Abyssalcraft Progression

The biggest progression mod in Jojovein is Abyssalcraft. Hopefully this page will make the aims of Abyssalcraft clearer, and provide a detailed walkthrough of the mod in the context of Jojovein.

## Phase 1: Overworld

### **Starting off**

To begin progressing in the mod, the player should first craft a Necrotic Diary (also known as a Necronomicon), and familiarize themselves with the basic process of completing Rituals. Collect a couple of P.E. Statues (can be crafted from Meteor Pearls or produced naturally by baiting groups of Shoggoths from their lairs), and figure out how to charge your Diary by crafting an Energy Pedestal. Once you manage to get your book charging, try some basic Rituals to become familiar with the system. To make this explanation clearer:

1. Craft Necronomicon (Reference JEI)
2. Set up ritual altar (gif of how in Necronomicon and Jojovein Compendium)
3. Craft Energy Pedestal (Reference JEI)
4. Obtain Statues from Darklands Shrine or Shoggoth Lairs (See PE Statues Page)z
5. Try rituals (see Necronomicon Page)

### **Working to obtain a Gateway Key**

The Gateway key is an item that creates portals to the Abyssal Wasteland, the second non-vanilla dimension in Jojovein's progression sequence (Following The Aurorian). While looking at JEI makes crafting the key seem like a daunting task, it is actually quite manageable with a clear breakdown of what needs to be obtained:

Blaze Powder

1
 Ender Pearl | 1
 Meteor Pearl | 2
 Redstone
 Shard of Oblivion | 4

Once you have all the materials, perform the Ritual to make an Oblivion Catalyst. The ritual also requires 5,000P.E., which is a full Necrotic Diary (Necronomicon) charge.

After this is complete, you can directly craft the Gateway Key. Using the key, right-click a spot on the ground where you want the portal to be made and it will instantly generate, granting access to the Abyssal Wasteland.

## Phase 2: Abyssal Wasteland

Now that you made it to the Abyssal Wasteland, there are two main objectives here. The first is to obtain the powerful gear associated with this dimension. The second is to upgrade the Gateway Key to Asorah's Dreaded Gateway Key to gain access to The Dreadlands.

***Note:** There are several small structures littered across* *the wasteland. These structures contain a chest and a secret ladder leading to a second chest room. They contain valuable items that can help speed-up early progression through the wasteland. Among these items are Platinum Equipment and Coralium Ingots.*

### **Surviving the Coralium Plague - Obtaining Plated Coralium Armor**

In order to resist the Alien Virus (Coralium Plague) spread by mobs in this dimension, one must first make a Plated Coralium Helmet. This is technically possible to accomplish in the Overworld alone. However, mining in the Abyssal Wasteland will speed up the process tenfold. In order to mine in this dimension, you must first make a Coralium Pickaxe. Nearly all Coralium-type ores in this dimension require a Coralium Pickaxe to be mined. As many dangerous mobs lurk in this dimension, it is advised to bring plenty of food for healing until you can obtain the helmet.

After the helmet is acquired, it will become possible to obtain a full set of this armor, which is incredibly defensive on top of providing speed and water breathing. One should also consider making a Coralium Longbow as a solid ranged option.

### **Obtaining a Tier II (Wasteland) Diary**

In order to do the majority of the rituals in this dimension, it is necessary to upgrade your Necrotic Diary (Necronomicon) to an Abyssal Wasteland Diary (Wasteland Necronomicon). This upgrade, on top of unlocking more rituals such as Vampire Book creation, allows the Diary to store 10,000P.E., twice as much as the first.

In order to obtain the Abyssal Wasteland Essence used to upgrade the Necronomicon, a Staff of Rending is necessary. The Staff of Rending can be made with a Shard of Oblivion and some Shadow Gem Shards. To obtain Shadow Gems, travel to the Darklands biome in the Overworld and fight Shadow Beasts, powerful mobs that inflict blindness and that no amount of armor can consistently tank against at close range. Because of their power it is advised that you use a bow or a weapon with the Light Pierce enchantment (Smite for Living Shadows). Shadow Gems are common drops from these mobs.

Once crafted, the staff can be used to right-click mobs in any Abyssalcraft dimension to deal damage from afar and sap energy into the staff until it produces the related essence. Rituals using materials from each new Abyssalcraft dimension can be used to upgrade the staff, making it deal more damage and thus sap essence more quickly. The staves can also be enchanted with Sapping up to level IV to increase damage and with Multi-rend to give the staff an area-of-effect sapping that damages and harvests essence from mobs within a radius of the targeted enemy. The essences harvested using the staff can be crafted into the skins needed to upgrade the Necrotic Diary (Necronomicon) by surrounding the Wasteland Essence with Coralium Plagued Flesh in a Crafting Table.

