Neo Origins

This release is a large compatibility + UI pass — a major Origins / Apoli / Apugli compatibility overhaul, first-class integrations with EMI / Jade / The One Probe / FTB Quests / FTB Teams / FTB Ultimine / Accessories, a parchment-scroll UI, a browser-based pack editor, config hardening, and a long list of new powers, actions, and fixes. If you hit a rough edge, please report it on the GitHub issue tracker.

Supports: Minecraft 26.1.x (Java 25) · Minecraft 1.21.1 (Java 21)

The headline of this release is a big jump in Origins / Apoli / Apugli pack compatibility — real spell packs (deanos, CrystalWeaver) that previously hit "Unknown power type" or silently no-op'd now load and behave correctly — alongside a parchment-scroll skin for the origin picker and a browser-based pack editor to complement the existing in-game creator.

• apoli: / apugli: namespaces are now recognized. Power types, actions, and conditions declared under the apoli: / apugli: namespaces are canonicalized to their origins: equivalents before dispatch (e.g. apoli:resource, apoli:multiple, apoli:and, apoli:raycast, apoli:change_resource, apoli:sneaking). Previously these fell through to "Unknown power type" even when an identical handler already existed, so modern packs that author in the Apoli namespace lost large chunks of behavior on load.
• Apoli resource bars render with the real sprite sheet. Compat resource bars now draw using Apoli's actual resource_bar.png art — bar fill selected by bar_index, icon by icon_index — including a per-power sprite_location override so packs that ship a restyled bar sheet render with their texture. Native NeoOrigins resources keep the existing color-tinted fill, so nothing regresses. (Apoli's resource_bar.png is bundled under its MIT license — see Documentation.)
• apoli:modify_velocity is now supported. Per-axis modifier on the player's movement each tick, condition-gated and fail-closed: if a gating condition can't be parsed the power refuses to compile rather than risk freezing the player (e.g. a resource-gated "stop" effect that would otherwise apply unconditionally).
• origins:modify_attribute now translates to neoorigins:attribute_modifier. (This is the top-level-attribute schema, distinct from origins:attribute, which nests the attribute inside each modifier.) Resource-driven dynamic values apply their static base value.
• Raycast spells gain before_action + command_at_hit. before_action runs once up front (e.g. consume the offhand reagent) and command_at_hit runs a command at the exact impact point. Together with the existing command_along_ray, this covers deanos-style projectile and teleport spells.
• Right-click (key.use) active powers now fire. Apoli active_self powers bound to key.use — cast by right-clicking with a plain or empty hand, the way most spell packs work — previously never triggered, because the server only saw item-use animations (food/bow/shield) and not a plain tap. The server now tracks the right-click tick so these powers cast.
• Nested bientity actions resolve instead of no-op'ing. Entity-actions tucked inside a bientity and (add_velocity, mount, if_else, spawn_particles, …) now run on the actor with the hit entity as context. Genuinely-unknown verbs still warn (and don't double-warn).
• Plural modifier arrays accepted. Conditioned modify_damage_taken / modify_damage_dealt and modify_xp_gain now accept Apoli's plural modifiers / amount forms in addition to the legacy singular fields.
• Apoli attribute-operation mapping is safer. The operation mapper now drops clamp-style operations that have no vanilla AttributeModifier equivalent (set_base, min_total, max_total, …) instead of silently mismapping them onto an unrelated vanilla operation. modify_attribute and conditioned-attribute powers skip any non-representable op rather than apply a wrong one.
• add_velocity honors the Apoli space transform (world / local / velocity), so directional knockback/launch verbs push along the intended frame instead of always in world space.
• Inline Apoli recipes now decode on NeoForge. origins:recipe powers that ship pre-1.20.5 recipe JSON (e.g. Toxophilite's makeshift arrows) are normalized to the 1.21.1 codec shape. Ingredient objects are left in NeoForge's either(list, object) form (rewriting them to bare strings made the codec reject every inline recipe); only the result's Apoli item key is rewritten to the 1.21.1 id key.
• Iron's Spells damage types match by full id. Namespaced damage-type ids (e.g. irons_spellbooks:fire_magic) now compare on the full registry key in modify_damage / action_on_hit, so spell-school damage conditions resolve instead of dropping the namespace.
• The /resource command matches Apoli. Brought to parity with apace100/apoli's ResourceCommand — has / get / set / change / operation subcommands, single-target, "power not granted" errors, vanilla scoreboard feedback messages, correct return values, and resource-name suggestions scoped to the target. A load-time warning is also logged when a resource reference (in the condition or change_resource / set_resource) uses the *: self-reference wildcard, which is only resolved for power_active and origins:multiple — never for resources (see Documentation).

