Runic Races

Minecraft 版本： 1.20.1

平台： forge

标签： game-mechanics magic

Runic Races

A flagship Origins add-on for the Runecraft modpack. 37 deeply designed races across 7 families, each with exactly one active ability, one passive strength, and one weakness — plus environmental interactions and deep integration with Runecraft's mod ecosystem. Pick a family first, then a race within it. With Pehkui installed, each race also has its own height (0.45–1.30), clustered by family so a party reads at a glance.

Minecraft 1.20.1 | Forge | Requires Origins Forge

Races

Human (4) — adaptable generalists

Elven (5) — arcane grace, frail bodies

Dwarven (6) — tough, subterranean

Bestial (6) — sharp senses, predatory

Faeborne (5) — magic, illusion, often winged

Undead (5) — undeath immunities, night power

Draconic (6) — elemental breath, scales, flight

Mod Integrations

All integrations are optional and config-toggleable. If a mod is absent, its features are silently skipped.

Installation

1. Requires Origins Forge (1.10.0.9+) installed in the modpack
2. Drop runic_races-1.1.0.jar into the mods/ folder
3. Remove the old KubeJS Runic Races datapack if present (kubejs/data/runic_races/)
4. Existing players with preserved race names will keep their selection

Configuration

Config files are generated in config/runic_races/:

• runic_races-server.toml — Integration toggles, resource gating posture (failClosedWhenResourceModMissing defaults to true for predictable standalone play; flip to false inside a pack that guarantees Iron's Spellbooks / Feather's are present).
• runic_races-client.toml — Racial HUD (anchor, offset, scale, opacity, minimal mode, ability names, ready glow), ambient state effects (passive state particles, screen cues), and state-rune pulse.
• runic_races-common.toml — Debug logging; disableDefaultOriginLayer (see Origins Compatibility below).

Origins Compatibility

By default Runic Races shows only its two-layer Family → Race selection and hides the
vanilla origins:origin layer — which is where most other Origins add-ons register their
origins, so they don't appear.

Let other origin mods coexist

Set disableDefaultOriginLayer = false in runic_races-common.toml. Other add-ons' origins
then reappear as the standard Origins screen alongside Family/Race. This is shipped as a built-in
datapack toggled by the config, so the change is read at world load — quit to title and rejoin
(or restart the server) for it to take effect; /reload alone won't pick it up.

Add origins into a Runic Races family

Origins merges layer membership across datapacks, so a datapack can append origins (from any mod,
or your own) into a family's race list with "replace": false. See the ready-to-edit template at
examples/datapacks/runic_races_extra_races/.
Note: an injected foreign origin keeps its own powers but isn't treated as a native race (no Runic
Races HUD/notifications/scale/Curios slots).

Keybinds

Runic Races adds a Runic Races category to the vanilla Controls screen:

• Flap Wings (unbound by default) — while gliding, press to flap upward.
• Fold Wings (unbound by default) — while gliding, press to cancel the glide.

If you leave both unbound, the legacy fallback stays active: while gliding, press Jump to flap and double-tap Jump within 4 ticks to fold your wings.

Commands

• /runicraces info [player] — Show selected race
• /runicraces list — List all 37 races by family
• /runicraces debug — Show current attribute values

Design Philosophy

• Race = what you ARE (permanent identity, not progression)
• Racial traits are static and don't scale — prevents competing with Skills/Gods
• Drawbacks pass the "of course" test — every penalty is narratively justified
• Integration through affinity, not gating — race makes paths easier, never blocks them
• Every race changes how you play, not just how well you play

Building

# Place the compile-only dependency jars in Dependencies/ (gitignored), then:
./gradlew build
# Output: build/libs/runic_races-1.1.0.jar

Required: origins-forge, apoli-forge, calio-forge. Apoli and Calio ship inside
the Origins -all jar under META-INF/jarjar/ — extract them:
unzip -o -j Dependencies/origins-forge-*-all.jar 'META-INF/jarjar/apoli-forge-*.jar' 'META-INF/jarjar/calio-forge-*.jar' -d Dependencies/.

Optional (only needed to compile their integration classes): ars_nouveau, irons_spellbooks,
curios (local jars from Modrinth). Apotheosis, Pehkui, and Feathers resolve from
Maven automatically (CurseMaven / Modrinth) — no local jar needed.