### **Powerstone Trackers, obtaining the Dreadlands Infused Powerstone**

The next step to clearing the Abyssal Wasteland is completing its main dungeon to obtain a Dreadlands Infused Powerstone. To do this, there are a few methods:

* Craft Powerstone Trackers and follow them like Eyes of Ender to reach the similarly-structured Coralium Stronghold.
	+ Explore until you find the Powerstone (**Mine the powerstone with a Coralium Pickaxe, or the item will not drop!**)
	+ Strongholds may be hard to find if playing on the server as other players may have already looted them. In such cases, look to the other methods.
* Perform a Ritual to produce a Dreadlands Infused Powerstone
	+ Requires 4 Shards of Oblivion, 3 Coralium Plates, 1 Powerstone Tracker, 10,000P.E., and a Wasteland Diary.
* Explore Singularity Zone 4B - Stronghold (Subzone Coralium Stronghold) until you find the Powerstone. **(Official Server Only)**

### **Summoning Asorah, The Fallen and Obtaining the** **Eye of The Abyss**

To obtain the Eye of the Abyss, you must summon and kill Asorah, The Fallen, a large dragon similar to the Ender Dragon.

To summon Asorah, one must perform the Ritual of The Sleeper in the Abyssal Wasteland using 4 Gold Ingots, a Bucket of Liquid Coralium, a Transmutation Gem, and an enchantment table.

***Note:** To do rituals in the alternate dimensions, you must make the ritual circle out of the dimension's equivalent to Cobblestone. In the Abyssal Wasteland, the ritual circle would be made using Abyssal Cobblestone or Coralium Cobblestone.*

Upon killing Asorah, they will drop a Greater Scroll, the Eye of The Abyss, 8 Coralium-Plagued Flesh, 8 Ingots of Refined Coralium, and 8 Chunks of Coralium (Equivalent to an extra 16 Refined Coralium Ingots when smelted)

### **Crafting Asorah's Dreaded Gateway Key**

Place an Eye of the Abyss, Dreadlands Infused Powerstone, and a Transmutation Gem around a Gateway key on a ritual circle in the Abyssal Wasteland. Note that an Wasteland Diary with sufficient charge must be used.

## Phase 3: The Dreadlands

The Dreadlands is an area focused primarily around combat. The primary objective in the Dreadlands is to obtain Dreadium to forge powerful gear and to summon Cha'garoth the Dreadbeast to obtain the Dread-Plagued Gateway Key.

### **Obtaining a Tier III (Dreadlands) Diary**

Most rituals within the Dreadlands will require the use of a Dreadlands Diary (Dreadlands Necronomicon). This upgrade will unlock more rituals including the rituals for producing Dreaded Platinum Armor as well as Interdimensional Cages for easy mob transport. On top of this, the upgrade also enables the Necronomicon to store up to 20,000 PE. Making the Dreadlands Necronomicon requires many of the same steps as in earlier upgrades: gather essence from the Dreadlands enemies and surround with a basic enemy drop, the Dread Fragments dropped by Dreadlings and Dreadspawn in this case, to produce skin which is crafted with the previous Diary to upgrade it.

### **Surviving the Dread - Obtaining A Dreaded Platinum Helmet**

Within the Dreadlands, most enemies inflict the Dread Plague effect, a damaging debuff much like the Coralium Plague that can cause mass health loss over time. The Dimension contains, however, 2 separate sets of armor that protect against the effect: Dreaded Platinum and Dreadium Samurai Armor. Dreaded Platinum Armor, although far less protective and powerful than Samurai Armor, is essential for gathering Dreaded Shards of Platinum during early-Dreadlands progression due to its low cost and it granting not only complete Dread Plague immunity while wearing the helmet but also fire resistance IV and fire protection IV when wearing the chestplate, leggings, or boots. The Dreaded Platinum Armor set provides equal protection to normal platinum armor, so it is recommended that you only perform the ritual for the helmet and another piece of your choosing and make a set of platinum armor using the Dreaded Chunks of Platinum dropped by Dreaded Platinum Golems and by mining the Dreaded and Dreadlands Platinum ore found in great abundance underground in the Dreadlands. The Dreaded Platinum Armor set's dread and fire resistances allow for the plater to much more effectively challenge and defeat Dreadguards, a much more common and more effective source of Dreaded Shards of Platinum than the Greater Dreadspawn that the player must initially face in the Dreadlands.

### **Obtaining Dreaded Shards of Platinum & Dreadium Ingots**

In order to Obtain Dreadium, the primary material of the Dreadlands, one must first obtain Dreaded Shards of Platinum. There are 2 primary sources of Dreaded Shards of Platinum: Greater Dreadspawn and Dreadguards. The Greater Dreadspawn are relatively uncommon but are far safer to fight than Dreadguards which are much more common but very dangerous to unprepared players, especially vampires, who can

quickly die to the Dreadguards' fire attacks and the flame-thorns effect on their armor. Once Dreaded Shards of Platinum are obtained, they can be made into Dreadium Ingots by putting them in a Transmutator. Transmutators can be fueled cheaply using buckets of Liquid Coralium or blaze rods and can convert certain items to others, such as Dreaded Shoggoth Flesh to Weak Human Hearts.

