Skills Plugin

Overview

The Skills plugin brings a classic MMORPG-inspired skill system to Minecraft, heavily based on Ultima Online. Players improve skills through use, with a total skill cap that forces meaningful specialization choices.

Key Features

• 37 Skills across combat, magic, crafting, gathering, thief, taming, survival, and other categories
• Skill Cap System — Total cap of 700 points, individual cap of 100 per skill (7 skills at GM)
• Use-Based Progression — Skills improve when used; difficulty affects gain rate
• Stat System — STR, DEX, INT calculated from related skills
• Internal HP / Mana / Stamina — Decimal-precision HP, UO-style mana (independent of hunger), Monster-Hunter-style stamina
• Quality Crafting — Item quality (LQ / NQ / HQ / EX) depends on crafting skill
• Reagent Magic — 8 circles of magic with Power Words, reagent costs, casting & targeting phases
• Party System — Friendly fire, party TP, party chat
• Ender Dragon Scaling — Dragon respawns stronger with anti-cheese skills
• i18n — Full English & Japanese support, per-player language setting

Stats System

Three internal stats are calculated as the average of their related skills. Each stat ranges from 0 to 100.

Stat Calculation

Related Skills

Skills Contributing to Multiple Stats

Stat Effects

Internal HP / Mana / Stamina

The plugin manages HP, Mana, and Stamina internally with decimal precision, separate from vanilla mechanics.

Internal HP

• Supports decimal damage
• Synced to vanilla hearts: Vanilla HP = (Internal HP / Max Internal HP) × 20
• Vanilla damage is converted: Internal Damage = Vanilla Damage × 10

Internal Mana (UO-style)

• Independent of hunger bar — vanilla hunger works normally
• Displayed on the scoreboard

Mana Recovery

Internal Stamina (Monster Hunter-style)

• Sprint consumption: 1/tick (20/sec)
• Standing recovery: 2/tick (40/sec)

Exhaustion (Stamina = 0)

• Walk speed halved
• Cannot jump
• Panting particles & sound every 0.5s
• Must recover to 50 stamina before returning to normal

Scoreboard Display

Grandmaster
Swordsman

❤ 156/180
🍖 15/20
⚡ 145/200

Stats: 225/225
STR: 80 🔒
DEX: 45 ▲
INT: 60 ▼

Skills (37 Total)

Skill Gain System

Difficulty Modifiers

Skill Decay

When total skill points reach 600+, gaining a skill causes the least recently used skill to decrease by 0.1. Skills can be locked (UP / DOWN / LOCKED) via /skills lock.

Combat Skills (Weapons)

Combat Support Skills

Magic Skills

Crafting Skills

Gathering Skills

Thief Skills

Taming Skills

Survival Skills

Other Skills

Combat System (UO-style)

Attack Flow

1. Attack occurs
2. Hit check — Weapon Skill vs. target defense
3. Damage calculation
4. Defense applied (physical / magic)
5. Final damage applied
6. Skill gain checks

Hit Chance (UO-style)

Damage Calculation

Final Damage = Base Damage
  × Tactics (Skill/100, 0.1–1.0)
  × Anatomy (0.5 + Skill/100)
  × [Wrestling (0.5 + Skill/100)]  ← unarmed only
  × STR (1 + STR/200)
  × Quality (-15% to +25%)
  × DI Enchant (1 + total DI/100)
  × Critical (2.0 if triggered)

Post-defense = Final Damage × (1 - AR / (AR + 50))

Weapon Base Damage

Ranged Penalties (Bow / Crossbow)

Moving while shooting: −30% damage. Arrows can only be blocked by shields (not weapons).

PvP Note

Skills do NOT gain from PvP. All combat skills are trained through PvE only. The skills you train against mobs then apply in PvP.

Armor System (UO-style)

Each armor piece has AR (Armor Rating), STR requirement, DEX requirement, and DEX penalty.

Defense Calculation

Example: AR 40 → 40/90 = 44.4% reduction. With parry success, total reduction = 50% + 44.4% of remainder = 72.2%.

