OriginsX – Skill Tree

🌳 OriginsX – Skill Tree

Unlock your race’s true potential, node by node.

⚠️ Requires Race API, OriginsX, and LDLib2 ⚠️

📖 Overview

Skill Tree adds a fully datapack-driven progression layer on top of your race. Every power your race grants can now be gated behind an unlockable node: locked powers simply do not work until you invest Skill Shards into them, and each upgrade tier makes them stronger — reaching their full, intended strength at Tier III.

Trees are defined per race in plain JSON and support prerequisites between nodes, custom costs, icons, and free-form canvas positioning. Best of all, there is a built-in visual editor, allowing you to design trees for your own races without ever touching a text editor!

✨ Features

• Per-Race Skill Trees: Every race can have its own unique progression tree. (Powers without a designated node continue to work normally).

• Three Upgrade Tiers: Tier I = 34% strength, Tier II = 67%, Tier III = 100% full power.

• Skill Shard Currency: A brand-new craftable item used exclusively to unlock and upgrade nodes.

• Node Prerequisites: Chain nodes together! A node will only unlock when its parent nodes reach Tier III.

• Smart Power Scaling: Damage, durations, radii, cooldowns, and more scale numerically. The structural parts of a power are never touched, meaning third-party powers degrade gracefully instead of breaking.

• Visual Tree Editor: Drag and drop nodes on a free-form canvas, right-click to add/link/delete, pick powers directly from a dropdown, and export directly as a datapack (in singleplayer).

• Live Detail Panel: Shows the current vs. next-tier effect (e.g., “Now: +2 Max Health → Next: +4 Max Health”), upgrade costs, and affordability status.

• Server-Synced Progress: Your progression is stored safely server-side, survives relogs, and fully supports multiplayer.

• Localization Ready: Available in English, Russian, and Ukrainian.

⚙️ How It Works

1. Press K (configurable) to open the Skill Tree screen.

2. Select any node to view its name, description, current active effect, and upgrade cost.

3. Click the Shard Button to purchase the next tier. Shards are automatically consumed from your inventory.

4. The change applies instantly! The power’s gameplay hooks will immediately run at the new strength level.

💎 Skill Shards

The primary currency for all upgrades. You can craft them using Gold Nuggets around an Amethyst Shard:

Recipe: 8× Gold Nugget + 1× Amethyst Shard → 1× Skill Shard

Note: Your current shard count is always displayed in the header of the Skill Tree screen.

🛠️ For Modpack & Datapack Makers

You can add a tree for any race by placing a simple JSON file in data/<namespace>/skilltree/:

{
  "race": "yournamespace:yourrace",
  "title": "tree.yournamespace.yourrace",
  "nodes": [
    {
      "id": "example_node",
      "index": 0,
      "power": {
        "type": "attribute",
        "operation": "add_value",
        "attribute": "minecraft:generic.max_health",
        "amount": 4
      },
      "icon": "minecraft:apple",
      "x": 120,
      "y": 80,
      "requires": [],
      "cost": [2, 3, 5]
    }
  ]
}

JSON Properties:

• race — Which race this tree belongs to (the first tree registered for a race takes priority).

• index — The position of the gated power in the race’s powers array.

• power — The full inline power definition (uses the exact same schema as Race API). This is used to automatically generate the weaker tier copies.

• icon — The item ID displayed on the visual node.

• x / y — The exact pixel coordinates on the editor canvas.

• requires — An array of node IDs that must reach Tier III before this node can be unlocked.

• cost — The shard prices for Tiers I, II, and III respectively.

Or skip the JSON entirely!

Simply open the Skill Tree in-game in a singleplayer world, build it visually using the drag-and-drop editor, and press Save. The file will automatically be written straight into your world’s datapack folder.

📥 Requirements

• Minecraft: 26.2 with NeoForge

• Race API: Required (Core library)

• LDLib2: Required (GUI framework)

• OriginsX: Required (The mod might technically launch without it, but it will be completely useless. OriginsX provides the actual races and integrates the tree editor directly into the Race Creator).

🪙 Support the Development

I build this mod in my free time because I love giving players the freedom to create awesome things. If you want to help keep the updates rolling and toss a few “skill shards” my way in real life, I’d be thrilled!

Donations are entirely optional. The most important thing is that you enjoy the mod. But if you do want to tip, it is a massive motivation boost! 🛠️

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