Just Another Witchery Remake in FTB Evolution 2

Just Another Witchery Remake is a ground-up remake of the old Witchery mod. It aims to bring over everything from the original with fresh textures and content. The authors call it a 1:0.9 remake rather than a 1:1 copy, so most things will feel familiar.^[1]

This pack ships version 0.5.13.1 for Minecraft 26.1.2.^[2]

What to expect

The mod started as a Modfest 2024 / SpookyJam 2024 project. It was built to be datapack-friendly, with data-driven rituals and recipes, command execution support and modpack-centric design choices. Since the 0.5 update, rituals can handle multiple events in parallel or in sequence.^[1]

Soul magic and lichdom are no longer part of the base mod. They moved to the Forbidden Magic addon.^[1]

The in-game guidebook

The mod includes its own guidebook, organised into general, brewing and brazier groups, plus entries for lycanthropy and the spirit world.^{[3][4][5][6][7]}

• General: entries for the altar, the cauldron, the distillery and the coven contract.^{[8][9][10][11]}
• Brewing: entries for the cauldron, brews, infusions, the crystal ball and flying ointment.^{[6][12][13][14][15]}
• Brazier: entries for the brazier, the censer and several summoning rituals, such as banshee and poltergeist.^{[5][16][17][18]}

Just Another Witchery Remake gives you a Cauldron, a Witches Oven and a Distillery, and your first hours are about getting those three working. The steps below follow the recipes this pack actually ships.^[19]

Step 1: Make a Jar and use the oven

Everything starts with the Jar. In this pack it is a smelting recipe.^[20]

JarMod recipe

Smelting

Recipe id: witchery:jar

The Jar comes from smelting.

Put a Jar in the Witches Oven and it comes out as Breath of the Goddess or Exhale of the Horned One, and you also get Wood Ash. Both are worth making early, because they show up later as ingredients in cauldron recipes.^[20]

Wood AshMod recipe

Oven (witchery)

• Jar

Recipe id: witchery:oven_cooking/breath_of_the_goddess

A Jar in the oven gives Breath of the Goddess and Wood Ash.

Wood AshMod recipe

Oven (witchery)

• Jar

Recipe id: witchery:oven_cooking/exhale_of_the_horned_one

The same Jar can give Exhale of the Horned One instead.

Step 2: Get your plants going

The cauldron recipes lean on the mod's plants: Belladonna Flower, Mandrake Root, Water Artichoke Globe and the Icy Needle from snowbell. Grab seeds such as Belladonna Seeds and Mandrake Seeds and start farming them early.^[20]

This pack also lets machines grow them for you. Energized Power has a plant growth chamber recipe that turns water into belladonna and its seeds. FTB Industrial Contraptions has hydroponic growth recipes, and LTX Industries has garden simulating recipes for belladonna, mandrake and snowbell. These recipes were added by the pack.^[20]

Belladonna Flower, Belladonna SeedsAdded by the pack

Plant Growth Chamber (energizedpower)

• Water

Recipe id: energizedpower:growing/witchery/belladonna_from_growing_belladonna_seeds

Added by the pack: water in, Belladonna Flower and seeds out.

Step 3: Distil Oil of Vitriol

The Distillery gives you Oil of Vitriol along with Gypsum. You need Oil of Vitriol for the first cauldron brews below, so set the Distillery up before you try them.^[20]

Oil of Vitriol, Gypsum, Slime BallMod recipe

Distilling (witchery)

Recipe id: witchery:distilling/oil_of_vitriol_gypsum

The Distillery recipe for Oil of Vitriol and Gypsum.

Step 4: Brew your first potions

With Oil of Vitriol and your plants ready, try the cauldron. Brew of Erosion weathers stone and soil, and Brew of Ink blinds what it hits. Both use the Belladonna Flower and Oil of Vitriol you made in the steps above.^[19][20]

Brew of ErosionMod recipe

Cauldron Brewing (witchery)

• Dandelion
• Magma Cream
• Belladonna Flower
• Gypsum
• 2× Oil of Vitriol

Recipe id: witchery:cauldron_brewing/brew_of_erosion

Brew of InkMod recipe

Cauldron Brewing (witchery)

• Ink Sac
• Slime Ball
• Belladonna Flower
• Oil of Vitriol
• Rowan Berries

Recipe id: witchery:cauldron_brewing/brew_of_ink

Step 5: Upgrade your chalk

Once the cauldron is running, you can upgrade Ritual Chalk in it. Golden Ritual Chalk is the first upgrade to aim for, and Infernal Chalk and Binding Chalk come from the cauldron too. All three recipes start from Ritual Chalk.^[19][20]

Golden Ritual ChalkMod recipe

Cauldron Crafting (witchery)

• Gold Nugget
• Mandrake Root
• Ritual Chalk

Recipe id: witchery:cauldron_crafting/golden_chalk

Golden Ritual Chalk is cooked in the cauldron.