### **Summoning Cha'garoth, The Dreadbeast and Obtaining Cha'garoth's R'lyehian Gateway Key**

Summoning Cha'garoth requires that you build his altar. The Altar of Cha'garoth has 2 parts, the top and bottom, which **must be placed at y: 40 in the Dreadlands Mountains Biome**. Each part requires a ritual to obtain. Once the altar is built, right-clicking the top will transform the nearby area into the Temple of Cha'garoth, an area containing 6 Dreadguards and Cha'garoth the Dreadbeast. The left wing of the temple contains a Crystallizer, a useful Furnace-type block which is highly recommended to take. There are also 2 Blocks of Dreadium embedded in the statue above the hole leading to the boss room down the middle corridor.

Cha'garoth spawns in a room below the main floor of the temple and summons Spawn of Cha'garoth, Fists of Cha'garoth, Greater Dread Spawn, and Dreadguards to fight the player. Cha'garoth is made more dangerous by its 2 ranged attacks. One attack launches a fireball that causes high explosive and fire damage and leaves a lingering Dread Plague zone. Cha'garoth's second attack is similar to that of Dreadguards, dealing rapid, moderate-high damage and inflicting Dread Plague. Cha'garoth is best challenged with ranged weapons and Dreadium Samurai Armor to counteract the lasting effects of its attacks. Close-ranged stands such as The World, Star Platinum, or Crazy Diamond can also aid in the fight by dealing high damage to the boss which can otherwise be difficult to harm. Once defeated, Cha'garoth drops several Dreaded Shards of Platinum, Dreadium Ingots, and Dread fragments along with a Dread-plagued Gateway Key. The Dread-plagued Gateway Key is not functional as a portal key but can be converted to the proper key, Cha'garoth's R'lyehian Gateway Key, by placing the plagued key into a Transmutator. The new portal key will allow access to the next and final dimension of Abyssalcraft: The Omothol.

## Phase 4: The Omothol

The Omothol is the 3rd and final main dimension you can access in Abyssalcraft. Much like the End, The Omothol consists of several small to moderately large floating islands. The spacing between these islands make use of a Ring of the Flying Squid, Elytra, or the Vampire Bat Mode skill almost mandatory to traverse the space between them. Ethaxium is the material of this dimension and is used to make the strongest tools in Abyssalcraft. Ethaxium is obtained through crafting, rituals, structure loot, and combat, though it is often fastest to obtain by killing Minions of the Gatekeeper with a Looting sword.

### **Obtaining a Tier IV (Omothol) Diary**

Most rituals within the Omothol will require the use of a Omothol Diary (Omothol Necronomicon). This upgrade will unlock more rituals including the rituals for producing Ethaxium Ingots, Hearts of Diamond, and Moon Orbs and increases the P.E. capacity of the Diary (Necronomicon) to 40,000. Making the Omothol Necronomicon requires many of the same steps as in earlier upgrades with slight variations:

1. Rend Omothol Essence from Omothol enemies (Not Living Shadows)
2. Surround Essence with Omothol Ghoul Flesh (Crafted using Coralium-Plagued Flesh and Eldritch Scales dropped by Minions of the Gatekeeper) to produce Skins.
3. Craft together with the Dreadlands Diary to upgrade it.

### **Finding and summoning J'zahar**

J'zahar, Gatekeeper of The Abyss is the final boss of Abyssalcraft and drops an Essence of The Gatekeeper when killed, an item essential for crafting the Heaven Diary (Abyssalnomicon) and many endgame pieces of equipment. J'zahar's temple is located at the world origin in the Omothol, with the ritual circle needed to summon him at the coordinates x=4, y=54, z=85. Players can instantly teleport to J'zahar's Temple from the "Teleport Requests" section of the Jojovein Home menu while in the Omothol.

To summon J'zahar, you must perform the Ritual of Reversed Time using 4 Omothol Essences and 4 Shards of Oblivion. When you summon J'zahar, time is rewound on the temple, restoring it to its base state, allowing the temple to act as an infinite source of books and Dark Ethaxium Brick while also clearing any placed blocks within the temple.

### **Fighting J'zahar**

J'zahar is the most dangerous boss in Abyssalcraft, wielding the ability to fire exploding wither skulls, send massive blasts of air, and create black holes and explosions. J'zahar has a damage cap of ~7 and is effectively inviable to fight using stand punches. The only way of dealing damage above the cap is by using a Fork, a melee weapon exclusive to Hunters. It is recommended that you bring a shield to defend against J'zahar's attacks and, if possible, a source of Wither immunity, such as through a Withered Heart. When J'zahar dies, he begins drawing all nearby entities towards himself as a final attack, exploding and warping anybody too close into the Dark Realm. **It is important to note that if this final attack is successful and it manages to teleport a player, J'zahar will not drop any loot.**

### **Obtaining the Heaven Diary**

The Heaven Diary (Abyssalnomicon) is the final Diary (Necronomicon) of Abyssalcraft and is capable of performing all Rituals in the modpack. The Abyssalnomicon is crafted using an Omothol Diary (Necronomicon), an Essence of the Gatekeeper, 3 Eldritch Scales, and 4 Ethaxium Ingots. Notable abilities of the Heaven Diary (Abyssalnomicon) include the creation of unbreakable Vampirism equipment, Endgame weapons, and the Stone of Aja needed by vampires to make Umbrellas.