A batch of new out-of-the-box integrations with popular mods. Each is a soft dependency — gated behind a mod-list check or reflection, so none of these mods are required and the integration silently no-ops when its mod is absent. The full catalogue lives in the new COMPATIBILITY.md.

• EMI (1.21.1) — adds an information panel for the Orb of Origin item.

• Jade / The One Probe — looking at a player shows their origin in the block/entity tooltip (Jade on both builds; The One Probe on 1.21.1).

• FTB Quests — a first-class "NeoOrigins: Grant Loot Pool" reward type (set a loot-table id + roll count directly on the quest) (1.21.1), plus a quest-tag route: quests tagged neoorigins_loot_pool_grant:<table_id> grant a loot pool on completion (both builds). The tag route now hooks FTBQ's real completion event and grants to every online team member.

• FTB Teams — players on an allied team (not just the same team) are now trusted for mount consent, so an ally can ride your mountable origin without sending a request.

• FTB Ultimine — new zero-config marker power neoorigins:ultimine. FTB Ultimine's restriction API is deny-only, so the power works by denying vein-mining to non-holders; it stays fully dormant until at least one ultimine power is present in loaded data, so simply installing both mods never disables vein-mining for everyone.

• Accessories (1.21.1) — the equipped_item condition gains an accessory slot value plus an optional slot_type to narrow to a named curio/accessory slot; it aggregates equipped stacks from both Curios (reflection) and Accessories (typed).

• Vampires Need Umbrellas — holding an umbrella now shields the holder from both weather-damage gates: exposed_to_sun (sun-burn origins) and in_rain (rain/water-damage origins like Wet Fur and True Hydrophobia). The umbrella is detected in either hand or any Curios/Accessories slot.

• neoorigins:simple — new display-only marker power. Does nothing mechanically; it exists to show a name + description line in the origin info panel (lore, or to describe an effect implemented by another power). Direct equivalent of origins:simple; origins:tooltip / apace:tooltip translate to it as well.

• drop_inventory action — drops the holder's full inventory as item entities (throw_randomly / retain_ownership honored).

• riding_action action — runs an entity-action on the entity the holder is riding (the mirror of passenger_action).

• spawn_particles action — server-broadcasts particles from the player's position (count / speed / offset / spread; simple particle types).

• hardness condition — compares the destroy-hardness of the targeted block, enabling "only affect blocks with hardness ≤ N" style spells.

• summon quantity — the summon entity-action now takes a quantity field.

• starting_equipment multi-item — accepts a list of item stacks (stacks) instead of just one; the legacy singular item form still works. Each entry carries full per-item data — components (item[...]-style data components: custom name, enchantments, custom model data, lore) and a structured enchantments list — and a new legacy_tag field bridges pre-1.21 flat SNBT onto the component system.

• tame_mob owner-aware goals — tamed-mob aggro/defend goals are split into owner-aware targeting, so a tamed mob defends its owner and won't target them.

• spawn_projectile gains no_gravity. When true, the projectile flies dead-straight along its launch vector instead of arcing (drag still applies). Works for any projectile entity, not just the magic orb.

