Universal Skills — Changelog

2.0.0 — The Big Expansion

Minecraft Java 1.20.1 · Forge 47+

This is the biggest update so far. The mod was rebuilt and roughly doubled in size: there are new skills, a full menu, an economy with a shop, active abilities, permanent upgrades, daily quests and a lot more. Your existing skill levels, XP, prestige and stats carry over automatically.

⚠️ To update, remove universalskills-1.4.0.jar from your mods folder before adding universalskills-2.0.0.jar.

🆕 New Skills (16 → 24)

5 new base skills

• 🛡 Defense: gain XP by taking damage from mobs and players
• ✨ Enchanting: gain XP by spending levels at enchanting tables and anvils
• 🔧 Crafting: gain XP by crafting items (tools and armour give the most)
• ⚗ Brewing: gain XP by taking brewed potions out of brewing stands
• 💰 Trading: gain XP by trading with villagers

3 new hybrid skills

• 🏰 Guardian: fed by Defense and Combat
• 🎨 Artisan: fed by Crafting and Enchanting
• ⚖ Merchant: fed by Trading and Farming

Changes to existing hybrid skills

• Blacksmith now also earns XP from Crafting
• Alchemist now also earns XP from Brewing

New skills come with level rewards every 10 levels, 4 titles each, and their own perks and abilities.

🖥 Skills Menu (GUI)

• Open it with !menu or /skills
• Every skill appears as an icon showing its level, XP bar, prestige and next unlock
• Click a skill to see all of its level rewards, everything it unlocks, and a Prestige button
• The menu also has pages for the Shop, Upgrades, Daily Quests, Daily Reward, Leaderboard, Abilities, Titles and Settings
• Your profile head shows your title, total level, coins, playtime and stats

💰 Skill Coins & Shop

• Skill Coins: a new currency you earn from skill XP, level-ups (with bigger payouts every 10 levels), lucky breaks, quests, daily rewards and prestige
• Skill Shop: 149 items across 8 categories
  • Skill Boosters
  • Tools & Gear
  • Combat
  • Food
  • Blocks & Resources
  • Farming & Mobs
  • Magic & Potions
  • Rare Treasures
• Higher-tier items need a certain skill level (for example, an Elytra needs Traveler Lv60)
• Click to buy 1, or shift-click to buy 5
• Selling: !sell sells the stack in your hand, !sellall sells everything sellable in your inventory, and !sellprices lists the prices
• Paying: !pay <player> <amount> sends coins to another player

⚡ Boosters & Tomes

• Skill XP Boosters (x1.5, x2 or x3, for 30–60 minutes): right-click to activate
• Skill Tomes: grant XP to a chosen skill, a random skill, or every base skill at once (Tome of Knowledge)

✦ Permanent Upgrades

Spend coins on upgrades that stay with you forever:

🔥 Active Abilities (new)

Use them by sneaking and right-clicking while holding the item. Each skill's ability unlocks at Lv20, except the Ender Chest, which unlocks at Lv40.

You get a message when an ability with a long cooldown is ready again. !abilities shows the status of all of them.

