Overgrown's Origins: Elemental Bendings

By
OvergrownMC

Adds a second Origins layer that let's every player pick an origin and a bending style from Avatar: The Last Airbender, Avatar: Legend of Korra, Avatar: Seven Havens on top of it.

Pulls the plants around you into a towering golem for thirty seconds. It is huge, armored and hits hard, but it is slow. R (by default) slams the ground, and the combo again lets you out early

Tears blood out of every living creature within six blocks, wounding each a little, and you hold it as a ball

A stream of fire from your mouth, for up to about seven seconds

A spinning ring of flame that burns and pushes back everything within 6 blocks

Draws water up and holds it for fifteen seconds

A cone of wind that throws everything back and strips leaves from trees

A whip of blood. Tap R (by default) to lash out, and every creature it cuts gives you back a little health

Lifts every creature in front of you off the ground. They hang helpless until you let go or the blood runs out, then drop

A bubble of water that stops arrows and fire. You can barely move inside it

Description

Elemental Bendings is a data pack that introduces Bending Styles from the Avatar series, made for Overgrown's Apoli and Origins. It adds a second layer, Bending, next to the origin layer. You pick one of four Bending Styles, each with a unique moveset.

Installing

The folder is both a data pack and a resource pack.

Put it (or a zip of it) in the world's datapacks folder.
Put the same folder in resourcepacks and enable it. This loads the power names, the descriptions, the icon, particles, etc. Without it, players see raw translation keys and missing textures.

Keys

The pack registers its own keybinds under Controls > Elemental Bendings, so it never shares a key with an origin's active powers.

Keybind	Default
Bending Stance 1	R
Bending Stance 2	Z
Bending Stance 3	X

The tables below use the default letters, and the power descriptions in the Origins screen always show the keys you have bound. Every combo is a sequence of stance keys with at most about half a second between presses. Pressing a stance key on its own takes that stance, and each style has three stances taken from the martial art it is based on:

Style	Martial art	Stance 1	Stance 2	Stance 3
Waterbending	Tai Chi	Brush Knee and Push	Cloud Hands	White Crane Spreads Its Wings
Firebending	Northern Shaolin	Bow Stance Punch	Horse Stance Double Punch	Front Heel Kick
Airbending	Baguazhang	Dragon Palm	Single Palm Change	Lion Holds the Ball
Earthbending	Hung Gar	Double Tiger Claw	Pushing the Mountain	Stomp
Bloodbending	Chin Na and Eagle Claw	Eagle Claw	Dividing the Muscle	Misplacing the Bone
Plantbending	Rooted Tai Chi	Rooting the Tree	Pulling the Vine	Driving the Root

Water stances flow slowly through circles, fire stances snap out fast, air stances twist and turn, and earth stances drop low and heavy. Bloodbending stances seize, twist and lock like a joint lock, and plantbending stances sink low and drive force into the ground. "Hold" means keep the last key down: the move runs for as long as you hold it and stops when you let go. Bending shares one short cooldown, shown by the element emblem above the hotbar dimming, and the emblem's ring drains while a held move runs. A combo you finish while the emblem is still dim plays a dry click instead of the move, so you know to try again a moment later.

Firebending

Move	Keys	What it does
Fire Punch	R, Z, R	A short burst of flame from the fist that sets targets alight
Fire Wall	X, Z, R	Sweeps a line of fire along the ground for 15 blocks
Fire Circle	Z, R, R	A spinning ring of flame that burns and pushes back everything within 6 blocks
Fire Breath	R, Z, X, hold R	A stream of fire from your mouth, for up to about seven seconds
Fire Jump	Z, X in mid-air	Rockets you upward, once before you land, even out of a fall
Fire Jet	Z, hold X in mid-air	Hovers on a jet of fire. Jump rises and sneak sinks. With an elytra it drives you forward

Doing Z, X and keeping X held does both: the jump rockets you up and the jet takes over at the top. The jet stops a fall the moment it starts, and a landing after a Fire Jump never hurts. Rain, water and bubble columns douse every fire move. Firebending is a quarter stronger during the day.

