ABOUT

Sorcerous Nether is a relatively small vanilla friendly mod seeking to enhance the magical side of the Nether by expanding on vanilla concepts and mixing in new ones. Discover new plants and blocks that litter the landscape and turn them into helpful items to aid not only your Nether journeys.

This mod comes with a config file allowing for customization of many of its behaviors.

FEATURES DOCUMENTATION

PLANTS

Bucklerine Bush

Growing among the basalt columns of the deltas, these crystalline fruits have become incredibly resistant to the harsh environment, particularly to explosions. Once harvested, bucklerine shards can be crafted into various blast-resistant blocks such as glass, doors, trapdoors and even a lamp. Subjecting the shards in their item form to an explosion causes them to sprout and turn into budding bucklerine, an item with its own range of uses. If you're not a fan of this explosive mechanic, you can turn it off in the config.

Persimmon Fungus

Taking a look over the lava lakes, you can spot the persimmon fungus, a new huge fungus type with a dark orange woodset. The extremely hot conditions have caused its stem to become immune to lava, even in item form. Bone mealing the cap yields fungi which can be planted in a pool of lava and bone mealed to obtain more huge fungi.

Lava Lily

Feeding off the immense heat and molten minerals, the uncommon lava lily resides in the Nether's bodies of lava. Once fully grown, the plant produces a bright fiery flower that emits glowing particles around itself and sets any entity that collides with it on fire (this can be disabled in the config). Despite growing directly above lava, the flower itself is quite fragile and not immune to lava in item form, making successfully collecting it a slight challenge. The lava lily can be used for decoration similar to the spore blossom or crafted into orange dye. By combining the lily with various items and a lava bucket, you can infuse it with certain potion effects. Placing an infused lava lily on the ground creates a potion effect field similar to a beacon, affecting all players, tamed mobs and some friendly ones with its positive effects. The duration of a single infused flower is limited to 8 minutes, but picking it back up pauses the timer until placed again.

BLOCKS

Biotite

Biotite is a dark block found in the basalt deltas. It can be crafted into its polished and brick variants and used as a building material.

Robust Chain

Crafted from two chains and an iron ingot, the robust chain is a support block that looks like it could hold up way more than its smaller counterpart. An entire structure, perhaps?

ITEMS

Budding Bucklerine

A budding variant of the bucklerine shard obtained with the use of an explosion or manually crafted by adding gunpowder. It can be planted on blocks native to the basalt deltas, producing a bucklerine bush. It can also serve as a last resort food source or be crafted with gold ingots into its golden variant, giving resistance and short regeneration. Budding bucklerine is also used to brew a new potion: the potion of blast resistance, providing protection from explosions for its duration.

Sorcerous Mist Bottle

A sorcerous mist bottle is a crafting ingredient obtained by bottling up sorcerous mist from a defeated Lost. It can be used to craft black nether bricks, mist flasks and sorcerous vessels and is needed when putting a potion into a sorcerous vessel.

Mist Flask

The mist flask is a throwable item similar to a lingering potion. Upon landing it produces a cloud of black smoke similar to the clouds of sorcerous mist. Mobs and players that come into contact with the cloud receive blindness, slowness and wither effects. The thrower, however, is unaffected by the negative effects of the cloud (this can also be configured).

Sorcerous Vessel

A sorcerous vessel is an item that can be filled up with any potion. When you fall below half of your maximum health, one of the vessels in your hotbar (or anywhere in your inventory depending on the config) automatically activates and applies its potion effect, returning an empty vessel. Filled sorcerous vessels can stack up to 16.

STRUCTURES

Lost Keep

Lost Keeps can be found in the basalt deltas and nether wastes. These relatively large structures are made up of towers and bridges which hang suspended just below the Nether roof. Inside you can find lots of loot guarded by skeletons, magma cubes, rarely wither skeletons and a new mob - the lost.

MOBS

Lost

The lost are restless, withered spirits who roam the halls and bridges of the Lost Keep. Some say they might be of similar origin as wither skeletons, as they apply the wither effect when attacking. When slain, they dissolve into thin air, leaving behind a dark cloud of sorcerous mist which causes blindness, weakness and slowness to any living mobs inside and gives a temporary speed boost to near undead mobs. The cloud can be collected using a glass bottle to obtain a sorcerous mist bottle, an ingredient for crafting.

CONFIG DATAPACK

In addition to the included configuration file, many more of the mod's aspects can be customized using the config datapack which can be downloaded here.