Smooth Classes

Smooth Classes

Minecraft 1.20.1 · Fabric & Forge · Client & Server

Smooth Classes turns Minecraft combat into a full RPG class system built around branching skill trees, class specialisations, signature abilities, unique mechanics, and Ascendancy progression.

Start through the base Strength, Magic, and Agility paths, then commit to one of 10 class specialisations, each with its own playstyle, passives, active abilities, upgrades, and class mechanics.

This is not a mod where every class is just +5% damage in a different font.

There is damage.

There is also blood rain, Arcane Slashes, portals, giant holy beams, dark curses, flying Hippogryphs, orbital weapons, stealth, rage, spear momentum, and a permanent list of everything your necromancer has killed.

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Gameplay Preview

Raining Blood

Turn the battlefield into a localized blood storm that weakens enemies while empowering its caster.

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Arcane Slash

Charge and release a devastating arcane blade through anything unfortunate enough to stand in front of you.

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Portal of Sovereignty

Control the battlefield through portals and ranged pressure.

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When on High

Rise into the air and bring down overwhelming divine power from above.

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Torment

Unleash dark power in a devastating cursed eruption.

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Hippogryph

Rider progression eventually leaves the ground entirely.

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Cool, right?

Smooth Classes is still actively in development.

I’m building and expanding it alongside my modpack, and I plan to keep pushing it until the whole RPG experience feels exactly the way I want it to.

That means the current skills are not the end.

Expect more signature abilities, Ascendancy skills, class mechanics, visual effects, and probably several more ideas inspired by anime, games, and other RPGs — reworked to fit Smooth Classes rather than simply copied over.

If something looks slightly unreasonable now, there is a very real chance something even more unreasonable is coming later.

Stay tuned.

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Features

• 10 class specialisations
• Playable Human and Vampire Origins
• Branching Puffish Skills progression
• Unique passive mechanics for every class
• Multiple Signature Abilities
• Branching skill upgrades
• Ascendancy endgame progression
• Additional upgrades at 30+ and 60+ Ascendancy
• Custom projectiles, spell effects, entities, summons, and animations
• Mounted combat and flight
• Persistent summon progression
• Rage, stealth, spear Momentum, support, spellblade, ranged, and summoner playstyles
• Custom HUD elements
• Keybind-driven class abilities
• Multiplayer and dedicated-server support
• English, Indonesian, French, and Russian localisation
• Optional integration with Smooth Progression

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Origins — Your Class Is Only Half the Story

Your Class shapes how you fight. Your Origin adds another layer to how you survive and play.

The currently playable Origins are Human and Vampire.

Human

An ordinary human with no additional Origin powers, weaknesses, or evolution requirements. Your chosen class provides your special abilities.

For players who would like their biggest dietary concern to remain finding dinner.

Vampire

Trade an ordinary life for a blood-driven playstyle with its own strengths, weaknesses, progression, and transformations.

• Blood feeding and a dedicated blood resource
• Night-focused advantages and night vision
• Dangerous sunlight and restrictions on normal food
• A dedicated Vampire progression tree
• Bat transformations and further progression toward Vampire Lord

The Vampire Origin is built into Smooth Classes and works without Bewitchment.

You wanted supernatural power. The sun took that personally.

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Choose Your Class

Each specialisation is designed around a different combat identity rather than simply changing damage numbers.

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Avenger — From Corpses We Arise

A summoner built around the Death List.

Avenger is one of the strongest classes for players who love collecting mobs and turning the world into their personal army.

If you kill a creature and successfully record it, its soul remains yours. You can summon it again later, command it, keep it bound to follow you, or unbind it so it stays where you leave it.

That means Avenger is not just a combat class. It is also a ridiculous utility class.

Want to keep a mob around without dragging it everywhere? Unbind it.

Want to make a cursed little trading center? Kill Villagers, summon them inside your trading hall, then unbind them so they stay there.

Yes, that works.

Core Mechanics

• Persistent Death List
• Souls collected from your kills and your summons’ kills
• Summoning through main-hand and off-hand material combinations
• Up to 3 summon charges
• Bound summons follow you while they remain linked to you
• Unbind summons so they stop following and stay in place
• Recall your own summons and recover their soul and ingredients
• Curtain Call — detonate one of your own summons
• Endless Devour — consume weakened enemies and record them directly
• Friendly summon faction AI

Avenger does not just raise the dead.

