Cobblemon Mike Skills 5.0.0

Minecraft 1.21.1 | Cobblemon 1.7.0 | NeoForge & Fabric

Mike Skills 5.0.0 is our biggest progression update so far!

This version expands the way players discover Pokémon through professions, adds new progression goals, improves rewards, brings new server tools, and fixes several important issues from previous builds.

No player data migration is required. Existing config files will continue to work.

New Feature: Skill Compendium

Every profession now has its own Compendium, a discovery log that tracks the Pokémon you can find while using that skill.

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You can open it from the Skill GUI by clicking the Enchanted Book button.

Each Compendium shows the creatures connected to that profession and slowly reveals more information as you play, level up, explore, encounter, defeat, and capture Pokémon.

Unknown entries can show useful hints such as level range and biome. Once discovered, an entry can reveal:

Pokémon species
Rarity
Biome
Weather
Time of day
Encounter count
Defeat count
Capture count
Shiny count
First discovery date

Catching a skill-spawned Pokémon fully reveals its Compendium entry.

Shiny discoveries are also highlighted with a special enchantment glint.

Compendium Rewards

Filling your Compendium now gives extra progression rewards.

Players can earn milestone XP rewards when reaching:

5 entries
10 entries
25 entries
50 entries
75 entries
100 entries

These rewards are claimed automatically when opening the Compendium.

Each profession also has its own advancement chain based on discovery progress:

First discovery
5 discoveries
10 discoveries
50% completion
100% completion

The Insomnia Compendium also received its own advancement path, including:

First Haunting
Frequent Visitor
Night Watcher
Shadow Seeker
Lord of Shadows

New Cosmetic Titles

Each profession now unlocks cosmetic titles as you complete its Compendium.

Titles are unlocked at:

25% completion
50% completion
75% completion
100% completion

Fishing Titles

River Scout
River Watcher
River Specialist
Master Angler

Digging Titles

Cave Novice
Cave Explorer
Deep Delver
Master Excavator

Woodlogging Titles

Leaf Cutter
Forest Walker
Grove Warden
Master Forester

Mining Titles

Stone Breaker
Vein Seeker
Ore Specialist
Master Miner

The final title tiers are not only cosmetic. They also give a small passive XP bonus:

75% completion: x1.05 XP
100% completion: x1.10 XP

This bonus stacks with luck, moon phase, weather, and weekly theme bonuses, up to the global multiplier cap.

You can view unlocked titles in the Skill GUI or with:

/pokeskill <profession> titles

You can equip a title with:

/pokeskill <profession> titles equip <titleId>

Dynamic Skill Bonuses

Progression is now more dynamic, with bonuses that change based on luck, weather, moon phase, and weekly server themes.

Daily Luck

Each player receives a personal luck level from 1 to 10 every in-game day.

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Higher luck can increase XP gains and improve rare encounter chances.

Moon Phase

Full moons now bring extra rare encounter chance and a small XP bonus.

Weather Bonuses

Fishing now reacts to weather:

Rain increases Fishing XP
Thunderstorms increase Fishing XP even more
Storms can also improve rare spawn weights

Weekly Skill Theme

Each week, one profession becomes the featured server-wide skill.

The featured profession receives an XP bonus for all players during that week.

Daily Briefing

When you log in, you now receive a short summary showing your current bonuses, including luck, moon phase, weather effects, and the weekly featured skill.

This can be configured by the server.

Woodlogging and Cutting Improvements

Cutting trees should now feel much better and more reliable.

Tree detection was improved so that the mod can better understand real tree shapes, including diagonal trunks, curved trees, acacia-style trees, and larger trunks.

Cutting from the middle of a trunk now works correctly.

X-Scissor can now handle larger and more complex trees, including 2x2 trunks, with log limits that scale by level.

Guillotine remains the best move for giant trees.

Dead trees and leafless log structures can now be cut. These do not give XP or rewards, but the logs are removed instead of being rejected.

Server owners can also enable leaf block drops with the new leaf drop configuration option.

Mining Spawn Improvements

Mining now has a rebuilt spawn table with better biome identity.

Mining encounters are now organized around areas such as:

Caves
Mountains
Frozen biomes
Badlands
Nether
End

Digging and Mining should now feel more distinct.

Digging focuses more on soil, fossils, and buried ruins.

Mining focuses more on ores, metals, crystals, and underground discoveries.

Regional Forms and Legendary Progression

Spawn tables now support more regional Pokémon forms across skills, including:

Alolan forms
Galarian forms
Hisuian forms
Paldean forms

Legendary progression was also standardized.

Legendary encounters now unlock later in progression, starting at higher levels, with multiple rarity weight bands as players continue leveling.

Visual and Audio Improvements

Several actions now have better feedback so skills feel more alive.

Added:

Confirmation sound when sending a Pokémon to dig, cut, or mine
Particle burst when leveling up a skill
Particle and sound effects when discovering mob-type rewards
Better Insomnia warning with title, subtitle, and sound
Soul particles and phantom ambience that grow more intense the longer you stay awake at night

The Compendium also received a visual improvement.

Undiscovered entries now use Poké Balls based on rarity instead of plain glass panes:

Common: Poké Ball
Uncommon: Great Ball
Rare: Ultra Ball
Epic: Luxury Ball
Legendary: Master Ball

Server owners can disable silhouettes for a stricter no-spoiler Compendium mode.

GUI Improvements

The main Skill Hub was expanded and improved.

Changes include:

Hub expanded to 6 rows
Mining card added to the main hub
Help button added
Config button added
Leaderboard arrows are now easier to distinguish
XP to next level is now shown in action-bar results
XP to next level is also shown in /pokeskill stats

Some reward messages were also moved to chat so they no longer overwrite important XP action-bar messages.

Server Administration Improvements

This update adds several tools to make Mike Skills safer and easier to manage on multiplayer servers.

Dimension Blocklist

Server owners can now disable all skill actions in specific dimensions.

This is useful for lobby worlds, event worlds, protected areas, or custom dimensions.

Protection Mod Support

Mike Skills now checks protection and claim mods before breaking blocks.

Protected areas are skipped silently, and Pokémon will not be sent out if the entire skill area is protected.

This improves compatibility with claim and protection systems such as:

FTB Chunks
GriefPrevention
Flan
Cadmus
Other similar protection mods

Concurrent Excavation Limit

A new server-side limit helps prevent overload when many players are digging or mining at the same time.

This should make skill actions safer for larger servers.

Important Fixes

This version includes several important bug fixes.

Fixed issues where:

Compendium data could be discarded when using MongoDB
Compendium tracking worked only for Fishing instead of all professions
Insomnia Compendium was not recording correctly
Defeat and capture counts were not updating correctly for Insomnia encounters
Some title XP bonuses were missing from certain professions
Config and translation files could be overwritten during updates
Some Config GUI toggles could not be clicked
Spawn browser could show the wrong biome in some cases
Leaderboard GUI could cause server stalls by querying the database too often
Task queues were doing unnecessary work every server tick

The leaderboard now uses caching to reduce server load.

Config updates are now additive, meaning existing settings are preserved and new settings are added safely.

Final Notes

Mike Skills 5.0.0 focuses on making progression feel more rewarding, discovery more exciting, and multiplayer servers more stable.

You can now build your profession identity through discoveries, titles, bonuses, achievements, and Compendium completion.

No player data migration is required, and existing configs should continue working normally.

Cobblemon Mike Skills