• selector_action action — resolves a vanilla entity selector relative to the holder and runs a bientity-action per selected entity, publishing each as a source-entity context. A nested fire_projectile can then fire from each selected entity using its position and rotation — the basis of fan-out volleys like Toxophilite's hyper_multishot.

• fire_projectile honors Apoli count + tag. Non-orb projectiles spawn count copies (default 1), and an Apoli tag SNBT compound (e.g. {pickup:1b}) is applied to each spawned projectile. For the magic orb, count keeps its trail-particle meaning.

• break_speed_modifier now respects block_tag. The power advertised a block_tag filter but ignored it, scaling mining speed on every block. It is reimplemented through PlayerEvent.BreakSpeed (fired client + server so mining prediction matches) and now actually filters by the target block's tag/id — a leading # forces tag-only.

A new family of "caster + target" spell building blocks. Previously a projectile's on_hit_action always ran on the shooter, and target_action was a transparent pass-through — so you couldn't write "swap me with the mob I hit" or "shear whatever this orb lands on." These verbs let a spell act on the entity (or block) on the other side of the interaction, and the magic-orb projectile is now styled entirely from JSON.

• target_action actually retargets now. It resolves the entity on the other side of the interaction (hit / hit-by / killed / interacted-with / projectile-struck) and runs the inner entity-action against it, instead of passing through to the holder. A player target gets the full entity-action surface; a non-player mob gets the entity-general subset (apply_effect, clear_effect, damage, heal, set_on_fire, extinguish, add_velocity, play_sound, set_fall_distance, dismount, swing_hand). It also works directly as a neoorigins:-namespaced action (e.g. inside a projectile on_hit_action). actor_action is unchanged.

• Movement verbs. swap_positions atomically swaps the actor and the context target's full transform (position + yaw + pitch) — both transforms are snapshotted before either moves, so they never collapse to one point. teleport_to_target moves the actor to the target; teleport_target_to_self moves the target to the actor.

• Entity-target verbs. shear (sheep / mooshroom / snow golem / bogged / any modded IShearable), dye (color — dyeable mobs like sheep), force_drop (slot, default mainhand — makes the target drop a named equipment slot), and steal_item (slot — transfers the target's item to the actor's inventory). Each works as a projectile on_hit_action or wrapped in target_action.

• Block-target verbs. Spells can now act on the block a projectile or raycast impacts: strip (logs/wood → stripped, axis-preserving), till (grass/dirt → farmland, vanilla hoe rule), path (→ dirt path, vanilla shovel rule), grow (one bonemeal-style growth tick), and the generic transform_block (to required, optional from guard). block_target_action is the block-side analogue of target_action for running these explicitly.

• Area-of-effect fan-out. area_of_effect on impact now applies its inner verb to every matching entity in the blast — including the new dual-actor verbs — so "swap / shear / disarm everything in the radius" is a one-liner. Kill credit is now attributed to the casting player for AoE damage.

• Data-driven projectile visuals. spawn_projectile (magic orb) gains author-controlled visuals: orb_color and glow_color (RGB [r,g,b] 0–255 or hex "#RRGGBB"), size, glow_size, glow_alpha, shape (cross / cube / ring / sphere — all four ship), and trail_particle (any vanilla particle id, with count / spread / trail_speed tuning). effect_type stays as a shorthand that sets sensible defaults; any explicit field overrides it. The original seed request — a green orb emitting purple particles that swaps the two entities when it hits — is now fully expressible in JSON.

• apoli:global global power sets are now supported. A datapack file at data/<ns>/global_powers/<id>.json grants a bundle of powers to entities without any origin assignment — NeoOrigins' port of Apoli's Global Power Set, using the same JSON shape. An optional entity_types list may mix literal entity ids ("minecraft:creeper") and tag refs ("#minecraft:skeletons") in one array; when absent or empty the set applies to all entities. An optional order (default 0, lower applies first) controls apply ordering, and powers referenced by multiple sets are granted once. Players receive matching powers on login and on datapack sync (/reload), granted through the same dynamic-grant mechanism as grant_power so they persist across respawn and reload; removing a set revokes its grant on the next login//reload unless an origin still supplies the power. Mobs receive matching, mob-applicable powers at spawn (FinalizeSpawnEvent) — already-spawned mobs pick up changes on respawn/reload rather than live-updating.

