⚡ Ascendant — Celerity

A high-speed Origins addon for Minecraft 1.20.1 (Fabric).

Ascendant adds a single, deeply built origin to Origins: Celerity. It is not a stat stick. It is an engine. Running feeds Impetus, Impetus becomes Gears, and every Gear rewrites how fast you are allowed to move. On top of that sits a full kit of mobility and time-manipulation abilities, a custom HUD, a Codex, ten advancements and a long-term progression track.

If you have ever wanted a speed origin that feels like a machine with a redline, this is it.

🏁 Quick Facts

🏎️ The Celerity Origin

Celerity is built around one loop:

Sprint → build Impetus → shift into a higher Gear → spend that speed on abilities → earn Attunement → unlock the next Gear.

Nothing is free. Redline is the master switch: while it is off, the origin is completely dormant. No speed, no Impetus, no Gears, no abilities. Turn it on and the machine wakes up.

Impetus

• Sprinting converts distance travelled into Impetus (0–100).
• Impetus is read as Gears.
• It bleeds away after a short grace period when you stop, and slowly while walking.
• Every Gear raises your sprint multiplier.

The Five Gears

* Before the Attunement bonus. Redline alone already gives a 2.0× sprint; each Gear replaces that value. Attunement adds up to +60% on top of the bonus portion, so a fully Attuned Gear 5 reaches roughly 8.2× effective sprint speed.

The first three shifts are deliberately spaced out. Gear 5 is the redline, and it should feel like one.

Attunement

Attunement is the permanent progression track. It rises from sustained running and from using your abilities well.

• Unlocks Gear 3 at Attunement 1.
• Unlocks Gear 4 at Attunement 3.
• Unlocks Gear 5 at Attunement 7.
• Each level also sharpens your speed bonus.
• The Attuned advancement tracks the final gate.

🔥 Active Abilities

Select with Z, activate with V (both rebindable).

🔴 Redline — the master switch

Toggle. While on, you move at Velocity speed, build Impetus and can use every other ability. While off, the origin is fully dormant. Defaults to ON.

👻 Ghoststep — phase through the world

Hold Activate at Gear 2+.

• Become invulnerable.
• Mobs within 24 blocks lose aggro.
• Walls stop colliding.
• Sneak while phased to pass through floors.
• Costs 6 Stamina per second.
• Safely ejects you from geometry when it ends.

⚡ Volt Spear — a thrown lightning lance

Hold Activate to charge, release to throw.

• Costs 20 Impetus up front, then up to 1.5 per tick while charging.
• Damage scales from 4 to 14 with charge (before Attunement).
• At Gear 3+ the bolt chains to a nearby target for 60% damage.
• Layered electric strands, a white-hot core, a spark burst on impact and sparks crawling over the target.

🕰️ Zero Hour — freeze a dome of time

Toggle with Redline on at Gear 3+.

• Opens a 24-block radius dome of stopped time.
• Everything inside is pinned: Slowness, Mining Fatigue, stopped navigation and zeroed velocity.
• Creeper fuses and primed TNT are held at zero. A creeper that was already hissing has to start its fuse again after the field closes.
• Nothing inside can hurt the caster.
• At Gear 4 the freeze deepens; at Gear 5 the dome grows to 32 blocks.
• Costs 4 Stamina/s while sprinting and 6/s while standing.
• Vanilla conduit cues and a translucent gray wireframe dome make the bubble readable without covering the fight.

🌌 Event Horizon — tear open a tunnel

Activate at Gear 5.

• Costs 20 Impetus.
• Fly along your look direction at 5 blocks per tick for up to 600 ticks.
• Phased, invulnerable and untouchable.
• Cover 100 blocks for an Attunement award, and 300 for another.
• The exit searches for a safe standing spot, so the run never ends inside a wall.

🛡️ Passive Abilities

🛡️ Aegis

While Redline is on:

• Knockback is 30% weaker while moving.
• Fall damage is halved.
• Finite Slowness effects wear off twice as fast.

✨ Afterglow

• At Gear 3+, sprinting leaves a sparking afterimage every third tick.
• While phased, electric sparks crackle around your body.
• The palette climbs with your Gear: scarlet and ember at 3, ember and white-hot at 4, electric white at 5.

