SACRILEGE (Occult Analects in SGA)

There is no going back.

WARNING: VERY EARLY BETA. EXPECT BUGS AND UNFINISHED FEATURES!

Find Altars scattered about your world dedicated to the worship of allmighty deities. Either amass a following or become clouded by the delusions of the Moon, Sculk, Nether, or End; your choice ;)

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Current Features:

Altars for the Whispering Myth can be found in Ancient Cities

The Whispering Myth Altar before the grand center of the Ancient City

Alternatively, can be crafted like so:

The Whispering Myth Altar can be crafted using a Sculk Catalyst, a Lecturn, a Netherite Block, 2 candles, 2 polished deepslate walls, and 2 reinforced deepslate.

Altars for The Lunar Vigilance (moon), Blazing Harbinger (nether), and The Heart of the Ender (end) are currently not available.

Once obtained, you can right click to bind with your deity and begin your ritualistic practices.

Once binded, you cannot destroy the altar without angering your deity and starting a Severance period. (currently not available)

You can offer items your deity may like by right clicking the altar with the item in your hand. Most items will return nothing, but a handful will return a good reward.

New Resources and Gear:

All of these can be obtained through offerings, however alternate ways to gather them are provided.

Sculk Covered Rocks: Throwable, can be obtained through ancient city loot.

The sprite for the Sculk Covered Rock.

Echo Cores: A crafting ingredient, can also be crafted by surrounding a diamond with echo shards.

A single frame of the Echo Core. It's animated in game!

Sculk Covered Iron: New armor and gear slightly better than Gold, can be crafted by surrounding any iron tool with sculk veins or obtained through ancient city loot.

A render of Sculk Covered Iron Armor & Tools.

Whispering Steel: New armor and gear slightly better than Netherite, can be crafted. (whispering steel ingots only obtainable via offerings)

A render of Whispering Steel Armor & Tools.

Tools can be crafted by using bones instead of sticks, and armor crafted with echo cores in the center. (Boots use none, chestplate uses two)

WHISPERING STEEL

WHISPERING STEEL!

The Riftcaller: New weapon. Only 1 can be obtained in a world. Cannot be crafted.

A 3D render of the Riftcaller, as seen in game.

In order to allow for more than yourself to use an altar you must offer a bottle of blood to your deity. In order to get your friend's blood, have them use a scalpel (recipe below) with an empty bottle in their offhand to collect their blood.

A scalpel calls for an iron ingot and nugget.

Vanilla Changes:

Sculk Catalysts are now only obtainable through killing wardens, and they now drop 1-3 as opposed to just 1
Reinforced Deepslate is now craftable, like so:

Reinforced Deepslate calls for a Sculk Catalyst, Deepslate, and 7 Bone Blocks.

Planned Features:

Altars for other deities
The addition of other deities & altars via datapacks
MORE THINGS!!! Items, Weapons, Gear, Mobs, & Dimensions!!!
Favorability: Placing blocks near an altar can lead to better obtained items (like an enchantment table)
Severance: Destroying your altar can have consequences, the severity dependant on how long the altar existed for.
Leveling: Interacting with your Altar more can allow you to do more things with it.
Sacrifices: Killing mobs near your deity will give you items and loot.
Hallucinations: Recieve messages from your deity in the form of various temporary UI changes.
Quota: After some time with a binded altar, offerings and sacrifices have to be performed daily.
Harnesses: Harness the power of your deity for a temporary amount of time. (Could be extra strength, speed, resistance, many different things)
Summons: Create constructs using your deity's power.
Possesions: Your deity can control you for a certain amount of time.

Occult Analects: Sacrilege