Ars Elemental in All the Mods 10

Same as in the All the Mods 10 8.1 guide

This pack ships Ars Elemental 0.7.10.1, built for Minecraft 1.21.1. Where you meet it in the pack's quest book is through its elemental armor.^[1]

The quests sit in the "Basic Armor" chapter. Each element gets its own quest, and each asks you to collect a full set: hat, robes, leggings and boots. They are listed in this order: Geomancer (earth), Aquamancer (water), Pyromancer (fire) and Aethermancer (air).^[2]

The elemental outfits

• Earth: the quest "Geomancer Outfit" quest wants Geomancer's Hat, Geomancer's Robes, Geomancer's Leggings and Geomancer's Boots.^[2]
• Water: the quest "Aquamancer Outfit" quest wants Aquamancer's Hat, Aquamancer's Robes, Aquamancer's Leggings and Aquamancer's Boots.^[2]
• Fire: the quest "Pyromancer Outfit" quest wants Pyromancer's Hat, Pyromancer's Robes, Pyromancer's Leggings and Pyromancer's Boots.^[2]
• Air: the quest "Aethermancer Outfit" quest wants Aethermancer's Hat, Aethermancer's Robes, Aethermancer's Leggings and Aethermancer's Boots.^[2]

Unverified Whether the ATM Star quest path uses Ars Elemental is not shown by the sources here, so check the pack's quest book in game for that.

Same as in the All the Mods 10 8.1 guide

Welcome to Ars Elemental! In this pack, the Basic Armor quest chapter has one quest for each element: "Pyromancer Outfit" quest for fire, "Aquamancer Outfit" quest for water, "Geomancer Outfit" quest for earth and "Aethermancer Outfit" quest for air. Each one asks for a hat, robes, leggings and boots of that element, so an elemental armor set is a natural place to start.^[2]

Pick your element and build the set

1. Choose an element. Fire, water, earth and air each have their own four-piece outfit.^[2][3]
2. Get a Mark of Mastery. The mod's advancement text says you obtain it by combining the essences with the tribute.^[3]
3. Make each of the four pieces (hat, robes, leggings and boots). In this pack every piece is an armor upgrade recipe that uses a Mark of Mastery.^[3][4]

Here is the Pyromancer's Hat as an example. The other elemental pieces follow the same pattern, each with its own recipe.^[4]

Pyromancer's HatMod recipe

Armor Upgrade (sauce)

• Mark of Mastery
• Arcanist's Hat
• 2× Fire Essence
• Netherite Ingot

Recipe id: ars_elemental:fire_hat

The water, earth and air hats, robes, leggings and boots are separate armor upgrade recipes of the same type.

Why bother with a full set?

Wearing two or more set pieces gives you a set bonus, and four pieces of the same element count as a full school set. Each element also has its own perk:^[3]

• Fire: absorbs some fire-related damage and instantly clears fire.^[3]
• Water: absorbs some water-related damage and refills your air if you are about to drown.^[3]
• Earth: absorbs some earth-related damage and gives food deep underground if you are about to starve.^[3]
• Air: absorbs some air-related damage and highly reduces fall damage.^[3]

A cheap extra: the Trinkets Pouch

While you gather materials for the armor, you can also make a Trinkets Pouch. It is a simple shaped crafting recipe.^[3][4]

Trinkets PouchMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Magebloom Fiber	Magebloom Fiber	Magebloom Fiber
Magebloom Fiber	Chest	Magebloom Fiber
Magebloom Fiber	Magebloom Fiber	Magebloom Fiber

Recipe id: ars_elemental:curio_bag

This is a normal crafting recipe, so it needs no special station.

