Ars Elemental guide for All the Mods 10 2.13 to 2.41

Ars Elemental is part of this pack at version 0.7.2.5. It was first included in version 1.9 or earlier, so it has been on the mod list for a long time. Ars Elemental adds elemental armor, and that armor is what the pack's quest book focuses on.^[1][2]

In the quest book, the mod's quests sit in the "basic_armor" chapter. Each quest asks you to collect a complete armor set for an element: hat, robes, leggings and boots. The quests have no titles in the sources, so I can only point you to them by ID. The sources don't show what comes before or after this chapter.^[2]

• Earth: the Geomancer's set, starting with Geomancer's Hat, tracked by a quest in "?".^[2]
• Water: the Aquamancer's set, starting with Aquamancer's Hat, tracked by a quest in "?".^[2]
• Fire: the Pyromancer's set, starting with Pyromancer's Hat, tracked by a quest in "?".^[2]
• Air: the Aethermancer's set, starting with Aethermancer's Hat, tracked by a quest in "?".^[2]

To finish a quest you need every piece of that element's set. For air, that means Aethermancer's Hat, Aethermancer's Robes, Aethermancer's Leggings and Aethermancer's Boots. The other elements follow the same hat, robes, leggings and boots pattern.^[2]

Unverified The sources here do not show whether the ATM Star path uses Ars Elemental. Check the pack's quest book to see how it connects to that path.

Ars Elemental adds elemental gear that builds on Ars Nouveau items. A good first goal in this pack is to get your hands on the Mark of Mastery, then use it to pick an elemental armor set.^[3]

Step 1: Learn about the Mark of Mastery

The Mark of Mastery is the key item behind the armor upgrades and the major focuses in this pack. The mod's own advancement text describes obtaining it by combining the essences with the tribute.^[3][4]

Step 2: Upgrade into an elemental armor set

The pack has a quest chapter called basic_armor with one quest per element: a quest in "?" for fire, a quest in "?" for water, a quest in "?" for earth and a quest in "?" for air. Each one asks for the full set of hat, robes, leggings and boots.^[2]

Every piece is made with an armor upgrade recipe, and the pack has changed all of them from the mod's version. Here is the Pyromancer's Hat as an example. The other pieces and elements follow the same pattern.^[3]

Pyromancer's HatChanged by the pack

Armor Upgrade (ars_elemental)

• Mark of Mastery
• 2× Fire Essence
• any hood
• any netherite ingot

Recipe id: ars_elemental:fire_hat

This armor upgrade recipe is changed by the pack.

Each set gives a different bonus, so pick the one that fits how you play:^[4]

• Fire: absorbs some fire-related damage and converts it into mana, and instantly clears fire.^[4]
• Water: absorbs some water-related damage and converts it into mana, and refills your air if you are about to drown.^[4]
• Earth: absorbs some earth-related damage and converts it into mana, and gives you food deep underground if you are about to starve.^[4]
• Air: absorbs some air-related damage and converts it into mana, and highly reduces fall damage.^[4]

Step 3: Make storage for your gear

The Trinkets Pouch is the first bag to craft, and the mod's advancement list has an entry for acquiring it.^[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

Once you have it, you can upgrade it into the Spellcaster Bag. The pack has changed this recipe, and it is made at an enchanting apparatus.^[3]

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

This enchanting apparatus recipe is changed by the pack.

The sources for Ars Elemental describe rituals, crafting stations, armor sets, familiars, enchantments and spell glyphs. This section covers those systems and what the sources say about how they behave in the pack.^[3][4]

Rituals

Each ritual has its own ritual item, and the pack has a crafting recipe for each of them. The sources only describe a few of the rituals, so those are the ones explained below.^[3][4]

Conjure Island: Archwood Forest creates an island of grass and dirt in a circle around the ritual and turns the area into an Archwood Forest. The island has a radius of 7 blocks, and each Source Gem you use as an augment adds 1 to the radius. Source must be provided nearby while the blocks are generated. Augmenting with an Elemental Archfruit converts the island to a thematic forest.^[4]

Conjure Island: Archwood ForestMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any archwood log
• Abjuration Essence
• Conjuration Essence

Recipe id: ars_elemental:ritual_archwood_forest

Forestation - Archwood places grown Archwood Trees and applies bonemeal in a circular 7x7 area. A Source Gem augment increases the radius by 1. Augmenting with a specific archwood sapling spawns resources tied to that sapling's biome.^[4]

Attraction makes the brazier act as a magnet for entities within an 8-block radius. It won't work on players or bosses.^[4]

The pack also has recipes for Detection, Repulsion, Fast Squirrels and Zapping. All of them use Flashing Archwood Log. The sources here don't explain how they behave once placed.^[3]

Crafting stations

Most of the mod's gear is made at Ars Nouveau stations rather than a normal crafting grid. The recipe dump shows three kinds: the enchanting apparatus, imbuement, and a mod-specific armor upgrade recipe type.^[3]

• Enchanting apparatus: Air Bangle, Focus of Air and Slipstream Current Elevator are made this way.^[3]
• Imbuement: Acceleration Prism Lens and Air Infused Turret are made this way.^[3]
• Armor upgrade: the Aethermancer's pieces, such as Aethermancer's Hat, Aethermancer's Robes, Aethermancer's Leggings and Aethermancer's Boots, use this recipe type. The pack changed these recipes.^[3]

Aethermancer's BootsChanged by the pack

Armor Upgrade (ars_elemental)

• Mark of Mastery
• 2× Air Essence
• any boot
• any netherite ingot

Recipe id: ars_elemental:air_boots

The pack changed this armor upgrade recipe.

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

The pack also changed this enchanting apparatus recipe.

Focus of Air is an upgrade of Lesser Focus of Air using a Mark of Mastery. The mod's own advancement text says you get the Mark of Mastery by combining the essences with the tribute.^[3][4]

Focus of AirMod recipe

Enchanting Apparatus (ars_nouveau)

• Lesser Focus of Air
• Mark of Mastery

Recipe id: ars_elemental:air_focus

Elemental armor sets

Each elemental armor set absorbs some damage of its element and converts it into mana. Each set also has a bonus of its own. Hold the set-info key on a piece to read its tooltip.^[4]

• Air: highly reduces fall damage.^[4]
• Aqua: refills your air if you're about to drown.^[4]
• Earth: gives food deep underground if you're about to starve.^[4]
• Fire: instantly clears fire.^[4]

Familiars and enchantments

A Flarecannon Familiar increases Fire spell damage by 2 and reduces projectile-based spell costs by 20%. Feeding it a Magma Cream gives you a short Fire Resistance buff. You get it by performing the Ritual of Binding near a Flarecannon.^[4]

A Siren Familiar increases Water spell damage by 2 and gives the summoner Dolphin Grace II while in water. You get it by performing the Ritual of Binding near a Siren.^[4]

The Mirror Shield enchantment can only go on the Enchanter's Shield. It gives a 25% chance per level to reflect a spell projectile while you block. Soulbound stops the enchanted item from being lost on death.^[4]

Glyph behavior worth knowing

• Homing projectiles seek the nearest entity and act like a classic projectile when there are no valid targets. They only target players if augmented with Sensitive.^[4]
• Arc projectiles are affected by gravity, and each Pierce applied makes them bounce once when they hit the ground.^[4]
• The filter glyphs stop a spell from resolving based on the target. There are aerial, aquatic, fiery, insect, summon and undead versions, plus "not" versions that stop the spell unless the target matches.^[4]
• Life Link shares damage you take, and healing the target receives, between you and the target. Sensitive reverses the direction, and Cut severs the link.^[4]
• Charm tries to dominate an enemy. Each Amplify and each point of damage dealt raises the chance of success, and stronger mobs resist more.^[4]

Archwood and small utilities

The mod adds its own wood type, Flashing Archwood. You craft Flashing Archwood Sapling from other archwood saplings and Air Essence, and the logs can be turned into Flashing Archwood Wood and Stripped Flashing Archwood Wood blocks.^[3]

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

Trinkets Pouch is the Trinkets Pouch, and Advanced Spell Prism is the Advanced Spell Prism. Both use ordinary shaped crafting recipes.^[3]

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

In this pack, the Ars Elemental quests that the quest sources show sit in the "basic_armor" chapter, so the elemental armor is the part of the mod with a quest path. For everything else, the order below comes from the in-pack recipes, not from a quest line.^[2][3]

Quest path: the elemental armor sets

The "basic_armor" chapter has a quest for each element. Each quest asks you to obtain every piece of a set: hat, robes, leggings and boots. The quests have no titles in this pack.^[2]

