**Disclaimer: Currently going through a rework and transferring to Forge 1.20.1. Sorry, but Neoforge was not my cup of tea, and Fabric is a strong maybe. I will soon release an alpha for players to test out, but most will not be available in creative. There is only 1 curse at the moment. I'm not sure if it will be a permanent feature, as I'm a long way from proper animations and textures. **

Cursed energy is not a resource bar you fill and spend. It is something you are born with a capacity for, something you learn to hold, and something that gets you killed when you run out at the wrong moment.

Sorcery Unbound is a Jujutsu Kaisen mod built around that idea. You roll a birth potential, grow through eleven grades, earn techniques rather than picking them from a menu, and eventually hold enough power that the terrain stops being scenery and starts being something you have to be careful around.

What changed since the last release

The previous build was four technique items, one capability, and a projectile — roughly a dozen classes. Alpha v1 is a different mod that happens to share a name.

Why Forge 1.20.1? NeoForge wasn't working out, and 1.20.1 has the mature library ecosystem this mod leans on. Fabric is still a maybe, not a promise.

Core systems

Birth and grades. Everyone rolls a cursed energy potential at character start — from dormant non-sorcerer up through calamity class — alongside RCT aptitude, mutations, clan, and special traits. From there you climb eleven grades across 1,320 levels.

Grading up actually changes your body. Each grade grants permanent max health, armor, and toughness, and raises how fast you break blocks. Battle mode adds movement speed, attack damage, knockback dealt and resisted, and jump height on top. A Special Grade sorcerer moves and hits like one.

Heavenly Restriction is a real path, not a debuff. Physically Gifted trades all cursed energy for a body that scales harder than anyone else's, with its own stamina, invulnerability frames, fall and fire resistance, and water-walking.

Cursed energy and reinforcement. Hold reinforcement for damage reduction and combat stats at a constant CE drain. Flex your energy at the right moment and the window for Black Flash opens.

Black Flash, per canon, deals your hit to the power of 2.5 — not a flat multiplier. It can't be forced; you have to catch the timing window. Land one and you enter the zone: sixty seconds where proc chance jumps sharply and techniques cost less, with consecutive flashes tracked on screen. Nanami and Yuji's record is four. Go beat it.

Reverse Cursed Technique is a timing minigame built on the canon logic of multiplying two cursed energy streams — negative times negative. Pulse in the sweet spot to convert CE into positive energy and heal; mistime it and the energy is simply gone. New in alpha v1: RCT is unlockable by every technique at control level 100. Your aptitude roll decides how forgiving the window is, not whether you get access at all.

Techniques

Shrine (Sukuna) is the deepest line in this build — eight abilities from Dismantle up to Malevolent Shrine:

• Dismantle — the fixed line cut. Carves a plane straight through terrain.
• Cleave — reads its target's durability and shapes the cut to match.
• Dismantle: Crosshatch — a four-angle lattice, carved into the world.
• Fire Arrow (Fuga) — a 48-block flame lance that detonates on arrival, leaving a crater ringed in magma, basalt, blackstone and char.
• World Cutting Slash — the Heian-era cut. Sixty blocks, through everything.
• King of Curses — passive. Bare-handed damage, bleed, cursed energy on kill, and regeneration from raw cursed energy the way a cursed spirit heals, with no RCT required.
• Malevolent Shrine — a 100-block-wide open domain centred on a shrine that manifests behind you. Everything inside is cut, continuously, while the terrain is shaved away by a barrage that never stops. There is no barrier. If you want to survive it, leave.
• Open — only speakable inside the domain, and only once the ash has built. Then a sixty-block corridor of fire that does not leave much behind.

Angel and Boogie Woogie are also in, with more canon and original techniques planned.

Terrain destruction

Abilities cut the world, and the world stays cut. Destruction is queued and budgeted across server ticks rather than dropped in one frame, so a crater eats outward instead of freezing the server. What you can break scales with your mastery — an unawakened vessel opens dirt and wood, a full-mastery holder opens almost anything short of bedrock.

Blast zones don't just break blocks, they change them: magma and netherrack at ground zero, basalt, blackstone and coal further out, heat-cracked stone at the fringe, fires burning on whatever's left standing.

Servers can turn all of it off with /gamerule sorceryAbilityBlockDamage false.

Cursed mobs

Hostile mobs near villages, during raids, and where villagers have recently died can spawn cursed — stronger, and worth exorcising.

Vengeful Squire (new) — the first purpose-built curse and the first Grade 1 threat. It flies, hovering between one and thirty blocks up. It swings with heavy knockback and a slow that keeps you from answering, throws bones at anyone who thinks distance is safety, and chews through wood to reach you. It spawns at night and drifts toward villages, where it hunts iron golems first.

Killing one pays out enough cursed energy XP to be worth hunting deliberately.

Presentation

• Custom slash, flame, ember and impact sprites
• Full-body player animations on casts (via Player Animator)
• GeckoLib models for the shrine structure and curses
• A side ability HUD showing your bound slots, keys, cooldowns and toggles
• Battle mode HUD with cursed energy, RCT and stamina readouts
• Optional Photon particle engine support for richer effects

Requirements

• Minecraft 1.20.1
• Forge 47.3.12 or later
• GeckoLib 4.7 — required

Optional:

• Player Animator — full-body cast animations. Without it, abilities work normally, just without the poses.
• Photon — enhanced particle effects, with sprite fallbacks when absent.

Known alpha limitations

Being upfront about what isn't finished:

• Max cursed energy is temporarily flat at 100,000 for all players while ability costs are tuned. Potential-scaled pools return in a later build.
• The Vengeful Squire ships without animations — the model is static for now.
• Malevolent Shrine has no sky veil rendering yet.
• The ash meter reads out on the action bar rather than the HUD, and resets on logout.
• Balance is unfinished. Late-game Sukuna is deliberately overwhelming, and some numbers will move once there's testing behind them.
• Not all content is available in creative mode.

Roadmap

• Domain expansion infrastructure, starting with Gojo
• More canon techniques: Limitless / Six Eyes, Ten Shadows, Cursed Speech, Blood Manipulation, Projection Sorcery, Straw Doll
• Original cursed techniques
• More curses, mini-bosses, and Grade 1+ threats worth fighting
• Barrier and veil systems
• Structures, relics, and exploration-driven unlocks
• Proper animations across the board

Notes

Stability, performance and balance come before rushed content. Updates arrive in waves and may take a while between them.

Bug reports and feedback are welcome — especially crash logs, which help more than anything else.