🪂 Groundfall

• While sprinting with Redline on at Gear 1+, small ledges are snapped down instead of launching you into the air.
• Reach scales from 1 block to 3 blocks with Gear, so you keep your Impetus instead of losing it to a bad step.

🎒 Items & Recipes

🍫 Surge Ration

Shapeless: 6× Sugar → 1 Surge Ration

• Celerity users: gain Overcharged for 60 seconds — all Stamina costs are free and the Stamina bar turns white-hot.
• Everyone else: Nausea plus the mod's own Backfire effect, a slow magic-damage burn with its own violet icon.
• The bar is consumed without restoring hunger.

💠 Kinetic Core

Shaped:

D = Diamond · E = Echo Shard · S = Sugar

• While carried anywhere in your inventory: +30% Stamina regeneration.
• A small, permanent quality-of-life relic for long runs.

Both items appear in the Ascendant creative tab. The Surge Ration is also in the vanilla Food & Drink tab.

📖 The Velocity Codex — F9

A complete, in-game reference screen, built in the same scarlet-and-gold language as the HUD.

• Lists every active and passive ability.
• Shows type, cost, Gear requirement and live status (Active / Ready / Charging / Locked).
• Shows your current Attunement level.
• Shows progress to the next level and the exact reward waiting there.
• Shows your current speed bonus.
• Fully responsive two-column layout.
• F9 by default, rebindable in Controls.
• Also closes with Esc, and navigates with the arrow keys.

🖥️ HUD & Presentation

The HUD is a compact glass panel above the hearts, built around one redline palette.

• Gear pips that fill and flash when a Gear changes.
• Impetus and Stamina bars with a low-Stamina warning.
• Ability strip with the selected ability, its icon and a charge ring.
• Live key pills that read your actual bindings (Left Shift → LSHIFT, Button 4 → M4).
• Gear 5 prestige: the panel grows, the trim turns gold, corner brackets appear, and a slow sheen sweeps across the glass.
• Gear-up cinematics: flash, shockwave, vignette and a large GEAR n label. Gear 5 gets letterbox bars, a gold vignette, a second ring and the REDLINE / MAXIMUM VELOCITY title.
• Ability transitions: entry and exit flashes, rings, irises, frost and electric frames.
• Camera feel: a short rotational shake and a small FOV punch, both optional.
• Motion trail and afterimages: a scarlet streak at high Gear, an electric-white wake at Gear 5, and blue during Event Horizon.
• Screen effects: phase vignette, Stasis tint, Slipstream tunnel, low-Stamina pulse and a top-gear bloom.
• Dynamic FOV capped and tuned so speed reads without becoming nauseating.
• State audio built entirely from vanilla sounds.

🌊 Water-Walking at Gear 5

At Gear 5 the top layer of water becomes a floor.

• Run across oceans, rivers and lakes at full speed.
• Jump normally.
• The surface catches fast falls instead of letting you punch through.
• Sneak to dive — water-walking disables while sneaking.
• Splash particles mark the surface.
• Your Impetus holds steady while you run on water, so the surface does not vanish under you.

🏆 Advancements

Ten original milestones under the Ascendant tab:

🎮 Controls

Toggle abilities fire on press. Ghoststep and Volt Spear stay active while the key is held. The HUD reads your live bindings, so rebinding updates the labels immediately.

🧪 Commands

Useful for testing, videos and server admins.

Example: /ascendant attunement 7 unlocks Gear 5 immediately for testing.

🛠️ Configuration

Press K in game, or use the Mod Menu config button, to open a three-tab settings screen. Settings are written to config/ascendant.json and saved when the screen closes.

HUD

• HUD on/off
• Attunement readout
• Charge ring
• Low-Stamina warning
• HUD scale
• HUD X/Y offset

Effects

• Screen effects
• Cinematics
• Camera shake
• Particles
• Reduce motion
• Effects intensity

Gameplay

• Ability cost multiplier (50%–200%)

No Cloth Config, no extra library. The screen is built into the mod.

📦 Requirements

Apoli and Calio normally arrive with Origins. Keep the versions that your Origins build expects.