Here's the honest picture of how Witchery's machines work in this pack: the sources I have show the recipe types, the block families and the config switches, but they don't spell out step-by-step operating instructions. So this section covers what is confirmed. The in-game guidebook is where the mod explains how each station is used.^[19][20][21]

The stations and what they make

Witchery has its own recipe types for its stations. The pack's recipe list shows four: cauldron brewing, cauldron crafting, oven cooking and distilling. Each one is a separate kind of recipe, so a recipe for one station never shows up in another.^[20]

• Cauldron brewing: 22 recipes, each with a different result. Brews such as Brew of Erosion, Brew of Flowing Spirit and Brew of Frost come from this type.^[20]
• Cauldron crafting: 9 recipes making 10 different results. This is where Binding Chalk and Drop of Luck are made.^[20]
• Oven cooking: 12 recipes making 9 different results, and Jar is the only Witchery ingredient used across them.^[20]
• Distilling: this includes Demons Blood and Brew of Hollow Tears.^[20]

The block list also shows a Cauldron, an Altar, a Distillery, a Sacrificial Circle and a Crystal Ball. The Cauldron and the Witches Oven each come in copper variants at several weathering stages, plus waxed versions of each. Fume extensions exist for the ovens too. Exactly how the multi-part blocks fit together isn't in the sources here, so check the guidebook entries for the cauldron, oven, distillery and fume extension.^[19]

Recipe examples

Brew of ErosionMod recipe

Cauldron Brewing (witchery)

• Dandelion
• Magma Cream
• Belladonna Flower
• Gypsum
• 2× Oil of Vitriol

Recipe id: witchery:cauldron_brewing/brew_of_erosion

A cauldron brewing recipe: it makes Brew of Erosion.

Binding Chalk, Eternal CatalystMod recipe

Cauldron Crafting (witchery)

• Blaze Rod
• Breeze Rod
• Eternal Catalyst
• Ritual Chalk

Recipe id: witchery:cauldron_crafting/binding_chalk

A cauldron crafting recipe. Eternal Catalyst is listed both as an ingredient and as an output of this recipe.

Wood AshMod recipe

Oven (witchery)

• Jar

Recipe id: witchery:oven_cooking/breath_of_the_goddess

An oven recipe with two results: Breath of the Goddess and Wood Ash.

Demons Blood, Demons Blood, Soul SandMod recipe

Distilling (witchery)

Recipe id: witchery:distilling/demons_blood

A distilling recipe that gives two Demons Blood along with a second output.

Jar itself isn't made at a station. In the pack it comes from a smelting recipe.^[20]

JarMod recipe

Smelting

Recipe id: witchery:jar

Automation: farming Belladonna with other mods

The pack adds its own recipes so you can grow Belladonna with machines from three other mods. These are pack additions, not part of Witchery itself.^[20]

• Energized Power: a plant growth chamber recipe takes water and produces both Belladonna Flower and Belladonna Seeds.^[20]
• FTB Industrial Contraptions: a hydroponic growth recipe produces the flower and the seeds.^[20]
• LTX Industries: a garden simulating recipe produces the flower.^[20]

Belladonna Flower, Belladonna SeedsAdded by the pack

Plant Growth Chamber (energizedpower)

• Water

Recipe id: energizedpower:growing/witchery/belladonna_from_growing_belladonna_seeds

The Energized Power growth chamber recipe.

Belladonna Flower, Belladonna SeedsAdded by the pack

Hydroponic Growth (ftbic)

Recipe id: ftbic:hydroponic_growth/witchery/belladonna_seeds

The FTB Industrial Contraptions hydroponic recipe.

Belladonna FlowerAdded by the pack

Garden Simulating (ltxi)

Recipe id: ltxi:garden_simulating/witchery/belladonna_seeds

The LTX Industries garden simulating recipe.

