Eclipse Gate

Beyond the gate, the night never ends. Open a portal to the Moonlit Hollow, a dimension of eternal night under a full moon. Explore Moonwood forests lit by glowing fungi and caves full of Moon Ore. At the heart of it all stands Castle Nocturne, the ruined walled town of the vanished Lunar Order, with a working Stargate in its center. Something still waits in the depths beneath it: the Eclipse Warden.

🌙 Getting there

1. Find a Ruined Hollow Portal in the Overworld (Cartographers sell maps to them). Its chest holds a Moon Shard and the bricks to repair it. Or craft your own: Moonstone Bricks (8 Stone Bricks around an Amethyst Shard) and a Moon Shard (Amethyst Shard + Ender Pearl + Glowstone Dust).
2. Build a frame of Moonstone Bricks shaped like a Nether portal (at least 4×5, corners optional).
3. Use the Moon Shard on the frame, then step through. A return portal is built for you on arrival, always on the surface.

🌲 The Moonlit Hollow

• Eternal midnight. The sky never changes and the full moon never sets.
• Four biomes, each with its own trees and grass:
  • Hollow Woods: dense silver Moonwood forest with towering Elders.
  • Glowcap Glade: open meadows carpeted in glowing fungi.
  • Glimmering Grove: a forest of glowing Glimmerwood on luminous grass.
  • Duskwood Forest: tall, near-black conifers in an ashen haze.
• Falling stars streak across the sky and crash to the ground in a flash of light. Find the impact for glowing Star Fragments.
• Glowcaps light the surface and the cave floors.
• Its own creatures only: no vanilla mobs spawn here. Only the Moonbound Knights, Moonweavers and Lunar Wisps.

🏘️ Lunar Hamlets

The Hollow isn't empty. Small villages of the Lunar Folk, pale, silver-haired people with glowing eyes, are scattered through every biome. Trade with their Astronomers, Lunarsmiths, Herbalists, Woodcutters and Masons using Lunarite for gear, books, saplings, building blocks, maps to Castle Nocturne and Moon Shrines, and even the Moonblade.

Back home, Overworld villagers trade too: Cartographers sell maps to the Ruined Hollow Portals, and Clerics, smiths, Masons, Librarians and the Wandering Trader deal in Lunarite, Moon Shards, moon enchantments and more.

💬 Talk to the Lunar Folk

Sneak + right-click any Lunar Folk villager and just type in chat. Each one has a name, a personality for their profession and knowledge of the Hollow's lore, and they'll chat about the gate, the castle, the Warden, falling stars and more.

Want real conversations? Connect them to an AI, entirely optional:

• ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini with your own API key
• or a free local model through Ollama or LM Studio (no key needed) A setup screen pops up for the world owner when a world loads. Pick a service, paste your key, hit Save & Test, and you're done. Each service keeps its own key, so you can switch any time with /eclipsegate aichat. Keys stay in your config and are never shared with other players. Without AI, villagers still answer with built-in lines.

🏛️ Structures

✨ Stargate (Just Stargate Mod)

The Moonlit Hollow has a real, dialable Milky Way Stargate, and its address is the same in every world. Find it on a notebook page in a Ruined Hollow Portal, dial it from any Overworld gate, and step through. The castle's gate chest holds the Overworld's address, so you can always dial home.

📜 Lore

The Lunar Order built this place and then vanished through the gate. Their journals are scattered through chests across the Hollow, and every Lunar Observatory holds the Archivist's book with the real coordinates of Castle Nocturne in your world.

⚔️ Creatures, dungeon and boss

• New mobs: the Moonbound Knight (undead knights of the lost Order), the Moonweaver (a pale spider whose bite blinds) and the Lunar Wisp (a floating light whose touch lifts you off the ground).
• The Depths of Nocturne: a stair beneath Castle Nocturne's keep leads to a dark crypt full of tombs, prison cells and spawners, and below it a moonlit arena.
• The Eclipse Warden: offer a Moon Shard at the Lunar Altar to wake the boss. It fires Lunar Orbs, and at half health the eclipse falls, plunging you into darkness while it summons its knights. Defeat it for the Eclipse Heart and rare enchantments.

💍 Transport rings

Every Moon Shrine hides a set of Goa'uld transport rings. Dial them from the control panel to reach a sealed laboratory deep underground. The rings are the only way in.

✨ Enchantments

Moonlit Edge (bonus damage under the moon), Lunar Leech (life steal, treasure only), Moonstep (soft landings, speed and jump under the moon) and Nightsight (night vision).

⛏️ Lunarite

Mine Moon Ore deep in the Hollow (iron pickaxe or better) for Lunarite, a glowing moon gem.

🧱 Building blocks

Over 90 new blocks, all with matching textures:

• Moonwood: log, wood, stripped variants, planks, stairs, slab, fence, gate, door with a crescent window, trapdoor, button, pressure plate, leaves and sapling.
• Glimmerwood (glows in the dark) and Duskwood: full wood sets, including doors, trapdoors, fences and saplings.
• Lunar Stone and Deep Lunar Stone: stone, polished and bricks, with stairs, slabs and walls.
• Moonstone: moonstone, polished, bricks, cracked, chiseled, pillar, tiles, stairs, slabs and walls, button, pressure plate.
• Lunarite: Lunarite Bricks, Block of Lunarite, Moon Lamp.
• Moon Grass, Glimmer Grass and Dusk Grass: the Hollow's own grass blocks.
• Glowcaps, which can also be cooked into Glowcap Stew for Night Vision.
• Star Fragments from falling stars: craft them into Lunarite, or two plus an Ender Pearl into a Moon Shard.

🏆 Advancements

A full Eclipse Gate advancement tab with 25 advancements, running from finding your first ruin to exploring every structure and defeating the Eclipse Warden.

🌌 Main menu

A custom title screen: a night panorama of the Moonlit Hollow, with the gate under a black eclipse, glowing Glimmerwood, dark Duskwood, Castle Nocturne on the horizon and falling stars overhead.

🔌 Compatibility

• Just Stargate Mod: required. Powers Castle Nocturne's Stargate and its fixed address.
• JSG: Rings and Transporters: required. Adds transport rings to the Moon Shrines and a hidden lab below them.
• JEI: every recipe, plus information pages explaining the portal, ores and gear.
• Configured: edit every Eclipse Gate setting in game, from an All Settings button on the villager AI setup screen.
• Tinkers' Construct: Lunarite is a tool and armor material. It has diamond-level mining and the Looting, Airborne and Melee Protection traits.
• Shaders (Oculus / Iris): every block and item ships with LabPBR normal and specular maps. Moon Lamps, ore gems, Glowcaps and the portal glow, while polished stone and gems shine. Set your shader pack's PBR / Normal & Specular option to LabPBR.

📦 Requirements

• Minecraft 1.20.1
• Forge 47.4.0 or newer
• Just Stargate Mod (JSG) 5.1 or newer
• JSG: Rings and Transporters Install it on both the server and every client.

The new dimension, structures and ores generate in new chunks. For the full experience, including the fixed Stargate address, start a new world.

📖 Guide

Every recipe, structure, creature and setting is covered in the Eclipse Gate Guide: WiKi

💜 Support

Eclipse Gate is free, and every feature is for everyone. If you'd like to help keep the gate open, you can support development on Patreon.

Made by Darkmoon Hollow Development. Found a bug or have an idea? Let us know in the comments or on the issue tracker.