Iron's Botany
- By
Iron’s Botany is a compatibility mod that tightly merges Botania and Iron’s Spells ’n Spellbooks, letting Botania mana power spells while spells can also interact with Botania systems. New school, new spells, new armor.
Curse Maven Snippet
What's new
[2.1.0] - 2026-09-07 — Stability, Mana & VFX Update
A major refinement update focused on mana reliability, spell behavior, performance, and visual effects.
Fixed
- Improved mana transfer fairness so conduits and reservoirs no longer starve some recipients.
- Spell discoveries and progression now survive death and End-return player cloning correctly.
- Elementium Scroll upgrades now preserve names, rune enhancements, and addon data.
- Filled spellbooks can no longer be accidentally consumed by book-upgrade recipes.
- Fixed several legacy-item migration issues.
- Terrasteel armor now uses the correct active mana pool for its defensive threshold.
- Ars 'n Spells mana-unification settings are now respected properly.
- Gaia's environmental trials now support all registered spell schools.
- Fixed Gaia II legendary ink drops.
- Reworked cast payment handling to prevent failed, partial, duplicated, or incorrectly funded spell casts.
- Improved Mana Mirror handling, hybrid routing, dual-resource payments, and rollback safety.
- Fixed several issues with Flower Shield, summons, PvP filtering, runes, catalysts, equipment modifiers, melee mana generation, Corporea, Alfheim portals, advancements, and spellbook recipes.
- Gaia's Blessing now consistently requires its intended mana surcharge.
Improved
- Retextured Botany and Elementium scrolls with a new pale sage-green parchment style.
- All available Botany spell scroll levels now appear correctly in the Iron's Botany creative tab and search.
- Added Lodestone-powered VFX across spells, shields, rebirth effects, projectiles, mana transfers, catalysts, and auras.
- Added FULL, REDUCED, and MINIMAL particle quality settings, plus controls for trails, glow, and ambient effects.
- Visual effects now respect Minecraft's particle settings and use stricter performance limits.
- Reworked aura, Alfheim, Corporea, and transfer searches to reduce unnecessary server work.
- Improved HUD synchronization and block-update efficiency.
Compatibility
- Network protocol increased to 2. Clients and servers must use matching versions.
- Lodestone is now required.
This mod has no additional files