This is a magic mod about Totem Poles, nature and the power of music.
The main focus lies on Totem Poles. They can give passive boons to players nearby, but more importantly, they are the central piece of Ceremonies: Dancing around a Totem Pole and playing various musical instruments to invoke strong effects and manipulate the world.
To get started exploring the mod's content, craft yourself a Totempedia with this recipe:
(with any kind of wood)
Modpacks:
You are free to include the mod in a modpack.
Credits:
Sunconure11 for textures, models and many ideas
Dylan Kaizer for creating lots of textures for the mod
Nefilto for the Totem Pole models
Kerri Lake for the Flute sounds, slightly changed in pitch and cut from overblow.mp3, used under CC BY 3.0.
Kirindave, Wayoftime, Joshie and Emoniph helped with code and ideas back in the day
Poppycocks for the whittling knife texture
Vazkii for most of the Totempedia code, based on Botania
wiiv for the tipi model
BigBadChris for the logo
CyanideX for the wind chime model
We have a discord channel! Join us at this link: https://discord.gg/4dZFZrE
This mod is way too difficult for no return whatsoever. I've been struggling for a total of several hours to complete even simple ceremonies. Can't get buffalo's, had to cheat to give myself a rattle for any hope of completion. Now I can't upgrade my flute or get eagles, so no other ritual will ever be possible. I've done every trick there is, multiple drums, chimes under leaves, flute in off-hand rattle in the other, a totem right next to my instruments, but nothing is possible. The return for completing these stupidly ridiculous ceremonies is also extremely minimal and not at all worth it. Should be far easier for what you get upon completion. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, in which case I'd appreciate some guidance, but otherwise this mod needs serious revision imo.
So, when I trying to preform The Spring Ceremony(Drum,Flute) it is literally Nothing!(don't start ceremony :( )
Is That a Bug? All other Ceremonyes are work, only this one is nothing... (sorry for mistakes. 12 pm. And English is not my first language.)
How about do the woodoo,shamanizm or necromancy?
How about good and cannibals tribes(with the necromancers)?
How about shaman spells like an terraforming,hypnotize,thunderbolt,kinship with souls(allow move into the body of any creature other than another player),swamp,etc?
How about a pipe of peace(that give effect increasing efficiency of musical instruments)?
P.S.It only my idea and I only can ask you about that,please answer me.
Hello! What is the range of the totems? Can it be modified?
In reply to Jurahkan:
Hi. Your comment has 20 days now, I don't know if you already got your answer since but just in case :
The range of the Totem is a 13x13x13 cube centered on the Totem Base (basicly, move 6 blocks away from the Totem and you'll lose your Buffs) and it can't be modified.
In order to have these Buffs far away from the Totem, you have to use a Medicine Bag.
I am trying to do the buffalo dance, 2 cows are nearby, everything goes well, but then the progress bar stops 1/2-3/4 of the way through. Is this intentional, do i need more instruments, or what?
Request: option to disable totemic villagers. I'm making a custom pack with totemic and would like to use villager trade tables to modify each trade, but villager trade tables can only modify its custom villagers and vanilla ones. I would like to remove the villager, then add it as a custom one with the same trades but dealt in modpack coins, but there is no such option in the config.
In reply to TheRealJackiecrazy:
I see. There is a config option to disable of Tipis and Totem Poles in villages, but I suppose you only want to disable the villagers.
Hello!
I really love this mod, nice job.
Just wondering, is that a Queens of the Stone Age reference in the Sun Dance ceremony page? :)
In reply to matty_boo:
Thank you :)
Yes it is :)
Is there a limit to the amount of wind chimes you can place? I have like 10 and only 3 are actually working. The rest are emitting x particles
In reply to FrozenGoggles:
Yes, if you have more than 3 of them close together, the rest of them will not work (as indicated by the x particles).
Playing the newest Sevtech Ages and enjoy Totemic but I'm frustrated with the later ceremonies. For the life of me cannot perform the Eagle Dance! I've seen older videos on the ceremony where spamming wind chimes made it rather trivial but that method has since been nerfed. Now it seems nigh impossible even with 3 chimes, 8-10 drums, cedar totem, Pan's Flute, rattle dress, and hand rattle. I'm usually a good 10-15% off the mark so I'm not even close yet I'm shaking, rattling, and rolling non-stop. IMHO, the difficulty of this ceremony (and I'm assuming the Baykok one as well) should be dropped a few notches for solo players and those that just don't have the crazy dexterity required to perform it. Thanks!
Spamming the instruments actually decreases efficiency. Be sure to keep a certain tempo for the whole ritual to maximise the power of your melodies. I found this out when I ran into the same problem. It actually requires more timing and hand-eye-coordination rather than dexterity.
I advise a compact setup where you have a clear view of the instruments without needing to move the mouse (you need to move with the rattle dress anyways). The trick is, you wait for the wind chimes to activate (they activate randomly and generate a certain beat, keep this beat in mind). Stay at the same tempo playing the different instruments. You can play faster by doubling the tempo. This way you can keep the beat consistent without being off-beat. I suggest moving left and right consistently with the beat as well to simulate 'dancing'.
Good luck on the rituals! Put some soul into the performance. The totemic gods like to see a show, not a spammy catastrophe.
Why do the bison (well, they should be called bison but this mod along with several people call them buffalo) drop their own meat, rather than beef? They are just another species of oxen, alongside Minecraft’s cattle…
Please rename the buffalo to bison, as they were actually bison but their resemblance to old world buffalo caused the name confusion…
Hi. Just recently got this mod as part of the Sevtech "Ages" modpack. I am trying to perform the Buffalo ritual, yet I can't seem to be able to start the ritual. I can't even select it. I am shifting while clicking on the drum, then the chime, but the ritual won't even start. I tried other rituals that use the chime and they won't start either; even though the rest of the rituals work perfectly (It seems that the totem recognizes when I select the chime, as there is smoke coming out of the totem when I click on the chime, but the ritual doesn't start. If I select drum-chime-drum the War Dance will start, as if the game ignored the chime and interpreted it as drum-drum). Is there any chance you know what is happening? I would really appreciate it if you could answer me.
In reply to VirtualboyX:
Hey, just going to my favorite mods that had 1.7.10 versions in somewhat recent history, and asking if any new content will be ported over. I waited this long because for the longest time the incessant "1.7.10 when?" comments got really annoying to some of you guys, and I can understand that. Also, I'm not asking mods that were never in 1.7.10 to be ported over, that would be a lot more work. And now that support for 1.7.10 has been completely dropped by almost all modders I wanted to remind you guys that we're still here. I know that any individual modder has a very small chance to do this, but I thought if I asked enough maybe someone would. Thank you for your time.
In reply to Darkpixel797: