RPG Leveling

Player levels, spendable stat points, and level-scaled mobs — fully data-driven for modpack makers.

Inspired by PlayerEx, Mine and Slash and RPG attribute systems. Forge 1.20.1.

Features

Player leveling — earn XP from kills, level up, get stat points
Fullscreen stats UI — press K to view level, XP and spend points
Custom stats — Strength, Vitality, Defense, Agility, Luck by default; add your own via JSON, including attributes from other mods
Mob scaling — mob health, damage and armor grow with player level and area level
Rare mobs — Elite and Legendary mobs with random affixes (vampiric, fiery, thorny...), bonus XP and glowing outline
Bosses — fixed levels: Ender Dragon 100, Wither 80, Warden 90 (configurable)
Area levels — minimum mob level per dimension, biome and structure, plus growth with distance from spawn
Datapack mob rules — blacklist, boss levels and multipliers via JSON with entity tag support, live /reload
Anti mob-farm — options to skip mobs from spawners and spawn eggs
Configurable XP curve — formula plus per-level overrides
Shared kill XP — everyone who dealt 20%+ of the mob's max HP gets XP

For players

Kill mobs to gain XP and level up. Press K (rebindable) to open the stats screen and spend points. Refund points or full respec if the server allows it. The HUD shows your level, XP progress and current zone level. Mob names show their level colored by danger, with stars for Elite and Legendary mobs.

For modpack developers

Everything lives in config/rpgleveling/ (four TOML files plus stats.json) and in datapacks. No code, no rebuilds.

Custom stats (stats.json)

Stats are data, not code. One stat can drive several attributes, including modded ones:

[
  {
    "id": "spell_power",
    "name": "Arcane",
    "maxPoints": 50,
    "modifiers": [
      { "attribute": "irons_spellbooks:spell_power", "perPoint": 0.02, "operation": "MULTIPLY_TOTAL" }
    ]
  }
]

Operations: ADDITION, MULTIPLY_BASE, MULTIPLY_TOTAL. Manage in-game with /rpgstat add, /rpgstat remove, /rpgstat reload (with attribute autocomplete).

XP curve (player.toml)

xpBase = 50.0      # XP needed = xpBase * level ^ xpGrowth
xpGrowth = 1.5
xpLevelOverrides = ["49=250000"]   # optional per-level overrides
pointsPerLevel = 2
statCostIncreaseEvery = 10

Kill XP formula: (xpKillBase + xpPerMobLevel * mobLevel) * rarityMultiplier * dimensionXpMultiplier

Mob scaling (mobs.toml)

Mob level = max(area level, nearest player level) with random variance, clamped by dimension minimum.

globalIntensity = 1.0    # master difficulty knob
healthPerLevel = 0.10    # +10% HP per level
ignoreSpawners = false   # anti mob-farm
ignoreSpawnEggs = false
blocksPerAreaLevel = 500 # +1 area level per 500 blocks from spawn

Elite and Legendary chances, multipliers and the affix pool are in the same file.

Area levels (world.toml)

Build proper RPG zones:

dimensionMinLevels = ["minecraft:the_nether=30", "minecraft:the_end=60"]
biomeMinLevels = ["minecraft:deep_dark=45"]
structureMinLevels = ["minecraft:ancient_city=50"]

Datapack mob rules

Drop JSON files into any datapack at data/<your_namespace>/rpgleveling/mob_rules/:

{
  "blacklist": ["minecraft:villager", "#minecraft:skeletons", "create:*"],
  "boss_levels": { "cataclysm:ender_guardian": 85 },
  "multipliers": { "#minecraft:raiders": 1.5 }
}

Supports exact ids, entity tags (#namespace:tag) and whole namespaces (mod_id:*). Rules merge with the config lists and reload live with /reload.

Commands (op)

/rpglevel get | set | addxp | addpoints | reset <player> — manage player levels
/rpgstat list | add | remove | reload — manage stat definitions
/rpgstat respec <player> — refund all points

Compatibility and performance

Works with any mod's entities and any mod's attributes
Mob data is stored in entity NBT — safe across chunk unloads and restarts
Area-level lookups are cached per chunk section, heavy work happens once per mob spawn
Required on both client and server