Ars Elemental guide for All the Mods 10 4.6 to 4.12

This pack ships Ars Elemental version 0.7.6.0-pre3 for Minecraft 1.21.1. It is a mod you'll mostly meet through its elemental armor sets, which is what the quest book highlights.^[1]

The quest book has a "Basic Armor" chapter with four outfit quests, one for each element. Each quest asks you to get a hat, robes, leggings and boots from the same set.^[2]

• "Geomancer Outfit" quest covers the earth set: Geomancer's Hat, Geomancer's Robes, Geomancer's Leggings and Geomancer's Boots.^[2]
• "Aquamancer Outfit" quest covers the water set: Aquamancer's Hat, Aquamancer's Robes, Aquamancer's Leggings and Aquamancer's Boots.^[2]
• "Pyromancer Outfit" quest covers the fire set: Pyromancer's Hat, Pyromancer's Robes, Pyromancer's Leggings and Pyromancer's Boots.^[2]
• "Aethermancer Outfit" quest covers the air set: Aethermancer's Hat, Aethermancer's Robes, Aethermancer's Leggings and Aethermancer's Boots.^[2]

The quest chapter is called "Basic Armor", so the pack treats these outfits as an early-to-mid goal for collecting the four elemental sets. The quests list the armor pieces as tasks, but the sources don't say what each set does or how to craft it.^[2]

Unverified The sources don't describe the mod's wider features, such as spells or other items beyond the armor, so they aren't covered here. No sign of this mod on the ATM Star quest path was found either.

Ars Elemental's items are built from Ars Nouveau materials, such as essences and Ars Nouveau magic armor, so you'll be working with both mods from the start. Here is a sensible order to tackle things in, starting with the bags and moving on to the elemental armor.^[3]

Start with the Trinkets Pouch

Make the Trinkets Pouch first. It's a normal crafting-table recipe, and the mod also has an advancement for acquiring one.^[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 one is made in a crafting table.

Then the Spellcaster Bag

Next is the Spellcaster Bag. The pack has changed this recipe from the mod's default, so don't trust older guides for it. It's made at an Enchanting Apparatus, not a crafting table, and it builds on the Trinkets Pouch. The mod also has an advancement for acquiring one.^[3][4]

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 recipe is changed by the pack and is made at an Enchanting Apparatus.

Work towards elemental armor

The big early goal is an elemental armor set. The pack's Basic Armor quest chapter has one quest per set, and each one asks for the hat, robes, leggings and boots: "Pyromancer Outfit" quest for fire, "Aquamancer Outfit" quest for water, "Geomancer Outfit" quest for earth and "Aethermancer Outfit" quest for air.^[2]

Every piece is made by upgrading a piece of Ars Nouveau magic armor, and every recipe also uses a Mark of Mastery. All the sets follow the same pattern, so here is one piece as an example. The mod's advancement text for the Mark of Mastery says to combine the essences with the tribute.^[3][4]

Geomancer's HatMod recipe

Armor Upgrade (sauce)

• Mark of Mastery
• 2× Earth Essence
• Netherite Ingot
• any magic hood

Recipe id: ars_elemental:earth_hat

The other elemental armor pieces are upgrade recipes of the same kind.

Each set has its own bonus, so pick the one that fits what you're doing:^[4]

• Pyromancer (fire): absorbs some fire-related damage and converts it into mana, and instantly clears fire.^[4]
• Aquamancer (water): absorbs some water-related damage and converts it into mana, and refills your air if you're about to drown.^[4]
• Geomancer (earth): absorbs some earth-related damage and converts it into mana, and gives food deep underground if you're about to starve.^[4]
• Aethermancer (air): absorbs some air-related damage and converts it into mana, and greatly reduces fall damage.^[4]

In this pack, the sources show Ars Elemental working through Ars Nouveau's crafting stations, spell glyphs, familiars and rituals. This section covers the mechanics those sources explain.^[3][4]

Unverified There is no config file for this mod in the pack and the sources here do not show any tunable values, so none are listed in this section.

