Origins

Explanation

Origins is a mod that adds several different species into the game, species that you can become when starting a playthrough. Every species has its own abilities. It gives you positive abilities, as well as negative abilities. You could go through the game with a higher walk speed, but get two hearts less than normal to compensate. Next to that, you can have neutral abilities to give you something.. well.. neutral. Each choice has a different impact on the vanilla gameplay, but if you don't like this you can also choose to be a human to stick with the default experience. One 'species' can be harder than another to use, while some are more medium difficulty.

You can activate certain abilities by using primary and secondary keys. The default key-binding for the primary ability is by default 'G' but can be bound to other keys. Due to some issues, the 'G' key doesn't work in the Shiny SMP modpack, so the abilities are bound to other keys. Other abilities are just constant and can't be activated by choice.

Our types

The Origins mod gives you the ability to make your own species and powers. There are often rules that need to be kept in mind here and that's exactly what we did. After thinking of different beings we could add into the modpack, we designed their abilities and powers. We did our best to make them balanced for the best kind of experience as well, although some may be harder than others to use. Often the powers and species were inspired by friends and their ideas, so thanks to them for... existing? Now let's give you a list of all the origin types.

Human

Difficulty: none

Description: A human is just a human. The default option with a default experience.

Positive abilities: None

Neutral abilities: None

Negative abilities: None

Cat

Difficulty: low

Description:
A cat is... well a cat. One of the easier species but one with interesting abilities that are easy to use, but beware of the negatives!

Positive Ability:

Fall immunity: don't you know cats always fall on four legs? You're immune to fall damage silly!
Sprint jump: cats are agile and you're no different. While sprinting, you can jump higher!
Zoomies: your very own ability! Press your primary key to dash really fast for about ten seconds!

Neutral Ability:

None

Negative Ability:

Water weakness: you hate water so naturally going for a swim won't be fun. If you plan on raiding a sea temple, I hope you bring a friend because you will be weaker in water.
Rain slowness: staying in the rain too long will give you a slowness effect. You will also not be able to use your primary ability! Nine lives: you only have nine hearts instead of ten! Be extra careful!

Monkey

Difficulty: low

Description:
A monkey, family of humans? Maybe, but the important part is that these creatures can get to places quick and easily.

Positive Ability:

Climbing: Monkeys can climb on walls or other vertical surfaces. This can be toggled with the primary key.

Neutral Ability:

Monkey Hop: The ability to launch yourself in the direction you're looking, but be careful, you could get hurt!

Negative Ability:

Vegetarian: well I don't know what you were expecting but these lads don't eat meat, so I hope you like your veggies.

Bee

Difficulty: neutral

Description:
Bees are little humming creatures that help our planet with... well living. These bees however are slightly different. They might become a challenge when you come across them.

Positive Ability:

Life Leech: when a bee gets hit and loses four hearts, they can regenerate a little bit of health by hitting their enemy. But be wary of the 10 second cooldown!
Hover: You get to levitate for 15 seconds to get onto higher places, be careful with this one!!
Float: As a bee, you can fall slower than normal people by using the secondary key. You can combine this with your Hover ability and maybe.. fly??

Neutral Ability:

Mithridatism: bees are immune to poison, but also to strength effects. That's.. interesting isn't it?

Negative Ability:

Vegetarian: bees aren't exactly known for their ability to hunt animals. So yeah, they're vegetarian.
Sixty days left: bees aren't very sturdy either, you have less hearts. (8 hearts)

Mermaid

Difficulty: neutral

Description:
A mermaid comes straight out of a fairy tale. They are exactly what you expect and are species that are mainly water based. Does that mean they have to live under water? Definitely not.

Positive abilities:

Aqua Breath: the ability to breathe under water.
Swim speed: you are speedy under water!
Like water: you don't sink in water, so you don't have to keep holding your [SPACE] bar.

Neutral abilities:

None

Negative abilities:

Water worker: you're used to being in water so you're better off staying there. During the day you'll get a small bit of weakness which may be a bit annoying at times.
Dehydrated: Entering the nether means you might cook! Make sure the cat isn't nearby then! Drink water before you take damage from being dehydrated!

Salamander

Difficulty: neutral

Description:

Dragons. But actually not. Salamanders are nowhere near dragons. But in this world, they're kind of the same. With the.. fire and whatnot.

Positive Ability:

Natural armour: you have sturdy skin that gives you a little bit of protection.
Fire immunity: as the name suggests, you're immune to fire.
Dragon breath: you might not really be a dragon but you can still breathe fire! A lot of it. This is a powerful ability but can only be used till your bar runs out. To replenish it you have to be in lava.

Neutral Ability:

None

Negative Ability:

Scales: you can't wear diamond armor, or anything stronger than that.
Heavy weight: you're slower than most people because of your heavy scaled body

Creator and credits

The Origin mod for fabric can be found: here
The original forge creator of this mod is: this amazing person