Airbending

Move	Keys	What it does
Air Slice	R, Z, Z	A blade of wind that cuts through up to 15 targets and blows open the wooden door, trapdoor or fence gate it hits
Air Kick	Z, R, Z	A cone of wind that throws everything back and strips leaves from trees
Air Ball	X, R, hold Z	Spins up a ball of swirling air that you sit on cross-legged and steer by looking where you want to go. It rolls the way it moves, climbs blocks and skims across water. Let go of Z or hop off and it breaks apart
Air Jump	R, X in mid-air	Leap off the air itself, up to four times before landing. With an elytra it throws you forward

Air moves put out fires they pass through, and the landing after an Air Jump is always cushioned.

Waterbending

Move	Keys	What it does
Pick Up Water	Z, X, R	Draws water up and holds it for fifteen seconds
Healing Water	Z, X, hold R with a potion bottle in your main hand	Heals you and whoever you point it at
Water Blast	Z while holding water	Hurls the water in a jet that knocks back and puts out fire
Freeze and Thaw	X while holding water	Turns the held water to ice, and back
Water Whip	R, hold Z while holding water	Coils the water around you. Tap R to lash out with it
Water Shield	R, hold X while holding water	A bubble of water that stops arrows and fire. You can barely move inside it
Ice Spear	R while holding ice	A piercing spear that freezes and slows what it hits
Ice Shards	Z while holding ice	A spray of freezing shards
Water Glide	R, Z, hold X while in water	Rides a wave across the surface wherever you look

You can only pick up water you can reach: water, ice, snow or rain within five blocks, or standing in water. Without a source, a water bucket in your inventory lasts three pick-ups and then becomes an empty bucket, and a potion bottle is used up into a glass bottle. Waterbending is a quarter stronger at night and twice as strong under a full moon.

Waterbending paths

Defeating creatures as a waterbender earns mastery points, one for every four. Spend them in the Waterbending Paths skill tree, opened with Apoli's skill tree key (K by default). It holds two paths and you can learn only one: buying the first skill of either path locks the other. Shift-click a bought skill to refund it, starting with the ones you bought last, if you want to choose again.

Each path starts with a skill that replaces Pick Up Water with its own way of drawing, so what you hold becomes blood or sap and the moves you make with held water become the path's versions. The later skills replace the rest of the moveset, and every skill needs the one above it in the tree.

Bloodbending

Bloodbending bends the blood of living creatures, so undead, golems, blazes, slimes and other bloodless things are out of its reach. It works only at night until you learn Psychic Bloodbending, and in the daytime you have your waterbending back. The full moon doubles it along with the rest of your waterbending.

Move	Keys	Skill	What it does
Draw Blood	Z, X, R	Bloodbending	Tears blood out of every living creature within six blocks, wounding each a little, and you hold it as a ball
Blood Blast	Z while holding blood	Bloodbending	Hurls the blood as a heavy ball that bursts on whatever it hits
Clot and Thin	X while holding blood	Bloodbending	Clots the blood into a dark, hard mass, and thins it again
Clot Spear	R while holding clotted blood	Bloodbending	A piercing spear that leaves its victims withering
Clot Shards	Z while holding clotted blood	Bloodbending	A spray of hard shards
Blood Whip	R, hold Z while holding blood	Blood Whip	A whip of blood. Tap R to lash out, and every creature it cuts gives you back a little health
Transfusion	R, R while holding blood	Transfusion	Pours the blood into the creature you look at and heals it. Sneak to drink it and heal yourself instead
Levitation	R, hold X while holding blood	Levitation	Lifts every creature in front of you off the ground. They hang helpless until you let go or the blood runs out, then drop
Blood Puppetry	Z, R, hold X	Blood Puppetry	Takes hold of the creature you look at and works it like a puppet that follows your aim. Tap R to make it lash out at everything around it, or Z to hurl it away. It replaces Water Glide
Psychic Bloodbending		Psychic Bloodbending	Bloodbending works at any hour, so your waterbending is gone for good

Bloodbending, Blood Whip, Transfusion and Levitation cost 2 points each, Blood Puppetry 3 and Psychic Bloodbending 4. A player you levitate or puppet deals no damage of their own and can't use items, and a puppet can't bend either.

