Primary Abilities

Primaries are the abilities you choose. Craft a primary's ability item (recipes are on the Crafting page and in the in-game codex) and right-click it to bind it. If you already had a primary bound, the old one is returned to you as an item. You can unbind at any time from the ability menu (a two-click confirm) to get the item back.

Primaries level up to level 5 through PvP kills; each level shortens the cooldown and strengthens the effects. There is also an optional hardcore setting in abilities.yml (drop-on-death, off by default): when enabled, dying unbinds your primary and drops its item.

Each ability below has one passive and one active, nothing more. You equip a single primary at a time (alongside your secondary), so across both slots you carry two passives and two actives in total.

Every number below is a default. Exact cooldowns, damage, and ranges live in abilities.yml and can be tuned freely; see Balance. New to abilities? Start with How Abilities Work.

• Passive: permanent Strength II.
• Active: suspend every player in a cone in front of you (5 blocks deep by default, longer at higher levels) and drain their health. Victims hang in the air for a few seconds while taking damage every second.
• Cooldown: 300 seconds by default.

• Passive: Speed II and permanent Glowing. You are fast, but everyone can see where you are.
• Active: briefly phase into a tethered spectator scout. For a few seconds (4 by default) you roam free of your body, up to a set distance from where you cast (10 blocks by default), then you are returned to a safe spot.
• Cooldown: 300 seconds by default.

• Passive: none. Flame is purely an active power.
• Active: conjure a fireball a few blocks above your head. After a short fuse it detonates, damaging players in the blast (6 block radius and 8 damage by default, both stronger at higher levels) and setting them on fire for a few seconds.
• Cooldown: 300 seconds by default.

• Passive: bonus melee reach (half a block by default), and every 10th melee hit summons lightning on your target.
• Active: a charged window (20 seconds by default, longer at higher levels) where lightning comes much more often: every 4th melee hit on a player triggers a strike that deals bonus damage (4 extra by default, more at higher levels).
• Cooldown: 300 seconds by default.

• Passive: a larger health pool (15 hearts by default) plus a chance to heal a little every time you land a melee hit (20% chance by default).
• Active: surge to a huge health pool for a while (20 hearts for 60 seconds by default, longer at higher levels), with a much better heal-on-hit chance (50% by default).
• Cooldown: 300 seconds by default.

• Passive: you thrive on rotten flesh and sicken on normal food. Eating rotten flesh grants Absorption II and Regeneration II for a while; eating any other food gives you short Poison I and Hunger I instead.
• Active: raise a horde of allied zombies (6 by default, lasting 30 seconds; longer at higher levels) and give nearby players Nausea (within 6 blocks by default).
• Cooldown: 300 seconds by default.