Gouge

Slam your pickaxe into a wall mid-fall and stop yourself before you splat.

What it does

Falling toward a wall? Right-click it with a pickaxe. It bites into the surface and friction does the rest, bleeding off your speed as you scrape down. Harder blocks slow you down more.

Hit stone or obsidian and friction keeps eating your momentum every tick, no input needed, until you stop dead. Once you're stopped you hang there, locked in place, until your grip runs out or your pickaxe can't take any more punishment. When it gives out you slip, and there's a cooldown before you can grab again.

Hit dirt or sand and there's no locking, you just keep sliding, but your landing hits noticeably softer.

Want off the wall early? Double-tap crouch within half a second. That kicks you off, whether you're hanging or still sliding.

Better pickaxes hang longer and drain slower. Slide into another player fast enough and it hurts them too.

See it in action

Soft blocks cut your fall damage roughly in half

No slide vs sliding on the way down

Hard blocks bleed your speed until you lock in place

(that fall damage at the end is a skill issue :p)

Double-tap crouch to kick off

Enchantments

Enchant pickaxes with these at a table or anvil like anything else.

Compatibility

• Tinkers' Construct (suggested by Elizabeth_Mahiko)
• Mekanism / Mekanism Tools
• Silent Gear
• ParCool (suggested by Brizo)
• Zipline: Rezipped (suggested by greetedsnow)

Thanks to everyone above for flagging compatibility with these mods.