Ascension Paths : RPG leveling system and more

Ascension Paths is a long-term RPG progression mod for Minecraft 1.21.1. It turns combat, survival, exploration, mining, and magic into three connected advancement paths with 18 upgradeable stats, eight ranks, powerful endgame rewards, custom weapons, and extensive server configuration.

Your character begins at E Rank and can eventually rise through D, C, B, A, S, Celestial, and Divine. Progress is earned through normal gameplay, while higher ranks demand crafted Ascension Cores, difficult encounters, and victories over powerful bosses.

Build Your Own Ascension

Progress is divided into three paths. Each path has its own XP, spendable points, rank cap, and six stats.

Physical Path

• Strength: increases physical damage.
• Agility: increases sprint speed and improves step height.
• Technique: increases attack speed.
• Arrow Damage: increases projectile damage.
• Draw Speed: accelerates bow drawing and crossbow loading in real time.
• Endurance: reduces incoming damage and improves knockback resistance.

Life Power

• Health: increases maximum health.
• Health Regeneration: restores health over time.
• Stamina: increases maximum stamina when a compatible combat system is installed.
• Stamina Regeneration: accelerates stamina recovery.
• Luck: increases the player's luck attribute.
• Mining Speed: improves mining speed and gradually unlocks stronger empty-hand harvest tiers.

Magic Path

• Spell Power: increases magical damage.
• Cast Speed: accelerates spellcasting.
• Cooldown Reduction: reduces spell cooldowns while respecting safe engine limits.
• Mana: increases maximum mana.
• Mana Regeneration: accelerates mana recovery.
• Spell Resistance: reduces incoming magical damage.

Every stat has 300 levels. Intermediate levels scale smoothly between rank targets, so every point provides progress instead of saving all power for the next rank boundary. The combined maximum is 5,400 levels across all 18 stats.

A stat cannot advance too far ahead of the other stats in its path. This prevents a single-stat rush while preserving room for different character builds. Physical, Life, and Magic averages are calculated separately.

Earn XP Through Gameplay

Each path rewards a different playstyle:

• Physical XP is earned through physical damage and combat kills.
• Life XP is earned by mining valuable ores, sprinting, eating, and surviving damage.
• Magic XP is earned through mana consumption, magical damage, and spell kills when a compatible magic system is installed.

Placed ores are remembered and cannot be farmed repeatedly for mining XP. Delayed magical damage preserves kill credit for its caster, and path points are saved and synchronized as soon as they are earned.

Physical and Magic advancement also influence one another. Heavy investment in one combat path gradually reduces XP gain in the opposing path. Life Power remains independent, allowing players to choose between specialization and balanced growth.

Rise Through the Ranks

Every player begins with an E-rank cap. Physical and Magic caps are raised with separate Ascension Cores. Life Power does not consume its own cores; its maximum rank is calculated automatically from the player's Physical and Magic caps.

Higher ranks can require:

• Reaching the current stat cap
• Crafting and consuming the correct Ascension Core
• Defeating required enemies and bosses
• Completing progression milestones from supported content mods

The XP required for each new stat point increases with the total progress earned in that path. Unspent points count toward this calculation, so storing points cannot bypass the progression curve.

Full Divine

Reach Divine in all three paths and raise all 18 stats to level 300 to become Full Divine.

Full Divine permanently unlocks survival flight and allows the player to command the complete form of the Sword of the Gods. This is the final milestone of the current progression system.

Death at Full Divine causes Divine Fracture instead of the normal path-XP penalty. Fracture preserves the player's Divine levels but seals flight and limits active stat effects to Celestial strength. A Divine Restoration Sigil repairs the fracture and restores Divine effects, flight, health, and mana.

Normal deaths only reduce the current XP progress toward each path's next point. Spent points, unspent points, stat levels, unlocked caps, and boss progress remain safe.