Taglocks in this pack

The pack runs its own script that changes how the taglock item binds to a creature. You use it with your main hand, on a living target, and only when you are holding exactly one unfilled taglock. If the binding works, the taglock is stamped with the current game time. If it fails, the taglock gets a cooldown value of 100 and the interaction is cancelled.^[22]

Mechanics switches in the pack config

These are the values in the pack's Witchery config file that change how the systems behave.^[21]

• enableCurses is true. If it were turned off, rituals that apply curses would not function.^[21]
• maxVinSize is 81. That is the maximum number of blocks in a vein that Hag's ring will mine.^[21]
• mutandisBlacklist is empty. Any block you list there is never mutated by Mutandis or Mutandis Extremis, and the item isn't used up when you try it on that block.^[21]
• requireGhostOfLightInfusion is false, so mirror teleportation does not need the Ghost of the Light infusion.^[21]
• enableLycanthropy is true, which lets player werewolves spread lycanthropy at level 10.^[21]
• enableVampireImmortality is true, so vampires are held at half a heart instead of dying from most damage. Fire, sunlight, the void and wooden weapons can still kill them.^[21]
• vampireSunSafeDimensions lists twilightforest:twilight_forest, a dimension where vampires never burn in sunlight.^[21]
• hunterAmbushEnabled is true, so Hunters can ambush vampires, werewolves and liches.^[21]

The mod is built to be datapack-friendly, with data-driven rituals and recipes, which is why the pack can add and change recipes the way it does.^[1]

There is no quest chain to follow for Just Another Witchery Remake in this pack, so the progression below is read from the in-pack recipes instead. Follow the ingredient chain from the cheap oven products up to the late cauldron and distilling recipes. The mod's in-game guidebook is split into general, brewing and brazier entries, which is a handy second map once you have the first few items.^{[5][6][7][20]}

Unverified The sources here do not show any quest that involves this mod, so the order the pack's quest book expects you to take it in is not confirmed. The steps below follow recipe dependencies only.

Step 1: Jars and the oven

Everything starts with the Jar, which is a smelting recipe. The oven recipes in this pack then give you Breath of the Goddess, Exhale of the Horned One and Foul Fume, each with Wood Ash as a by-product.^[20]

JarMod recipe

Smelting

Recipe id: witchery:jar

The Jar is smelted rather than crafted.

Wood AshMod recipe

Oven (witchery)

• Jar

Recipe id: witchery:oven_cooking/breath_of_the_goddess

Oven recipe: a Jar turns into Breath of the Goddess and Wood Ash.

Step 2: Mutandis and chalks

Cauldron crafting is the next tier. Mutandis comes out four at a time, and Mutandis Extremis is built on top of it.^[20]

4× MutandisMod recipe

Cauldron Crafting (witchery)

• Egg
• Exhale of the Horned One
• Mandrake Root

Recipe id: witchery:cauldron_crafting/mutandis

One craft makes 4 Mutandis.

Mutandis ExtremisMod recipe

Cauldron Crafting (witchery)

• Crimson Fungus
• Mutandis

Recipe id: witchery:cauldron_crafting/mutandis_extremis

The cauldron also turns Ritual Chalk into Golden Ritual Chalk, Infernal Chalk and Binding Chalk. The Binding Chalk recipe gives the Eternal Catalyst back.^[20]

Golden Ritual ChalkMod recipe

Cauldron Crafting (witchery)

• Gold Nugget
• Mandrake Root
• Ritual Chalk

Recipe id: witchery:cauldron_crafting/golden_chalk

Binding Chalk, Eternal CatalystMod recipe

Cauldron Crafting (witchery)

• Blaze Rod
• Breeze Rod
• Eternal Catalyst
• Ritual Chalk

Recipe id: witchery:cauldron_crafting/binding_chalk

The Eternal Catalyst is returned alongside the chalk.

