Ability Menu & Codex

Open the in-game ability menu to check your slots, toggle the HUD, unbind your primary, and browse every ability in the codex.

The ability menu is a chest-style screen that shows everything about your abilities in one place. Open it with:

/sparkgui

/abilities and /amenu do the same thing. Anyone with the default ascend.use permission can open it; see Commands.

Clicking items in this menu never lets you take them out. It is a display, not a real chest.

What the menu shows

The ability menu, a chest-style screen with your head, both ability slots, the shard info, the codex button, and a close button
The ability menu

Hover any item to read its details. Here is each part of the menu:

Your information

Your head shows your equipped secondary and primary plus your lifetime kills and deaths.

Tooltip on the player head showing equipped abilities, kills, and deaths
The player head tooltip

Secondary slot

Lists your secondary's passive, active, and level, with a live status: green Ready, or a red Cooldown with the time left.

Tooltip on the secondary slot showing passive, active, level, and status
The secondary slot tooltip

Primary slot

Same layout as the secondary slot. If you have no primary yet, the slot shows as empty.

Tooltip on the primary slot showing passive, active, level, and status
The primary slot tooltip

Ability Shard info

A reminder that you reroll your secondary by using an Ability Shard in the world, not from this menu. See Crafting & Binding.

Tooltip on the Ability Shard item explaining the reroll
The Ability Shard tooltip

HUD toggle

Turns your on-screen ability bar off and on. The button label updates to show the current state. More on the bar itself in The HUD.

Tooltip on the HUD toggle button
The HUD toggle tooltip

Unbind Primary

Click it twice: the first click asks you to confirm, the second unbinds your primary and returns its item to your inventory. If you have no primary, it tells you so. Event abilities cannot be unbound here; an admin removes those with a command.

Tooltip on the Unbind Primary button explaining the two-click confirm
The Unbind Primary tooltip

Ability Codex button

Opens the codex described below. There is also a close button at the bottom of the menu.

Tooltip on the Ability Codex button
The Ability Codex button tooltip

The Ability Codex

The codex is a paginated list of every ability in the plugin, including event abilities. Use the arrow buttons to change pages and the back button to return to the main menu.

The Ability Codex menu listing abilities with paging buttons
The Ability Codex

Each entry shows:

  • Which slot the ability belongs to (secondary or primary).
  • Its passive perk and active power.
  • For craftable primaries, a visual recipe preview laid out like a crafting grid, with a legend naming each ingredient. Abilities that cannot be crafted say so: they are granted or rerolled instead.
Browsing codex entries and reading their tooltips
Browsing the codex entries
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The codex always reflects your server's current recipes, so if the owner customized `recipes.yml`, this is the quickest place to see what to craft. See [Custom recipes](/docs/custom-recipes/).