Experience Skills

Experience Skills adds a set of parallel experience tracks that sit alongside vanilla XP. Every action you take feeds a matching skill, and the higher that skill's level climbs the better you get at it — you move faster, mine faster, hit harder, take more punishment, and more.

There's nothing extra to grind. You gain skill experience from the things you're already doing: distance walked, blocks broken, mobs slain, damage survived, laps of the pool, hours on the riverbank. Each skill collects its own colored experience orbs, tracks its own level, and grants its own reward.

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How it works

• Do the activity → earn the skill. Mine blocks and your Breaking Speed rises; take hits and your Vitality grows; swim laps and your Swim Speed climbs.
• Collect the orbs. Each skill drops its own colour of experience orb that drifts toward you, plays a level-up chime, and adds to that skill's pool.
• Reap the reward. Each level strengthens a matching attribute bonus — the higher the skill, the bigger the boost.
• Watch your progress. A HUD bar shows one skill at a time; press R to cycle through your skills (and the vanilla bar).
• Mind your death. Dying drops a portion of each skill's experience back into the world as orbs — reclaim them if you can.

Built-in skills

Skill	Level up by…	Reward
Speed	Walking, sprinting, sneaking	Faster movement
Breaking Speed	Breaking blocks	Faster mining
Strength	Killing mobs and players	More attack damage
Vitality	Taking damage	More maximum health
Jump	Jumping	Higher jumps — with matching fall protection, so you won't hurt yourself
Oxygen	Spending time underwater	Longer breath underwater
Swim Speed	Moving through water	Faster swimming
Fishing Speed	Time spent fishing	Quicker bites
Fishing Luck	Reeling in catches	Better catches

Made to be tuned

Every skill is fully configurable. Open the config file and adjust how fast each skill levels, how big its bonus is, its color, its level cap, or switch any of them off entirely, just edit and restart the game.

For pack makers — add skills with a JSON file

You can define your own skills without writing a line of code. Drop a small .json file into config/experienceskills/skills/, point it at any vanilla statistic and any attribute, and you have a brand-new skill: its own orb, HUD bar, level bonus and command support, all generated for you. Want a "Jump" skill that boosts jump height every 100 jumps? That's one file.

For modders — a first-class API

Experience Skills ships a clean plugin API. Register skills from your mod, drive them from your own custom statistics, buff your own custom attributes, react to stat awards, and read or adjust any player's skill levels. The built-in skills are themselves registered through the exact same public API, so anything the mod can do, your addon can too.

You will need to write your own logic for awarding custom stats and the core logic of custom attribute usage.