Skilltree Ascension

Quickstart

1. Craft the Skilltree Ascension tome:

1. Use the tome to open the Skill Tree: Path to Ascension. Choose Ranger, Swordsman, or Shapeshifter before unlocking your first node.
2. Select Unlock next upgrade to spend one experience level and advance to the next node. Creative-mode players do not spend levels.
3. Try your class reward:
   • Ranger receives the Ranger's Windstep Charm.
   • Swordsman receives the Massive Ascendant Sword. It becomes usable at the final Swordsman milestone.
   • Shapeshifter claims the world's unique Chimera Head Crown, if it has not already been claimed.
4. Defeat mobs to find Mob Heads. Equip the Chimera Crown, then use a Mob Head to infuse it. You can hold up to three different heads.
5. Press C while wearing the crown to activate the first infused head's power. Right-click the crown normally to open its head collection screen, or sneak-right-click it to empty the crown.

Overview

Skilltree Ascension is a class progression and creature-power mod. The tome contains 80 upgrades divided into four 20-node sections:

• Foundation
• Discipline
• Mastery
• Ascension

Every eighth upgrade grants a named ability. Your chosen class determines the passive bonuses, milestone abilities, and special item rewards you receive.

The mod also adds collectible mob identities, a three-slot Chimera Crown, active Mob Relics, an Alchemy Altar, reincarnated companions, and an Ender Dragon Hoverboard.

What It Adds

How To Use

The skill tree

Use the tome to open the skill tree interface. The screen shows your current class, progress, all four paths, and the next available node.

• Each node must be unlocked in order.
• Each normal unlock costs one experience level.
• Your class becomes locked after your first upgrade.
• If you unlock a node without selecting a class, Ranger is chosen automatically.
• The tree is complete after all 80 upgrades are unlocked.

Every node grants a passive improvement. The passive profile becomes stronger as you move through Foundation, Discipline, Mastery, and Ascension.

Class paths

At each eighth node, the tree grants another class ability and displays an ability item or milestone notification.

Class abilities

The class abilities also provide recurring effects as you progress:

• Ranger: alternating milestones grant Invisibility and Dolphin's Grace.
• Swordsman: alternating milestones grant Fire Resistance and Absorption.
• Shapeshifter: alternating milestones grant Water Breathing and Haste.

Crafting And Obtaining

Mob Heads

When a living mob dies, it has a chance to drop a Mob Head representing its identity. Normal drop chances include:

• 15%: Warden, Ravager, or Evoker
• 3%: Enderman, Blaze, or Elder Guardian
• 8%: Other hostile mobs
• 5%: Other living mobs

The Wither and Ender Dragon each provide a guaranteed boss head the first time that boss is defeated in the world. Each boss head can only be claimed once per world.

Chimera Crown

The Chimera Crown is the Shapeshifter's signature item and is limited to one per world. It functions as a helmet and can hold up to three different mob heads.

To infuse it:

1. Equip the crown in your helmet slot.
2. Use a Mob Head from your inventory.
3. The head is consumed and its identity is added to the crown.
4. A matching Mob Relic is placed in your inventory.

You can also right-click the crown without sneaking to open the Chimera Head Collection screen. Click an available head in the screen to infuse it directly from your inventory.

Removing an infused head removes its associated relic. Normal infusions are lost when the crown is unequipped. Boss infusions return as boss heads when removed or when the crown is emptied.

Alchemy Altar

Place and use an Alchemy Altar to open its ritual interface. It contains a 3×3 ritual grid and two catalyst slots.

For a basic reincarnation ritual:

1. Place at least five identical vanilla mob head or skull items anywhere in the altar's eleven ingredient slots.
2. Close the altar interface.
3. If all ingredients match and the ritual contains enough items, the altar forms a Reincarnation Wand.

Special mappings include:

• Dragon Heads create an Ender Dragon companion wand.
• Wither Skeleton Skulls create a Wither companion wand.
• Other supported mob heads and skulls create a companion matching the item.

Invalid or incomplete rituals return their ingredients when the altar is closed.

Abilities And Mechanics

Class items

Ranger's Windstep Charm

Use the charm to gain:

• Speed III for 12 seconds
• Night Vision for 12 seconds

The charm has a short cooldown and is available as soon as the Ranger class is selected.

Massive Ascendant Sword

Use the sword to unleash a clearing slash up to 30 blocks ahead. It removes a three-block-high, three-block-wide path and leaves bedrock and End Portal Frames intact.

The sword is locked until the Swordsman reaches the tenth ability milestone.

Chimera Crown

The crown's passive powers remain active while it is worn. Press C to activate the first head in the crown's infusion order. Each head has its own cooldown and active behavior.

The crown also produces visual particles matching its infused identities.

Crown powers

Additional identities can provide smaller passive effects, including Jump Boost, Water Breathing, Slow Falling, Resistance, or Night Vision. The crown collection screen tracks the mob identities you have discovered and those currently infused.

Mob Relics

Infusing a head into the crown creates a matching Mob Relic. Use a relic normally to activate its creature power without using the crown's C key.

Notable relics include:

• Warden Viola: Releases the Warden sonic shriek.
• Wither Relic: Launches a charged Wither Skull.
• Ender Dragon Relic: Spawns the Ender Dragon Hoverboard.
• Other relics briefly apply or trigger the passive power of their matching identity.

Relics are single-use-per-activation items with a cooldown. Their effects correspond to the head identity used to create them.

Ender Dragon Hoverboard

Use the Ender Dragon Relic to spawn the hoverboard beneath you. The board supports one rider.

• Right-click the board to mount it.
• Use forward, backward, left, and right movement to steer.
• The board skims above the ground and automatically follows the terrain height.
• Sprint to dismount after the brief mounting grace period.
• Sneak while damaging the board to remove it and recover the hoverboard item.

Reincarnation Wand

Use a filled Reincarnation Wand to summon its stored mob beside you. The companion is persistent, follows your fights, and returns toward you if it gets too far away.

Use the wand again while the companion is nearby to recall it into the wand. Recalled companions do not produce normal mob drops.

Progression And Strategy

• Choose your class carefully: the first unlocked node permanently locks the choice.
• Keep at least one experience level available before opening the tome's unlock control.
• Ranger is ideal for exploration and mobility; Swordsman is suited to combat and terrain clearing; Shapeshifter is strongest when collecting and combining creature powers.
• Infuse the crown with complementary heads. For example, Drowned supports underwater travel, Enderman provides mobility, and Skeleton improves ranged attacks.
• The first infused head controls the crown's C ability, so plan the infusion order around the power you want immediately available.
• Keep the crown equipped while using ordinary infusions. Removing it consumes normal infusions, while Wither and Ender Dragon infusions can be recovered as boss heads.
• Use Mob Relics when you want a creature power without changing the crown's active head.
• Save rare boss heads for permanent crown loadouts or use them to create powerful Wither and Ender Dragon relics.
• The Alchemy Altar is useful for turning repeated head or skull drops into durable combat companions rather than storing them as collectibles.