Elemental armor sets

The mod's in-game descriptions say each elemental armor set absorbs some damage of its own element. The air set is described as absorbing some air-related damage and highly reducing fall damage. The fire set absorbs some fire damage and instantly clears fire. The water set absorbs some water damage and refills your air if you're about to drown. The earth set absorbs some earth damage and gives you food deep underground if you're about to starve.^[3]

The set info text describes the general set bonus as needing 2 or more set pieces, and the school set bonus as needing 4 pieces of the same element. According to those descriptions, the bonus depends on the armor weight:^[3]

• Light armor: the description says that after absorbing damage from its element, you get a higher spell critical chance for a short time.^[3]
• Medium armor: the description says that after absorbing damage from its element, you get a mana discount for a short time. With the full set, some of it is converted into mana.^[3]
• Heavy armor: the description says that after absorbing damage from its element, some of it is converted into mana. With the full set, overflowing mana is converted into health.^[3]

In the air line, the Aethermancer's Hat and Aethermancer's Boots are made by upgrading Ars Nouveau Arcanist pieces, while the Thunderguard's Helmet, Thunderguard's Chestplate and Thunderguard's Boots come from Battlemage pieces. Every upgrade needs a Mark of Mastery.^[5]

Aethermancer's HatMod recipe

Armor Upgrade (sauce)

• Mark of Mastery
• 2× Air Essence
• Arcanist's Hat
• Netherite Ingot

Recipe id: ars_elemental:air_hat

Armor upgrade for the Aethermancer's Hat. The other air pieces use the same upgrade pattern in this pack.

Foci

The Focus of Air is the major version of the Lesser Focus of Air. The recipe below shows how it is made in this pack.^[5]

Focus of AirMod recipe

Enchanting Apparatus (ars_nouveau)

• Lesser Focus of Air
• Mark of Mastery

Recipe id: ars_elemental:air_focus

Wearing a focus changes what some spells do. The mod's advancement text says that with an air focus, Launch plus Extend Time makes a mob levitate. It also says Summon Steed gives you a dolphin with a water focus, a skeleton horse with a necromancy focus and a strider with a fire focus.^[3]

Familiars

According to the familiar descriptions, you get a familiar by performing the Ritual of Binding near the matching creature. Each one boosts one school of spells.^[3]

• Flarecannon Familiar: described as increasing Fire spell damage by 2 and reducing projectile-based spell costs by 20%. Feed it a Magma Cream for a short Fire Resistance buff.^[3]
• Flashjack Familiar: described as increasing Lightning spell damage by 2 and reducing movement-based spell costs by 20%. Feed it a Flashpine for a short Speed and Night Vision buff.^[3]
• Siren Familiar: described as increasing Water spell damage by 2 and giving the summoner Dolphin Grace II while in water.^[3]

Glyph behavior worth knowing

Carian Phalanx summons floating projectiles that orbit you and launch at enemies who get close. You can have up to 5 orbiting at once, and casting more dismisses the oldest. Life Link shares damage you take with the target and healing the target gets with you. Sensitive reverses the direction of the link, and Cut severs it.^[3]

The glyph's description says Nullify Defense nullifies the target's innate immunity after it takes damage, making it vulnerable to damage again. In this pack it is disabled: general.enabled is set to false, so you won't be able to use it here.^[3][6]

The other values in that file match the mod defaults. The glyph tier is 3 (general.glyph_tier), the cost is 1,000 (general.cost) and the per-spell limit is 2,147,483,647 (general.per_spell_limit). It isn't a starter glyph, and the augment limit, cost override and invalid combo lists are empty.^[6]

Enchantments and prisms

The mirror shield enchantment can only go on the Enchanter's Shield. While you block, it gives a 25% chance per level of reflecting a spell projectile. Soulbound keeps the enchanted item from being lost on death.^[3]

The Advanced Spell Prism is crafted from an Ars Nouveau Spell Prism, and the Acceleration Prism Lens is made by imbuement.^[5]

Advanced Spell PrismMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Quartz	any source gem	Quartz
any source gem	Spell Prism	any source gem
Quartz	any source gem	Quartz

Recipe id: ars_elemental:advanced_prism

Flashing archwood and creature spawns

The Flashing Archwood Sapling has a shapeless recipe that combines the other archwood sapling colors with Air Essence.^[5]

Flashing Archwood SaplingMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Cascading Archwood Sapling or Flourishing Archwood Sapling or Blazing Archwood Sapling or Vexing Archwood Sapling
• Air Essence

Recipe id: ars_elemental:flashing_sapling

Flashing archwood also generates naturally. It is added to Overworld biomes that aren't Ars Nouveau archwood biomes, and a separate, more common version is added to archwood forests. The mod also adds a Flashing Forest biome.^{[7][8][9][10]}

