PlayerEx: Directors Cut

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The 4.0.0+ PlayerEX Screen

🧬 What Is PlayerEX: Director’s Cut?

PlayerEX: Director’s Cut is a fundamentally rewritten and expanded version of CleverNucleus’ PlayerEx.

It adds:

• An RPG-style leveling system for players
• A full suite of custom attributes (offense, defense, utility, magic, etc.)
• Skill points & refund points with a dedicated screen
• And now: weapon & armor leveling, letting your gear gain experience and power over time

All of this is powered by Data Attributes: Director’s Cut, making PlayerEX highly configurable and extremely modpack-friendly.

🔢 By default, PlayerEX DC uses a level cap of 100.
This cap can be fully adjusted via Data Attributes and the config.

🎮 Core Features

📈 Player Leveling & Attributes

• Earn experience and levels beyond vanilla’s enchantment system.
• Spend skill points in a clean, modern GUI (default hotkey: <kbd>-</kbd>).
• Customize:
  • How many points you gain per level
  • Which attributes are available
  • How strong each attribute is per point

Attributes are defined & modified via Data Attributes DC, meaning:

• You can target any attribute, from base damage to custom modded stats.
• You can create complex formulas instead of static bonuses.
• Everything is data-driven, not hardcoded.

🛡️⚔️ Armor & Weapon Leveling

PlayerEX now also supports gear progression:

• Weapons can gain XP from combat (kills, damage dealt, etc., depending on config).
• Armor can gain XP from damage taken, blocking, or other events.
• Each item can level up and gain:
  • Attribute bonuses
  • Scaling effects (e.g. more damage, more defense, etc.)
  • Pack-defined perks via Data Attributes

This system is:

• Optional – you can disable it entirely or per-item.
• Configurable – control XP rates, max levels, and how impactful leveling is.
• Modpack-oriented – designed so you can build “ARPG-style” progression (Diablo/PoE/MMO vibes) on top of vanilla or other combat overhauls.

🧩 The PlayerEX Screen

The PlayerEX screen provides:

• A non-intrusive, modern UI built with owo-lib.
• Sections for:
  • Current level, XP bar, and next level info
  • Attributes and their descriptions
  • Skill points / refund points
• Fully extendable by other mods (e.g. WizardEX, RelicEX, EXHud) using PlayerEX’s APIs.

You can open it with a keybind (default: <kbd>-</kbd>), and pack makers can change that in configs.

📦 Companion Mods (The “EX” Family)

These are complementary but optional:

• EXHud: Director’s Cut
  An opinionated, highly configurable HUD for PlayerEX and other systems

  • Custom bars and overlays for PlayerEX attributes
  • Compatibility with Thermoo, AppleSkin, and more

• RelicEX: Director’s Cut
  An ARPG-style loot system for PlayerEX

  • Randomized relics dropped from mobs and chests
  • Rarities, weighted attributes, tomes, refund orbs, Dragon Stone level resets

• WizardEX: Director’s Cut
  A bridge between PlayerEX and Wizards / Spell Power Attributes

  • Lets you tie magic scaling directly into PlayerEX attributes and gear progression

📚 Documentation

Full documentation, including:

• Attribute reference
• Config options
• Integration guides
• Modpack tips and best practices

…can be found here:

👉 https://bareminimumstudios.github.io/Bare-Minimum-Docs/

🛠️ For Modpack Authors

PlayerEX: DC is built as a toolbox for RPG packs. You can:

• Define your own attribute set or extend the default ones.
• Control:
  • XP curve and level cap (default is 100)
  • Skill point and refund point gains
  • How expensive respecs are

Enable and tune weapon & armor leveling:

• Set max gear level
• Control XP gain sources and rates
• Attach attribute scaling or custom effects per gear level

Paired with Data Attributes DC, you get JSON-driven control over almost every number in the system.

👨‍💻 For Developers

You’re the fun ones.

PlayerEX DC exposes:

• A registry-based way to define and modify attributes, including custom ones.
• The ability to override any registered attribute safely.
• APIs to apply attributes to any LivingEntity, not just players.
• Hooks for screens and overlays using owo-lib.
• Integration points for:
  • Custom skills and trees
  • External XP sources
  • Your own gear/level systems that plug into PlayerEX data

More technical details and examples are provided in the docs and on the GitHub repository.

🪨 Forge Users

Yes, we see you.

There is no planned official Forge port of PlayerEX: Director’s Cut.
Forge builds will not be developed or supported.

If you really want to try it on a Forge environment, you may be able to run it via Sinytra Connector:

⚠️ This is entirely at your own risk.
There is no guarantee it will work correctly, and support cannot be provided for Connector-based setups.

🙌 Contributors

The People Who Made This A Reality

• The studio – Bare Minimum Studios
• The wispforest team 💖 – for owo-lib and general ecosystem magic
• One guy’s modpack – you know who you are
• Literally YOU – testers, packmakers, bug reporters, chaos gremlins
• And most importantly, CleverNucleus – creator of the original PlayerEx

Translators (legacy, <= 3.*)

• gyular – Korean
• Hertz – Spanish
• MrTYZzik – Russian
• Orygeunik – Russian improvements
• NianGuu – Simplified Chinese
• sky_bai – Simplified Chinese (older releases)

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