Custom Progression Interface

A dedicated button above the survival inventory opens the Ascension interface. The interface includes:

• An Overall page for all 18 stats
• Separate Physical, Life, and Magic pages
• Current XP and spendable path points
• Active and permanently unlocked rank caps
• Stat levels, ranks, and exact active effects
• Boss and advancement requirements
• Direct stat-investment and path-upgrade controls
• Full Divine and Divine Fracture status

The interface scales with the game window and is fully localized in English and Turkish.

Signature Weapons

Sword of the Gods

The Sword of the Gods begins in a sealed state. In ordinary hands it is immensely heavy, slow, and unable to reveal its true identity. A new Full Divine wielder must hold the sword continuously for eight seconds to complete its awakening.

The sword uses its own awakening and combat animations. Once awakened, it permanently remembers its owner and returns to its complete form whenever that qualified owner holds it again.

Its awakened form provides:

• 30 base damage
• 1.60 attack speed
• 100% armor negation in compatible combat systems
• Up to 15 enemies struck per swing
• A larger custom attack area matching the blade
• Its own awakened combat animations
• An area skill that calls beams of light onto nearby enemies
• Golden weapon effects and divine afterimages
• Optional spell imbuing restricted to qualified Full Divine wielders

The blade is unbreakable, cannot be repaired, survives fire, lava, explosions, and normal item destruction, never expires on the ground, and returns safely after falling into the void.

Sword of Mystery

The Sword of Mystery is a fast 9-damage greatblade built around precise attacks and agile movement. It uses its own weapon animations and a distinctive shadow-themed combat style. Dark smoke rises from the blade while it is held.

Hammer of Annihilation

The Hammer of Annihilation is a colossal 15-damage weapon with crushing attacks and powerful finishers. It uses its own heavy weapon animations and a unique wrath transformation.

Its active wrath state changes the hammer's appearance and causes blood to drip from its head.

While the wrath state is active:

• Each four-tick drain pulse consumes exactly 3% of maximum health.
• The wielder heals for 15% of actual post-mitigation health damage dealt.
• Total attack damage increases by 25%.
• Total attack speed increases by 20%.
• Every bonus is removed immediately when the state ends or the Hammer leaves the player's hands.

Utility Items

• Coin of Respec: refunds spent stat levels as points in their original paths while preserving XP, caps, and boss progress.
• Coin of Reroll: rerolls the player's maximum rank in RANDOM access mode and refunds levels above the new limit.
• Divine Restoration Sigil: repairs Divine Fracture and restores the player's Divine state.
• Ascension Cores: unlock higher Physical and Magic rank caps.
• Special crafting materials: support advanced core recipes and boss-gated progression.

Server Configuration

Servers can choose how maximum-rank access works:

• OPEN: every player may progress to the configured maximum rank.
• CLOSED: progression ends at E Rank.
• ADMIN: administrators assign individual maximum ranks.
• RANDOM: each player receives a persistent weighted maximum rank that can be rerolled under configured rules.

Server owners can configure rank availability, stat targets, XP curves, opposing-path penalties, death penalties, regeneration delay, random-rank weights, and maximum-rank policies. Administrator commands are included for progression inspection, testing, respecs, rank access, and Divine Fracture management.

Requirements

• Minecraft 1.21.1
• NeoForge 21.1.248 or a newer compatible Minecraft 1.21.1 build
• Java 21

For the Best Experience

• Iron's Spells 'n Spellbooks 3.16.2+
• Epic Fight 21.17.3.1+
• Weapons of Miracles 2.0.178+
• Rapier Moveset (refm)
• Apotheosis / Apothic Enchanting
• Block Factory's Bosses
• L_Ender's Cataclysm

Ascension Paths can load without these integrations. Their related gameplay features, recipes, and advancement requirements activate only when the relevant mod is installed. Some high-rank routes intentionally require their associated boss content.

Current Development Status

Ascension Paths is currently a public beta. Physical and Magic Celestial/Divine core recipes and their final advancement requirements are still being designed. These cores, the Sword of the Gods, and selected development items are currently available through the creative inventory for testing.

You can ask questions on discord:https://discord.gg/ZBt9yHgcPm

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