🌟 Ascension Mastery - Mod Guide

Current Version: 1.2.1
Author: QiShui48
Dependency: Fabric API

📖 Introduction

Ascension Mastery is a mod designed to reinvent the exploration and progression experience in Minecraft. Forget about mindlessly grinding XP farms; here, you must explore the world like a true Adventurer.

By discovering new items, tasting exotic foods, conquering dungeons, and hunting dangerous beasts, you earn "Skill Points". Use these points to unlock powerful passive abilities, game-changing movement mechanics, and unique survival utilities.

v1.2.1 Update Highlights:

• New Mining Branch: Make manual labor rewarding again with Gold Panning and Hephaestus's Favor.
• Combat Rework: Master the flames with the revamped Fire Skill tree!

🎮 Quick Start

1. Controls

• Open Skill Tree: Press K (Default keybind).
• Interface Interaction:
  • L-Click Drag: Pan the view.
  • Scroll: Zoom in/out.
  • L-Click Icon: Unlock or Upgrade a skill.
  • M-Click (Middle Mouse): Toggle [Enable/Disable] an unlocked skill. Perfect for when you need to turn off super-speed or auto-jump features for precise building.
• Mutual Exclusion: Some powerful skills are mutually exclusive (e.g., Fire Immunity vs. Flame Infection). Choose your path wisely!

2. Earning Skill Points

In this mod, XP is just a number. Skill Points are your real power. Here is how to earn them:

🌳 Skill Tree System - v1.2.1 Update

⛏️ Mining & Gathering [NEW]

• Pocket Furnace: Automatically smelts the item in your last hotbar slot. (Portable & passive!)
• Lumberjack: Significantly increases mining speed for Logs and Leaves.
• Miner's Frenzy: Significantly increases mining speed for Stone and Deepslate types.
• Gold Panning:
  • Right-click Sand with a Shovel. Consumes durability to "Pan for Gold".
  • Chance to find Gold Ingots! Scaling with Fortune enchantment and tool quality.
• Hephaestus's Favor:
  • Mining Granite, Andesite, or Diorite has a high chance to drop Quartz.
  • Max level adds a chance to drop Raw Iron.

🔥 Combat [REWORK]

• Fire Resistance: Basic ability. Reduces fire damage and extinguishes you faster.
• Fire Immunity: Ignore fire damage completely (like a Nether mob). Mutually Exclusive with Flame Infection.
• Flame Infection: Fight fire with fire! Ignites anyone who attacks you.
• Thermal Dynamo: While you are burning, gain massive Movement Speed and Attack Damage. Danger driven!

🏃 Survival & Agility

• Rocket Boost: Grants Double Jump (or even Triple Jump).
• Charged Jump: Sneak to charge up, then launch yourself across vast distances.
• Hunger Tolerance: Breaks vanilla limits. Regenerate health as long as your hunger is not zero (Vanilla requires >18).
• Hunger Constitution: Gain Absorption Hearts when your hunger bar drops.
• Adrenaline Rush: Taking heavy damage (≥2 hearts) at full health triggers a burst of Speed and Absorption.
• Starvation Burst [Hidden Skill]:
  • How to discover: Walk for a distance while your hunger is at absolute zero to understand the true meaning of survival.
  • Effect: Gain Strength and Speed when starving.

✨ Unique Enchantments

The mod adds a collection of powerful enchantments with unique mechanics.

Sword Enchantments

• Life Steal:
  • Heals you on hit.
  • Level: I - III (Heals 0.5 hearts per level).
• Speed Steal:
  • Steals movement speed from your target. Applies Slowness to them and Speed to you, accompanied by soul particles.

Bow Enchantments - Special Arts

• Pocket Cat [NEW]:
  • Effect: Spawns a tamed Cat at the arrow's impact point.
  • Cost: Consumes 1 Raw Fish (Cod or Salmon) per shot.
• Pocket Guard:
  • Effect: Deploys an Iron Golem at the target location to fight for you.
  • Cost: Consumes 18 Iron Ingots per shot.
• Pocket Bucket:
  • Effect: Places a Water Source at impact.
  • Cost: Consumes 1 Water Bucket per shot.
• Death Star Cannon:
  • Effect: Arrow flies straight (no gravity) at extreme speed. Deletes blocks upon impact.
  • Cost: Massive durability damage to the bow (unless in Creative).
• Life Force:
  • Effect: Terraforms the land, turning dirt into grass and flowers.

🔭 Future Roadmap

Ascension Mastery is constantly evolving. Beyond more skills and enchantments, here is what we are planning:

• Active Skills System: Introducing key-bound active skills (not just passives) to bring more depth and creativity to combat.
• Enchantment Overhaul: A complete redesign of the current enchantment system into a more unique, RPG-style system.
• UI Redesign: Visual and interactive upgrades to the Skill Tree interface.
• Balancing: All skills are balanced around the goal of encouraging vanilla exploration.
• Configuration: Future updates will allow players to customize skill point multipliers, costs, and effect strengths via config files.
• Version Support: Plans to support newer Minecraft versions (e.g., 1.21+). (Note: No plans for Forge/NeoForge ports at this time).

💬 Community & Feedback

Your voice matters! If you have any thoughts, please leave a comment:

• 💡 Ideas: What new skills or enchantments do you want to see?
• 🐛 Bug Reports: Found something weird? Let me know how to reproduce it.
• ⚖️ Balancing: Is a skill too OP or too weak?

Thank you for supporting Ascension Mastery!