Animus

Putting more Magic in your Blood Magic!

Animus dramatically expands Blood Magic with powerful new sigils, rituals, weapons, and deep integration with your favorite magic mods. Whether you’re a solo blood mage or playing with friends on a server, Animus has something for you.

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Play With Friends – Share Your LP!

Key of Binding lets you share your Life Essence with teammates!

1. Bind a Key of Binding to your Soul Network
2. Give the bound key to a friend
3. They hold it in their offhand or curio slot
4. Now their sigils and bound items draw from YOUR LP!

Perfect for servers where one player focuses on LP generation while others focus on combat. Power your entire team’s sigils, bound weapons, and rituals from a single massive Soul Network!

New Sigils

Portable tools powered by your Soul Network:

• Sigil of Transposition – Store and place blocks, or bind to a Teleposer to teleport entities across dimensions
• Sigil of the Storm – Summon lightning bolts at will
• Sigil of Consumption – Convert everything you touch into corrupting AntiLife
• Sigil of Heavenly Wrath – Levitate enemies then drop them for devastating fall damage
• Sigil of Temporal Dominance – Accelerate block entities up to 32x speed (furnaces, spawners, anything!)
• Sigil of Equivalency – Mass-replace blocks in a configurable radius – terraforming made easy
• Sigil of the Free Soul – Enter ghost mode for scouting, PLUS works as a Totem of Undying!
• Sigil of Remedium – Automatically cleanse negative potion effects
• Sigil of Reparare – Passively repair damaged items in your inventory
• Sigil of Nature’s Leach – Consume nearby plants to restore hunger
• Sigil of the Phantom Chain – Capture entities into Mob Souls and release them elsewhere
• Sigil of the Fast Builder – Accelerated block placement speed

New Rituals

Powerful ceremonial magic for automation and world manipulation:

• Ritual of Sol / Luna – Place or remove light sources across a massive area
• Ritual of Persistence – Keep chunks loaded in an area
• Ritual of Culling – Upgraded Well of Suffering that autokills with LP generation
• Ritual of Unmaking – Disenchant items onto books
• Ritual of Peaceful Beckoning – Spawn passive animals
• Ritual of Steadfast Heart – Buffs you and allies with regenerating bonus hearts
• Ritual of Reparare – Repairs items placed above the ritual
• Ritual of Serenity – Prevents hostile mob spawns in a large radius
• And many more…

Imperfect Rituals

Quick rituals using the Imperfect Ritual Stone – just place a block on top and activate:

• Regression (Bookshelf) – Remove repair costs from items
• Enhancement (Amethyst) – Upgrade ALL enchantments by 1 level
• Boundless Skies (Ancient Debris) – 10 minutes of creative flight!
• Clear Skies – Stop rain and thunder instantly

Weapons & Tools

• Iron & Diamond Spears – Throwable javelins you can pick back up
• Bound Spear – Soul-bound, returns to you, strikes in an area
• Sentient Spear – Scales with demon will, AoE effects based on will type
• Sentient Shield – Blocking grants buffs, +30% demon will gain
• Sanguine Diviner – Diagnose altar issues, show ritual info, auto-place upgrades
• Special Malum ScytheS – Runed Sentient Scythe and the _Hand of Death_

Tier 6 Blood Altar

Ascend beyond the base game:

• Crystallized Demon Will Blocks – New altar component enabling Tier 6!
• Willful Stone – 16 colors, completely unbreakable to anyone but the owner
• Transcendent Blood Orb – Massive LP storage for the ultimate blood mage

Corruption & Nature

• AntiLife – Corrupting fluid created when lightning strikes Life Essence. Spreads and consumes!
• Blood Trees – Grow living wood from blood-infused saplings. The apples restore hunger AND LP!

Deep Mod Integration

Animus seeks bridges Blood Magic with other magic systems:

Iron’s Spellbooks

• Cast ANY spell using Life Essence instead of mana
• Blood-Infused Spellbook with reduced costs and LP regen
• Sanguine Scrolls – reusable spell scrolls in 5 tiers
• Sigil of Crimson Will – boost spell damage with demon will
• Living Armor gains XP from spellcasting!
• Ritual of Arcane Mastery – upgrade spell levels

Botania

• Sigil of Boundless Nature – LP-powered mana for Botania tools
• Rune of Unleashed Nature – altar rune powered by Botania mana
• Diabolical Fungi – converts demon will to mana
• Ritual of Floral Supremacy – doubles mana flower output!

Ars Nouveau

• Arcane Rune – altar rune powered by Source
• Ritual of Source Vitaeum – converts LP into Source
• Living Armor Source Attunement upgrades

Malum

• Runic Sentient Scythe – 30% faster, harvests souls for Malum
• Hand of Death – ultimate soul reaper with lifesteal and execute

More to Come!

• We still have plans to add more and we’re open to ideas!

In-Game Guide

Animus includes the Codex Animus – a comprehensive Patchouli guidebook covering all features, recipes, and mechanics. Craft it to get started and never have to tab out for a guide!

_Embrace the sanguine arts. Ascend beyond mortality. Share your power with allies. This is the way of Animus._