Infernal ChalkMod recipe

Cauldron Crafting (witchery)

• Blaze Powder
• Crimson Fungus
• Ritual Chalk

Recipe id: witchery:cauldron_crafting/infernal_chalk

Step 3: Distilling

The distilling recipes cover items such as Demons Blood, Refined Evil, Oil of Vitriol, Ender Dew, Phantom Vapor and Tear of the Goddess. Refined Evil can be made two ways, and these feed the later cauldron recipes.^[20]

2× Demons Blood, 2× Demons Blood, Refined EvilMod recipe

Distilling (witchery)

Recipe id: witchery:distilling/refined_evil

Odor of Purity, Reek of Misfortune, Foul Fume, Refined EvilMod recipe

Distilling (witchery)

Recipe id: witchery:distilling/refined_evil_from_ghast

Step 4: Brews and late-game cauldron recipes

The cauldron brewing recipes are where the earlier items pay off. Brew of Erosion, Brew of Last Stand and Brew of Oblivion all build on items from the earlier steps, such as Oil of Vitriol, Mutandis Extremis and Ender Dew. Drop of Luck is a cauldron crafting recipe that also draws on the earlier tiers.^[20]

Brew of ErosionMod recipe

Cauldron Brewing (witchery)

• Dandelion
• Magma Cream
• Belladonna Flower
• Gypsum
• 2× Oil of Vitriol

Recipe id: witchery:cauldron_brewing/brew_of_erosion

Brew of OblivionMod recipe

Cauldron Brewing (witchery)

• Glow Ink Sac
• Sugar
• Breath of the Goddess
• Ender Dew
• Whiff of Magic

Recipe id: witchery:cauldron_brewing/brew_of_oblivion

Brew of Last StandMod recipe

Cauldron Brewing (witchery)

• Golden Apple
• Focused Will
• Hint of Rebirth
• Mutandis Extremis
• Owlets Wing

Recipe id: witchery:cauldron_brewing/brew_of_last_stand

Drop of LuckMod recipe

Cauldron Crafting (witchery)

• Nether Wart
• Mandrake Root
• Mutandis Extremis
• Refined Evil
• Tear of the Goddess

Recipe id: witchery:cauldron_crafting/drop_of_luck

Farming the herbs with machines

The pack adds machine recipes for growing the mod's plants, so you do not have to farm them by hand forever. Plant growth chamber recipes from Energized Power yield Belladonna Flower, Mandrake Root, Water Artichoke Globe, Wolfsbane and Wormwood together with their seeds, and the Snowbell recipe yields Icy Needle. FTB Industrial Contraptions has matching hydroponic growth recipes, and LTX Industries has garden simulating recipes for the same plants.^[20]

Mandrake Root, Mandrake SeedsAdded by the pack

Plant Growth Chamber (energizedpower)

• Water

Recipe id: energizedpower:growing/witchery/mandrake_from_growing_mandrake_seeds

Example: the plant growth chamber recipe for Mandrake.

Just Another Witchery Remake ties into several other mods in this pack through its cauldron and ritual recipes. The pack's quest sources don't show any quests for this mod, so everything below comes from the in-pack recipes.^[20]

Rune Plate: Ars Magica and Roots Classic

The pack adds its own Witchery cauldron crafting recipe for Rune Plate. It mixes items from Ars Magica: Legacy and Roots Classic with Witchery items, and it makes 2 Rune Plates per craft. This is a pack recipe, not something the mod ships with.^[20]

2× Rune PlateAdded by the pack

Cauldron Crafting (witchery)

• Purified Vinteum Dust
• Sunstone
• Growth Powder
• Demon Heart
• Refined Evil
• Spectral Dust

Recipe id: ftb:feed_the_beast/rune_plate

Brewed in the Witchery cauldron, and added by the pack.

Cinnabar ritual: FTB Materials

The Blocks Below ritual is one the pack changed. It uses the Cinnabar Gem from FTB Materials alongside Witchery items and a couple of vanilla ones, so you need the cinnabar from that mod to perform it.^[20]

Rite of Bloodbinding: Neo Vitae

The Rite of Bloodbinding reaches into Neo Vitae. It asks for a Blood Pearl and a Weak Blood Shard, together with Witchery items such as the Bloodstone Pendant and the Necromantic Stone. The sources list this as the mod's own recipe, with no pack change.^[20]

Forbidden Magic addon

Soul magic and lichdom were moved out of the main mod into the Forbidden Magic addon, which this pack includes as JAWR: Forbidden Magic. Its recipes run on the Witchery cauldron and ritual systems, and they use Witchery ingredients mixed with a few vanilla items.^[1][20]