Flashjacks spawn in groups of 1 to 2 (weight 7) on mountain peaks, in jungles and in archwood biomes. In the Flashing Forest itself their spawn weight is 35. Sirens spawn in groups of 1 to 3 (weight 3) in biomes that produce corals from bone meal, and in archwood biomes.^{[10][11][12][13][14]}

Same as in the All the Mods 10 8.1 guide

In the pack's quest book, Ars Elemental shows up in the Basic Armor chapter, as a set of elemental outfit quests. Beyond those, your progression comes from the in-pack recipes, so this section covers the quests first and then what else the recipes unlock.^[2][4]

The quest path: elemental outfits

The Basic Armor chapter has a quest for each element. Each one asks you to hand in a full outfit: hat, robes, leggings and boots. The quests are "Geomancer Outfit" quest for earth, "Aquamancer Outfit" quest for water, "Pyromancer Outfit" quest for fire and "Aethermancer Outfit" quest for air.^[2]

• Earth: Geomancer's Hat, Geomancer's Robes, Geomancer's Leggings and Geomancer's Boots.^[2]
• Water: Aquamancer's Hat, Aquamancer's Robes, Aquamancer's Leggings and Aquamancer's Boots.^[2]
• Fire: Pyromancer's Hat, Pyromancer's Robes, Pyromancer's Leggings and Pyromancer's Boots.^[2]
• Air: Aethermancer's Hat, Aethermancer's Robes, Aethermancer's Leggings and Aethermancer's Boots.^[2]

How the armor is made

You don't craft these outfits from scratch. In this pack every piece is an armor upgrade recipe that builds on a matching Ars Nouveau armor piece. Here is the air hat as an example, and the other outfit pieces follow the same pattern.^[4]

Aethermancer's HatMod recipe

Armor Upgrade (sauce)

• Mark of Mastery
• 2× Air Essence
• Arcanist's Hat
• Netherite Ingot

Recipe id: ars_elemental:air_hat

An armor upgrade recipe, the same type as the other outfit pieces.

The quest outfits are only one armor family. The recipes also include the Olympian's set (Olympian's Hood, Olympian's Tunic, Olympian's Pants, Olympian's Shoes) and the Thunderguard's set (Thunderguard's Helmet, Thunderguard's Chestplate, Thunderguard's Leggings, Thunderguard's Boots). Water has matching versions too: Nereid's pieces such as Nereid's Hood and Winterguard's pieces such as Winterguard's Helmet. Each family upgrades a different Ars Nouveau armor line.^[4]

Thunderguard's ChestplateMod recipe

Armor Upgrade (sauce)

• Mark of Mastery
• 2× Air Essence
• Battlemage's Gambeson
• Netherite Ingot

Recipe id: ars_elemental:air_chestplate

The Thunderguard's pieces use the same armor upgrade recipe type.

Beyond the armor: recipes the pack changed

Some recipes in this pack differ from the mod's defaults: the Enchanter's Bangle, the Spellcaster Bag and the Slipstream Current Elevator. If you've seen other guides for these, trust the recipes shown here instead.^[4]

Enchanter's BangleChanged by the pack

Enchanting Apparatus (ars_nouveau)

• Ring of Potential
• End Crystal
• 2× any gold storage block
• any source storage block

Recipe id: ars_elemental:base_bangle

Changed by the pack. The Enchanter's Bangle is the base for the Air Bangle and Anima Bangle.

Spellcaster BagChanged by the pack

Enchanting Apparatus (ars_nouveau)

• Trinkets Pouch
• 2× Manipulation Essence
• 2× Blaze Powder
• 2× any gold storage block

Recipe id: ars_elemental:caster_bag

Changed by the pack.

Slipstream Current ElevatorChanged by the pack

Enchanting Apparatus (ars_nouveau)

• 4× Air Essence
• Wilden Wing
• 2× Shulker Shell
• any gold storage block

Recipe id: ars_elemental:air_upstream

Changed by the pack.