• Parchment scroll buttons. The origin picker's list rows, the top-right sort button, and the Random / Back / Confirm row now render as parchment scrolls — rolled up at rest, unrolled with a warm glow on hover/selection — drawn with a horizontal 3-slice so the rolled ends never distort at any width. A compact "short" scroll variant is used for the list rows and the sort button so they don't look oversized. Replaces the old flat-fill + outline buttons.

• Live Essence Evolution progress now shows on the Origin Info screen — your current kill-count toward the next evolution tier.

• Themed fonts across the picker. The bundled Newsreader font (shipped under the OFL) is now applied consistently across screen titles, body text, power names/descriptions, headers, and button labels, instead of only the layer title.

• In-game creator polish. The existing in-game /neoorigins editor and mob editor pick up the parchment widget/font theming, and raw-JSON fields gained shape-hint placeholders. The editor also gained a per-session tooltip toggle and now tolerates blank item/enchantment rows in starting_equipment (skipping the row instead of failing the whole power).

• Classic-picker accessibility fallback. A classic_picker_style client option swaps the parchment skin for a flat, high-contrast picker for players who find the textured UI hard to read.

• Named keybind / hotkey support for pack-defined keybinds.

A browser-based datapack editor, complementing the existing in-game /neoorigins editor. New this release:

• Origin editor — Identity / Powers / JSON Preview tabs, a schema-driven form engine with live AJV validation, datapack .zip export and import, class creation (layer + upgrades), localStorage autosave, and an MC-version / pack_format toggle.

• Block (Scratch-style) editing — an optional Blockly view for building powers visually, with a data-safety guard when switching views.

• Mob Origin editor — a full second editor track (Identity / Spawn Rules / Drops / JSON Preview) with its own serializer, .zip export/import, and a published mob_origin.schema.json.

• Accessibility — light/dark theme + colorblind palettes — a theme toggle plus five selectable palettes (default, protanopia, deuteranopia, tritanopia, monochrome) that repaint both the block category colors and the UI accent tokens, with aria labels and screen-reader descriptions throughout.

• Vanilla item typeahead — the origin icon field (and other item fields) offer a searchable vanilla-item suggestion list.

• Load vanilla template — start from a prebuilt vanilla origin/power as a starting point, picked from a searchable template list, rather than building every draft from scratch.

• Nested action/condition editing — recursive ref rows let you build nested action/condition trees, and raw-JSON fields round-trip imported objects correctly (no more [object Object]).

• The origin picker auto-skipped third-party compat layers. Packs that nest their origins at data/<ns>/origins/origins/<name>.json (the Origins-mod nested-id convention) were registered under the prefix-stripped id <ns>:<name>, which didn't match the layer's <ns>:origins/<name> reference — so the layer resolved to null, reported "nothing here," and the picker skipped straight past it onto the next page. They're now registered under the id the layer actually references, so the layer shows.

• Picking a class wiped the origin layer's attribute bonuses. Selecting or changing a class layer used to purge all attribute modifiers, dropping things like an origin's bonus max-health. Modifier cleanup is now layer-aware — it only removes a modifier whose source power is no longer active in any layer — so origin and class bonuses coexist.

• Two powers granting the same attribute didn't stack. Identical attribute grants (e.g. two powers each adding max-health) collided on a shared modifier id and de-duplicated to a single bonus. Each grant now builds a per-power modifier id, so they add up. (See Breaking / Migration Notes — this can change outcomes for packs that relied on the old behavior.)

