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Cinnamon Skills

by Allexio

Cinnamon Skills is a Fabric skill tree for Minecraft 1.20.1 that gives players a set of skill paths built on top of Pufferfish's Skills.

FabricClient and serverCreative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.01.20.1

What it does

Skills are grouped into trees that grow from killing enemies with melee weapons or with ranged weapons. Melee experience governs health, resistance, melee damage and knockback, while ranged experience governs ranged damage, dodge chance and exclusive nodes such as backstab damage. Enemies with more health give more experience, so a fight against a tougher mob moves the tree further than a quick one.

The design aims at a balanced progression: strong abilities come with downsides that have an impact, and the tree stays close to vanilla rather than adding large amounts of new content. The mod works in singleplayer and multiplayer, and its skill tree is integrated with the Cinnamon vanilla-plus modpack, which also includes Create and a selection of mods that add some difficulty to mobs. Installation needs Fabric. Cinnamon Skills is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 license and is not open source.

Key features

  1. Melee skill tree

    Experience from killing enemies with melee weapons raises a tree covering health, resistance, melee damage and knockback.

  2. Ranged skill tree

    Experience from killing enemies with ranged weapons raises a separate tree covering ranged damage, dodge chance and exclusive nodes.

  3. Experience scaled by enemy health

    Enemies with higher health award more experience, which rewards longer fights over trivial kills.

  4. Balanced trade-offs

    Strong abilities are paired with downsides meant to matter in play, so no single path becomes overpowered.

Compatibility

Latest build for each game version and loader.

1.20.11.0.3
ReleaseBetaAlphaNot available

Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.

Requirements

Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.

Required 10

Pufferfish's AttributesA Minecraft mod that adds more attributes to the game.
Required
Zenith AttributesAdds attributes, and an attributes viewer, used for Zenith
Required
Pufferfish's Skills x OriginsCompatibility between Pufferfish's Skills and Origins.
Required
Truly Modular: Modular Item APIThis mod is the API designed for the Truly Modular mods
Required
LootrA mod that makes it so nobody misses out on Loot! All loot chests are instanced per player and visually unique.
Required
OriginsPlayers choose an Origin at the beginning of the game to gain benefits and drawbacks
Required
Spell Power Attributes🔮 Spell Power entity attributes with related status effects and enchantments
Required
Additional Entity AttributesAdds additional attributes for players and other entities, mainly for used in other mods
Required
Combat Roll🧶 Adds combat roll ability, with related attributes and enchantments.
Required
Pufferfish's SkillsAdds a fully configurable skill system to the game.
Required

Optional 1

Wizards (RPG Series)🧙🏻‍♂️ Destroy your enemies with Arcane, Fire and Frost magic
Optional

Use cases

Who it’s for: Players who want a vanilla-friendly skill tree on Fabric for 1.20.1, in singleplayer or on multiplayer servers, and who prefer modest changes to the base game.

How it compares

Full comparison

KJ's Skill Tree is a Fabric skill tree for 1.21.1 that runs client and server and is released under CC0 1.0 Universal, so it targets a different version. Default Skill Trees covers Fabric, Forge and NeoForge for 1.18.2 – 26.2 with a server-required, client-optional environment under CC0 1.0 Universal. Stronger Skill Tree (Unlock All) is also server-required with client optional and uses the MIT License, across 1.18.2 – 26.2 on three loaders.

ModLoadersGame versionsEnvironmentUpdated
Cinnamon SkillsFabric1.20.1Client and server2025-04-03
KJ's Skill TreeFabric1.21.1Client and server2025-06-11
Default Skill TreesFabric, Forge and NeoForge1.18.2 – 26.2Server required, client optional2026-01-11
Stronger Skill Tree (Unlock All)Fabric, Forge and NeoForge1.18.2 – 26.2Server required, client optional2026-08-31

Questions

Does Cinnamon Skills need Pufferfish's Skills installed?

Yes. Pufferfish's Skills and Pufferfish's Skills x Origins are both required dependencies, along with Additional Entity Attributes, Combat Roll, Lootr, Origins, Pufferfish's Attributes, Spell Power Attributes, Truly Modular: Modular Item API and Zenith Attributes.

Must the server have Cinnamon Skills installed?

Servers that run it need every player to install it too. Wizards (RPG Series) is optional.

Which loader does Cinnamon Skills use?

Only Fabric is supported, and the latest Fabric file is 1.0.3 for 1.20.1, published 2025-04-03.

What the author says

Because sometimes vanilla needs a little spice. The goal of this skill tree mod is to provide a relatively well rounded levelling experience that provides a fair amount of progression, whilst remaining fair and relatively vanilla-friendly.
Allexio, on the Modrinth page

Official listing

Owner
Allexio
Published
2024-12-11
Updated on Modrinth
2025-04-03
Facts verified
2026-10-15
Open on ModrinthCompare