Aegis Ascension

Turn every level milestone into an anime-inspired journey of talents, powerful Aegises, character synergies, quests, and evolving builds.

Aegis Ascension is a progression and build-crafting mod for Minecraft Forge 1.20.1. As you level up, you earn opportunities to choose from randomized talent cards, unlock new abilities, form Soul Links, enhance your skills, and develop a persistent character build through an ACG-inspired interface.

All progression is server-authoritative, making the system suitable for both single-player worlds and multiplayer servers.

Features

Talent Card Progression

• Earn a Talent selection charge every 10 levels by default.
• Choose from randomized R, SR, and SSR Talent cards.
• Higher Luck can increase the number of cards offered.
• Offers remain saved when the screen is closed, preventing free rerolls.
• Collect and upgrade more than 100 configurable Talents.
• Trigger powerful Breakthrough effects while progressing.

Aegises

Choose from 19 Aegises, each defining a different progression path or gameplay specialty.

Aegises can provide mechanics such as:

• Defensive shields
• Spell and mana improvements
• Summon enhancements
• Item attribute absorption
• Combat and utility bonuses
• Manually activated abilities
• Wisdom Aegis multi cast spell will not work without Action Core installed.

Soul Links

Discover 20 Soul Links by collecting specific combinations of Talents.

Soul Links represent character and team synergies, granting additional bonuses once their requirements are fulfilled.

Skill Enhancements

Earn and select Skill Enhancements that improve specific parts of your build. Choose a primary enhancement and continue upgrading it as your character progresses.

Quests and Rewards

Visit the Quest Center to complete multiple kinds of objectives, including:

• Daily and side quests
• Challenge quests
• Exploration and structure objectives
• Item submission tasks
• Profession and reputation progression
• Generated and chained quests

Rewards can include experience, Gold, items, shop rewards, and unique progression bonuses.

Shops and Economy

• Browse configurable Common and Discovery shops.
• Discover items from Minecraft and installed mods.
• Use experience or the optional Gold Currency system.
• Refresh shop inventories and obtain rarity-based equipment.
• Store ordinary and virtual items through the integrated storage system.

ACG-Inspired Interface

Press the configurable Aegis Ascension key to access a unified interface containing:

• Talent selection
• Aegis selection
• Owned Talents and Aegises
• Soul Links
• Skill Enhancements
• Quest Center
• Shops and storage
• Custom combat statistics
• Client and server settings

Multiplayer Friendly

Player offers, selections, progression, rewards, and statistics are validated by the server. Progress is saved per world and survives ordinary death, respawning, dimension travel, and reconnecting unless the server owner enables progression resets.

Highly Configurable

Most content is data-driven and can be customized through generated configuration files, including:

• Talents and rarity weights
• Aegises
• Soul Links
• Skill Enhancements
• Quests and rewards
• Shops and item pools
• Storage limits
• Virtual items
• Progression rates
• Server rules and balance values
• Data can be found at /minecraft/config/aegis_ascension

Addon mods can also register their own namespaced Talents, Aegises (TODO), and Soul Links (TODO) via AegisTalentAPI.java.

Optional Integrations

Aegis Ascension includes optional compatibility with several mods, including:

• Apothic Attributes
• Iron's Spells 'n Spellbooks
• Ars Nouveau
• Curios
• Just Enough Items
• Action Core
• WC3Model2MC

These integrations are optional and are not required to play.

Mechanics

• Aegis Ascension Experience: When it is enabled in aegis_ascension-common.toml, player can only gain aegis, perk, and breakthrough via doing different quests.
• Breakthrough: It happens right after perk is picked. Any Breakthrough Effect aegis or perk will multiply by Breakthrough Effect Multiplier (by default it is 100% and can be increased via aegis or perk).
• Shield: Absorb incoming damage.
• Gold: Can only be used in shop purchase or aegis/perk scales your specific attack damage, skill damage.
• True Damage: Bypass armor and protection enchantment and delete any creep fast with high scale. Can be banned.
• Skill Damage: This only applies to Ars Nouveau and Iron Spellbook's Spells. Will do nothing if you have neither installed.

Requirements

• Minecraft: 1.20.1
• Mod Loader: Forge 47.x
• Java: 17
• Install the mod on both the server and connecting clients.

Future Plans

• support other Minecraft versions.
• update AegisTalentAPI.java.