• Earth: Geomancer's Hat, Geomancer's Robes, Geomancer's Leggings and Geomancer's Boots (a quest in "?").^[2]
• Water: Aquamancer's Hat, Aquamancer's Robes, Aquamancer's Leggings and Aquamancer's Boots (a quest in "?").^[2]
• Fire: Pyromancer's Hat, Pyromancer's Robes, Pyromancer's Leggings and Pyromancer's Boots (a quest in "?").^[2]
• Air: Aethermancer's Hat, Aethermancer's Robes, Aethermancer's Leggings and Aethermancer's Boots (a quest in "?").^[2]

The armor-upgrade recipes for these pieces are marked as changed by the pack. The sources don't show the mod's defaults, so go by the in-pack recipe and not by what you remember from other packs. Each piece also uses Mark of Mastery. Here is the Pyromancer's Hat as an example. The other elements and slots follow the same pattern with their own essence and armor slot.^[3]

Pyromancer's HatChanged by the pack

Armor Upgrade (ars_elemental)

• Mark of Mastery
• 2× Fire Essence
• any hood
• any netherite ingot

Recipe id: ars_elemental:fire_hat

Pack-changed armor upgrade. The other armor pieces use the same recipe type.

After the armor: what you can build next

Beyond the quest chapter, the recipes show a natural order. The Mark of Mastery also upgrades the lesser foci, and the finished foci feed the turret recipes.^[3]

• Foci: Lesser Focus of Air, Lesser Focus of Earth and Lesser Focus of Fire are upgraded into Focus of Air, Focus of Earth and Focus of Fire at the enchanting apparatus.^[3]
• Turrets: Air Infused Turret, Earth Infused Turret and Fire Infused Turret are imbued from the matching focus plus an Enchanted Spell Turret from Ars Nouveau.^[3]
• Bangles: Enchanter's Bangle is the base item for Air Bangle, Earth Bangle, Fire Bangle and Anima Bangle. The pack changed the base bangle recipe (shown below), while the elemental and anima bangle recipes are the mod's own.^[3]
• Bags: Trinkets Pouch is a simple crafting recipe, and it is the base for Spellcaster Bag. The pack changed the Spellcaster Bag recipe.^[3]
• Prisms and lenses: Advanced Spell Prism is shown below. The lenses Arc Prism Lens, Acceleration Prism Lens and Deceleration Prism Lens are made by imbuement, and none of these recipes is marked as pack-changed.^[3]
• Elevator: Slipstream Current Elevator also has a pack-changed recipe.^[3]

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

Pack-changed. The elemental bangles start from this item.

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

Pack-changed. You craft the Trinkets Pouch first.

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

Mod recipe, not changed by the pack.

Glyphs and rituals

The mod's extra glyphs, such as Glyph Conjure Terrain, Glyph Discharge, Glyph Conflagrate and Glyph Homing Projectile, come from glyph recipes. The rituals Repulsion, Detection and Zapping all use a Flashing Archwood Log, while Attraction uses a Flourishing Archwood Log from Ars Nouveau. The glyph and ritual recipes listed here are the mod's own, with no pack changes marked.^[3]

Ars Elemental is built on top of Ars Nouveau in this pack. Many of its recipes use Ars Nouveau crafting types, such as the enchanting apparatus, the imbuement chamber or the glyph recipe, and lean on Ars Nouveau essences and items. Add a few vanilla items and you have the whole picture.^[3]

Elemental armor

The fire, water, earth and air armor sets are upgrades of Ars Nouveau armor. You start from an Ars Nouveau hood, robe, legs or boots, add the matching Ars Nouveau essence and a netherite ingot, and finish with the Mark of Mastery. The pack changed all of these armor upgrade recipes.^[3]

Pyromancer's RobesChanged by the pack

Armor Upgrade (ars_elemental)

• Mark of Mastery
• 2× Fire Essence
• any robe
• any netherite ingot

Recipe id: ars_elemental:fire_robes

Every elemental armor piece follows this pattern with its own essence and armor slot.