Once you have the Enchanter's Bangle, the Air Bangle and Anima Bangle are made from it at the enchanting apparatus. The Focus of Air is an upgrade of the Lesser Focus of Air, shown below.^[4]

Focus of AirMod recipe

Enchanting Apparatus (ars_nouveau)

• Lesser Focus of Air
• Mark of Mastery

Recipe id: ars_elemental:air_focus

Enchanting apparatus recipe for the Focus of Air.

The clearest link in this pack is with Ars Nouveau. The recipes for Cinder Bangle, Focus of Cinder and Elemancer Bangle are all made at the Ars Nouveau enchanting apparatus. The recipes below show exactly what each one needs.^[5]

Focus of CinderMod recipe

Enchanting Apparatus (ars_nouveau)

• Cinder Essence
• Focus of Air
• Focus of Fire

Recipe id: ars_elemancy:cinder_focus

This recipe is made at the Ars Nouveau enchanting apparatus.

Cinder BangleMod recipe

Enchanting Apparatus (ars_nouveau)

• 2× Cinder Essence
• Air Bangle
• Fire Bangle
• Mark of Mastery

Recipe id: ars_elemancy:cinder_bangle_1

The Cinder Bangle also uses the Ars Nouveau enchanting apparatus.

Elemancer BangleMod recipe

Enchanting Apparatus (ars_nouveau)

• 2× Elemancer Shard
• Lava Bangle
• Tempest Bangle
• Mark of Mastery

Recipe id: ars_elemancy:elemancer_bangle_1

The Elemancer Bangle has several recipes, and this one is made at the enchanting apparatus too.

The Cinder and Elemancer armor pieces, such as Cindermancer Hat and Elemancer Hat, work differently. They use an armor upgrade recipe type instead of the enchanting apparatus.^[5]

Cindermancer HatMod recipe

Armor Upgrade (sauce)

• 2× Cinder Essence
• Aethermancer's Hat
• Pyromancer's Hat
• Mark of Mastery

Recipe id: ars_elemancy:cinder_hat_1

Armor pieces like this one use the armor upgrade recipe type.

Ars Nouveau in the world and in tags

Ars Elemental's own data tags also point at Ars Nouveau content. These are the places where the two mods overlap.^{[9][13][14][15][16]}

• The flashing tree biome tag lists the Ars Nouveau archwood forest, as an optional entry.^[9]
• The Flashjack spawn tag includes the Ars Nouveau archwood biome tag, along with mountain peaks and jungles.^[13]
• The Siren spawn tag includes the Ars Nouveau archwood biome tag as an optional entry, alongside biomes where bonemeal produces corals.^[14]
• The aerial entity tag includes the Ars Nouveau wilden stalker and wilden boss, next to vanilla flyers like the phantom and the bee, and the mod's own Flashjack.^[15]
• The soulbound_extra item tag includes the Ars Nouveau wand, enchanter's mirror, enchanter's fishing rod and enchanter's eye. It also lists several Curios slot tags, marked as optional.^[16]

In the quest book

Ars Elemental's basic armor sits in the "Basic Armor" chapter, in the "Tools and Gear" group (chapter 11 of 66 in the book). There you will find four outfit quests: "Geomancer Outfit" quest, "Aquamancer Outfit" quest, "Pyromancer Outfit" quest and "Aethermancer Outfit" quest. They cover the Earth, Water, Fire and Air sets.^[17]

The same chapter also holds the Ars Nouveau outfits ("Arcanist Outfit" quest, "Battlemages Outfit" quest and "Sorceror's Outfit" quest), plus armor from Iron's Spells and other mods. The chapter has 127 quests and the text of 92 of them is not covered here, so check the quest book for the rest.^[17]

Same as in the All the Mods 10 8.1 guide

In this pack, Ars Elemental appears in the "Basic Armor" quest chapter. The quests there are outfit quests, one for each element, and each one asks you to get the matching elemental armor set from the mod.^[2]

The Basic Armor outfit quests

Every quest here has the same shape. The tasks are item tasks, one for each piece of the set: hat, robes, leggings and boots. Here they are in the order the chapter lists them.^[2]

