Runic Skills

[2.1.0] - 2026-09-06

Version 2.1.0 introduces extensive Tinkers' Construct integration, new perks and Powers, refreshed runic artwork, improved crafting and recycling systems, and a large collection of stability fixes.

Multiplayer clients and servers must update together. Existing saves, skill selections, configuration keys, and datapacks remain compatible.

Tinkers' Construct integration

• Added full support for Tinkers' tools, weapons, armor, shields, ranged weapons, repairs, area mining, projectiles, crafting stations, and workshops.
• Added 16 core Tinkers-themed perks covering durability, repairs, melee combat, mining, ranged combat, armor, casting, and workshop bonuses.
• Added 12 new Artifice Powers: First Heat, Plumb Line, Quench, Working Memory, Hammer and Tongs, Temper Reserve, Resonant Return, Workshop Aegis, The Great Work, Last Temper, Heart of the Foundry, and Many Hands, One Forge.
• Added Keystone Tinker, allowing skilled players to permanently add an upgrade slot to eligible Tinkers' tools.
• Tinker Station operations now properly support skill requirements, crafting rewards, repair bonuses, Master Tinkerer, Tinker's Touch, and shift-click crafting.
• Players can focus nearby smelteries, foundries, melters, and alloyers to improve melting and casting speed.
• Added a compact station panel showing result previews, skill information, and workshop focus controls.
• Added optional material-based skill requirements for Tinkers' equipment.
• Tinkers' Katanas tools are supported automatically through their native Tinkers' tags.

Tinkers add-on support

Added 14 optional perks across several compatible add-ons:

• Tinkers' Thinking: Last Thought, Studied Recall, and Embellished Focus.
• Tinkers' Jewelry: Jeweler's Setting, Gem Attunement, Undying Lustre, and Polished Facet.
• TCIntegrations: Mana Polisher, Source Tempering, Clockwork Alternation, and Soulsteel Resolve.
• Tinkers' Levelling Addon: Seasoned Hands.
• Tinkers' Delight: Banquet of Cinders.
• Tinkers' Advanced: Charged Craft.
• Curios-equipped jewelry is recognized when Curios is installed.
• All integrations remain inactive when their required mods are missing and can be disabled individually.

Crafting, recycling, and equipment

• Crafting perks now share a consistent reward system that prevents duplicate or inappropriate bonus items.
• Bonus outputs are no longer granted for repairs, conversions, compressed recipes, or items that cannot be copied safely.
• Master Tinkerer now restores durability before the result is displayed and works correctly with shift-click crafting.
• Resource Efficiency and Salvage Expert now recover materials through the grindstone.
• Disassembler and Salvage Master now activate when eligible items break.
• Recycling results can be customized through datapacks.
• Auto Repair now accumulates partial repair progress and rotates fairly between equipped items.
• Lucky Charm now adjusts an effect only when it is first applied instead of repeatedly changing its duration.
• Treasure Hunter now rewards only blocks that were successfully harvested.
• Tinkers' repair factors, durability limits, and modifier restrictions are now respected correctly.

GUI and artwork

• Refreshed Skill, Perk, and Power icons with a cleaner and more consistent runic art style.
• Replaced the large Powers control with a compact square icon button.
• Improved icon scaling, tooltips, keyboard navigation, narration, focus indicators, and disabled styling.

Power and combat fixes

• Power cooldowns now persist across reconnects and server restarts, closing relog-based cooldown exploits.
• Fixed Power prerequisites, custom level requirements, cooldown refunds, and live configuration updates.
• Fixed Counter Attack damage, forced critical hits, Last Stand protection, Phoenix Rising rescues, and repeated arrow scaling.
• Fixed Shield Break Counter, Empowered Dispel, The Grove Remembers, Rooted, Unraveled, Siphon, Shatter, Scorched Earth, Harvest, Mana Shield, and Blood Fury.
• Friendly-fire protection now recognizes owned pets.
• Death rewards are no longer granted when a target survives through a rescue effect.
• Damage-based healing and rewards now use damage actually dealt instead of blocked, absorbed, recursive, or excess damage.
• Dimension changes correctly clear position history, summon state, and other temporary effects when required.
• Apothic attribute bonuses can now reload safely without being lost or applied twice.

Reliability and compatibility

• Fixed release-build crashes caused by Tinkers' integration hooks using development-only method names.
• Fixed Arcane Reforging being silently inactive in published builds.
• Fixed the normal release jar failing to include the required MixinExtras dependency.
• Fixed Runic Skills' capability registration.
• Optional compatibility hooks now disable only the affected feature if another mod changes unexpectedly, instead of crashing the entire game.
• Tinkers mining bonuses now synchronize correctly with client-side block-breaking prediction.
• Fixed repair charges, preview queries, workshop attribution, Curios detection, Undying Jewelry costs, and add-on cleanup.
• Fixed outdated descriptions for Resource Efficiency, Salvage Expert, and Salvage Master.
• Invalid configuration values are now rejected or safely limited before reaching gameplay.
• Vanilla /reload now synchronizes Power overrides and perk groups with connected players.

Commands and modpack tools

• Added /skills tinkers inspect to explain how the held item is classified.
• Added /skills tinkers workshop focus and /skills tinkers workshop release.
• Added /skills tinkers compat to report available integrations and missing requirements.
• Added datapack rules for Tinkers skill requirements and station reward policies.
• Added KubeJS events for checking and observing Tinker Station operations.
• Added advancement triggers for Tinkers assembly, paid repairs, and The Great Work.
• Added extensive configuration options for integration toggles, perk levels, effect strength, durations, cooldowns, and shared balance limits.

Tinkers' Construct 3.11.2.166 and Mantle 1.11.97 remain the minimum supported versions. Tinkers' Jewelry users should use Mantle 1.11.113 to avoid an upstream startup issue. Newer Tinkers versions can run in a reduced compatibility mode when necessary.