Ethereal Blasters

Imagine a mod that brings the fun of Sci-Fi based based lazer blasters through the combination of magic based materials!

Ethereal Blasters is a mod [IN DEVELOPMENT STILL] that brings the use of magic into modernized forms! Lazer-like Blasters! There is a total of 12 New and Unique Blasters that can be crafted using their respective materials, in which some are easier while others provide a challenge into crafting!

The novice difficulty Ethereal Blasters (or Tier 1 Blasters) include:

• Carmine - Redstone
• Oxidized - Copper
• Tempered - Iron
• Guilded - Gold

The challenger difficulty Ethereal Blasters (or Tier 2 Blasters) include:

• Azure - Lapis Lazuli
• Ametrine - Amethyst
• Verdant - Emerald
• Brilliant - Diamond

The legendary difficulty Ethereal Blasters (or Tier 3 Blasters) include:

• Blazing - Nether: Bastion
• Soulferno - Nether: Fortress
• Voidic - End
• Echo - Deep Dark

To craft these new blasters, you'll have to gather several resources in which will need to be gathered, smelted, crafted, and traded with in order to forge the new blasters! I recommend using JEI to help in the assistance of knowing the specific crafting recipes as these are not "starter weapons" that can easily be obtained!

Starting with the most basic materials needed to forge the Blasters, you may notice two new "ores" that spawn within your world now: Ethereal Debris and Heartstone Ore.

Ethereal Debris: Much like Ancient Debris, this brilliant glowing material was once the blasters that the ancient builders used long ago to defend their villages! Now decayed into the deepest portions of the overworld perhaps they can be reforged into something new?

• Ethereal Debris is a block similar to Ancient Debris but it only spawns within the overworld at the lowest levels of the deepslate layer. This block can easily be distinguished by its silvery-blue appearance and a faint glow to it as well. Smelting down one block of Ethereal Debris rewards the player with one Ethereal Scrap in which can be used to make an Ethereal Ingot (The Base off all Ethereal Blaster Recipes).

Heartstone Ore: An intriguing ore with a faint glow that stands out compared to most ores found within the depths of the overworld. This pinkish-purple ore resembles emerald but instead yeilds a spectacle of a gem known as a Heartstone, perhaps it forms the base for what the Ancient Builders used to make various Blasters!

•  Heartstone Ore, which comes in both Stone and Deepslate variants is a pinkish-purple ore that forms the foundation of all the crafting recipes for Ethereal Stones (the various stones that are used to make each unique blaster). Usually spawning up to 6 in a vein, mining this ore with a diamond pickaxe will yeild 1 heartstone ore.

Crafting Ethereal Ingots and Ethereal Stones

To create Ethereal Ingots, the player must first collect 4 ethereal scraps as stated before along with 4 cryoshards (read below to learn more about Cryoshards). When combined in a crafting table the same way a netherite ingot is crafted, the player will be rewarded with one Ethereal Ingot in which as previously said, has many uses towards making the Blasters!

• Cryoshards: Created from a blasting crying obsidian in a Blast Furnace, these shards form the foundation for creating ethereal ingots, as well as being used in some recipes for ethereal stones, blasters, and even can be further smelted into Cryodust which also has many uses towards the Ethereal Blasters mod! Consult JEI to help see what recipes Cryoshards and Cryodust can be used for!

For creating Ethereal Stones, the player must at least have 1 Heartstone, in which that forms the foundation for making the desired Ethereal Stone: There are 12 Ethereal Stones based on the 12 Blasters: Carmine, Oxidized, Tempered, Guilded, Azure, Ametrine, Verdant, Brilliant, Blazing, Soulferno, Voidic, and Echo. The player must also have the required crafting ingredients that surround the Heartstone within a Crafting Table. Consult JEI to help see which ingredients are needed for each Stone. 

• Side note: Some Ethereal Stones may be easier to craft than others and this is intentional based on the Tier system of each Blaster. The more powerful the blaster, the harder it becomes to craft!

Ethereal Smithing Templates (Cuz the Mod wasn't hard enough already!)

The Ethereal Smithing Templates represent the final ingredient needed to Smith the 12 Unique Etheral Blasters. None of the Ethereal Smithing Templates can be crafted and can only be found throughout various loot locations: For example, the Blazing Smithing Template can only be found wihtin a Nether Fortress! However, all hope isn't lost as these templates can alternatively be traded with by the Ethereal Gunsmith (a villager who can be obtained by placing down an Ethereal Forge Block!)

• Ethereal Gunsmith: As stated before, this enigmatic villager can only be obtained by employing the villager with the Ethereal Forge block in which he will offer many trades based on the the mod! The more you advance his trades, the better materials he will offer, in which can be convienient when looking for materials such as Ethereal Stones and Ethereal Smithing Templates.

FINALLY Crafting the Ethereal Blasters!

After the player obtains 1 Ethereal Ingot, 1 Ethereal Stone of choice, and 1 matching Ethereal Smithing Template, the player can then finally craft the desired Blaster! By placing these three elements into a smithing table, the player is then rewarded with that Blaster.

Each Blaster is unique in its own way with a specialized projectile and ability to that Blaster. For example, Oxidized will summon a lightning bolt upon hitting an enemy!

NEW: Understanding and Using Ethereal Essences

Ethereal Essence: As you may know, since the Ethereal Blasters are based of Sci-Fi lazer guns, obviously they must require some sort of Arcane-like ammunition. This is where the Ethereal Essences come in; just like before there are 12 different ammunitions for each of the 12 blasters in which only the specified essence will work for that Blaster. While some of the Ethereal Essences may be more expensive than the other, all yield 16 essence upon crafting. Again, I recommend using JEI in combination with this mod to help understand the crafting recipes better!

Side note: As comments come in on how to improve this mod, I may tweak the amount of essence rewarded to the player based on how difficult the essence is to craft!

Final Notes about this Mod

Ethereal Blasters is a mod developed by Beech11901 (Me) and is inspired off a few different mods/concepts that helped me to start making this project. The inspiration and credits of creating this mod go to TACZ Guns Mod, Ars Nouveau, Marium's Souls-like Weaponry, and Simply Swords. These are all fantastic projects, and I appreciate the mod developers creating such amazing projects within the CurseForge community.

This mod may seem very basic and underdeveloped at the moment but that as I see all mods is the origin point in which a mod creator starts. As time continues on, and I get feedback about how to improve this project, Ethereal Blasters will become a more developed mod within its maturity. While it's still in its infancy please understand that there will be many changes and fixes to optimize this Magic-Gun based mod! If you have any helpful feedback, please let me know here on CurseForge through the comments sections so I can improve upon this early-stage mod!

Finally, if you would like to Port this mod, or make Mod Compats, I am completely fine with this, but please be sure to message me first and ask if it is okay to make a modified version of this mod!