Occult Nexus

A dedicated hub mod for Minecraft Forge 1.20.1, linking three mods that otherwise have no knowledge of each other: Ars Nouveau, Occultism, and Goety. Started as a backport of Ars Ocultas (mystchonky) to Forge 1.20.1 after its author moved on to NeoForge 1.21+, then grown into its own thing with two original end-game summon creatures tying all three mods together.

What it does

Backported from Ars Ocultas

• Sacrificial Altar — a block consuming Ars Nouveau Source and an Occultism Mob Jar, craftable via a cross-mod recipe through Ars Nouveau's Enchanting Apparatus.
• Familiar system (FamiliarDragon) and the Spirit Jar automation behaviour, both ported as-is from the original LGPL-licensed source.

Two signature summon creatures (end-game, GeckoLib-animated)

Both require real progress across all three mods — a tamed/bound familiar or Servant, and a dedicated high-cost Ars Nouveau Source catalyst — summoned through a real in-game ritual, not a creative-only spawn egg.

Thrallflesh — Occultism → Goety, melee tank. A spirit forced into a physical vessel of flesh and cursed metal. Summoned by sacrificing an already-tamed Occultism familiar as part of a binding ritual. Hits hard in melee and backs it up with a heavy fang-based attack.

Reclaimed Wraith — Goety → Occultism, ranged caster. A Servant's soul redirected away from its normal Goety resurrection and bound into Occultism's service instead — spectral, legless, genuinely flying (not just floating). Summoned with a filled Goety Soul Jar as the key ritual reagent. Fights at range by casting Goety's own LeechingSpell directly (real spell, real particles/sound, not an imitation), and blinks in for a quick melee strike — teleporting adjacent to its target, hitting, then teleporting back to where it started — when its target gets too close for comfort.

Both creatures regenerate slowly on their own once they've gone a while without taking a hit, rather than staying wherever a fight left them.

Dependencies (hard)

• Ars Nouveau 4.12.7+
• Occultism 1.158.0+
• Goety 2.5.55.4+
• Minecraft Forge 1.20.1-47.4.10+

No soft-dependency/degraded mode without any of the three — this is a deliberate choice for a stronger, more integrated mod identity over broader compatibility.

More to come

• Better animations for Thrallflesh and Reclaimed Wraith
• Better balancing for Thrallflesh and Reclaimed Wraith

License

AGPLv3. This is a constraint inherited from Ars Ocultas' own LGPL-3.0-only license (which permits reconversion to GPLv3/AGPLv3), not a free choice — unlike this workspace's other mods, redistribution and forking of Occult Nexus must stay open. Source code is available as the AGPL requires. Original attribution to mystchonky (Ars Ocultas) is preserved.