Veilborn-The Sixfold Seal

You were called to the Sanctum. Your teacher never came back.

Long ago the world nearly ended. A living book called the Lumen Codex learned to rewrite magic itself, and the mage who made it tried to pull every kind of magic into one. Six mages stopped him and sealed the book away. History kept their titles but scratched out their names. Now the seal is weakening, a cult says the six were traitors, and you're standing in their fortress.

Veilborn is a magic adventure pack for Minecraft 1.21.1 (NeoForge) built for friends playing together on a server. It has its own mod, its own world map and its own story, from the first step into the Sanctum to the Tomb of Exitium.

Six strict classes

Choose your first class at its altar in the Sanctum. Each class owns its own magic mods, and only that class can use them. Pick up another class's wand or armor and it moves out of your hand (it is never deleted).

• Sorcerer: time, space and eldritch spells (Iron's Spells 'n Spellbooks, Chronomancy, Cataclysm Spellbooks)
• Battlemage: conjured blades and enchanted steel up close (Mahou Tsukai, Forbidden and Arcanus)
• Arcanist: build your own spells, familiars and arcane machines (Ars Nouveau and its add-ons)
• Elementalist: research and wands of Earth, Sea, Sky, Sun and Moon (Primal Magick)
• Occultist: souls, prayer, rituals and bound spirits (Goety, Occultism, Eidolon: Repraised)
• Witch-Alchemist: brews, brooms, herbs and dark covens (Hexerei, Roots, Theurgy, Hexalia)

Beat your class's trial boss to earn a second class. Every class has its own skill tree with keystones. A single respec exists, and it costs you. Some magic (Malum, Nature's Aura) stays open to everyone.

A world drawn by hand

Veilborn adds its own world type. The map is painted, so every seed has the same continents, rivers and story places, inside a 10,000 by 10,000 border ringed by endless mountains. The seed still decides the small stuff: ores, caves, trees and which ruins land where.

• The Sanctum (your spawn): a mountain fortress with six class wings, the shimmering Veil Gate, a sealed passage below, and guided tours you can skip.
• Rivermeet: a walled castle town with a keep, harbor, tavern, chapel, market and about fifty houses. Its townsfolk keep daily routines and run shops that trade in Millénaire deniers.
• Saltmere, a fishing town, plus Millénaire villages linked by real roads: sixteen of them, with lamps, milestones and bridges.
• The Library of Alexandria: five floors of dark archives around one open well, class-sealed rune rooms, locked vaults, and loot that refills for every player.
• The Sundered Reach: a scarred, violet-fogged wasteland around the Breach Scar, where the world broke.
• Class ruins, wayside shrines, stone circles, fairy rings, hermit towers and travelers' camps along the way.
• A designed Nether, plus the Twilight Forest, the Aether, the Undergarden and Etheria.

Bosses that put on a show

• Story encounters come with intro cutscenes, title cards, phases and a finisher you hold down to land the last blow. The Oathbreaker is the first of Veilborn's own bosses.
• Boss arenas across the map, from the Root Cathedral and the Oath Hall to the Impossible Space.
• More than 40 bosses from L_Ender's Cataclysm, Twilight Forest, the Aether, Goety, Iron's Spells and more, each tracked in the quest book. Everyone who fights gets the credit, not just whoever lands the last hit.
• The Colosseum: a six-sided arena for boss rematches at five difficulties, from Easy to Impossible, class wave trials, and an opt-in PvP ring.
• The Hall of Trophies under the Sanctum, with a curator who sells supplies for big fights and a vault that opens only when its trophies are in place.

A story in eight stages

The quest book walks you from Arrival to the Tomb of Exitium in eight campaign stages, with more than 500 quests: class chapters, a lore journal, a chapter on every boss, and guides for Create, storage, travel, the dimensions and cooking. Lore turns up in books you find in the world, and the in-game Codex keeps track of what you've learned in each place.

• World tiers: big story wins make the whole server's world stronger.
• Staged recipes: JEI only shows what you can use now and what's next, so later stages stay a surprise.
• The Sixfold Apparatus: late in the game, research techniques that combine two or three classes, and earn the Founder's Regalia.

Magic you can see

Starfall and aurora nights, arcane storms, a Sanctum that comes alive as you progress, a sky that changes when your server reaches a new stage, spell sigils when you cast, and light when you respawn. All of it is drawn on your screen only, so it costs the server nothing, and it all works with shaders.

Also inside

Create, Farmer's Delight and the Kaleidoscope cooking and brewing mods, Sophisticated Storage and Backpacks, Waystones, Lootr, Simple Voice Chat, Xaero's maps, JEI and Jade, plus performance mods (Sodium, Lithium, FerriteCore, ModernFix). Shader support (Iris and Euphoria Patches) and a few shader packs come included, switched off: turn one on if your PC can handle it.

Before you play

• Memory: give the pack at least 10 GB (CurseForge app > Settings > Minecraft > Allocated Memory).
• New worlds: choose World Type: Veilborn (Create New World > More). A normal world type skips the map and the story places.
• Servers: a server pack is attached to each release under Additional Files. In server.properties, set level-type=veilborn\:veilborn before the world is first created. The README in the server pack covers the rest.
• Updates: a big update may need a fresh world for new buildings to show up. The changelog will say when.

Credits

Veilborn's own mod, world, quests and builds are by ImCooliketht, Every other mod belongs to its authors. See the mod list on the Files page, and support them. The in-game Codex has a credits section.