AscensionShadows

Features

• Extraction from dungeon and wild kills (C-Rank+)
• Shadow army storage, summon, recall, rename
• Archetypes: 40+ gate mobs — Ant King, goblins, golems (Granite Sentinel), drakes, void legion, monarchs (Dragon Monarch, Kamish), etc.
• V2 ModelEngine pipeline — shadow + wild blueprint pairs (v2/custom, v2/downloaded, manifest)
• Bond levels and combat AI
• ModelEngine locomotion — idle / walk / fly / attack / breathfire per archetype
• Mount & fire breath — rideable drakes and dragons (shadow-archetypes.yml → abilities)
• Themed vanilla sounds — attack / hurt / death / summon keyed by particle-profile
• Showcase mobs — persistent display models with click/proximity actions, patrol routes, and looped animations (/shadows admin display)
• Shadow Exchange skill integration
• WorldGuard/Towny region rules (optional)

Bond levels

Each shadow has its own bond level (1 → 100). It is the only way a stored shadow gets stronger, and it levels up on its own — there is nothing to spend.

Earning bond XP

A shadow earns XP when you land the killing blow on a mob while that shadow is summoned and within 24 blocks of the victim:

• +25 XP per mob kill, +120 XP for a boss (any mob with over 100 max health).
• Kills made by the shadow don't count — the kill must be yours.
• Every summoned shadow in range earns the full amount; the XP is not split across your army.

Reaching the next level costs 50 + 22 × current level XP, so level 1→2 is 72 XP (about three kills) and 99→100 is 2,228 XP. A shadow taken from 1 to 100 has absorbed 113,850 XP — roughly 4,550 mob kills, or ~950 boss kills.

What a level gives

Health, attack damage and movement speed all scale with bond level. The growth budget is (level - 1) × 0.008, capping at +79.2% at bond 100. That budget is then multiplied by the archetype's growth values, so the same level is worth very different amounts depending on what you extracted:

Movement speed is separate and linear: archetypes that define base-movement-speed gain movement-speed-per-level each level (a Goblin Scout climbs from 0.32 to ~0.57 at the cap). Archetypes without those keys — Dire Lycan, Illidan, Abyssal Warlord, Void Commander — get no speed from bond at all.

The final numbers also include your origin tier (the rank the shadow was extracted at) and per-rank minimums, so an S-Rank extraction of the same archetype always out-stats an E-Rank one at the same bond level.

Seeing it in game

Open /shadows → click a shadow → the Bond & Growth panel shows the exact health, damage and speed the shadow has now, what the next level adds, the fully-bonded projection, and the XP still to go. The army card and /shadows stats show bond, health, damage and Power % at a glance.

Dependencies

Blueprints ship inside the JAR and copy to plugins/ModelEngine/blueprints/ on enable.

Key files

Wild models power AscensionGates themed dungeon families (gates.yml → dungeon-families).

Related docs

• Shadow commands
• Shadow permissions
• Gates plugin — themed dungeons use wild archetypes