The soul forge is a multiblock made from all the dimensions. Allows advanced manipulation of traits and creation of unique materials.

Soul Extractor

  • Requires materials from ancient cities to build.
  • Allows you to remove the soul from materials, granting hollow.
    • Hollow is a tier 4 material with pretty solid stats, but a hollow trait (+1 soul slot).
    • You can fill it with traits using the other parts of the soul forge, with some risk.
  • Also allows creation of hollow gems. Hollow gems are inverted diamonds, reducing a variety of stats in exchange for +1 soul slot.

Soul Infuser

  • Requires materials from bastions to build.
  • Allows you to add a soul to an existing material.
  • Using alone only works with liquid soul, which can be infused into a few things including iron to make soulsteel.
    • Soulsteel is a tier 4 special material, with a trait that consumes your XP to mine faster and do more damage.

Soul Movement

  • Souls are axis aligned projectiles similar to shulker bullets
  • The soul extractor shoots out a soul after extracting.
  • Souls can hit “soul refractors” to be redirected down a different axis.
  • Souls can also be split into multiple smaller souls if hitting the right block.
  • Souls decay if they exist too long, or if they hit a block where they lack interactions.
  • Refracting into soul forge blocks will continue the recipe.

Soul Slots

  • Combining the soul extractor and the soul infuser lets you fill soul slots on tools.
  • Simply extract the relevant material soul then connect it into the infuser using some hollow wires to fill a tool.
  • The first soul slot filled on a tool has no consequences.
  • Every soul slot filled after the first also adds a random curse alongside the intended trait.
    • The curse is randomly chosen from a list, some will be relatively tame and some pretty horrible.
  • Soul slots can be obtained in several ways:
    • Every tool can get a soul slot from a hollow gem, which reduces its stats.
    • Tools with materials can use hollow to get a soul slot.
    • Rebalanced can grant a soul slot.
    • Possibly include a 4th way that can be repeated for more curses.
  • New way to add modifiers to tools, replacing embossments from 1.12.

Soul Merger

  • Combining multiple souls together allows creating “soul alloys” of sorts.
  • This requires both hollow and soulsteel to construct.
  • Used for many tier 4 and tier 5 materials.

Soul Staff

  • Originally, enderslime staffs were going to get 3 starting soul slots, however further consideration suggested a new staff was better suited.
    • The addition of the soul forge will lead to enderslime staffs starting with 1 soul slot.
  • Crafted from a hollow gem, hollow ingots, and whatever in hollow seems most like wood.
  • Starts with 2 upgrade slots, 2 ability slots, and 3 soul slots.

Teantium Ore

  • Unstable ore of the end
  • Will explode if mined improperly
  • To properly mine the ore, you need to use the melting modifier and obtain it as a liquid
  • If casted into ingots, the ingots will explode after a short time
  • To process the ore:
    • Place the teantium ingot in the soul forge, and extract the shaluth and soulsteel souls. This leaves behind hollow
    • Place the two souls back into separate hollow ingots to use
  • Shaluth and soulsteel will be tier 4 materials used in alloys. Unstable may be used in other crafting recipes but cannot be used as a material

Soul Splitter

  • Crafted from materials found in the end.
  • Required to process teantium into a usable form.
  • Can also split alloys into their core components for recycling.
  • Input is liquids instead of items

Tool materials

  • Soulsteel
    • Tier 4 melee material made from forcing a lot of liquid soul into an ingot.
    • Temporarily lowers the targets max health at the cost of consuming the attackers XP.
    • Can also ignore a portion of mined blocks’s hardness.
    • If the attacker runs out of XP, their max health will lower.
  • Hollow
    • Tier 4 special material made from removing the soul from metals.
    • Grants the tool 1 additional soul slot.
  • Shaluth
    • Tier 4 material made from splitting teantium.
    • Trait will increase drops from mobs at the cost of damage.
  • Ardite
    • Tier 4 material made from splitting teantium.
    • Trait will increase tool speed against all blocks (even ineffective) at the cost of loss of block drops (like blasting in 1.12).
  • Gardite
    • Tier 5 gem made from ((((ardite + earthslime) + skyslime) + ichor) + enderslime) into a hollow gem in the soul forge.
  • KnightSlime
    • Tier 5 composite, from pouring shaluth (possibly combined with other stuff) onto slimestone.
  • Ebonite
    • Tier 5 weapon material made by forging the souls of blazing bone, venombone, and shaluth.
    • Charges as the player takes wither damage, then unleashes powerful effects based on the charge.
  • Matthium
    • Tier 5 harvest material alloyed using soulsteel, ardite, hollow, and gaseous XP
    • Temporarily boosts mining speed after attacking, and boosts attack speed after mining.
  • Alexandrite
    • Tier 5 special material made by forging the souls of diamond, emerald, and shaluth into an ender pearl.
  • ????
    • Trait is raging (previously belonging to bloodbone) which increases tool damage at low player health.

Modifiers

  • Hollow gem
    • Grants a tool an additional soul slot.
  • Soul Gem
    • Modifier that removes a single curse from the tool.
    • Requires 1 soul slot to apply.
  • Gardite
    • Modifier in a soul merging sing all the slime into a hollow gem.
    • Applies a stat boost to the tool based on how many low tier materials it contains.
  • Soul slots
    • Obtained using either hollow gems, or the hollow material.
    • Can be filled with souls from various materials, granting their trait.
    • May have additional methods of adding more soul slots at the cost of applying curses to your tool.