🎁 New Perks & Procs

• Miner
  • Auto-Smelt at Lv40: ores drop already smelted and give some Cooking XP (can be turned off)
• Farming
  • Double Crops chance: 10% at Lv20, 20% at Lv50, 30% at Lv80
  • Auto-Replant at Lv50
• Lumberjack
  • Apple drops at Lv40
  • Double logs at Lv55
  • Strength I at Lv60
  • Golden apple drops at Lv70
• Excavation: Archaeologist rare treasure while digging (flint, emeralds, diamonds, music discs, sniffer eggs…)
• Fishing
  • Treasure Hunter bonus loot
  • Double Catch at Lv50
• Cooking
  • Food restores extra hunger: +1 at Lv30, +2 at Lv70
  • Bonus furnace output at Lv50 and Lv80
• Combat: Critical Hits deal 1.5x damage, with the chance growing as you level up
• Archery
  • Arrows deal more damage the higher your level
  • Arrows make targets glow at Lv80
• Traveler: Soft Landing, up to 50% less fall damage
• Husbandry: Twins chance when breeding (15% at Lv40, 30% at Lv80)
• Defense
  • Up to 20% less damage taken
  • Health Boost at Lv30
  • Thorns-style reflect at Lv60
  • Resistance at Lv70
  • Last Stand at Lv90: Strength and Regeneration when your health is low
• Enchanting
  • Bonus vanilla XP from orbs
  • Chance for enchanting and anvil repairs to cost 1 level less
• Crafting
  • Bonus vanilla XP when crafting
  • Bonus coins when crafting gear
  • Haste and Luck perks
• Brewing
  • Fire Resistance and Regeneration perks
  • Chance for an extra potion
• Trading
  • Chance for a free emerald on each trade
  • Permanent Hero of the Village at Lv50
• New hybrids: Guardian, Artisan and Merchant each get a perk at Lv50

📜 Daily Quests & Rewards

• Daily quests: !quests gives 3 random quests per day, drawn from 15 quest types (mine, chop, fish, slay, travel, brew, trade…)
• Quests reward coins and skill XP, and finishing all 3 earns a bonus with a Mystery Tome
• You can reroll your quests for 150 coins, as long as you haven't completed one yet that day
• Daily reward: !daily gives coins and a random item, with bigger rewards as your streak grows and a weekly bonus every 7 days

🏆 Prestige & Titles

• Maximum prestige raised from 5 to 10
• Each prestige now also gives 1,000 × prestige level in coins
• Bonus items at Prestige 5 (Nether Star) and Prestige 10 (Dragon Egg)
• Choosing a title: use !title or the Titles menu page, or let it pick the best one automatically
• New titles for the new skills, plus special titles: Reborn, Ascendant, Eternal and Grandmaster
• Your title now shows in front of your chat messages (can be turned off)
• Leaderboard: !top coins adds a richest-players board

⚙ Settings

Turn these on or off with !toggle <name> or from the Settings page: effects, nightvision, veinmine, autosmelt, autoreplant, abilities, magnet, chatprefix, xpbar

⌨ Commands

• All the old commands still work: !skills, !skill <name>, !prestige <name>, !top, !skillshelp
• New chat commands: !menu, !shop, !perks, !quests, !daily, !coins, !sell, !sellall, !sellprices, !pay, !abilities, !title, !toggle
• New /skills command with tab completion for skill names
• New operator commands under /skillsadmin: setlevel, setprestige, addxp, coins and reset

📈 More XP Sources

• Miner: granite, diorite, andesite, tuff, calcite, blackstone, basalt, glowstone, budding amethyst, gilded blackstone and sculk blocks
• Combat: zombie villagers, slimes, magma cubes, phantoms, silverfish, endermites, vexes, hoglins, zoglins, piglins, zombified piglins and illusioners
• Farming: pitcher plants, cactus, bamboo and kelp
• Excavation: coarse dirt, rooted dirt, farmland, snow blocks and dirt paths
• Fishing: treasure catches now give more XP

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed: players lost all skills, XP and stats when they died. Progress is now kept through death and End portal respawns.
• Fixed: "Double Drop proc!" showed a message but never actually dropped extra ore.
• Fixed: Health Boost cut players' health back down every 5 seconds.
• Fixed: unripe crops gave Farming XP when broken.
• Fixed: armor stands gave Combat XP when killed.
• Vein Mine, Tree Feller, Area Harvest and Area Dig:
  • Now use your tool's Fortune and Silk Touch
  • Now wear down your tool
  • Now respect land-claim and protection mods
  • Give 50% XP for the extra blocks they break
• Vein mining stone now requires a pickaxe
• Skill potion effects no longer override stronger effects from potions or beacons