Where things get crafted

Ars Elemental items use several crafting methods: the normal crafting grid, Ars Nouveau's imbuement, Ars Nouveau's enchanting apparatus, or a dedicated armor upgrade recipe type.^[3]

• Crafting grid: the Advanced Spell Prism, the Trinkets Pouch, the Flashing Archwood wood blocks and the ritual items.^[3]
• Imbuement: the Acceleration Prism Lens and the Air Infused Turret.^[3]
• Enchanting apparatus: the Air Bangle, the Anima Bangle, the Focus of Air and the Slipstream Current Elevator.^[3]
• Armor upgrade recipes: the Aethermancer's armor pieces, such as the Aethermancer's Hat, Aethermancer's Robes, Aethermancer's Leggings and Aethermancer's Boots.^[3]

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

Crafting grid recipe, built on Ars Nouveau's Spell Prism.

Air Infused TurretMod recipe

Imbuement (ars_nouveau)

• Focus of Air
• 3× Air Essence
• Enchanted Spell Turret

Recipe id: ars_elemental:air_turret

Imbuement recipe, built on the Enchanted Spell Turret.

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

This is the pack-changed recipe.

Marks, foci and armor

The in-game advancement for the Mark of Mastery says to combine the essences with the tribute. The Mark is then used in the air focus upgrade and in every Aethermancer's armor upgrade.^[3][4]

Foci come in lesser and major grades. You first acquire a lesser focus, such as the Lesser Focus of Air, then upgrade it to the major focus. For air, that upgrade is an enchanting apparatus recipe.^[3][4]

Focus of AirMod recipe

Enchanting Apparatus (ars_nouveau)

• Lesser Focus of Air
• Mark of Mastery

Recipe id: ars_elemental:air_focus

Each elemental armor set absorbs some damage of its element and converts it into mana. The air set also greatly reduces fall damage. The aqua set refills your air if you're about to drown. The earth set gives food deep underground if you're about to starve. The fire set instantly clears fire.^[4]

Wearing a focus also changes some spells. Launch with Extend Time while you wear an air focus makes a mob levitate. Summon Steed gives you a dolphin with a water focus, a skeleton horse with a necromancy focus, or a strider with a fire focus.^[4]

Familiars

You get a familiar by performing the Ritual of Binding near the matching creature. Each one boosts a spell school and can be fed for a short buff.^[4]

• Flarecannon: Fire spell damage goes up by 2 and projectile-based spells cost 20% less. Feed it a Magma Cream for a short Fire Resistance buff.^[4]
• Flashjack: Lightning spell damage goes up by 2 and movement-based spells cost 20% less. Feed it a Flashpine for a short Speed and Night Vision buff.^[4]
• Siren: Water spell damage goes up by 2, and you get Dolphin Grace II while in water.^[4]

Glyph behavior worth knowing

Ars Elemental adds spell glyphs that change how a spell travels or resolves. These are the ones the sources describe most clearly.^[4]

• Arc projectile: it is affected by gravity, and every Pierce you apply makes it bounce once when it hits the ground.^[4]
• Homing projectile: it seeks the nearest entity and acts like a classic projectile if there is no valid target. It only targets players if augmented with Sensitive.^[4]
• Propagators: the arc and homing propagators convert the rest of the spell into that projectile type and fire it from where the spell lands.^[4]
• Filters: the aerial, aquatic, fiery, insect, summon and undead filters stop the spell from resolving depending on the target. Each also has a "not" version that works the opposite way.^[4]
• Life Link: damage you take is shared with the target and healing of the target is shared with you. Sensitive reverses the link's direction and Cut severs it.^[4]
• Conjure Terrain: one Amplify places cobblestone and two place cobbled deepslate. Following it with Conjure Water places mud, and following it with Crush places sand.^[4]

Archwood and rituals

The Flashing Archwood tree is Ars Elemental's own archwood type. Its sapling is a shapeless recipe that combines the Cascading, Flourishing, Vexing and Blazing Archwood Saplings with Air Essence. The tree gives the Flashing Archwood Log, which several ritual recipes use.^[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

The pack has crafting recipes for these ritual items: Attraction, Detection, Repulsion, Fast Squirrels, Zapping, Conjure Island: Archwood Forest and Forestation - Archwood.^[3]

