Neo Vitae

# NeoVitae > _A magical mod where blood is the currency of power. Harvest it, refine it, weave it into rituals and runes, and bend the world to your will._ You begin with a diamond and a wound. From those first crimson drops, you'll build an altar capable of devouring entire ecosystems, network your soul to the anima network that transcends dimensions, forge demons into tools, and rip a hole in reality to reach a demonic dimension whose only inhabitants want you dead. A blood themed magical journey written with both player experience and modpack makers in mind. ## The Ara Vitae The heart of the mod is the **Ara Vitae**. A multiblock altar that consumes **Essentia Vitae (EV)** to transmute items. Drop in a Blood Orb and the altar starts sharing your **Anima**, a personal pool of essentia that follows you from world to world, dimension to dimension, container to container. Six **tiers** of construction shape what the altar can do, from a bare stone box that crafts cheap reagents up through six rings of runes (Speed, Acceleration, Charging, Capacity, Sacrifice, Dislocation, Orb, and their **Reinforced** counterparts) that bend the altar's behavior to your strategy. Cap stones at the higher tiers drive **alchemy array projections** that float above the structure during work, each tier producing more elaborate visual circuitry. Six tiers of Orbs of Vitae carry the network's capacity up to civilizational scale. ## Sigils & Tools Drop a Blood Orb into a Tabula Vitae with the right reagents and out comes a **Sigil**. A one-handed tool that performs a specific job at a specific essentia cost. * **Sigil of the Blood Light**. Toss a configurable colored light source onto any surface; brightness, hue, and redstone sensitivity are all tweakable on the placed light or before-throw. * **Sigil of Holding**. Carry up to nine other sigils at once and cycle between them with a hotkey. * **Magnetism, Air, Water, Lava, Void, Phantom Bridge, Teleposition, Suppression, Seer**. The rest of the standard utility kit, reworked to feel responsive and informative. * **Bound** weapon and tool variants that draw durability from your Anima instead of physical metal. * **Many More** ## Living Arts: Flasks, Anointments, Sentient Armor The **Tabula Vitae** is a six-input alchemical bench that brews two distinct families of consumable: * **Alchemy Flasks**. Reusable potion containers with custom effect components and configurable duration tiers. * **Anointments**. Tool and weapon coatings applied without taking the item out of your hand. _Iron Tip_ on a bow for 25% more damage; _Archer's Polish_ for 50% more velocity; _Looting_, _Fortune_, _Silk Touch_, _Smelting_, _Voiding_, _Quick Draw_, _Hidden Knowledge_, _Weapon Repair_, _Holy Water_, _Bow Power_, and _Melee_ coatings deplete with use rather than time. The **Hellfire Forge** crafts **Sentient** weapons and armor, equipment that drinks the souls of mobs you kill and grows stronger from it. ## The Sanguine Ward Hold any tier of Blood Orb and your essentia pool begins to weave a **Sanguine Ward** around you, a personal shield that absorbs incoming damage at a steady cost in EV per second. Tank a creeper, walk through arrows, finish a delicate ritual under fire; the ward burns through your Anima before it lets you take the wound. Fully configurable in the server config so packs can tune it to their balance. ## Rituals (30+ and growing) The Master Ritual Stone and its rune complement let you anchor permanent or one-shot rituals across the world. - Crystallum Fractura. Auto-harvests Spiritus Crystal clusters in range with a Fortune scaling bonus. - The Torment Nexus. Binds nearby spawners and trial spawners, suppressing their spawns and siphoning a stream of EV and loot from the simulated kills. - Highway to Hell. Opens a permanent gateway to an endless, procedurally generated demon dungeon. - Well of Suffering. Drains life from nearby mobs to feed your altar. - Ritual of Overgrowth. Bonemeals nearby crops and saplings; Spiritus aspects add farmland hydration, plant-leeching, and scaled growth. - Plus Cry of the Forsaken Soul, Ritual of Harvest, Ritual of Fallen Trees, Ritual of Accelerated Aging, The Endless Quarry, Hymn of Siphoning, Serenade of the Nether, Ritual of Meteo, Ritual of the Full Spring, Ritual of Containment, Ritual of Expulsion, The Sinner's Burden, Dome of Suppression, Ritual of Regeneration, Ritual of Speed, The Gathering, Soaring Skies (true flight), Ritual of the Phantom Bridge, Dawn of the New Moon, Ritual of the Mason, Rhythm of the Beating Anvil, Ritual of the Satiated Stomach, All Consuming Void, Sentient Extraction, and Ritual of Sentient Evolution... and many more. Every ritual is driven by a **data map** for stats. Modpack makers retune costs, ranges, and effects in a JSON without recompiling. ## Spiritus & Crystals A second, parallel resource layer. **Spiritus** is the latent magical energy of the world, divided into fi