Sortilege

Sortilege strengthens Minecraft’s existing magic systems by bringing enchanting, brewing, experience, and related features into a more cohesive, configurable whole rather than replacing them with a separate magic framework. Its six tiers of magic staff, from wood through netherite, fire instant-traveling beams that damage targets in their path, with tier-dependent range, damage, and piercing; configurable cooldowns limit repeated shots, and the beams deal magic damage. Staff enchantments can boost damage, range, piercing, or reduce experience costs, while others let staffs bonk in melee, push or pull enemies, freeze, burn, explode, or shock them; staff beams change color with their type and enchantments, and staffs can also be dyed or temporarily overcharged with lapis to avoid spending experience. The mod adds antidotes brewed with glow ink from potions: drinking one clears its corresponding effect and grants five minutes of immunity, and a regular ink sac reverses the brew. Potions stack to eight, drink faster, last longer, and enter a short cooldown after use; brewing can also take place in a cauldron over a lit campfire, producing several bottles at once, with Soul Campfires able to refill the cauldron over time. Enchanting gains new options including Arcane, which converts a melee weapon’s damage to magic, Magic Protection against magic damage, and Soulbound items that can be retained on death; configurable limits can cap an item’s enchantments, while curses can add slots and rare Limitite gems can raise the limit. Catalysts, including enchanted books, can influence which enchantments appear at an enchanting table, and an optional knowledge system ties enchanting to exploration: players can scrap enchanted loot with a Knowledge Book to record its enchantments, then make those discoveries available from books they carry or store in nearby chiseled bookshelves. Experience changes include configurable leveling and caps, a Witch Hat that boosts experience gains from killing mobs, and a death system that can divide lost experience among the player, the ground, and the killer; monsters may also drop experience, and death coordinates appear on the death screen and in chat. Additional configurable utilities include narrower keep-inventory options for equipped items, experience-free anvils, recipe locks tied to experience or advancements, and Lapis Shields that automatically block some frontal attacks but have lower durability and a narrower blocking angle.