Plantbending

Plantbending bends the water inside living plants, at any hour. Drawing it needs plants close by: leaves, grass, flowers, crops, vines, moss or mushrooms. The plants you drain wither for thirty seconds and then grow back.

Move	Keys	Skill	What it does
Wither	Z, X, R near plants	Plantbending	Pulls the water out of every plant within four blocks and holds it as sap
Leaf Storm	Z while holding sap	Plantbending	A storm of razor leaves
Condense	X while holding sap	Plantbending	Presses the sap into thick mud, and thins it again
Mud Shot	R while holding mud	Plantbending	Heaves the mud in a heavy arc. It hits far harder than water, slows and blinds
Mud Splatter	Z while holding mud	Plantbending	A wide spray of mud that slows and blinds
Vine Whip	R, hold Z while holding sap	Vine Whip	A thorned vine whip. Tap R to lash out, and the lash drags what it hits toward you and slows it
Vine Snare	R, hold X while holding sap	Vine Snare	Vines burst from the ground in front of you and bind every creature they catch. They can't move or jump, and the thorns cut them for as long as you hold X
Snare Trap	X, Z, R looking at open ground	Snare Trap	Hides a coil of vines that binds the first creature to step on it. You can keep three set at once, and each lasts a minute
Spore Cloud	Z, R, X	Spore Cloud	Bursts the pollen and spores out of every flower and mushroom within ten blocks and dazes the creatures standing near them. It replaces Water Glide
Plant Golem	Z, X, X, R near plants	Plant Golem	Pulls the plants around you into a towering golem for thirty seconds. It is huge, armored and hits hard, but it is slow. R slams the ground, and the combo again lets you out early

Plantbending, Vine Whip, Vine Snare, Snare Trap and Spore Cloud cost 2 points each, and Plant Golem costs 4.

Earthbending

Move	Keys	What it does
Earth Kick	Z, R, X	Rips out the block you look at and kicks it level at whoever is in front of you
Earth Launch	Z, R, X while sneaking	Launches you off the ground
Earth Lift	X, Z, X	Lifts the block you look at and holds it just below your crosshair, where it follows your aim. R throws it where you look, Z drops it
Earth Pillar	R, X, Z	Thrusts a pillar out of the earth you look at, up to 12 blocks away. From the ground or a one block step it rises three blocks, from a wall it shoots two blocks out of the side you can see, and from a ceiling it hangs down. Anything in its way takes a hit and is carried to the pillar's tip and thrown off the end. Aim at your own feet to ride it up
Earth Shaping	R, Z, X, hold Z	Raises a wall of earth three blocks high wherever you look at the ground, two to seven blocks away. Sweep across the ground to build a wall
Earth Tunnel	R, Z, X, hold X	Tunnels through natural earth as long as you hold it. Ores stay where they are
Earth Column	Z, X, hold X while standing on earth	A column rises under your feet and carries you up
Earth Wave	X, Z, Z, R	Three rows of earth roll forward along the ground and crash through everything

Earthbenders bend natural earth and stone: dirt, sand, gravel, clay, mud, stone, deepslate, terracotta, the stones of the Nether and the End, and the ores inside them. Snow lying on top of earth doesn't get in the way, and grass, flowers and snow make room for raised earth. When no earth is in reach, the action bar says so. Blocks you tear out and earth you raise settle back into place after thirty seconds, so bending never leaves permanent holes or free blocks. Tunnels are the exception: they stay open, but only natural earth gives way and nothing drops. Kicks, waves and columns need solid footing.