Void Chronicle

Void Chronicle

"First page. I came to study the cracks where light seems to leak away. I will measure them the way anything is measured: with patience and a notebook." — Journal of Dr. Ilvane Kest

Void Chronicle is a magic, exploration and cosmic-horror mod for Minecraft (NeoForge 26.1.2). You follow in the footsteps of Dr. Ilvane Kest, a researcher who came to study the Great Void. Measure the Rift, learn the grammar of glyphs, awaken ancient altars, and cross into a world where the Void has already won. The more she uncovers, the less sure she is of what is real, until she stands face to face with The Observer.

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📖 The Void Chronicle

The book is both your guide and your journal.

• 74 topics on a ring-shaped map, revealed as you experience what they describe.
• An 8-chapter progression path with an objective, a recipe and a result for every step. The ! button always takes you to the next one.
• Every step unlocks a page of Dr. Kest's journal. Read them all to learn what happened to her.

✨ Glyph magic

• Build spells like sentences: 1 Form + Effects + Modifiers, with more than 60 glyphs (projectile, area, beam, healing, frost, antimatter ray, summon ally...).
• Weave them at the Spell Bench or the Weaving Altar, and cast them through the Void Glove, which has 4 tiers and a spell wheel.
• Every spell drains your Void Reserve and leaves a scar on the world: the Rift.

🌌 The Rift

Magic has a price. The Rift grows wherever you cast, and slowly on its own as the days pass:

• 150+: crystal-covered undead start to walk.
• 200+: the ground whispers and ghosts arrive in waves.
• 300+: the Abyss, where darkness becomes a presence.

Seals, stitching rituals and Void Alloy armor help you keep it under control.

⚒️ Workbenches, rituals and machines

• Inscription, Foundry, Cutting and Rune benches, each with its own tool and animated parts.
• Study Table: learn new recipes by solving a connect-the-dots puzzle across 7 levels.
• Weaving Altar with columns and a Matrix: distill the 6 essences (Void, Entropy, Stasis, Flux, Genesis and Gravity), perform rituals, and plant and tame Aura Nodes.
• Runes and Rune Circles, Rite Orbs, Aura Tower, Still, Refiner, Antimatter Reactor, Collector, Disseminator and more.
• Void Automaton: build your helper in a multiblock forge and program it with visual blocks (harvest, mine, store, defend...).

🌀 The Crystal Rift

Open an antimatter portal with the Rift Key and step into a dimension of its own:

• 10 biomes, each with its own beast, plant and food (Abyssal Forest, Ashen Barrens, Frost Hollow, Whispering Dunes...).
• Crystalline ores, unique woods, the Void Village with a merchant, temples, catacombs and a lost library.

👁️ Creatures and bosses

• 27 creatures built from scratch, with high-resolution skins, animations and their own sounds.
• 4 bosses summoned with rune patterns: the Faceless Watcher, the Star Devourer, the Dream Weaver and The Observer.
• At half health every boss transforms: it freezes, breaks out of its own shell in a flash of light, and comes back stronger with a new appearance.

🌳 The Void Tree

Press K. There are 28 skills across 4 branches: Body, Arcane, Rift and Craft. Every topic discovered in the Chronicle is worth 1 point, so your character grows along with the story. Skills can be refunded.

🎒 Gear

Five metal tiers (Antiferro, Void Alloy, Runic Steel, Singularity and Stellar), special tools, and accessories (rings, amulets, belts and a mantle) with their own effects.

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📦 Requirements

• Minecraft 26.1.2 with NeoForge 26.1.2.

• Recommended: Curios API to wear the accessories, and JEI to browse recipes and rituals.

  ⌨️ Controls

  Key	Action
  R	Cast the active spell
  G (hold)	Spell wheel
  H	Take off the glove
  K	Void Tree

  🌎 Language

  All in-game text is currently in Brazilian Portuguese or English

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  Versions

  Version 1.0.0:

  • First version

  Version 1.0.1:

  • English translation added

  Version 1.0.4:

  • Change on the Antimatter Block recipe
  • Node Crystals gives less rift
  • The rift spreads across the chunk to avoid a high concentration in one spot.
  • Void Dioptra: A block for viewing the aura and chunk boundaries
  • The Automaton skin and some workbenches have been improved
  • The Essence Distiller now features a screen and stores essences in 9 dedicated slots.
  • Version 1.21.1 added

  Version 1.0.5:

  • New final boss: the Void Sovereign

  • Custom animated health bar for each boss

  • Star Devourer remodeled

  • Rift Portal can now have any size and shape (no longer only 4x5)

  • The return portal now takes you back to the portal you came from

  • Void Tank added: unlimited amount per item type, search bar, compatible with hoppers and other mods items

  • Tank Segments add more item types and connect with the tank into a single volume

  • Tank Link opens the tank from a distance

  • Experience Tank: stores experience from the Soul Chamber and nearby orbs.

  • New capture system: Capture glyph and Soul Vessels to catch creatures, bosses included

  • Soul Chamber: farms the loot of a captured creature and connects to the tank

  • 20 new skills and a new Legacy branch on the Void Tree (48 in total); learned skills can be turned on and off

  • Void Tree screen is bigger, draggable and zoomable

  • New Chronicle story: the book passes through 5 bearers, each with their own color, map ring, equipment tier and Void Tree branch

  • Chronicle map: separate pages for armor and tools of each tier, every enchantment and every Automaton tier and special part; better performance when zoomed out

  • Chronicle steps that need rituals or multiblocks now show an image of how to build them

  • Void enchantments made at the Weaving Altar, plus 22 vanilla enchantments without the randomness of the enchanting table

  • Void Square: projects multiblocks and rune rituals with low opacity to help you build them

  • Weaving Altar now holds the main item and the result of a ritual, like a pedestal

  • Node ritual now places the item on a pedestal instead of dropping it

  • Selection screen when more than one ritual is possible on the Runic Stone

  • Runes redone as raised plates, with a carving minigame to craft them

  • Greater Seal: stops the rift from growing in the chunk and lowers it

  • Tier V (Stellar) glove and ritual for the Stellar items

  • Accessories now have tiers (I to III), upgraded at the altar

  • Seer's Lantern upgrades (tiers I to III)

  • Armor remodeled with progressive design: it changes with each piece worn

  • Weapons and armor are now useful outside the mod, not only against corrupted creatures, with matching bonuses for each tool

  • Automaton parts and commands must now be studied

  • Water monsters can pull players, with a unique animation

  • New monster sounds

  • Mod foods have unique effects

  • New versions of vanilla ores in the Crystal Rift and more complex caves

  • Crystal Rift glass is now translucent

  • Void Village no longer uses regular dirt

  • Ore locators are now compasses, with the big needle pointing to the destination

  • Void Elevator links blocks at any distance

  • Monocle now shows the local Aura

  • Study minigame no longer gets too small on higher levels

  • Green check on learned glyphs in the crafting screen

  • Scroll through workbench tabs with the mouse wheel; workbench recipes reorganized

  • Boss summons use fewer items (6 pedestals at most)

  • The Automaton Forge now faces the player

  • New textures for Antiferro Ore, Antimatter Crystal, Null Essence and Sovereign Heart

  • Bug fixes: items stuck on pedestals after rituals, wrong ritual message, JEI text overflow and icons, glove slot missing in modpacks, foods with the same icon