Andromeda Origins

Andromeda Origins is a custom collection of playable Origins built for Minecraft 1.21.1 using the Origins and Apoli frameworks.

The mod introduces 13 custom Origins, each designed around a distinct fantasy species with their own abilities, weaknesses, passive traits, dietary requirements, and playstyles.

Originally created for the Andromeda Minecraft server, the mod is packaged as a standalone Fabric mod for easier installation, updating, and compatibility management.

✦ Available Origins

🕷 Arachne

Swift, silk-bound hunters that specialize in webs, mobility, poison, and controlling their prey.

🧚 Faerie

Small magical beings capable of supernatural movement, trickery, and magical abilities.

🐺 Fenrkin

Descendants of legendary dire wolves. Powerful hunters built around tracking, pursuit, and aggressive melee combat.

Diet: Carnivore

🐍 Gorgon

Ophidian beings capable of intimidating, restraining, and even carrying other creatures.

Their abilities revolve around controlling opponents and using their serpentine strength in close combat.

🧍 Humanity

Those who remain wholly human possess determination and resilience beyond what their seemingly ordinary nature would suggest.

☠ Lichling

Undying creatures with powerful supernatural abilities and an affinity for death itself.

🦂 Manticore

Feral hybrid creatures born for direct combat, possessing venomous attacks, enhanced strength, and incredible durability.

Diet: Carnivore

🌊 Nereid

Aquatic beings strongly connected to water, gaining significant advantages while submerged or near aquatic environments.

🐐 Satyr

Agile creatures capable of powerful leaps, charges, and other movement-focused abilities.

🦭 Selkie

Water-bound creatures capable of thriving beneath the waves while still retaining the ability to venture onto land.

🎵 Siren

Aquatic beings capable of manipulating and debilitating others through their supernatural voice.

✦ Veilborn

Mysterious beings touched by forces beyond ordinary reality, possessing abilities centered around the Veil and supernatural manipulation.

🐉 Wyverian

Draconic beings possessing powerful aerial mobility and abilities inspired by dragons and wyverns.

✦ Custom Origin Icons

Every Origin includes its own 64×64 custom selection icon.

Rather than replacing vanilla items using Custom Model Data, Andromeda Origins registers dedicated internal icon items for each Origin.

This means vanilla item textures are left untouched and the icons can safely coexist with other resource packs.

✦ Dietary System

Several Origins have biological dietary restrictions rather than simply being able to eat every food item.

Andromeda Origins includes expanded food classifications for both vanilla and modded foods.

Supported classifications include:

Carnivore
Vegetarian
Pescatarian
Ketogenic
Organic
Raw food
Meat
Vegan
Diet-exempt foods

The system contains classifications for hundreds of modded foods.

Drinks and other items that should not reasonably be restricted by an Origin's diet can also be excluded from dietary checks.

✦ Dietary Delights Compatibility

Andromeda Origins includes built-in compatibility with Dietary Delights.

Foods classified by the mod use both Origins and Dietary Delights tags where appropriate, including:

origins:meat
origins:organic
origins:pescatarian
origins:ketogenic

dietary_delights:meat
dietary_delights:organic
dietary_delights:pescatarian
dietary_delights:ketogenic
dietary_delights:vegetarian
dietary_delights:vegan

This allows supported foods to behave consistently between the two systems.

✦ Expanded Iron Weakness Compatibility

Origins affected by iron have support for significantly more than vanilla iron equipment.

Andromeda Origins includes an expanded collection of iron-containing items from numerous supported mods, allowing iron weaknesses to interact with:

Weapons
Armor
Tools
Shields
Decorative iron objects
Modded iron equipment
Other items containing or representing iron

Optional modded items are handled safely so missing compatibility mods do not prevent the mod from loading.

✦ Native Minecraft Scaling

Andromeda Origins uses Minecraft's native entity scaling attributes rather than requiring Pehkui for Origin size changes.

This includes:

minecraft:generic.scale
minecraft:generic.step_height

Using native attributes reduces additional dependencies and avoids rendering problems associated with external entity scaling.

Origins can therefore naturally be smaller or larger while retaining their intended gameplay characteristics.

✦ Ability Toggles

Certain passive movement abilities can be toggled when necessary.

This includes features such as increased step height, allowing affected Origins to crouch normally near block edges when the ability is disabled.

Requirements

Minecraft: 1.21.1

Mod Loader: Fabric

Required

Fabric Loader
Fabric API
Origins
Apoli

Optional Compatibility

Dietary Delights
Supported food and equipment mods

Not every compatibility mod is required. Optional item entries are designed so missing mods do not prevent Andromeda Origins from loading.

Compatibility

Andromeda Origins was designed for a heavily modded environment and contains compatibility data for a variety of food, equipment, and content mods.

Compatibility will continue to be expanded as the mod develops.

If an unsupported food or iron-containing item is discovered, it may simply require an additional item tag entry.

Andromeda

Andromeda Origins was created as the custom Origin system for the Andromeda Minecraft server.

The project is intended to provide fantasy species that feel mechanically distinct while supporting roleplay, exploration, cooperation, and multiplayer interaction.

Current Origin Count

13 Origins

Arachne • Faerie • Fenrkin • Gorgon • Humanity • Lichling • Manticore • Nereid • Satyr • Selkie • Siren • Veilborn • Wyverian