A magic mod about hextech crystals, essences and runes.
After a thunderstorm you find your first hextech crystals. Then you work out what everything in the world is made of and build tools and machines that run on it. The more magic you use near your base, the sicker the land around it gets.
300+ blocks and items · 22 essences · 60+ runes · 4 levels of gear · 1 dimension
The mod is still in development, and a lot more is planned.
Everything breaks down into essences. Coal is mostly fire, seeds are mostly life. I boil things in the alembic,
keep what comes out in jars and move it around with brass pipes.
I find rune scrolls in dungeon chests, and sometimes I work one out myself while researching.
Steles around the rune circle burn them into tools and machines. My pickaxe smelts ore now and can see it through stone.
Pylons carry items into chests, the reaper harvests the field around it, and the sawmill cuts trees
and plants new ones. They all run on essence from the jars nearby.
I think I used too much magic around the house. The grass is going grey, there's a purple haze in the evenings,
and a few days ago a rift opened behind the barn. I haven't decided yet whether to close it or see what happens if I feed it.
Iron with a crystal in it was only the start. Then came charged hexsteel, then an alloy that keeps glowing after a night on the Hexcore,
and at last a metal brought back from the Void. Every new set of armour holds more runes than the one before.
Once the breach was held, I stepped through. There is no ground in there, only old shells drifting in a violet haze,
trees made of sinew and something that watches from the dark. The gate home stays open behind me. I won't stay long.
I write down every step in my diary so I don't forget anything.
Craft the Researcher's Diary (book + amethyst shard + feather); it shows what to do next and the recipe for it. The first hextech crystals are under the glassy fulgurite marks on the surface, where an old lightning strike left a geode. Most devices are researched at the Research Table before they can be made. In creative mode everything is in the Pocky Mods tab.
For modpack makers: every recipe is an ordinary data-driven recipe type (hextale:hex_crafting, hextale:infusion,
...), so data packs and KubeJS can change them; materials go by
c: tags, machines and the Void respect claims, quests get advancement triggers. Working with essence slowly sickens the
land around a base (the Thinning); thinning = false in hextale-synced.toml turns it off. Everything is in
the modpack guide. Free to use in any modpack.
| Action | Default |
|---|---|
| Open the Researcher's Diary | Use with the diary in hand |
| Start or stop a ritual (altar, Hexcore, Rune Circle) | Sneak + Use it with an empty hand (or a redstone signal) |
| Link a pylon | Use the pylon, then Use the target |
| Set a pipe side | Sneak + Use the pipe with an empty hand |
| Fly with the skypack | Jump, then Jump again in the air |
| Listen with the tuning fork | Hold Use |
| Swing on the grapple | Hold Use; Jump reels in, Sneak lets out |
| Wind the recall charm | Use a jar of rift essence with the charm |
| Shockwave rune | A fully charged blow at the ground |
| Blink rune | Use the sword at a creature |
| Skip the breach cinematic | Backspace |
All optional: JEI shows every recipe of the mod, Jade what jars and machines hold and do, Curios puts the Researcher's Goggles in a head slot.
- Install NeoForge for Minecraft 26.3 (Java 25); 26.1.2 and 1.21.1 builds are on the files page.
- Put this mod into the
modsfolder (client and server).
./gradlew buildThe jar is written to build/libs/.
- Author: Pocky.
- Inspired by the hextech of Arcane and by Thaumcraft.
- All textures, models and sounds are made for this mod. Some particle sprites are built on the Particle Pack by Kenney (CC0). The page banner uses the Cinzel typeface (SIL Open Font License).
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