Nullcraft — Path of the Antimage

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You are the mage hunter. Drain enemy mana, forbid spellcasting, turn spells back on their casters and finish the drained. Nullcraft is a full counter-magic class for NeoForge 1.21.1 that stands on its own and plugs straight into Iron's Spells 'n Spellbooks and Ars Nouveau.

Features

• 21 antimage arts in three schools: Suppression, Devourer and Spellbreaker. Each school has six arts, among them Siphon, Silence, Parry, Spell Reflection, Null Field, Hush Mark, Anchor Seal, Plunder, Ballast and Breakwater. Each art has its own effects, sound and cast animation.
• A loadout wheel. Carry six arts of your choice. Parry and your ultimate have their own keys.
• Three ultimates, one choice. Absolute Null, Hollowing Brand or Captive Constellation, each with three ranks to unlock.
• The Antimage Oath. Swear it on the Codex and the arts become innate. Magic and anti-magic exclude each other: a sworn antimage cannot cast spells, and anyone carrying a spellbook or staff cannot use the arts.
• Vaerin, the First Silence. An ancient antimage sealed in stone on the altar of every Rift Sanctum. He tells a seven-chapter story, offers three hunting contracts a day, and teaches the talent tree and mastery (8 stats). The tree has 6 paths of 5 ranks; ranks II, IV and V offer a choice of two talents, and rank V is a keystone.
• Mage Souls and Trophies. Every spellcaster you slay leaves a soul — the currency for antimage gear. Iron's wizards also drop school trophies.
• Two bosses.
  • The Archmage, Riftkeeper: three phases. With Iron's installed he casts real Iron's spells: fireballs, ice tombs, lightning, summoned vexes.
  • The Coven of Three: Ashara the Pyre, Iselin the Frost and Morwen the Blood. Their link shields them and their ritual devastates the arena. Only Silence breaks either.
• Arsenal.
  • Weapons: Nullblade, Null Dagger (backstabs), Void Scythe (sweeping mana burn), Spellbreaker Hammer (silences), Null Bow (arrows burn mana and strip buffs), Null Glaive, Spellthief Gauntlets, Voidcleaver and Rift Chakram.
  • Armor: Nullsteel, Hunter's garb, and Voidforged plate (smithing upgrade).
  • Seven Curios trinkets: amulets, a bracelet, rings, a belt and charms.
• Creatures of the rift, each with its own model and its own weak spot: the Spellbound Knight, the Hexcaster, Mana Leeches, the Mana Wraith, Rift Acolytes and the Reliquary Warden, which throws its seal wheel.
• Runes and the Null Forge, Rift Sanctum structures, 20+ advancements and a full in-game Codex wiki.
• Original pixel art, custom sounds, keyframed animations. Full English and Russian localisation.

Compatibility

• Required on both client and server.
• Neither Iron's nor Ars code is bundled. Both are reached through reflection, so the mod runs fine without them.

Original work

Nullcraft is an original, standalone mod. It is not a fork, port or addon of any other project, and it contains no code, textures, models or sounds from other mods or games. All art is original, and the sounds are built from Kenney.nl CC0 samples.

The compatibility features are optional. Iron's Spells, Ars Nouveau and Curios are not bundled or modified in any way. At runtime, and only if the player has installed them, Nullcraft calls their public classes and events — for example to read and drain mana, cancel casts or ask a boss to cast an existing spell. Without them, the mod uses its own systems.

Getting started

1. Craft Null Shards (amethyst, obsidian and an ender pearl), or mine deepslate null ore.
2. Craft the Codex (a book and a Null Shard). Right-click it to swear the oath.
3. R casts the selected art, hold V for the wheel, G parries, Z casts your ultimate, H opens the Codex.
4. Find a Rift Sanctum and speak with Vaerin.

Credits

• Sounds: layered from Kenney.nl CC0 sample packs plus synthesis.
• NeoForge, and the authors of Iron's Spells 'n Spellbooks, Ars Nouveau and Curios for their APIs.

License: MIT.

По-русски

Nullcraft — мод противомагии: вы охотник на магов. Поглощайте ману, запрещайте колдовать, отражайте заклинания и добивайте истощённых.

• 21 искусство, круг из шести выбранных и три ульты на выбор.
• Клятва антимага.
• Запечатанный наставник Вейрин: сюжет, ежедневные контракты, таланты и мастерство.
• Души и трофеи магов.
• Два босса: Архимаг и Ковен Трёх.
• Оружие, три комплекта брони и 7 амулетов Curios.
• Интеграция с Iron's Spells и Ars Nouveau (необязательная).
• Полная русская локализация.