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Nether Archives

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This mod adds many small but unique features to the Nether!

Blaze fire: Burn your enemies and not your build!

Blaze Fire

Blaze fire is temporary (unless on netherrack) and damages entities, but does not set fire to blocks or destroy items. Thus it is useful for combat especially near flammable structures.

It can be created by placing blaze dust on the ground and lighting it. This will cause a chain reaction igniting any neighboring blaze dust. 4 blaze dust are crafted from 1 blaze powder.

The blaze lantern is a new projectile that sets fire to entities and randomly spreads blaze fire in a 3x3 area, similar to a molotov.

Blaze Torch: A new way to find nether fortresses

Blaze Torch

The blaze torch emits particles that drift towards the nearest nether fortress. It can be crafted with blaze powder or obtained via bartering with piglins.

Magnetite: Gather volcanic iron

Magnetite

Magnetite is a new resource found in the basalt deltas. When next to lava, it will convert to smoldering magnetite, which can be mined for several iron slag. Iron slag can be smelted for iron nuggets.

Magnetite falls like sand, unless it has a connection to a lodestone.

Rotten Flesh Block: Ferment the flesh of your enemies for leather

Rotten Flesh Block

9 rotten flesh can be crafted into a rotten flesh block. Placing the rotten flesh block above a soul fire or soul campfire will slowly ferment it, yielding 1-3 leather when fully fermented.

Basalt Skis: Traverse the deltas with ease

Basalt Skis & Basalt Geysers

Basalt Skis & Oar

  • An easy travel method across the basalt deltas
  • Wearing skis lets you stand on fluids without taking damage
  • You cannot move manually when on fluid but you can use the oar to push yourself
    • Using the oar while on lava will damage you a bit
  • Crafted from polished basalt

Basalt Geysers

  • Launches entities into the air
  • Entities wearing skis will fall slowly and not take fall damage
  • Generates naturally in the basalt deltas, especially in lava pools
  • Can be obtained with silk touch
  • Can be crafted into an adjustable version whose range can be controlled by redstone signal

Spectreglass: Expose invisible enemies

Spectreglass

Spectreglass is a strange glass block made by smelting soul sand. It can reveal invisible entities behind it, however it is brittle and shatters on impact. You can also make a handheld knife item that can reveal invisible entities.


Planned Features
  • A use for nether sprouts and warped wart?
  • Bringing back the nether reactor core but with a different mechanic
  • More to come!
A little about the philosophy of the mod

I didn't want to make anything redundant, i.e. that another mod currently offers. That's why I'm not going to add features like soul candles that already have mods for them. I want every feature I add to have a unique and detailed mechanic, not just extra building blocks or identical functions.


Client Configuration

Install McQoy for a config GUI

Option Type Description
skeletonEyes boolean Whether withers and wither skeletons should have blue emissive eyes
blazeEntityFire boolean Whether blazes should use the blaze fire texture instead of vanilla fire

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  • Update to 26.3
  • Add custom sound events instead of reusing vanilla ones, which fixes incorrect subtitles
  • Fix skis not able to receive boots enchantments
  • This allows using frost walker to avoid magma block/smoldering magnetite damage
  • Fix silk touch not working on smoldering magnetite
  • Add custom sound events instead of reusing vanilla ones, which fixes incorrect subtitles
  • Fix skis not able to receive boots enchantments
  • This allows using frost walker to avoid magma block/smoldering magnetite damage
  • Fix silk touch not working on smoldering magnetite
[0.5.9+mc26.2] Nether Archives 0.5.9+mc26.2 by ThePotatoArchivist on Jun 23, 2026
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  • Direct port to 26.2
  • Other than categorization into vanilla sulfur cube archetypes, no chaos cubed integration is present
  • Chaos cubed integration may come in the future
  • Remove spectreglass-beacon interaction to fix connector crash

