Powers of Reference

Powers of Reference

Freeze time in the middle of a fight, swing between cliffs, steal a creature’s flight, declare the laws of battle, or propel yourself through the sky with explosions.

Powers of Reference adds 11 artifact-based power sets to Minecraft, with dozens of abilities, custom first- and third-person animations, power-specific sounds and large-scale effects. Each power offers its own approach to combat, movement and controlling the world around you.

Eleven powers to master

• Frostfire: combine glaciers, fireballs, ice comets, icicle barrages, a continuous fire jet and thermal flight. Finish with Frostfire Cataclysm, a charged fire-and-ice rush ending in a massive eruption.
• Time: accelerate yourself, freeze nearby action, fast-forward time, spread decay, place a timeline anchor and rewind.
• Space: call down meteors, phase through obstacles, manipulate gravity, fly and travel to the Spatial Void, a custom dimension beneath an animated black-hole sky.
• Spider: swing on webs, crawl across walls and ceilings, launch web attacks, sense threats, zip to locations and pull targets toward you.
• Punch: deliver Serious Punches, send shockwaves across the ground, build strength and speed, perform enormous jumps and unleash Serious Table Flip.
• Earth: raise pillars, construct an arena, lift and launch chunks of terrain, control a levitating block swarm and trap enemies.
• Reality: swap positions, create clones, summon a singularity and manipulate vectors, rotation and gravity fields.
• Status: weaken, slow, disorient or levitate enemies; strengthen, heal and accelerate yourself; cleanse unwanted effects.
• Theft: borrow properties such as heat, light, momentum and strength, take individual power abilities, or steal flight and teleportation from compatible creatures. Store two loans, use them yourself, give them to suitable recipients, and return them to their sources.
• Judge: build laws from a 100-rule Lawbook covering movement, projectiles, damage, powers, terrain and more. Save three laws, maintain two at once, and choose who they affect—including yourself or others. Gain passive Resistance II and declare jurisdictions up to 64 blocks in radius.
• Explosion: unleash explosive punches, hold a rapid-fire barrage, surround yourself with a destructive nova, or charge into enemies with Prismatic Impact. Fly using explosions beneath your feet, engage Overdrive, and trigger Last Spark when critically wounded.

Discover the Awakened

Find Awakened Refuges in newly generated Overworld terrain and challenge named, powered opponents. Awakened use the mod’s abilities, exhaustion system and varied armor and swords. Defeating one gives you a chance to obtain its power artifact.

Powerful abilities with an exhaustion system

Abilities add exhaustion when activated or while maintained. By default, the meter’s limit is 999, with normal recovery of 10 per second. Plan around your costs, manage sustained abilities and choose when to commit to a finishing move.

Make the powers fit your world

Customize 1,615 settings through the configuration file or compact in-game Power Settings editor. Adjust damage, range, costs, cooldowns, durations, targeting, terrain changes, sounds and ability-specific mechanics.

Use global search to find settings across every power, or start with the Survival, Adventurer, Destructive, Overpowered or Unrestricted presets. Use global world protection to prevent abilities from damaging terrain.

Press O or use /powers settings to open the editor. Single-player owners and server operators can save changes; other players can inspect the server’s settings.

Effects you can see and hear

Casting uses distinct gestures, smooth transitions and effects that follow the player’s hands. Ice cracks and shatters, flames roar and crackle, and earth abilities use rocky impacts and debris.

Frostfire Cataclysm combines molten and crystalline effects with a custom thermal shader. Judge summons a rotating Lawbook with smoothly turning pages before a golden wave expands into a clearly marked jurisdiction. Explosion leaves trails of miniature blasts and multicolored impacts.

Shader effects are built into the mod; no separate shader pack is required.

Getting started

Obtain an artifact through crafting or Awakened loot, then consume it to gain its power set. Using a different artifact switches your power and returns the previous artifact. A craftable Power Extractor lets you remove your power and recover its artifact.

Most abilities use Z, X, C and V, with Shift variants. Some use double-tap Jump or Crouch + Jump. Bindings can be changed in Minecraft’s Controls menu, and in-game instructions display your actual bindings.

Minecraft Java Edition

• 1.21.1 — NeoForge
• 1.20.1 — Forge
• 26.3 — Fabric (requires Fabric API)

Install the mod on both the client and server, using matching versions.