I wanted to play chisel and bits with the origins mod but my friend who was playing merling complained their in-built aqua affinity no longer worked, we tried the same list of mods without chisel and bits and it fixed the issue. I was hoping someone had a fix so that we could continue playing with chisel and bits

I am not actually sure what could cause that, could you also please open a ticket with the origins mod, and upload a set of logs of your modpack?