🧬 Aspects — Strike the deal, reveal your potential

Harvest the creatures of this world to become something more.
Unlock powerful abilities by absorbing the essence of creatures and choosing your Aspect. Whether you want to soar like an Elytrian or become one with the darkness like a Rascal, this mod lets you rewrite your nature.

Data Pack version can be found on Modrinth

Features

Aspects

Each Aspect grants:

Aspect Effects (passive traits)
Focus Powers (active abilities you can trigger with unique Focus items)

Available Aspects check out Gallery for even more details!

Human

Effects:

Aspect has nothing new or interesting

Focus Ability:

What, you expected something here too?

Merling

Effects:

Can breathe underwater, but cannot on land
Much faster in water, but slower on land
Does more damage with Tridents

Focus Ability:

Highlight nearby wet mobs and players

Enderian

Effects:

Water is harmful
Has more health and reach, but is 3 blocks tall
Enderpearls do no self-harm

Focus Ability:

Teleport some distance forward

Shulk

Effects:

Has less health, reach, damage, but is 1 block tall
Self-repairing shell to absorb small damage instances

Focus Abilities:

Store and retrieve a Chest or Barrel
Camouflage as a fake block

Feline

Effects:

Slightly smaller with less health, but faster
In combat speeds up even more
Water slows them down

Focus Ability:

High jump into the air

Infernal

Effects:

Water is harmful
Immune to fire damage
Does more damage when on fire
Cooks food passively

Focus Ability:

Set self on fire

Elytrian

Effects:

Starts with a unique Elytra
Elytra flight gives more damage
Can control descending speed
Takes double fall damage

Focus Ability:

Launch into the air

Honey Bee

Effects:

Starts with a unique Elytra
Smaller with less health, but has natural armor
Elytra cannot be damaged, but flies slower with grace

Focus Abilities:

Store potion effects from flowers
Create unique Honey Bottles with stored potion effects

Rascal

Effects:

Much smaller, around 1.2 blocks, but has less health
Less attack reach, more block reach
Stronger and faster in the dark, but weaker in the light

Focus Ability:

Teleport downward into an underground cave

Rotten

Effects:

Cannot drown, but is vulnerable to Smite
Weaker in sunlight and when unprovoked
Much slower in water, but has natural armor

Focus Ability:

Summon multiple Zombified Piglin for protection

Arachnid

Effects:

Vulnerable to Bane of Arthropods and has less health
Jumps higher and can land safely from higher distances
Can climb almost any surface as if it was a ladder
Can also climb across ceilings
Gains resistance while inside cobwebs

Focus Ability:

Create/remove a set of cobwebs on themselves
Launch self from scaled walls in a viewing direction

Oozeling

Effects:

Extremely bouncy and can be knocked around easier
Jumps higher and even more so when sneaking
Armor is less effective

Focus Ability:

Amplifies bounciness and becomes easier to be knocked around

… and potentially more in future updates!

Essence System

Harness the Essences of mobs to forge a new Aspect:

Each mob has up to 3 Essences (like Aquatic, Fire, Undead, etc.)
Use the Evergrowing Blade to collect them by killing or using the weapon on passive mobs
Store them in a held Essence Cage in the Off Hand
Automatically combines specific Essences to awaken an Aspect

Essence Combinations

Essence Combinations can also just be a singular Essences, like Human below
Essences add up to 120 total regardless of amount of Essence Types
So 1 Essence type means it takes 120 to create an aspect, 2 types means its a 60/60 split, 3 means 40/40/40 split, ect…

Humanoid → Human
Aquatic → Merling
Void + Humanoid → Enderian
Bug + Plant → Honey Bee
…

(Full combination list available in-game or on the Wiki soon)

Items & Tools

All recipes are unlocked from the start so check your recipe guide!

List of Custom Items

Evergrowing Blade – Gather Essences by killing mobs or from passive mobs without killing. It also increases in power via kills.
Essence Cage – Store Essences, awakens into an Awakened Essence Cage once a valid Essence Combination is stored
Awakened Essence Cage – Use to become the stored Aspect from the Essence Combination
Aspect Encyclopedia (1.21.5 only) – Learn about Aspects and Essences
Focuses – Enables Aspect-specific active abilities
Relics – Aspect specific Faded and Shattered trophy items earnable via gameplay

In-Game Documentation and Configuration

Access from the Pause Menu → Data Packs… → Aspects

Includes:

List of Aspects and their information
Essence usage guide
List of all Essence Types
List of all Custom Items
List of all Custom Enchantments
Modification Configuration

FAQ

- My Mods button is overlapping the Aspects button in the Pause Menu!

This issue can be the fault of the Mod Menu (Fabric) mod itself. Make sure that in the Mod Menu settings the Game Menu option is NOT set to insert, if it is, set it to anything else.

- How to change my Aspect after the first one?

First craft an Essence Cage and an Evergrowing Blade, then use the crafted items to capture essences from mobs (how to use them is described on the item itself or the in-game wiki). After you store enough essences for an Aspect, it will become an Awakened Essence Cage and is ready to be used to change your Aspect!

All the crafting recipes are available in the Vanilla Recipe Book.

- Are there any alternatives for changing my Aspect?

There is, but it requires commands and OP permissions. There is a debug command /function aspects:debug/repick_aspect that allows the person executing that command to repick their Aspect again. If you want another player to repick instead without giving them OP permissions, you can start the command with this instead:
/execute as <player_name> at @s run function aspects:debug/repick_aspect.

- Can I add new Aspects myself?

While this Data Pack allows addons to be made to add more, it isn't beginner friendly and requires decent knowledge of Minecraft's Data Pack system and commands.

A guide is currently not being made, but you can reference the Endorsed Addons above for how it can be done.