• Brew of Soul Severance is a cauldron brew built from Witchery items plus Soul Sand.^[20]
• Necromantic Soulbind is another cauldron brew. It uses the Necromantic Stone, a Totem Of Undying and a Bone, among other things.^[20]
• The Phylactery has two ritual recipes, and both use the Necromantic Soulbind. One adds a Gold Ingot and the other a Lapis Lazuli.^[20]

Brew of Soul SeveranceMod recipe

Cauldron Brewing (witchery)

• Soul Sand
• Ender Dew
• Mandrake Root
• Phantom Vapor
• Spectral Dust

Recipe id: witchery_forbidden_magic:cauldron_brewing/brew_of_soul_severance

Necromantic SoulbindMod recipe

Cauldron Brewing (witchery)

• Bone
• Totem Of Undying
• Mellifluous Hunger
• Necromantic Stone
• Redstone Soup

Recipe id: witchery_forbidden_magic:cauldron_brewing/necromantic_soulbind

Everything here lives in config/witchery-common.toml, the common config for Just Another Witchery Remake. Below is how this pack sets the options you are most likely to run into, grouped by what they affect.^[21]

Vampires and hunters

• enableVampireImmortality is true. Vampires are kept at half a heart instead of dying from most damage sources. Drowning and freezing always deal no damage to them, while fire, sunlight, the void and wooden weapons can always kill them.^[21]
• vampireSunSafeDimensions is set to twilightforest:twilight_forest, so vampires never burn in sunlight in that dimension.^[21]
• enableEmpoweredSunstonePendantProtection is true. Empowered Sunstone Pendants give vampires permanent sunlight protection while worn.^[21]
• enableEmpoweredMooncharmPendantAbility is true. Empowered Mooncharm Pendants provide the Blood Scent ability while worn.^[21]
• hunterAmbushEnabled is true, so Hunters can ambush vampires, werewolves and liches.^[21]

Werewolves and curses

• enableLycanthropy is true. Player werewolves can spread lycanthropy at level 10.^[21]
• enableCurses is true. If you turn it off, rituals that apply curses will not function.^[21]

Villages

• enableVillageWalls is true, so walled villages generate a defensive wall. The special witchery buildings still generate in those villages even if you disable it.^[21]
• enableVillageWallTerrainConforming is false. Each wall piece samples the ground height at its own position, with no clamping against its neighbors. Turned on, each piece's height would be clamped to within 4 blocks of its neighbor to avoid drops into caves or holes.^[21]

Tools and utility

• maxVinSize is 81. That is the maximum number of blocks in a vein to mine with Hag's ring.^[21]
• mutandisBlacklist is empty, so no blocks are protected from Mutandis and Mutandis Extremis. Add registry names to it, for example minecraft:oak_sapling, and those blocks will never mutate. The item is also not consumed when used on them.^[21]
• requireGhostOfLightInfusion is false, so you do not need the Ghost of the Light infusion to teleport through mirrors. If it were enabled, only players with that infusion could.^[21]
• enableCreativeTabBanners is true, so the Witchery creative tab shows category banners. When disabled, items show as a flat grid without banner headers or spacer slots.^[21]

FTB Evolution 2 1.1.0 ships Just Another Witchery Remake version 0.5.13.1 for Minecraft 26.1.2. The mod was already in the pack in 1.0.2 or earlier. The changelogs below are the mod's own, for the two most recent versions.^[2]

0.5.13.1

This is the version in your pack. It is a small hotfix that closes an exploit involving the vampire bone needle.^[2][23]

0.5.13: additions

• Dispensers now work with Witchery brews and potions.^[24]
• Garlic now has a loot table (it was missing before).^[24]
• There is a new config option for vampire immortality.^[24]
• There is a new config option for vampire sun damage protection in dimensions.^[24]
• The Sacrifice ritual now supports entity tags and either/or entities.^[24]
• The remove curse ritual can now clear vampirism and lycanthropy.^[24]

0.5.13: changes

• Village structure spawning was tweaked.^[24]
• The quest text for the vampire step from level 2 to 3 was made clearer.^[24]

0.5.13: fixes

• Poppets were tweaked to hopefully fix the poppet disconnect problem.^[24]
• Arthana no longer disappears when the world reloads.^[24]
• The owl was fixed.^[24]
• Missing language entries for advancements were added.^[24]
• Baby animals now have a blood pool.^[24]
• Vampire food now supports tags.^[24]
• Players were sometimes kicked when going to the spirit world. That is fixed.^[24]