Armor Table

Quality AR Modifier

Enchantment AR Bonus

Protection: +2 AR/level, Fire/Blast/Projectile Protection: +1 AR/level.

Magic System

UO-style reagent-based magic with 8 circles, Power Words, and a two-phase casting system (CASTING → TARGETING).

Casting Flow

1. /cast <spell> — Check spellbook, reagents, mana
2. CASTING phase — Boss bar (blue). Moving >0.5 blocks interrupts.
3. TARGETING phase — Boss bar (red). Left-click to target, right-click to cancel. 5-second timeout.
4. Spell effect & particles

Cast Time

Cast Success Rate

Scroll bonus: LQ +10%, NQ +20%, HQ +30%, EX +40%.

Spell Damage

Final = Base Damage
  × Magery/100
  × (0.5 + EvalInt/100)
  × (1 - target Resisting Spells × 0.7 / 100)

Spell List

Attack Spells

Healing / Buff Spells

Movement / Utility Spells

Fly Spell (5th Circle)

A unique mana-drain spell that grants creative-style flight. Costs 5 MP to cast, then drains 0.2 MP/sec during flight.

• Can attack, build, and cast other spells while flying
• Mana depletion: grants Slow Falling 5s for safe landing
• Disabled in The End (dragon balance)
• Water contact ends flight immediately
• Dispel/Mass Dispel can end flight (with safe landing)
• Reagents: Nether Wart + Feather

Reagent Table

Rune & Runebook System

• Rune creation: Combine Teleport Scroll + Amethyst Shard in inventory
• Mark: Record location on a blank rune
• Recall / Gate Travel: Use marked rune to teleport
• Runebook: Stores up to 16 runes. Purchase from Librarian villagers. Right-click rune to Recall, Shift+Right to Gate Travel.

Scroll System

• /scribe <spell> to create scrolls (Paper + reagents consumed)
• Right-click scroll to cast (no reagents needed, scroll consumed)
• Scrolls drop from magic mobs, End Cities, Trial Chambers, and Ender Dragon
• Librarian villagers sell C1–C2 scrolls and empty spellbooks

Crafting & Quality System

Quality Levels

Quality Judgment Flow

Skill ≥ 70 → HQ check (Skill% success)
  → Success + Skill ≥ 90 → EX check ((Skill-90)×10%)
    → Success → Exceptional
    → Fail → High Quality
  → Fail → Normal Quality
Skill 50–69 → Normal Quality
Skill 0–49 → Low Quality

Repair System (UO-style)

Repairing on an anvil reduces max durability:

Mending Integration

Skill 0 = 0%, Skill 30 = 50%, Skill 60+ = 100%. Failed mending gives XP but doesn't repair.

Stack Bonus

Production skill total of 300 = max stack of 99. Applied on item pickup, chest extract, and login.

Food Effects (Cooking)

• Recovery bonus: Cooking / 4 + quality modifier
• HQ food: Health Boost I (+2 hearts) for 30s
• EX food: Health Boost I (+2 hearts) for 60s
• Potion duration extension: +Cooking / 200 (max +50% at Skill 100)

Gathering Skills

Mining

Lumberjacking — Chain Chop

Chopping a log auto-chops connected logs above. Only upward propagation (9 directions). Only 1 durability consumed.

Processing is distributed across ticks (max 5 blocks/tick) for a natural top-down collapse effect.

Fishing — Auto-Fish

On success: auto-reel + auto-recast. On failure: fish escapes, manual recast needed. Rod durability reduction: Skill × 0.9%.

Farming — Auto-Replant & Growth

Harvesting mature crops auto-replants (consuming seeds from inventory) and advances growth stages:

Supported: Wheat, Carrot, Potato, Beetroot, Nether Wart, Torchflower, Pitcher.

Thief System

Hiding & Stealth

• /hide — Success rate = Hiding skill %. Grants invisibility.
• Broken by: attack, block break, item use, taking damage, running.
• While hidden, walk up to Stealth/10 blocks (max 10). Running breaks stealth.