Perks and enchantments

• Shock thread: damaging effects shock the target for a short time before the effect resolves, and it inflicts Static Charged at tier 3.^[4]
• Spore thread: damaging effects poison the target or make it hungry for a short time before the effect resolves.^[4]
• Summon thread: it reduces Summon Sickness by 10% per tier. From tier 2 it also slightly increases the damage dealt by summoned creatures.^[4]
• Mirror Shield: this enchantment only goes on the Enchanter's Shield and gives a 25% chance per level to reflect a spell projectile while you block.^[4]
• Soulbound: it keeps the enchanted item from being lost on death.^[4]

In this pack, the quest book only walks you through the elemental armor of Ars Elemental. The Basic Armor chapter has an outfit quest for each element, and nothing else from the mod gets its own quest. Past the armor, you can use the in-pack recipes below to plan your own order.^[2]

Armor tier: the elemental outfits

Each outfit quest has the hat, robes, leggings and boots of one element as its tasks. These are the quests you can follow in the book.^[2]

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

You don't craft these pieces from scratch. In the pack, every elemental armor piece is an armor upgrade recipe that takes a matching piece of Ars Nouveau magic armor and turns it into the elemental version. Each recipe also uses a Mark of Mastery. The pattern is the same for every element, so here are the Earth and Fire robes as examples.^[3]

Geomancer's RobesMod recipe

Armor Upgrade (sauce)

• Mark of Mastery
• 2× Earth Essence
• Netherite Ingot
• any magic robe

Recipe id: ars_elemental:earth_robes

Earth robes, an armor upgrade recipe. The other Earth pieces follow the same pattern.

Pyromancer's RobesMod recipe

Armor Upgrade (sauce)

• Mark of Mastery
• 2× Fire Essence
• Netherite Ingot
• any magic robe

Recipe id: ars_elemental:fire_robes

Fire robes use the same pattern with the Fire element.

Foci and infused turrets

A focus is made at the enchanting apparatus by upgrading the matching lesser focus with a Mark of Mastery. The pack has these recipes for Fire, Earth and Air, using Lesser Focus of Fire, Lesser Focus of Earth and Lesser Focus of Air.^[3]

Focus of FireMod recipe

Enchanting Apparatus (ars_nouveau)

• Lesser Focus of Fire
• Mark of Mastery

Recipe id: ars_elemental:fire_focus

Focus of Fire, upgraded from the Lesser Focus of Fire.

A focus is also the base for an infused turret. This is an imbuement recipe built around an Enchanted Spell Turret from Ars Nouveau, and the pack has it for Fire, Earth and Air.^[3]

Fire Infused TurretMod recipe

Imbuement (ars_nouveau)

• Focus of Fire
• 3× Fire Essence
• Enchanted Spell Turret

Recipe id: ars_elemental:fire_turret

Fire Infused Turret. The Earth and Air turrets use their own focus and essence.

Bangles and utility items

The pack changes the recipes for the Enchanter's Bangle, the Spellcaster Bag and the Slipstream Current Elevator, so don't rely on a recipe you remember from the mod's defaults. The Fire Bangle, Earth Bangle, Air Bangle and Anima Bangle also have their own in-pack recipes.^[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

Changed by the pack.

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.

Other unlocks to work toward

• Prism lenses such as the Arc Prism Lens, Acceleration Prism Lens, Deceleration Prism Lens and Chaining Prism Lens all have in-pack recipes, and so does the Advanced Spell Prism.^[3]
• Rituals such as Attraction, Repulsion, Detection, Zapping and Fast Squirrels are crafted as items with in-pack recipes. Keep an eye out for Flashing Archwood Log in the ritual recipes, as in the Detection example.^[3]
• New glyphs, including Glyph Conjure Terrain, Glyph Bubble Shield, Glyph Discharge and Glyph Homing Projectile, each have their own glyph recipes in the pack.^[3]

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

DetectionMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Flashing Archwood Log
• Spider Eye
• Spider Eye
• Glowstone Dust
• any source storage block

Recipe id: ars_elemental:ritual_detection

Detection ritual, one of the rituals that uses a Flashing Archwood Log.

