Origins

Every player picks an origin, a fantasy race, on first joining. The screen can't be closed until you choose.

Each edition has seven origins. Four are in both.

At a Glance

Size is how big you are compared to a normal player. It changes your model, your hitbox and your eye height.

• At 1.25 and above you crouch through doors and two-high tunnels.
• At 0.6 you can crouch through one-high gaps.

Specialty is 10% more damage with the listed weapons, in melee and with arrows. A thrown javelin gets no bonus. A Magic specialty is 10% more spell power in all six schools instead.

You can use any weapon with any origin. Every weapon in the pack belongs to one specialty. See Arsenal & Combat.

Origins have no abilities to press. Everything below works on its own.

Both Editions

Human

Ordinary folk, at home anywhere.

• Specialty: swords, spears, javelins, glaives and tridents
• Strengths and weaknesses: none

Dwarf

Short and sturdy, at home under the mountain.

• Specialty: axes and crossbows
• Strengths: two more hearts, mines 20% faster, sees in the dark
• Weakness: sinks in water

Wood Elf

Swift hunters of the deep forest.

• Specialty: bows, longbows, shortbows and blowguns
• Strength: moves 5% faster
• Weaknesses: one heart fewer, doesn't eat meat

Ogre

The biggest of them all, and the slowest.

• Specialty: double axes, maces, hammers and gauntlets
• Strengths: four more hearts, 30% knockback resistance, 0.75 blocks more reach
• Weaknesses: crouches through doorways, moves 10% slower, attacks 10% slower, gets hungry faster

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High Elf

Tall, proud and steeped in old magic.

• Specialty: Magic, 10% more spell power
• Strength: takes 25% less damage from magic
• Weaknesses: two hearts fewer, 15% slower at 15 armor points or more, which is full iron armor

Halfling

Small, lucky and fond of a good meal.

• Specialty: daggers, sickles and knives
• Strengths: crouches through one-block gaps, finds better loot, food lasts longer, sculk doesn't hear its steps
• Weaknesses: two hearts fewer, 0.5 blocks less reach

Orc

Big and hard to put down.

• Specialty: double axes, maces, hammers and gauntlets
• Strength: two more hearts
• Weaknesses: attacks 5% slower, villagers ask a fifth more

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Dark Elf

Elves of the deep places.

• Specialty: Magic, 10% more spell power
• Strengths: sees in the dark, turns invisible while sneaking at light level 7 or less
• Weakness: weakened in sunlight, by day under the open sky, except in rain

Goblin

Small and quick to strike.

• Specialty: daggers, sickles and knives
• Strengths: crouches through one-block gaps, moves 10% faster, piglins leave it alone
• Weaknesses: two hearts fewer, 0.5 blocks less reach

Troll

Huge and slow to die.

• Specialty: double axes, maces, hammers and gauntlets
• Strengths: three more hearts, 0.5 blocks more reach, heals 1 health every 3 seconds while hurt and fed above 6 food
• Weaknesses: crouches through doorways, takes 50% more fire damage, gets hungry faster

Origin Skins

Your character wears a skin of your origin. Other players see it too.

• Male or female: Most origins have a male and a female skin. Pick one with the ♂ and ♀ icons on the portrait in the origin screen. Until you pick, the game goes by your own skin: slim arms get the female skin.
• One skin: Dwarf, Troll and Ogre have one skin.
• Your own skin: Turn off the switch on the portrait. Everyone then sees your own skin. Your cape and elytra stay yours either way.

Press U in game to see your own origin. The switch works there, but the ♂ and ♀ icons are not shown. To change between male and female, use the screen an Orb of Origin opens.

Changing Your Origin

An Orb of Origin lets you choose again.

• In survival it is found only in ancient city chests. Each chest has a 2% chance, which is about one orb in every two or three cities.
• Use the orb to open the screen. If you close the screen, you keep the orb.
• The orb is used up only when you pick a different origin.
• Changing the ♂ and ♀ icons or the skin switch on this screen does not use up the orb.

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