Dungeons Essence
by PinkOmega
Dungeons Essence brings a set of Minecraft Dungeons-style combat stats, armor penetration and critical strikes into Minecraft Vanilla for Fabric, with its own weapons and a custom RPG HUD.
What it does
The mod adds combat statistics to a vanilla world: attack damage, attack speed, armor and magic resistance, penetration and lethality, critical chance and critical damage. A HUD shows the exact damage output of the weapon in hand, switching between melee and ranged values, and it calculates the percentage of physical damage that the custom RPG armor absorbs. The vanilla health and hunger bars are swapped out for a custom RPG-style HUD, and overlay mods like AppleSkin still display on top of that layout.
The mod is aimed at players who want Minecraft Dungeons content and mechanics in a Minecraft Vanilla world. Percentage-based armor penetration ignores part of a target's total armor, which suits heavily armored bosses, while flat magic lethality subtracts a fixed amount of magic resistance. Dungeons Essence requires Cloth Config API, Combat Roll, Fabric API and Geckolib, and the optional Better Combat and Better Combat Particle mods can be added. The mod runs on Fabric and is published for 1.21 – 1.21.1, with 1.2.1-BETA for 1.21 as the latest file, under All rights reserved.
Key features
Stat display HUD
Shows exact attack damage, attack speed and the physical damage mitigated by armor, and swaps between melee and ranged values by main-hand weapon.
Armor and magic penetration
Percentage-based physical armor negation and flat or percentage magic resistance negation, applied to attacks against targets.
Critical strikes
Critical chance sets the probability that melee and ranged attacks land a critical strike, and critical damage multiplies the damage of a successful crit, so 1.5x adds 50 percent.
New weapons and armor
A weapons arsenal and three armor sets are included, though the armor sets are described by the author as testing versions.
Gallery
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 4
Optional 2
How it compares
Dungeons Essence is a Fabric mod for 1.21 – 1.21.1 that is client and server and not open source. Hextech Armory is also Fabric, client and server, open source under the Apache License 2.0, and built for 1.21.4. Armor HUD Percentages is Fabric and client-side only, open source under the MIT License, with files for 1.21 – 26.2. Give me back my XP! is Fabric and server-side only, open source under the MIT License, and covers 1.21.4 – 1.21.5.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dungeons Essence | Fabric | 1.21 – 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2026-04-07 |
| Hextech Armory | Fabric | 1.21.4 | Client and server | 2025-05-31 |
| Armor HUD Percentages | Fabric | 1.21 – 26.2 | Client-side only | 2026-06-27 |
| Give me back my XP! | Fabric | 1.21.4 – 1.21.5 | Server-side only | 2025-04-13 |
Questions
Does Dungeons Essence need Fabric API?
Does the server need Dungeons Essence?
Which versions does Dungeons Essence support?
In the catalog
Dungeons Essence is one of 7,216 Magic mods on ModsFinder, and one of 3,630 Magic mods for Fabric. 32,366 mods support Minecraft 1.21.1.
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What the author says
This mod aims to introduce a Minecraft Dungeons content experience into Minecraft Vanilla, bringing new combat mechanics, gear, and RPG elements straight to your world! ⚠️ Note: At the moment i just added 3 sets of armors, only for testing, all of them are functional.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/dungeons-essence
- Owner
- PinkOmega
- Published
- 2026-03-10
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-04-07
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15