It inventories them.

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Rider — Mounted Mastery

A class centered around speed, mounted combat, impact attacks, and aerial mobility.

Your mount progresses alongside the class:

Horse → Water Stride → Dread Steed → Hippogryph

Mounted combat significantly increases your offensive potential.

Signature Abilities

• Rider’s Charge — a steerable mounted impact attack
• War Aura — empower yourself and your owned creatures
• Blazing Hooves — leave destruction beneath your mount

Eventually, roads become optional.

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Lancer — Momentum Spear

Lancer rewards relentless spear combat.

Successful attacks build Momentum, increasing your spear damage while you maintain pressure.

Death removes your Momentum.

Try not to do that.

Signature Abilities

• Impaling Volley — launch copies of your held spear through multiple enemies
• Dragon Thrust — charge through enemies in your aimed direction
• Spearstorm — rapidly pressure an area with repeated spear attacks

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Berserker

A brutal melee class powered by Rage, aggression, and sustained combat.

Deal and receive damage to build pressure, trading safety for increasingly dangerous offensive potential.

Highlights

• Rage-based combat
• Heavy melee pressure
• Defensive risk/reward
• Rampage
• Bloodthirsty
• Berserking

Your health bar is a resource.

Probably.

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Assassin

A high-mobility class built around Stealth, evasion, precision attacks, and sudden burst damage.

Assassin rewards positioning, light equipment, and attacking before the enemy gets the opportunity to respond.

Highlights

• Stealth
• Evasion
• Precision attacks
• Mobility
• Shadow techniques
• High-risk burst gameplay

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Archer

A ranged specialist focused on bows, precision, mobility, elemental attacks, and battlefield control.

Archer begins as a traditional ranged class but develops increasingly powerful tools beyond basic projectile combat.

Highlights

• Bow-focused bonuses
• Elemental arrows
• Volley abilities
• Ranged mobility
• Portal of Sovereignty

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Saber

A holy warrior combining melee combat, protection, healing, and divine offense.

Saber can stand on the front line while still providing strong defensive and supportive utility.

For players who looked at the healer and asked:

“What if the healer also had a sword?”

Some Saber abilities integrate with Paladins & Priests.

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Ruler

A battlefield support class focused on healing, protection, buffs, and keeping allies alive under pressure.

Ruler turns support into an active combat role rather than passive background healing.

Highlights

• Healing
• Protection
• Battlefield buffs
• Sacred areas
• Divine intervention
• Group utility

Some Ruler abilities integrate with Paladins & Priests.

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Caster

A destructive spellcaster focused on raw magical specialization and powerful spell combinations.

Caster gives up martial strength in exchange for significantly greater magical potential.

Glass cannon?

Correct.

The important word is cannon.

Highlights

• Elemental magic
• High spell scaling
• Powerful ranged casting
• Large area attacks
• Devastating magical bursts

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Foreigner

A hybrid combatant blending melee attacks and spellcasting.

Foreigner is built for players who refuse to choose between weapon combat and magic.

The correct answer was both.

Highlights

• Spellblade gameplay
• Weapon and spell synergy
• Elemental melee effects
• Arcane attacks
• Hybrid offensive builds

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Class Progression

Smooth Classes uses Puffish Skills for its progression interface.

Your journey begins through the base paths:

Strength • Magic • Agility

These paths lead into the main class specialisations.

Each class then develops through its own:

• Passive bonuses
• Core mechanics
• Active abilities
• Signature skills
• Branching upgrades

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Ascendancy

Completing your class progression opens the Ascendancy Tree.

Ascendancy is a late-game progression layer containing powerful abilities and passive upgrades that can expand your build beyond your original class identity.

Major Ascendancy thresholds further upgrade abilities:

• 30+ Ascendancy — enhanced forms and additional mechanics
• 60+ Ascendancy — final upgrades and significantly stronger effects

Ascendancy abilities include:

• Raining Blood
• Arcane Slash
• Rapidfire
• Ghostwalk
• Cataclysm
• Righteous Hammers
• Righteous Shield
• Swordfall
• Sword Rain
• Agony
• Torment
• Chainbreaker
• and more

Most Ascendancy abilities are designed to function across different classes and builds.