Here's what I can confirm for this pack: the recipe data shows one clear link from Ars Elemental to another mod. The elemental focus upgrades are crafted through the Enchanting Apparatus recipe type from Ars Nouveau, not a normal crafting grid. These are Focus of Cinder, Focus of Lava, Focus of Mire and Focus of Elemancy.^[3]

Focus of CinderMod recipe

Enchanting Apparatus (ars_nouveau)

• Cinder Essence
• Focus of Air
• Focus of Fire

Recipe id: ars_elemancy:cinder_focus

Crafted with the Enchanting Apparatus recipe type.

Focus of ElemancyMod recipe

Enchanting Apparatus (ars_nouveau)

• Elemancer Shard
• Focus of Air
• Focus of Earth
• Focus of Fire
• Focus of Water

Recipe id: ars_elemancy:elemancer_focus

The top-tier focus is also made with the Enchanting Apparatus recipe type.

Armor and bangle upgrades

The hats, robes, leggings, boots and bangles of the combined schools use a different recipe type, armor_upgrade, in the ars_elemancy namespace. Every one of those recipes needs a Mark of Mastery. All the ingredients in these upgrades come from the ars_elemental and ars_elemancy namespaces, so the pack shows no other mod's items in them.^[3]

Cindermancer HatMod recipe

Armor Upgrade (ars_elemancy)

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

Recipe id: ars_elemancy:cinder_hat_1

An example of an armor upgrade recipe in the pack.

Quests

The Basic Armor quest chapter has four outfit quests: "Pyromancer Outfit" quest, "Geomancer Outfit" quest, "Aquamancer Outfit" quest and "Aethermancer Outfit" quest. Each one asks for a hat, robes, leggings and boots of one Ars Elemental school. They only use items from this mod, so they don't connect it to any other mod.^[2]

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.^[5]

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.^[5]

1. "Geomancer Outfit" quest is the earth set. You need Geomancer's Hat, Geomancer's Robes, Geomancer's Leggings and Geomancer's Boots.^[5]
2. "Aquamancer Outfit" quest is the water set. You need Aquamancer's Hat, Aquamancer's Robes, Aquamancer's Leggings and Aquamancer's Boots.^[5]
3. "Pyromancer Outfit" quest is the fire set. You need Pyromancer's Hat, Pyromancer's Robes, Pyromancer's Leggings and Pyromancer's Boots.^[5]
4. "Aethermancer Outfit" quest is the air set. You need Aethermancer's Hat, Aethermancer's Robes, Aethermancer's Leggings and Aethermancer's Boots.^[5]

The quest texts are short. Each one just names the set as Ars Elemental Earth, Water, Fire or Air Armor.^[5]

All the Mods 10 4.12 ships Ars Elemental 0.7.6.0-pre3, using the file ars_elemental-1.21.1-0.7.6.0-pre3.jar. The mod has been in the pack since All the Mods 10 2.2 or earlier.^[1]

Version bumps by pack release

Here are the Ars Elemental updates recorded in the pack changelogs, newest first.^{[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]}

• 4.12: 0.7.6.0-pre2 to 0.7.6.0-pre3.^[6]
• 4.11: 0.7.5.0.1 to 0.7.6.0-pre2.^[7]
• 4.5: 0.7.4.3 to 0.7.5.0.1.^[8]
• 4.3: 0.7.4.1 to 0.7.4.3.^[9]
• 4.0: 0.7.3.0 to 0.7.4.1.^[10]
• 2.43: 0.7.2.7 to 0.7.3.0.^[11]
• 2.42: 0.7.2.5 to 0.7.2.7.^[12]
• 2.40: 0.7.2.2 to 0.7.2.5.^[13]
• 2.39: 0.7.2.0 to 0.7.2.2.^[14]
• 2.33: 0.7.1.5 to 0.7.2.0.^[15]

Unverified The pack changelogs only list version numbers, and there are no stored changelogs for the shipped jars. What each update added or changed, and whether the pack changed any recipes or values for this mod, is unverified.