The Mark of Mastery itself pulls in a full set of Ars Nouveau essences plus Anima Essence from Ars Elemental, so both mods feed into your armor.^[3]

5× Mark of MasteryMod recipe

Enchanting Apparatus (ars_nouveau)

• Anima Essence
• Abjuration Essence
• Air Essence
• Conjuration Essence
• Earth Essence
• Fire Essence
• Manipulation Essence
• Water Essence
• Wilden Tribute

Recipe id: ars_elemental:mark_of_mastery

The basic_armor quest chapter has one quest per elemental set: a quest in "?" for fire, a quest in "?" for water, a quest in "?" for earth and a quest in "?" for air. Each one asks for the hat, robes, leggings and boots.^[2]

Bangles, foci and turrets

The Enchanter's Bangle starts from Ars Nouveau's Ring of Potential, and the pack changed its recipe. The elemental bangles then build on it with an essence and a vanilla item.^[3]

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

The lesser elemental foci are also pack-changed imbuement recipes built around Ars Nouveau essences. The elemental turrets are upgrades of Ars Nouveau's Enchanted Spell Turret, and the Manipulation Infused Turret uses Ars Nouveau's Focus of Block Shaping.^[3]

Prisms and lenses

The Advanced Spell Prism upgrades Ars Nouveau's Spell Prism. The prism lenses are imbuement recipes that take a glyph and Manipulation Essence. The acceleration, deceleration and piercing lenses use Ars Nouveau's own glyphs, while the arc and homing lenses use glyphs from Ars Elemental.^[3]

Glyphs and threads

Ars Elemental's glyphs are crafted with the Ars Nouveau glyph recipe type. They mix Ars Nouveau essences, fruit and item scrolls with vanilla items. The filter glyphs, for example, come from Ars Nouveau's Allow and Deny scrolls, and the pack changed the recipe for Glyph Spike. The spell threads Shocking, Spores and Summoning are made from Ars Nouveau's Blank Thread.^[3]

Archwood and rituals

The Flashing Archwood Sapling is made by combining Ars Nouveau's other archwood saplings (cascading, flourishing, vexing and blazing) with Air Essence. Its Flashing Archwood Log is a key ingredient for several Ars Elemental rituals, such as Repulsion, Fast Squirrels and Zapping. Forestation - Archwood builds on Ars Nouveau's Forestation ritual.^[3]

There is also an alternative way to get Ars Nouveau's Flight ritual, which uses the Flashing Archwood Log.^[3]

FlightMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Flashing Archwood Log
• Wilden Wing
• any diamond gem
• any diamond gem
• Feather

Recipe id: ars_elemental:flight_alt

Same as in the All the Mods 10 4.5 guide

Ars Elemental appears in the basic_armor quest chapter of this pack. The quests here are all about the elemental armor sets: each quest asks you to hold a full set for a single element, with a hat, robes, leggings and boots.^[5]

What each quest asks for

The quests have no titles in the pack files, so they are identified only by their IDs. Each is an item task that asks for the pieces of a single element's set.^[5]

• Quest a quest in "?" is the earth set: Geomancer's Hat, Geomancer's Robes, Geomancer's Leggings and Geomancer's Boots.^[5]
• Quest a quest in "?" is the aqua set: Aquamancer's Hat, Aquamancer's Robes, Aquamancer's Leggings and Aquamancer's Boots.^[5]
• Quest a quest in "?" is the fire set: Pyromancer's Hat, Pyromancer's Robes, Pyromancer's Leggings and Pyromancer's Boots.^[5]
• Quest a quest in "?" is the air set: Aethermancer's Hat, Aethermancer's Robes, Aethermancer's Leggings and Aethermancer's Boots.^[5]

Since each quest lists all the pieces of its set as tasks, you will want every piece of an element's armor to complete that quest.^[5]

Ars Elemental has been part of All the Mods 10 since version 1.9 or earlier. All the Mods 10 2.41 ships Ars Elemental 0.7.2.5.^[1]

Version bumps in the pack

• All the Mods 10 2.33: updated from 0.7.1.5 to 0.7.2.0.^[6]
• All the Mods 10 2.39: updated from 0.7.2.0 to 0.7.2.2.^[7]
• All the Mods 10 2.40: updated from 0.7.2.2 to 0.7.2.5, which is the version still shipped in 2.41.^[1][8]

Unverified The pack changelogs only record the version numbers, not what changed inside each Ars Elemental update. No mod changelogs are stored for the shipped jars, so the specific fixes, features or balance changes in these versions are unverified.