Botania is a magic tech mod based on nature. It's still being developed. This thread is based for discussion, so help yourself to some. It's inspired by other magic mods, such as
Thaumcraft or
Blood Magic.
Beta Preview Download
Let me get this straight. This is a
beta preview. You may download and play with it (and if you find bugs, do report them on the
github ), but it's by no means complete. Beta testers say it's pretty stable, but I give you no guarantees. There is some content, and the mod is fully playable in survival, everything is explained in the Lexica Botania. To get started in the mod, just craft it:
Everything about the mod is in there, have a look at the entries in italics before checking the others, these are the most important.
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Patreon~
Introduction
To get started in Botania, one needs to find magical flowers around the world, they spawn in one of 16 colors. These flowers can be made into petals, which are the main crafting material in the mod.
An ingame documentation book exists, in the form of the
Lexica Botania. It tells you how the mod works. You can make it by combining a book with any sapling.
Botania features a power system called Mana, which is a somewhat original power system, compared to most others out there. It's a power system that requires aiming and time coordination, as the power does not go where you want automatically or instantaneously, for more info, see the following video:
The Mana can also be applied for other tasks, such as Runic Infusion (see video below), enchanting, repairing tools or powering magical artifacts.
Screenshots
Pretty plains...
The Lexica Botania
A look at the Power System in action, creating water runes.
Various lenses you can put on your Mana Spreaders to change their behaviour.
The Heisei Dream, one of the flowers currently implemented, turns mobs against eachother.
The Tigerseye turns creepers into my friends
Gifs (links to gfycat):
An animated look at the power system and collision particles
An experimentation with Wireless Pistons (Force Relay)
Colored decorative lightning blocks of doom
Links and ways of keeping yourself updated
My Twitter - I post sneak peeks here whenever they come
My Youtube Channel - I'll post occasional sneak peeks here
The Botania Twitter - A twitter account fed by a Github service hook that tweets all repository changes
The Github Repository - Here's the mod's source code
The /r/feedthebeast subreddit - I hang out here a fair bit, you may catch something from Botania now and then
My Website - I probaby won't post much Botania related stuff there, but I'm putting this here anyway
My Patreon Profile - Support me, pledges over 5$ get access to the beta testing skype group
For IRC people, you can discuss Botania or ask questions in the #vazkii channel on EsperNet
Credits
Azanor for letting me use his particles
ChickenBones for the lightning from WR-CBE
dylan4ever for doing most of the textures
MegaManki for the logo
mDiyo, Mikeemoo, boq for some code snippets I took from their repositories
