Ghostworks

Ghostworks is a dark progression and automation mod for NeoForge, built around cursed machinery, unusual creatures, branching Fae quests, dangerous equipment, and late-game encounters.

Construct an interconnected production line, turn mob farms into useful resources, process cursed materials, cleanse dangerous equipment into holy gear, and explore a world filled with Fae ruins, magical plants, companions, and hostile creatures.

Ghostworks machines, materials, weapons, tools, and creature spawn eggs

A selection of Ghostworks machinery, materials, equipment, and creatures.

Main Features

A complete cursed machinery and automation chain
Sword-powered mob farming with enchantment support
Drop collection and portable XP bottling
Cursed, holy, leaf, Sunpetal, and Starlight Pixie equipment
Luma, a flying Fae companion with connected quest branches
Six passive fantasy creatures with unique designs
Six dimension-linked cursed spider variants
Fae Ruins, hidden lore, magical flora, and uncommon encounters
Voidstalker and Voidling companion progression
Multiple bosses, including a sealed final boss
An in-game Ghostworks Guide with recipes and progressive discoveries
Optional JEI integration for recipe viewing

Core Progression

Ghostworks begins with practical automation and gradually leads into cursed industry, purified equipment, companion quests, Void materials, and powerful late-game weapons.

Build the Mob Killing Machine. Supply a sword, fuel, and optional Speed Cards to attack nearby mobs and store their experience.
Add the Bottler o' Factory and Drop Collector. Convert stored XP into Bottles o' Enchanting and gather nearby drops using shovel durability and fuel.
Construct the Cursed Incinerator. Complete the multiblock and combine burnable items with lava heat to produce Cursed Carbon.
Press Cursed Diamonds. Pulse the Cursed Diamond Press with redstone while it contains 16 Cursed Carbon, TNT, and Flint.
Choose conversion or advancement. Turn Cursed Diamonds back into vanilla Diamonds with the Cursed Evaporator, or use them to enter the cursed equipment path.
Craft cursed equipment. Cursed tools offer strong performance but poison their holder, creating a deliberate risk-and-reward stage.
Cleanse the curse. Use Golden Cloth and Holy Smithing Templates to upgrade cursed tools, weapons, and armor into holy equipment.
Empower the Cursed Pedestal. Nearby player kills feed its stored weapon. A Holy Sword awakens into Sandai Kitetsu at 1,000 kills.
Continue the known sword path. An awakened Sandai Kitetsu left on the pedestal reaches its next stage at 1,500 total kills and calls the Demon Slayer Boss.
Reforge The Blade of Greed. Defeat the Demon Slayer, recover the broken sword, and surround it with Void Orbs.

The Demon Slayer Boss encounter in a dark forest

The known Sandai Kitetsu path culminates in the Demon Slayer encounter.

Additional progression continues through Luma's requests and discoveries inside the Ghostworks Guide. Late objectives remain obscured until the player earns them.

Luma And Fae Progression

Every player receives a Ghostworks Guide and an egg belonging to Luma, a small flying Fae companion.

Luma follows her owner and offers three connected request paths:

Balance: the central path through materials, machinery, major creatures, and advanced progression
Hearth: farming, food, familiar enemies, and practical rewards
Wanderer: dangerous dimensions, exploration, and difficult combat objectives

Requests must be accepted before progress begins. Locked nodes remain gray and their requirements are hidden, allowing the storyline to unfold without revealing later encounters.

The Luma Nest can safely hide, carry, release, or recall Luma. Each player may own only one Luma, including across death, dimensions, and unloaded chunks.

The Ghostworks Guide progression interface

The in-game Guide organizes machinery, equipment, creatures, recipes, and progression.

Machines And Blocks

Mob Killing Machine

Uses an inserted sword to attack nearby mobs. Sword enchantments are respected, while Diamonds provide fuel and Speed Cards improve operation speed. Generated experience can be routed to a nearby bottler.

Bottler o' Factory

Combines stored machine XP with glass bottles to produce Bottles o' Enchanting for portable experience storage.

Drop Collector

Collects item drops within a 7x7x7 area. It consumes matching fuel and shovel durability while operating.

Cursed Incinerator

A configurable multiblock with dedicated item, lava, output, and extraction ports. It combines fuel with lava heat to produce Cursed Carbon and supports deeper Pixie Dust automation.

Cursed Diamond Press

Consumes 16 Cursed Carbon, TNT, and Flint to create a Cursed Diamond when activated by a redstone pulse.

Cursed Evaporator

Uses water to convert Cursed Diamonds into vanilla Diamonds, allowing cursed production to support ordinary crafting.

Cursed Forge

Handles specialized recipes used throughout the cursed, holy, Pixie, shield, and advanced equipment paths.

Cursed Quarry

Excavates a 3x3 shaft toward bedrock using a cursed pickaxe, Rotten Flesh, Cursed Carbon, and optional Speed Cards.

Cursed Pedestal

Stores progress from nearby player kills, strengthens the Cursed Sword, awakens a Holy Sword into Sandai Kitetsu, and drives the known Demon Slayer weapon path.

Area Charm

Consumes Pixie Dust to prevent nearby natural hostile spawns. Spawner-created mobs remain unaffected, making the charm suitable for protecting a base without disabling mob farms.

Creatures And Exploration

Passive Creatures

Mossbun, Emberkit, Glimmerfin, Moonpuff, Pebblepup, and Dewdrake inhabit the world as small fantasy creatures. They provide atmosphere and can occasionally contribute Pixie Dust to the magical resource path.

A small Ghostworks passive fantasy creature resting in grass

Ghostworks adds small passive creatures throughout the world.

Cursed Spiders

Six cursed spider variants appear across the Overworld, Nether, and End. Each has a distinct model, combat ability, material drop, and rare elite form:

Cursed spider variants hunting through a birch forest at night

Dimension-linked cursed spiders bring distinct attacks and materials.

Cinderfang Skitter
Ebon Rotmaw
Vesper Blightfang
Nocthar Webreaver
Maw of Nethervine
Gravebow Skitterfiend

Their materials can be used for specialized equipment and the Arachnid Sigil.

Fae Ruins And Flora

Newly generated terrain can contain weathered shrines, churches, watchtowers, cloisters, and abandoned homes. Ruins may include damaged history, crypts, overgrowth, cobwebs, guarded paths, or treasure, although most contain no chest.

Wild violets, asters, bluebells, buttercups, clover, and ferns add natural variety and provide ordinary dyes. Rarer magical plants can lead to additional encounters and equipment paths.

Void Progression

Voidstalkers provide Void materials used in advanced crafting. Deeper exploration can lead to the Voidling Hatchling, an owner-bound companion designed to avoid friendly pets and cooperate with scripted encounters.

A purple Voidling companion hovering in a birch forest

The Voidling Hatchling is an owner-bound companion from the Void progression path.

Equipment Paths

Cursed Gear: powerful equipment with harmful effects while held or worn
Holy Gear: cleansed upgrades created through Golden Cloth and Holy Smithing Templates
Starlight Pixie Armor: advanced armor that grants flight when the complete set is worn
Leaf Equipment: nature-focused equipment crafted from Living Leaves
Sunpetal Tools: specialized tools created with Sunpetal Cores
Shield of Divinity: an expensive Pixie Dust-powered shield intended for the strongest late-game threats
The Blade of Greed: a late-game weapon reforged from the Broken Demon Slayer Sword and Void Orbs

Requirements

Minecraft: 26.1.2
Mod loader: NeoForge 26.1.2.76 or newer
JEI: optional, but recommended

World-generation additions appear in newly generated chunks. Existing terrain is not rewritten.