• Mage-style block/item prevention fired unconditionally. prevent_item_use / prevent_block_use dropped the power-level holder condition and only kept the item/block target condition, so prevention applied the moment the power was granted rather than only when its condition was met (the deanos Mage's "can't place blocks unless holding a spell item" gate). The holder condition is now honored.

• Elytra / natural-glide start delay. Gliding engaged only after a multi-second delay (and often a second jump press) because the start was gated behind a fall-distance check that stays zero on the way up. The gate is removed; glide now engages on the first jump press.

• Water-damage config value of 0 now truly disables water/rain damage (the override was being applied after the value had already been baked in).

• Water breathing no longer lets the bubble bar drain while submerged. The power gated on isUnderWater(), which also requires the body to be in water; on ticks where the body briefly read as out-of-water while the eye stayed under (surface-swimming, currents, edges), vanilla drained a bubble the power didn't refill — visible bar drift with no actual drowning. It now gates on the eye being in water, the exact condition under which air depletes, so the bar holds steady.

• pack.mcmeta pack_format corrected to 48 for MC 1.21.1 packs and editor exports.

• JSON-preview layer-id namespace leak and Evolution Path glyph rendering / transparent parchment background fixed.

• Projectile projectile_action ran on the shooter, not the projectile. spawn_projectile / fire_projectile now apply projectile_action to the spawned projectile itself (actor = projectile), with on_hit_action routed separately to the hit registry — so "set the arrow on fire" affects the arrow, not the caster.

• Resource HUD bar didn't update on change_resource / set_resource. Those actions mutated server-side state only; they now sync to the client so the bar value visibly updates.

• active_self with continuous: true fired every tick. Holding the key now fires every <cooldown> ticks as intended, gated behind the declared cooldown instead of once per tick.

• give ignored the Apoli amount alias and always granted a single item; the requested stack size is now honored.

• Curios-slot umbrellas weren't detected. A wrong ICurioStacksHandler class path (the class moved package in Curios 9.5.1) failed the reflection block and poisoned the whole Curios scan, so umbrellas worn in Curios slots never shielded against sun or rain (only the hand worked). Corrected — Curios-slot umbrellas shield again.

• The origin picker could strand the player on a nitwit-only layer. The auto-skip logic no longer skips (or gets stuck on) a layer whose only visible option is Nitwit.

• Origin-gated recipe conditions — recipes can be gated on a player's origin.

• Sort dropdown on the origin selection screen (re-skinned this release as the parchment scroll button).

• Config split into CLIENT / SERVER / COMMON specs. Origin/class enable toggles and the global resource-bar disable moved to a server spec, so NeoForge auto-syncs them to connecting clients — server-side origin toggles now correctly apply on remote clients instead of desyncing. Client-only display prefs (hotkey pool size, classic-picker style, show-editor button, hidden HUD bars) moved to a client config.

• Command-power blacklist (security). Datapack powers can execute server commands at permission level 2 — an escalation vector (e.g. a power running /op @s). A configurable COMMAND_POWER_BLACKLIST now guards execute_command, command_along_ray, command_at_hit, and the command condition; blocked roots are refused and warned (the guard unwraps execute … run <cmd> to the real command token).

• Per-layer unique origins (server claims). An optional uniqueness lock: in layers listed under the new unique_origin_layers config, an origin can be held by only one player at a time. Includes saved-data + client sync, /neoorigins claims / unlock admin commands, and pick-time enforcement (the Orb of Origin is not consumed on a rejected pick). Creative-mode ops and /set bypass the lock and take over the claim.

• show_origin_editor config — expose the in-game editor button outside Creative mode.

• /resource parity with Apoli — see Compat Improvements (has / get / set / change / operation).

