purple meter above the crosshair. If someone hits you with a barrage while you are barraging or charging a barrage, you will enter a barrage clash in which you must hold down the jump key to fill the blue bar below your health similar to a horse jump meter in vanilla Minecraft. If when you release it and it is more filled than your opponent's meter (the red one on top), then you will win the clash. It is possible to tie, and no damage will be taken, only knockback. During a clash, most of your controls are locked.
Lastly, pressing "Y" by default will open the Power Inventory, a menu that describes your stand's moves in detail and allows you to customize aspects of your stand and character.
Stand arrows are crafted with meteorites. Small meteors spawn on the surface of the overworld, and they can be mined with an iron pickaxe. But you can also get meteorites by killing stand user mobs.
Alternatively, you can get stand arrows from archaeology, and it is especially common in suspicious sand, which can sometimes even yield beetle arrows (a rare variant that is not different functionally, it just has a different look).
To use a stand arrow, right click it once to find out what stand it has. If you do not like the stand, you can sneak/crouch + right click to spend 1 level of experience to get a different stand on the arrow. Once you found a stand you like, you can hold and release right click to use 15 experience levels to get the stand.
You can grant stands to worthy mobs by shooting the stand arrow from a bow or crossbow, much like a regular arrow. To learn if a mob is worthy, hold the stand arrow in your hand and approach them. If they are worthy, the arrow will start vibrating, and pointing forward the closer you are to the worthy mob. Once the arrow is shot at from the bow, it will magnetize towards the worthy mob, so be careful nothing else gets hit while it homes in. Mobs have a 1/20 chance of being worthy by default, and a 1/200 chance of spawning with a stand.
Stand User mobs use the abilities of the stand, sometimes differently depending on the mob. Peaceful mobs become neutral when they have a stand, and villagers will de-summon their stand and flee if their health gets low.
If a mob who is not worthy is hit by a stand arrow, they will take damage overtime from the stand virus. Depending on the stand that is on the arrow, it will have an additional effect as the stand inside begins to reject its new user. For example, Star Platinum punches its rejected user. After the effect wears off, if the unworthy mob survives, the mob will not acquire a stand. Players who are without a stand or below level 15 will get stand rejections if hit by the arrow, otherwise nothing will happen to them.
You can also throw a stand disc at worthy mobs, if your stand has a throw ability.
Every time the arrow hits a mob, it loses 1 durability. Once the durability is at zero, it can be fully recharged by crafting with 1 meteorite. Alternatively, you can use an anvil and meteor ingots, but this is far less effective.
If you want to change the stand you have, or go back to being without a stand, craft a stand disc from soul sand and nether quartz. Right clicking the disc will put your stand onto it. Right clicking the disc again will give you back your stand. You can also give the disc to other players.