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Dev Journal #2 - Skills and Mining Skill Reveal

Dev Journal #2 - Skills and Mining Skill Reveal

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Skills - PartyRealms is now an RPG?

We have added a skill system to PartyRealms. Various tasks will now earn experience which will progress you toward becoming better at that task. Benefits vary by skill, including both passive buffs and active abilities that can be toggled.

The intention is to reward you for doing a task by making you better at it. Gone are the days of earning a perk just by purchasing it with in-game currency. Now you must work for it! There are currently 10 skills with plans to add more. These are not limited to things that you can do in vanilla Minecraft, as you'll soon learn with the Artisan Skill which will be revealed in a later dev journal.

Levelling skills will involve doing the tasks involved with that skill. Levels are earned quickly at first but will become more difficult as you progress up to level 99. It is fully intended to take a long time to reach level 99 in any skill as that would mean you have mastered that skill entirely. The skills interface can be opened by doing /skills.

Screenshot of the skill interface.

Mining Skill Reveal

The first skill to be revealed is the Mining Skill and this section will also highlight the skill interface. Mining experience is earned by mining ores with a pickaxe. From the skills interface you can see a brief summary of your level, experience, and how much more experience you must earn for the next level.

Screenshot of the skills interface with the Mining Skill highlighted.

Clicking the Mining Skill button will open the Mining Skill interface which will further explain the skill and allow you to see your passive abilities, active abilities, and the leaderboard for that skill.

Screenshot of the Mining Skill interface.

Hovering over the first button will show the same information as before: your current level, your current experience, the experience required for the next level, and additionally how to gain experience in that skill.

Screenshot of the Mining Skill interface with the Mining Level highlighted.

Hovering over the second button will show any passive buffs you can gain with that skill, your current passive buff, and a description of that passive buff. Some skills have multiple passive buffs.

Screenshot of the Mining Skill interface with the Mining Passive Bonuses highlighted.

Clicking the third button will open the unlocks and active abilities with that skill.

Screenshot of the Mining Skill interface with the Mining Unlocks highlighted.

The unlocks and active abilities interface will show you all the unlocks and active abilities including their description, unlock status, level requirement. Once unlocked some abilities can be toggled in this interface.

Screenshot of the Mining Unlocks interface with the Silk Touch ability highlighted.

Back to the skill interface, hovering over the fourth and final button will show the leaderboard for that skill.

Screenshot of the Mining Skill interface with the Mining Leaderboard highlighted.

Clicking that fourth button will open the leaderboard for that skill. This will show the top 54 players in that skill as well as more on the following pages. From here, you can see yourself as well as the most skilled players on the server in that particular skill. Clearly you can see below that I am slacking and need to get back on top.

Screenshot of the Top Mining interface with the player's position highlighted.

Closing Remarks

The remaining skills will be revealed in future developer journals. The focus of this developer journal was to display the entire skill system and show how it can be used.

Thank you for making it this far and continuing to be a supporter of the server while we are in development. I am excited to share the content with you and even more excited for the upcoming release for you to once again enjoy your time on PartyRealms.