Vanguard Awakening Wiki & Guide

You receive a random quirk automatically when you spawn into the world for the first time, unless QuirkOnStart is disabled in the config. If you want a specific quirk instead, an admin can use /mha <your name> quirk <quirk name> to set it manually.

Kill mobs to gain experience points toward your quirk level—the XpMultiplier config setting controls how much XP each kill gives you. You can check how much XP you need for the next level in the XpRequirement config, and use /mha <target> level <number> to manually adjust levels if needed.

Find and speak with the Swordmaster NPC in your world to learn one of the four available fighting styles: Fiery Sword, Sparking Sword, Flowing Sword, or Gunhead. Once learned, use /mha <target> style <style> to switch between them.

By default, you keep your quirk and level after death, but you can enable QuirkOnDeath in the config to randomize your quirk every time you die, or MhaLevelReset to reset your level back to the start.

All for One lets you steal quirks from other players; the stolen quirk stays with you permanently if MhaAfoPermanentSteal is enabled, or until the victim dies if MhaAfoUntilDeathSteal is on instead. When a victim recovers their stolen quirk on death, you lose levels based on the MhaAfoStolenQuirkDeathLevelPenalty setting.

Yes, use /mha <target> quirkBan <full quirk name> to prevent a specific quirk from appearing in the random spawn pool for that player. This is useful if you want to avoid overpowered or unwanted quirks in your world.

Mini quirks are smaller abilities without awakenings that can be added to the random spawn pool if MhaMiniQuirks is enabled in the config. Enabling them gives you more quirk variety but may dilute the pool with less powerful options.

Most quirk abilities have cooldown timers between uses; you can disable this entirely with MhaCooldowns, or use MhaCooldownScaling to adjust how cooldowns change when using powered-up forms. The /cooldownreset <target> command instantly resets all active cooldowns for a player.

Yes, adjust the DamageMultiplier setting in the config to multiply all ability damage globally—higher values make your quirk attacks stronger against mobs and players.

The mod spawns hostile mobs with their own quirk abilities by default; if you want to disable this, set QuirksMobSpawn to false in the config to fight regular mobs instead.