Rats and magic

Planet PandAce: Ratlantis

The Ratlantis expansion made for the Planet PandAce modpack, built on Rats, Iron’s Spells ‘n Spellbooks and T.O Magic ‘n Extras. This project contains three modules: Ratlantean Mage, Rat Arcana and Night Fight.

NEW in 1.0.5 — the big Ratlantis update

The Marbled Kingdom & PandAce

A giant marbled cherry tree with a village in its branches, a Scottish-baronial castle on its summit, formal and walled gardens, rat folk, two guardian dragons and the Rat Hydra.

PandAce, master of the kingdom, waits in the great hall of the castle. Walk in and an arrival cinematic plays: he rises, bows, greets you by name and draws his katana. He is a smart duellist: very fast katana combos, an air slash that flies across the hall, a lightning dash-cut, an iai guard that parries your swings, dodge rolls with i-frames, he cuts arrows out of the air, traps runners and pillarers in a bamboo cage, and sits down to eat bamboo when hurt (hit him to interrupt). In phase 2 his panda rats join the fight. He drops PandAce’s Katana (2.4 attacks/s, right-click: air slash).

Szy’s Cheesesteel Works (Ironbark Forest)

A huge metal factory: a production hall with a Tinkers’ smeltery, alloyers, a casting line, a gantry crane and mezzanines, and a three-storey office block with the director’s office. Szy is an adaptive boss: one 100% resistance pool (60% melee / 40% projectile at the start) that shifts towards the damage you use most — switch damage types to break him. At half health every tinker rat joins in.

Tinker rats have their own model (cap and goggles, loupe, apron, tool belt, steam-boiler backpack, mechanical claw arm) and AI: they throw wrenches, repair their allies and Szy, and pop a smoke bomb when cornered. New steel palette blocks and the Corrupted Cheesesteel Tinkers’ material.

The Ironbark Forest biome: metal trees hung with toxic lamps, and five tinker outposts (pylon, derrick, gear mill, smithy, silos).

Marbled Cherry Grove

Five new builds: a five-tier pagoda, a moon-gate tea house on stilts, a koi garden with an arched bridge, a blossom shrine with torii gates and a marble gazebo ruin.

Frostfell Pinewood

A dark, snowbound spruce forest full of wrecks: a broken watchtower, a fallen longhall, a frozen camp, a sunken chapel with its graveyard, a shattered gate. And, rarely, the Hollow Citadel: a vast ruined castle with a frozen moat, a gatehouse, a courtyard with a soul bonfire, a keep… and an empty throne at the top. Next update.

/locate structure pandace_ratlantean:szy_factory · tinker_outpost · cherry_shrine · frostfell_ruins · hollow_citadel (new worlds or unexplored Ratlantis chunks are needed).

Also in the mod

Ratlantean gear

• Ratlantean Mage armor (gold): Travel Optics’ Leviathan (Abyssal Hide) armor fused with Ratlantis armor in a custom smithing template. Bonus to every spell school, cooldown reduction, max mana and protection. The helmet merges the wizard hat with the Ratlantis rat mask, and Ratlantean spirit rats float around your head.
• Ratlantean Archmage armor (green): the upgraded tier, made with the Ascension template and Gems of Ratlantis.
• Ratlantean Reaper: the Nightwarden’s Stellothorn reforged as a one-headed scythe. Charge it to sweep a fan of Ratlantean lasers.
• Ratlantean Psionic Codex: a legendary spellbook, 10% stronger than the Dragonmancer’s Oathbook.

20 Iron’s spells

Ratlantean Laser, Cheese Barrage, Spirit Flames, Rattling Gunfire, Arrow Rain, Plague Bolt, Dutchrat’s Cutlass, Psionic Crush, Plague Cloud, Cheese Quake, Black Death, Automaton Overload, Rat Swarm, Cheese Feast, Rat’s Agility, Marbled Aegis, Psionic Focus, Plague Doctor’s Remedy, Rat King’s Command and Ratlantean Phase, with Iron’s-style icons, animations and particles.

The Dutchwarden

A boss made from the Nightwarden’s moveset and the Flying Dutchrat’s body, dressed in the Archmage robe, holding the Reaper and an open Codex. Always drops the Skull of Ratlantis, with chances for the Reaper, the Codex, the Dutchwarden’s Bell and the legendary Wings of the Ratlantean Spirit.

Abyssal Fir Forest

A new biome inside Ratlantis: black firs with green reflections, abyssal grass, green Ratlantean lava and ruins built from dark marbled cheese, with chests holding Ratlantean spell scrolls and Rats/Ratlantis loot.

Curios

13 curios: heart rings and amulets, damage rings and bracelets, the Psionic Circlet, Spirit Lantern, Plague Doctor’s Censer, Pied Piper’s Pendant, Cheese Locket, Heart of Green Lava, the Dutchwarden’s Bell and the legendary Wings of the Ratlantean Spirit (5 minutes of flight, 1 minute recharge).

Rat Arcana

Tamed rats get a gear menu for any armor, a weapon and a Rat Tome (100, 200 or 300 rat mana) so they can cast Iron’s spells. Rats follow their tamer’s Vampirism or Werewolves faction.

Night Fight

Vampirism x Epic Fight: vampire and hunter abilities play Epic Fight animations, plus extra movesets and mob patches.

Requires

Rats, Iron’s Spells ‘n Spellbooks, T.O Magic ‘n Extras, GeckoLib, Biomes O’ Plenty, Curios API, Vampirism and Epic Fight (Tinkers’ Construct optional, for Corrupted Cheesesteel). Made for Minecraft 1.20.1 Forge.