• Powers, actions, and conditions are now self-describing. Nearly the entire power / action / condition layer was migrated onto registry-backed descriptor tables (BuiltinPowers field specs, BuiltinConditions, and the action descriptor registry): each type declares its own fields in one place — field name, type (string / enum / number / id / string-list / nested object), whether each is optional, and its default — instead of a hand-maintained dispatch switch. This was the single largest body of work in the release. The author-visible payoffs: power.schema.json is now generated from the same registry the game runs on, so editor/IDE validation can't silently drift from real behavior; closed-set fields surface as dropdowns and string-list fields as proper list widgets in both the in-game creator and the web editor; and adding or correcting a type is a single registration rather than parallel edits across the loader, the schema, and the editors.

• neoorigins:simple documented in POWER_TYPES.md and added to power.schema.json.

• mob_origin.schema.json published for the mob-origin editor and wired into the IDE-validator mapping.

• Hotkey system, theming, the water-damage gate, and evolution authoring documented.

• Dual-actor spells, projectile visuals, and the new movement / entity-target / block-target verbs documented — the new target_action retargeting and the swap_positions / teleport_* / shear / dye / force_drop / steal_item / strip / till / path / grow / transform_block / block_target_action verbs are in ACTIONS.md, and the data-driven projectile visual fields in CUSTOM_PROJECTILES.md.

• Global Power Sets documented in the new GLOBAL_POWERS.md pack-author reference (linked from the README).

• mob_behavior and mount power types fully documented in POWER_TYPES.md — including the target-goal lifecycle (a NearestAttackableTargetGoal, plus a HurtByTargetGoal when retaliate is set, added on grant and stripped on revoke) and mount consent / dismount-on-revoke behavior.

• Four new cookbook recipes in COOKBOOK.md: "Arcane bolt" (straight-flying no_gravity projectile), "Elemental cast" (one-line fireball / wind bolt), "Hunting predator" (conditional mob aggression for mob origins), and "Beast rider" (mount entities on demand).

• New COMPATIBILITY.md cataloguing every out-of-the-box mod integration (EMI, Jade, The One Probe, FTB Quests/Teams/Ultimine, Accessories, Curios, Vampires Need Umbrellas, Ars Nouveau, Pehkui, Epic Fight, JEI/REI, and the Origins/Apoli/Apugli importer), with honest notes on each integration's caveats and which build it targets. Linked from the docs index.

• Resource-wildcard limitation documented in CONDITIONS.md and ACTIONS.md: the *: / *:* self-reference wildcard is resolved only for power_active toggles and origins:multiple sub-powers, never for the resource condition or change_resource / set_resource actions — a * there reads as 0 and now warns at load.

• Theme-template download guide added to the theme-template README (how to grab just that folder from the repo).

• Attribution: LICENSE now credits the Apoli / apace100 project for the bundled resource_bar.png (MIT).

No hard data-format breaks — existing packs load without edits — but a few of the fixes above correct previously-wrong behavior and can change outcomes:

• Attribute stacking. Packs that (knowingly or not) relied on the old de-duplicating behavior will now see two identical attribute grants stack. Review any power that double-grants the same attribute.
• Conditioned prevention. prevent_item_use / prevent_block_use now honor the holder condition. A pack that leaned on the old unconditional behavior will see prevention fire only when the condition is met.
• pack_format. Datapacks/exports generated by older editor builds may need their pack.mcmeta corrected to 48 for MC 1.21.1.
• Config moved between files. Origin/class enable toggles and the resource-bar disable are now in the server config (so they sync to clients); client display prefs (hotkey pool size, classic-picker style, show-editor button, hidden HUD bars) are in the client config. Defaults are unchanged, but admins who previously hand-edited these in the common config should set them in their new homes.
• Command-powers can be blacklisted. Datapack powers that run server commands now pass through COMMAND_POWER_BLACKLIST. The default list blocks obvious escalation roots; a pack that legitimately relies on a blocked command will need it removed from the blacklist.

Huge thanks to our testers on the Discord for burning through the 2.2 betas — catching the compat edge cases, broken hitboxes, and silently-misbehaving powers that this release fixes.