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Chimera Craft
Chimera Craft is a Fabric mod for Minecraft 26.2 that reinvents mob morphing. Instead of turning into one creature, you absorb individual body parts from the mobs you hunt and combine them into a custom loadout — a spider's climbing legs, a blaze's fireball arms, a warden's echolocating head, all on one player at once. Collect a mob's whole set and you can fully morph into it: model, hitbox, weaknesses and all.
⚙️ 87 absorbable mobs! · four body slots each · a shared essence resource · full multiplayer & relog-persistent sync.
🐛 Found a bug, something not working correctly, or have an idea for the mod? Please let me know! Bug reports help me find and fix issues much faster, and suggestions for new mobs, abilities, mechanics, or future directions are always welcome. Even if you're not sure whether something is a bug, please report it anyway — include what happened, what you expected to happen, and any relevant logs/screenshots if possible.
🧬 How it works
Body parts
Every absorbable mob offers up to four parts, one per slot. Each slot follows a consistent rule, so you can plan a build without reading every tooltip:
| Slot | What it grants (on top of the part's special ability) |
|---|---|
| Head | The mob's signature active / sense ability |
| Arms | Attack reach and damage |
| Body | The mob's max health |
| Legs | The mob's movement speed |
Fill every slot a mob offers (and leave the rest empty) to form a full set — which also grants that mob's exact hitbox and its weakness (water, sunlight, and so on). Power comes with a price.
Absorbing parts
Two ways to claim a part — both give you one random unowned part of that mob:
- Absorb on kill — slay an absorbable mob for a chance to tear off one of its parts. The chance scales with the mob's health: a chicken or zombie rarely gives one up (~5–10%), while a boss is nearly guaranteed. Tough prey pays out.
- Sample by observation (no kill needed) — hold your crosshair on a living mob and keep your gaze steady. After a short focus you start channelling its essence (you'll see it wisp toward you), each moment carrying a slight chance to yield a part. Weak mobs test your patience; bosses sample fast — if you can hold their gaze.
Morphing
With a full set equipped, hit the Morph key to become the real mob — animated model, hitbox, and vulnerabilities. Morphing costs a little essence.
🎮 Controls
Default keybinds (rebindable in Options → Controls → Chimera Craft):
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| M | Open the Body-Part loadout menu |
| Z / X / C / V | Fire the Head / Body / Arms / Legs active ability |
| G | Toggle full-set Morph on/off |
| N | Toggle hiding your name tag (drains essence) |
Some abilities are movement-based and use vanilla inputs while their part is equipped — double-tap sprint to rift-step with enderman legs, hold jump to hover with blaze legs, glide with phantom wings, and more.
🏆 Progression & advancements
A dedicated advancement branch doubles as a goal roadmap: absorb your first part, sample a living mob, equip a full set, morph, absorb from a boss, and ultimately collect parts from every mob in the roster.
⚙️ Configuration
Nearly everything is tunable in config/chimera.json (created on first launch) — absorb chances, health scaling, sampling behaviour, essence pool size, and global cooldown / essence-cost multipliers. Server admins get /chimera give commands for testing.
📦 Requirements
- Minecraft 26.2
- Fabric Loader
>=0.19.3 - Fabric API (required)
- Java 25+
Works in singleplayer and multiplayer. Released under the MIT License.