Detecting Hidden

Snooping → Stealing

1. /snoop → target mode → click player
2. Snooping check: Snooping - (target's Detecting Hidden / 2) + 20%
3. Success: view target's inventory GUI
4. Click item in GUI → Stealing check: Stealing - (target's Detecting Hidden / 2) - stack×2% + 10%
5. Success: item transferred. Failure: target notified, GUI closed.

Stealing triggers crime recording via Notoriety plugin (soft dependency).

Poisoning

1. Hold weapon in main hand, have poison potion in inventory
2. /poison — Success rate = Poisoning skill %
3. Success: weapon gains poison (Skill/20 charges, max 5). Hits apply 5s poison effect.

Taming System

Tameable Animals

Commands

• /tame → target mode → click mob
• /lore → target mode → click mob (shows HP, owner, tame status)
• Veterinary: right-click tamed mob with food to heal (recovery × (1 + Veterinary/100))

Party System

UO-inspired party system for team play. Max 8 players per party.

Features

• Friendly Fire: All physical and magic damage between party members is nullified (melee, ranged, AoE spells, poison weapons, harmful splash potions). Beneficial potions still work. Environmental damage (TNT, lava) is NOT blocked.
• Party Teleport: /party tp <player> — 5-second cast (moving cancels), 120s cooldown, same world only. Cannot use in combat (5s after last damage). User's Hiding is broken on TP; target's Hiding is preserved.
• Party Chat: /pc <message> — Aqua-colored messages visible only to party members.
• Thief Protection: Snooping and Stealing cannot target party members.
• Hidden Member Visibility: Party members who are hidden appear as semi-transparent particles to other party members (1s interval, no Detecting Hidden needed).
• Nametag Color: Party members see each other's names in aqua. Reverts on leave/disband.
• Notoriety Integration: Actions between party members do not affect Notoriety reputation.

Party Commands

Offline Behavior

• Members stay in the party when logging out
• Parties are not persistent — server restart dissolves all parties

Scoreboard

Displays player status on the sidebar. Supports per-section toggling and compatibility with other plugins.

Sections

Toggle Commands

• /skills sb — Toggle entire scoreboard ON/OFF
• /skills sb <section> — Toggle individual section (e.g., /skills sb title, /skills sb hms)

Conflict Modes (config.yml)

VengefulMobs

Passive mobs fight back when attacked! Configurable per-mob attack power and anger duration.

Config (config.yml)

vengeful_mobs:
  enabled: true
  anger_duration: 100        # ticks
  chase_distance: 16.0       # blocks
  default_attack_cooldown: 1000  # ms

Chunk Mob Limit

Per-chunk mob caps to prevent lag from auto-breeders and spawners.

Exempt: Boss mobs (Ender Dragon, Wither, Elder Guardian), protected mobs (Villagers, Iron Golems, Wandering Traders), and mobs spawned by commands, curing, building, etc.

Config (config.yml)

chunk_mob_limit:
  enabled: true
  limits:
    passive: 24
    hostile: 32
    ambient: 8
    water_creature: 8
    water_ambient: 16
  check_interval_ticks: 100
  notify_on_limit: true

Ender Dragon Scaling Respawn

The Ender Dragon auto-respawns after 24 hours, growing stronger each time with anti-cheese skills.

Stat Scaling

Dragon Skills (Anti-Cheese)

One skill added per kill (cumulative). After 6 kills, all skills are active:

Drop Rewards

• Equipment: 1 weapon or armor (Iron 70% / Diamond 25% / Netherite 5%; NQ 94% / HQ 5% / EX 1%)
• EX items: Crafted by legendary smiths (Zardoz, Volund, or Mondain)
• Scroll: 1 magic scroll (C4 40% / C5 25% / C6 18% / C7 12% / C8 5%)
• XP: 12000 × (1 + kills × 0.25)
• Dragon Egg: First kill only (vanilla behavior)

Command: /dragoninfo shows kill count, next respawn time, current stats, and active skills.

Commands

General Commands

Magic Commands

Thief Commands

Taming Commands

Party Commands

Dragon Command

Admin Commands

Permissions

Changelog