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.

Abilities that cost an optional mod's resource degrade gracefully when that mod is absent — the shipped powers wrap their gates with runic_races:resource_available, so (for example) the Magi's Arcane Overflow is cooldown-only on a standalone install instead of silently dead.

Installation

1. Requires Origins Forge (1.10.0.9+) installed in the modpack
2. Drop runic_races-1.6.0.jar into the mods/ folder (required on both client and server)
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. If that happens, the server log warns at startup with the full list of hidden origins and the config remedy, so the overlap is never silent.

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.

Flaps only work mid-glide (the server rejects anything else), and with Feather's Mod installed each flap spends feathers — exhausted wings refuse with a red banner until you recover.

Breath weapons are physical cones: they deliberately hit neutral and passive mobs (aim discipline is the counterplay) but never teammates, PvP-protected players, or anyone's pets.

Commands

• /runicraces info [player] — Show selected race
• /runicraces list — List all 37 races by family
• /runicraces debug — Show current attribute values
• /runicraces validate — (op) Cross-check the race registry against loaded origins/powers — run after editing datapacks
• /runicraces state <player> — (op) Dump a player's effective race state (flags, cooldowns, adaptation stacks)

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-1.6.0.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.

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.