Only use this version on sinytra connector, 0.5.8 works fine on fabric
[0.5.8+mc26.1] Nether Archives 0.5.8+mc26.1 by ThePotatoArchivist on Mar 25, 2026
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  • Port to 26.1
  • Add creative tab for all Nether Archives items
  • [1.21.11 only] Add RRV world interaction recipes for fermenting rotten flesh & smoldering magnetite
  • Fix blaze dust & blaze fire not placeable on leaves
  • Fix missing translation for blaze fire
  • Add creative tab for all Nether Archives items
  • [1.21.11 only] Add RRV world interaction recipes for fermenting rotten flesh & smoldering magnetite
  • Fix blaze dust & blaze fire not placeable on leaves
  • Fix missing translation for blaze fire
  • Add several advancements to help players discover mod features
  • Add several advancements to help players discover mod features
  • Fix some classes getting loaded too early
  • Fix some classes getting loaded too early
  • Add exposure compat: Spectreglass pane can be inserted into a camera to view invisible entities
  • Fix missing texture for adjustable basalt geyser particles
  • Rebalance iron slag
  • Magnetite always drops 1 iron slag (more with fortune) and 0-3 iron nuggets
  • Iron slag smelts into 1 ingot
  • Fix ghast fireballs & wither skulls breaking unshattered spectreglass
  • Re-add config via Kaleido config
  • Make blue wither skulls use soul texture
  • Experimental port to 1.21.11-pre3
  • Was stable on 1.21.11 so it has become the full release version
  • Rebalance iron slag
  • Magnetite always drops 1 iron slag (more with fortune) and 0-3 iron nuggets
  • Iron slag smelts into 1 ingot
  • Fix ghast fireballs & wither skulls breaking unshattered spectreglass
  • Re-add config via Kaleido config
  • Make blue wither skulls use soul texture
  • Experimental port to 1.21.11-pre3
  • Was stable on 1.21.11 so it has become the full release version
  • Rebalance iron slag
  • Magnetite always drops 1 iron slag (more with fortune) and 0-3 iron nuggets
  • Iron slag smelts into 1 ingot
  • Fix ghast fireballs & wither skulls breaking unshattered spectreglass
  • Re-add config via Kaleido config
  • Make blue wither skulls use soul texture
  • Experimental port to 1.21.11-pre3
  • Was stable on 1.21.11 so it has become the full release version
  • Fix geysers not working
  • Fix other players' limbs appearing to move while skiing
  • Optimize basalt geyser push distance checks
  • [1.21.10 only] fix probable bugs with block collisions
  • Fix geysers not working
  • Fix other players' limbs appearing to move while skiing
  • Optimize basalt geyser push distance checks
  • [1.21.10 only] fix probable bugs with block collisions
  • Port to 1.21.9
  • Improve lava ski collision so that entities don't sink in as much
  • [1.21.9 only] Make basalt geysers emissive instead of emitting light
  • [1.21.9 only] Give smoldering magnetite emissive overlay instead of making whole block emissive
  • Port to 1.21.9
  • Improve lava ski collision so that entities don't sink in as much
  • [1.21.9 only] Make basalt geysers emissive instead of emitting light
  • [1.21.9 only] Give smoldering magnetite emissive overlay instead of making whole block emissive
  • Port to 1.21.8
  • EMI compat disabled
[0.5.1] Nether Archives 0.5.1 by ThePotatoArchivist on Jul 14, 2025
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Fix crash on Sinytra Connector
[0.5.0] Nether Archives 0.5.0 by ThePotatoArchivist on Jul 08, 2025
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## The Spectral Drop

Updated to 1.21.1

### Additions

  • Spectreglass
  • Reveals invisible entities behind it
  • Obtained by smelting shattered soul glass
  • Can withstand one explosion but shatters
  • Drops shattered spectreglass when mined without silk touch
  • Turns into shattered spectreglass when exploded or hit by projectile
  • Shattered Spectreglass
  • Created when spectreglass is exploded or hit with a projectile
  • Does not reveal invisible entities
  • Craftable from 9 spectreglass shards
  • Spectreglass Shard
  • Crafting ingredient
  • Obtained by smelting soul sand
  • Adjustable Basalt Geyser
  • Redstone compatible version of basalt geyser
  • Signal strength affects push distance
  • 0 power = 15 block range
  • 14 power = 1 block range
  • 15 power = off

### Changes

  • Basalt Geysers
  • Can now be rotated in all 6 directions
  • The pushing effect is stopped by full square blocks
  • Generate less frequently in basalt delta lava pools for performance reasons
  • Saddles can be sheared off of striders
  • Netherite blocks suspend magnetite in addition to lodestones
  • Removed burned lodestones dropping netherite ingot
  • Lodestone can be crafted with magnetite in place of netherite ingot
  • Dropped beacon items drop a nether star if exploded
  • Config temporarily removed, will be re-added in a future patch
[0.4.0] Nether Archives 0.4.0 by ThePotatoArchivist on Jan 24, 2025
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Big Update!

### Additions

  • Basalt Skis & Oar
  • An easy travel method across the basalt deltas
  • Wearing skis lets you stand on fluids without taking damage
  • You cannot move manually when on fluid but you can use the oar to push yourself
  • Using the oar while on lava will damage you a bit
  • Crafted from polished basalt
  • Basalt Geysers
  • Launches entities into the air
  • Entities wearing skis will fall slowly and not take fall damage
  • Generates naturally in the basalt deltas, especially in lava pools
  • Can be obtained with silk touch

Showcase:
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### Visuals

  • Update many textures
  • fermenting rotten flesh
  • blaze fire
  • blaze torch
  • magnetite & smoldering magnetite
  • blaze dust block textures
  • Add blaze fire particles
  • Add soul particles when rotten flesh ferments
  • Update blaze lantern item model to be 2D

### Other

  • Temporarily disable blaze torch threading
  • Remove burning lodestone to get netherite ingot
  • Add recipe to craft lodestone from magnetite
  • Change rotten flesh to have 4 fermenting stages instead of 8
  • Make fermented rotten flesh a valid soul fire base
  • Add Create compat recipes for rotten flesh fermenting
  • Make rotten flesh blocks flammable

  • EMI Compatability: added World Interaction recipes for lodestone burning, rotten flesh fermenting, and smoldering magnetite

Also, support will be dropped for other 1.20.x versions going forward.
  • Make rendering features toggleable via config
  • Make rendering features toggleable via config
  • Fix a crash using the blaze lantern on a server
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