Arcana Varia¶

Sealed towers, ruined labs, and the tools you earn from them.
Arcana Varia is an addon for Thaumaturge. It adds sealed wizard towers and ruined laboratories to find, and the tools you bring home from them: a censer that swings clouds of essentia, a building lens that mirrors and copies your builds, glass pipes that make compound aspects on their own, scythes, a tree boss and four whips.
It has its own research tab, Arcana Varia, which opens with Thaumaturge's Metallurgy research.
Requires Thaumaturge 1.1.0 or newer (not 1.0.2), on NeoForge 26.1.2. Optional: Fundamentum 1.22.1 or newer (the four whips), JEI (info pages for lab blocks, journals, blueprints and the Amber Heart), and about 50 mods whose blocks give towers new palettes, plus 7 dimension mods that get labs of their own (Towers and labs).
Versions: 0.7.5 for NeoForge 26.1.2. See Versions and the CurseForge project.
What's in it¶
| Picture | Section | What's in it |
|---|---|---|
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Towers and labs | Wizard Towers, 40 kinds of Forsaken Laboratory, their puzzles, wards and guardians |
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The Thurible | a censer that swings clouds of essentia, and what each aspect does |
| The Architect's Lens | a building tool that mirrors, copies and pastes | |
| The Alembic Lattice | glass pipes that carry essentia and make compounds | |
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Scythes | three scythes and four enchantments |
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The Greatwood Warden | a tree boss and its Amber Heart |
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Whips | four whips, with Fundamentum |
| For pack makers | lab bosses, traits and Thurible effects as datapack files |

Built on Fundamentum¶
The four whips use Fundamentum's cord system. Their reach spans 5 to 6 blocks. Their recipes and research appear with Fundamentum installed.
| Override | Path | Format |
|---|---|---|
| Whip tuning by item ID | data/<namespace>/fundamentum/whips/<name>.json |
Whips |
Credits¶
By Oculifelis.
| By | Work | Licence | Used for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drift007_ | Scythes Vanilla | MIT / CC0 | the scythes' sprites, in-hand model, sounds, stats and the Soul Devourer, Grim Harvest, Eclipse and Reaper's Step enchantments |
| Malcolm Riley | unused-textures | CC BY 4.0 | the Warden's Amber Heart sprite |
| Leclowndu93150 and contributors | Thaumaturge | its own | some of this mod's textures are drawn on Thaumaturge's own art |
Arcana Varia's code and Oculifelis's own art are LGPL-3.0-or-later up to 0.7.5 and GPL-3.0-or-later from the next build. The Scythes Vanilla parts, the Amber Heart sprite
and the textures drawn on Thaumaturge's art keep their own licences; CREDITS.md in the jar lists each of them.