Some retain thematic equipment requirements where appropriate.

For example, Rapidfire requires a Bow or Crossbow.

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Smooth Progression Integration

Smooth Classes can be played on its own.

It also supports Smooth Progression, an optional companion mod that can control the larger progression flow:

Base Tree → Selected Class → Ascendancy

When Smooth Progression is installed, it becomes the progression authority for unlocking later stages.

Smooth Progression is optional for Smooth Classes.

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Required Dependencies

Smooth Classes has separate Fabric and Forge builds for Minecraft 1.20.1. Install one Smooth Classes JAR and use the matching loader versions of its dependencies.

Both builds require Pufferfish’s Skills, Pufferfish’s Attributes, Spell Engine, Spell Power Attributes, and Accessories, plus their supporting libraries.

Requirement	Fabric Build	Forge Build for Minecraft 1.20.1
Minecraft	1.20.1	1.20.1
Loader	Fabric Loader for Minecraft 1.20.1	Minecraft Forge 47.4.0 or newer
API	Fabric API for Minecraft 1.20.1	Forgified Fabric API 0.92.6+1.11.15+1.20.1
Pufferfish’s Skills	Compatible Fabric build	0.19.2 — Forge
Pufferfish’s Attributes	Compatible Fabric build	0.8.2 — Forge
Spell Engine	Compatible Fabric build	1.10.10+1.20.1 — Forge
Spell Power Attributes	Compatible Fabric build	1.6.1+1.20.1 — Forge
Accessories	Compatible Fabric build, 1.0.0-beta.47 or newer	1.0.0-beta.49+1.20.1
Cloth Config API	Compatible Fabric build	11.1.136 — Forge
Player Animator	Compatible Fabric build	1.0.2-rc1+1.20 — Forge

The Forge versions linked above are the dependency set used for this Forge build. When choosing other releases, check their Minecraft version, loader, and dependency requirements.

Fabric API is required only by the Fabric build. The Forge build uses Forgified Fabric API. Sinytra Connector is not required.

Accessories download note: The linked Minecraft 1.20.1 Accessories file is named accessories-neoforge-1.0.0-beta.49+1.20.1.jar. This specific 1.20.1 build declares Forge 47 support in its loader metadata.

For multiplayer, install Smooth Classes and its required dependencies on both the server and clients, using the same loader and matching mod versions.

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Optional / Recommended Integrations

Smooth Classes also supports or works well alongside:

• Smooth Progression
• Simply Swords
• Paladins & Priests
• Archers
• Immersive Melodies
• Open Parties and Claims

Some abilities may gain additional functionality when their related integration is installed.

Use integrations released for your Minecraft version and chosen loader. Bewitchment-specific compatibility is available on Fabric only; the built-in Human and Vampire Origins are available in both Smooth Classes builds.

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Compatibility

Designed for:

Minecraft 1.20.1 — Fabric or Forge

Smooth Classes is primarily intended for:

• RPG modpacks
• Adventure modpacks
• Combat-heavy progression
• Multiplayer RPG servers
• Spell and weapon focused modpacks

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Feedback & Bug Reports

Smooth Classes is actively developed, and balancing feedback is welcome.

If you discover:

• a broken ability,
• strange class interaction,
• multiplayer issue,
• visual bug,
• compatibility problem,
• or a build capable of dealing twelve billion damage because six different RPG mods decided to multiply each other,

please report it. Include your Minecraft version, mod loader and loader version, Smooth Classes version, relevant dependency versions, latest log or crash report, and steps to reproduce the issue.

The last one may not be entirely my fault.

It is still worth reporting.

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Have fun.

Choose a class.

Break the build.

Ascend.

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Credits & Special Thanks

Special thanks to Sweeney and Timefall Development, the creators of Simply Skills, the source of UI elements and skill images used in Smooth Classes. Credit for those contributions belongs to their original creators.

Additional thanks to Clockwork Raven, creator of Raven Fantasy Icons, identified in Simply Skills’ license as the source of its icon artwork. Credit for that artwork belongs to Clockwork Raven.

These credits acknowledge the original creators and do not grant permission to reuse their assets or change their licenses. The relevant terms are available in the Simply Skills license and on the Raven Fantasy Icons page. Smooth Classes is an independent project; no affiliation or endorsement is implied.