1. "Geomancer Outfit" quest is the earth set. You need Geomancer's Hat, Geomancer's Robes, Geomancer's Leggings and Geomancer's Boots.^[2]
2. "Aquamancer Outfit" quest is the water set. You need Aquamancer's Hat, Aquamancer's Robes, Aquamancer's Leggings and Aquamancer's Boots.^[2]
3. "Pyromancer Outfit" quest is the fire set. You need Pyromancer's Hat, Pyromancer's Robes, Pyromancer's Leggings and Pyromancer's Boots.^[2]
4. "Aethermancer Outfit" quest is the air set. You need Aethermancer's Hat, Aethermancer's Robes, Aethermancer's Leggings and Aethermancer's Boots.^[2]

The quest texts are short. Each one just names the set as Ars Elemental Earth, Water, Fire or Air Armor.^[2]

Same as in the All the Mods 10: To the Sky 2.0.4 guide

The only Ars Elemental config I can confirm for this pack is the glyph file config/ars_elemental/glyph_nullify_defense.toml. Other Ars Elemental config files aren't covered here, so I'm not guessing at them.^[18]

The option you'll care about most

general.enabled is set to false in this pack. The option is labelled "Is Enabled?". The source doesn't list a mod default for it, so I can't say whether the pack changed it.^[18]

general.starter is also false. That option is labelled "Is Starter Glyph?", and the source gives no mod default for it either.^[18]

Values that match the mod default

The pack leaves the following options at the mod default, so nothing is changed here:^[18]

• general.cost is 1,000, the same as the mod default.^[18]
• general.glyph_tier is 3, the same as the mod default. The allowed range is 1 to 99.^[18]
• general.per_spell_limit is 2,147,483,647, the same as the mod default. It caps how many times this glyph can appear in a single spell.^[18]

Empty lists

These options are left as empty lists, so the pack adds no custom entries: general.augment_cost_overrides, general.augment_limits and general.invalid_combos.^[18]

If you want to use them yourself, the file's own examples show the format. Cost overrides and augment limits take entries like "glyph_amplify=50" and "glyph_amplify=5". Invalid combos take a glyph id like "glyph_burst".^[18]

All the Mods 10 8.2 ships Ars Elemental 0.7.10.1. That version arrived in pack release 7.2, and the mod has been in the pack since 0.45 or earlier.^[19][20]

The pack changelogs only record version bumps for this mod, not what changed inside each one. Here is every update, newest first.^[20][21][22]

Update timeline

• 7.2: 0.7.10.0 to 0.7.10.1^[20]
• 7.1: 0.7.9.3 to 0.7.10.0^[21]
• 7.0: 0.7.9_beta to 0.7.9.3^[22]
• 6.3: 0.7.8.6 to 0.7.9_beta^[23]
• 6.1: 0.7.8.4 to 0.7.8.6^[24]
• 6.0: 0.7.6.13 to 0.7.8.4^[25]
• 5.5: 0.7.6.9 to 0.7.6.13^[26]
• 5.3: 0.7.6.8 to 0.7.6.9^[27]
• 5.2: 0.7.6.6 to 0.7.6.8^[28]
• 4.15: 0.7.6.1 to 0.7.6.6^[29]
• 4.13: 0.7.6.0-pre3 to 0.7.6.1^[30]
• 4.12: 0.7.6.0-pre2 to 0.7.6.0-pre3^[31]
• 4.11: 0.7.5.0.1 to 0.7.6.0-pre2^[32]
• 4.5: 0.7.4.3 to 0.7.5.0.1^[33]
• 4.3: 0.7.4.1 to 0.7.4.3^[34]
• 4.0: 0.7.3.0 to 0.7.4.1^[35]
• 2.43: 0.7.2.7 to 0.7.3.0^[36]
• 2.42: 0.7.2.5 to 0.7.2.7^[37]
• 2.40: 0.7.2.2 to 0.7.2.5^[38]
• 2.39: 0.7.2.0 to 0.7.2.2^[39]
• 2.33: 0.7.1.5 to 0.7.2.0^[40]

Some of these were pre-release builds in the pack: 4.11 moved to 0.7.6.0-pre2, 4.12 to 0.7.6.0-pre3, and 6.3 to 0.7.9_beta. The pack has since moved on to full releases.^{[22][23][31][32]}

Unverified What actually changed in each Ars Elemental version (new spells, balance changes, fixes) is not confirmed here, because no changelogs for the shipped jars were available.