Remnants | Skills and Powers 2.0.0

Elementals is now Remnants | Skills and Powers: a full passive skill tree with active abilities, built to work alone or alongside Remnants | RPG Player Skills.

Supported: 1.20.1 (Fabric, Forge), 1.21.1 (Fabric, NeoForge), 26.2 (Fabric, NeoForge) and 26.3 (Fabric, NeoForge, new).

The Remnant Constellation

• A 522-node passive tree in six schools: Pyromancy, Stormcalling, Umbral Arts, Tidecalling, Earthshaping and Verdance. Pick any origin, then path anywhere: neighbouring schools are three nodes apart and hybrid bridges (Plasma Arc, Black Ice, Phoenix Ash...) reward mixing.
• 54 notables, 30 abilities and 12 keystones that bend the rules (Glass Cannon, Conduit, Blood Pact, Soul Eater, Eternal Tide, Undying Grove...).
• 32 stats: vanilla attributes plus ability power, per-element damage, crit, cooldown reduction, area, duration, lifesteal, Essence, damage reduction, dodge, thorns, burn and chill on hit.

The tree screen (press I)

• Hover any node to see the full path, its point cost and the stats you would gain.
• Click to stage a path, right-click to refund, then Apply (Enter) or Undo. The server applies the whole build at once or nothing.
• Plan mode (shift-click), search with fly-to (Ctrl+F), a clickable minimap, zoom, and a Stats panel that shows current → after for every staged change.
• Build codes: share a build as RSP1-... text and import someone else's as a plan.
• Layout adapts to every GUI scale, down to 720p on Auto.

Abilities

• 30 abilities, five per school, including a two-point ultimate (Meteor, Tempest, Eclipse...).
• Four cast slots on R / Z / B / H (rebindable). New abilities fill empty slots automatically; click a slot in the tree screen or press 1-4 over an ability node to choose.
• Abilities cost Essence (blue bar), scale with your tree, never break blocks, respect teams and are PvP-safe by default.
• New HUD: ability bar right of the hotbar with cooldown sweeps, Essence and XP bars, level-up banners and a skill point reminder.

Progression

• Power levels from killing mobs (scaled by their health, bosses ×3) and casting.
• Remnant Tome (rare Fire Golem drop, craftable): +1 skill point, up to 20 per player.
• Respec freely: refund single nodes (1 XP level each by default) or use Reset Tree (10 levels). A Tome of Unbinding resets the whole tree for free.
• Every number is in config/remnants/skills_and_powers/general.json and abilities.json.

Remnants | RPG Player Skills integration

• Detected automatically. RPG levels grant skill points (1 per level by default, retroactive), the tree shows your RPG level, and abilities gain +0.5% damage per RPG level.
• Modes: auto, replace, add, off. Custom nodes can require an RPG level or run RPG Player Skills commands when allocated.
• No key or HUD overlap between the two mods.

For server owners

• The tree lives on the server: edit skill_tree.json, run /powers reload, and every client gets the new tree. Invalid allocations are refunded with a message.
• /powers (alias /skills): info, build, points, level, xp, reset, origin, grant, cooldowns, cast, reload.
• Nodes can require a Power or RPG level and run commands on allocate or refund.
• Player data is plain JSON in <world>/remnants_powers/, written atomically.

Upgrading from Elementals 1.x

• Same mod id: worlds, items and the Fire Golem carry over.
• Players who chose Fire or Water get the Pyromancy or Tidecalling origin free, plus 3 bonus points per old elemental level. Old spell cooldowns are copied into abilities.json.

Other changes

• The Fire Golem is now an iron-golem-sized nether brute with its own texture. It spawns in Nether Wastes, Crimson Forests and Basalt Deltas and drops Fire Runes, Magma Cream and, rarely, a Remnant Tome.
• Spell books still cast their ability for Pyromancy players who reach the book's level, now using Essence and the same cooldowns as the tree.
• Progression is server-authoritative and resynced on join, respawn, dimension change and reload.