Skill Totem

Skill Totem

Skill Totems adds a lightweight, MOBA-style ability system to vanilla Minecraft. Find or craft mysterious Skill Totems, unlock a random ability from each one, and bind your two favorites to your own keybinds — no classes, no XP grind, just pick up totems and build your own loadout.

How It Works

1. Get a Skill Totem. You can either find one naturally generated in a Plains biome, or craft your own (recipe below).
2. Right-click the totem. It grants you one random ability you haven’t unlocked yet, then the totem is consumed (single use).
3. Open the Skill Menu (default key: Right Shift) to see everything you’ve unlocked and assign up to two abilities to your 1. Skill and 2. Skill slots.
4. Bind your activation keys. The two skill-activation keybinds are intentionally left unbound by default (so the mod never silently overrides a key you already use) — set them yourself in Options > Controls > Skill Orbs. If you forget, the mod will remind you with a red chat message the moment you join a world.
5. Use your skills and watch their cooldowns on the small HUD bars next to your hotbar.

There are 6 abilities to collect in total — since each totem gives a random one, you may need several totems to unlock them all.

Abilities

(Cooldowns are per-ability, not shared, and are tracked server-side so they can’t be bypassed by relogging.)

Getting a Skill Totem

Craft one using: [Gold Block] [Diamond] [Gold Block] [Diamond] [Totem of Undying] [Diamond] [Gold Block] [Diamond] [Gold Block]

or find one in the wild. Skill Totems rarely generate naturally on open, grassy ground in Plains biomes, glowing and shooting a bright yellow beam of light straight up into the sky so they’re easy to spot from a distance — keep an eye on the horizon while exploring plains.

The Skill Menu

• Shows every ability in the game — ones you’ve unlocked are clickable and fully labeled; ones you haven’t are grayed out with a [?] and their icon dimmed, so you know what’s still out there to find.
• Select an unlocked ability, then click 1. Skill or 2. Skill to assign it. Assigning an ability to one slot automatically un-assigns it from the other if it was already equipped there.
• Each unlocked ability has a small red X button next to it to permanently delete it (with a confirmation prompt first, so it’s not an accidental click) if you want to make room or just don’t like it.

Per-World Progress

Your unlocked skills, equipped loadout, and cooldowns are all tied to the specific world (or server) you’re playing in — progress in one world never bleeds into another, so every world’s skill collection is its own fresh run.

Multiplayer / Server Admin

Server operators (permission level 2+) can grant a specific player any ability instantly for testing or events with: /skillorbs unlock <player> <ability> Valid ability ids: dash, shield, shockwave, heal_pulse, blink_strike, speed_surge.

Localization

Fully translated into English and Turkish, and automatically follows your Minecraft client’s selected language.

Requirements

• Minecraft 1.21.11
• Fabric Loader
• Fabric API

Notes

• The Skill Totem block placed by a player behaves identically to a naturally generated one (same glow, same beam, same single-use unlock-on-right-click).
• All server-side logic (cooldowns, ability data, keybind checks) is fully validated server-side, so nothing here can be exploited by client-side tricks.