🌟 The Block of Angel — The Adventurer's Path

Start your adventure with nothing but a leather tunic and a stone sword.
In a world where survival is a true challenge, every step forward feels like a real achievement.
Welcome to The Block of Angel — a world of vibrant landscapes, hidden artifacts, and earned power.

Here, you won't spend hours building resource farms or digging endless tunnels.
Instead, you'll explore ancient temples, ocean monuments, fortresses, and the End — facing real danger to gain real rewards.

The Block of Angel and The Rod of Angel are your ultimate goals — powerful artifacts that purify the land and protect you as you journey.
Crafting them is not easy — it’s the culmination of your growth, your triumph over the world’s challenges.

✨ Features

• True survival progression: leather armor, stone weapons, and real hardship at the start.
• Unique armor sets: six types, each with upgrade paths and special abilities. Fully compatible with Armor Trims. Armor, tools, weapons, and rods can be upgraded using Smithing Kits, preserving all enchantments. In rare cases, the right kit also allows downgrading gear — useful when switching styles or optimizing resources.
• Legendary weapons: transform the battlefield with magic effects at the cost of stamina.
• Smart tools: speed up tunneling without causing dangerous collapses.
• Armor condition matters: protection scales with durability — worn gear still looks tough, but no longer shields you from harm.
• Tools and weapons degrade with use: a mighty sword grows dull, and a perfect pickaxe slows down when nearing its limits. At zero durability, they stay in your hands — but lose their function completely.
• Elemental Rods: five tiers of rods unlock powerful world-altering abilities — from planting crops and transforming terrain, to generating water sources and even creating valuable resources like slime, glowstone, blaze powder, or budding amethyst. Each rod can be upgraded to a magnetic version, allowing remote ore extraction with increasing range and depth. The final form, the The Rod of Angel, adds monster despawning in a radius and can be placed as a block to protect an area passively.
• Magnetic Rods: pull ores to the surface, avoiding endless mining. Also act as detectors, emitting specific sounds when scanning downward for otherwise unreachable targets within a small radius: valuable resources like diamond ore and amethyst clusters, and structure-related blocks like rails (for locating abandoned mineshafts) or sculk (for finding the Deep Dark).
• Planter Rods: sow entire crop rows or fertilize them instantly.
• Builder and Layer Rods: lay down blocks, fences, and rails quickly and precisely.
• Bios Diamond: an upgrade material used in armor enhancement and Earth Rod crafting. It also serves as a Trim Material with a distinct, luminous yellow-green tint — subtle, yet otherworldly.
• Tuff reimagined: once just decorative, tuff now contains saltpeter — a key ingredient in crafting gunpowder.
• Gunpowder block: a compact way to store gunpowder, with a twist — it behaves like falling sand, explodes when ignited, and detonates on impact or when jumped on. Perfect for building deadly traps.
• Alchemy with a twist: two exotic potions expand your environmental control:
  • Splash Destroying Potion — brewed from a Prismarine Shard and a Splash Awkward Potion. Destroys and transforms blocks on impact, and sometimes drops valuable resources. Useful for farming Saltpeter from Tuff, Clay from sand near water, Prismarine Crystals, Diamond Powder, and more.
  • Soaring Spore Essence — made from a Froglight and Potion of Slow Falling. Grants the Glowing and Slow Falling effects to mobs or players, toggled on or off with each use. Can also be used to upgrade armor, giving it toggleable passive effects.
• The Block of Angel: creates a safe zone, free from monsters. The block can ignore specific monsters by using filters, which are activated by items. Using an Echo Shard resets the filter, and the block's color changes based on the number of monsters added to the filter.
• The Rod of Angel: grants mobile protection while exploring; place it as a camp beacon or carry it in your hand.
• The Block of Devil while it prevents monsters from dying, it also gradually spreads an epidemic, changing the surrounding blocks. By using certain items on The Block of Devil, you can summon monsters — useful for collecting rare drops like monster heads and music discs.
• Meaningful progression: each shortcut is earned, not given.

Survive first. Shine later.

🏛️ Decorative Elements

Even in a harsh and dangerous world, beauty finds a place.

• Nether Bars: a black, blast-resistant grating with a dusty, scorched finish — forged in the depths of the Nether. Perfect for moody structures like fortresses, shrines, or dark corridors, it adds tension and mystery without looking worn or decayed. Use it for windows, vents, or architectural accents where a sense of danger is more important than age.

• Cracked Obsidian and Cracked Endstone: familiar materials with a fractured, rugged twist.
  These blocks hint at time, stress, or magical interference — ideal for ruins, battle-scarred lands, or ancient structures hidden deep underground.

• Fusion Storage Blocks: solid-colored, full-sized blocks forged from advanced ingots.
  While primarily designed for compact storage and sorting, their smooth surfaces and vivid colors make them a clean and striking building material — perfect for color-coded bases, signal markers, or minimalist structures.

These elements let you express your style without clutter — and add contrast to the rough survival journey ahead.

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🧡 Who is this mod for?

This mod is for those who are drawn to Minecraft's colorful world and its spirit of exploration.
For players who are not interested in grinding endless resources, building farms, or re-crafting Netherite gear six times a game.
For those who want to experience every discovery once — and move forward.
For adventurers who seek to explore, conquer, and uncover artifacts, not repeat the same tasks over and over.

If you love making every moment meaningful, The Block of Angel was made for you.

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💫 Thank You for Playing

Thank you for choosing the path of the true adventurer.
Whether you're standing on a cliff at sunrise, holding your The Rod of Angel… or exploring deep ruins with barely a heart left — you're living a story that matters.

We hope every moment in The Block of Angel makes your Minecraft world feel a little more magical.
Stay safe, stay curious — and always move forward. 🌿

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🛠️ Installation and Technical Information

Installation

• Make sure you have Minecraft 1.21.1, 1.21.4, 1.21.5 or 1.21.6 with NeoForge installed.
• Download the mod .jar file.
• Place it into your mods folder.
• Launch the game and enjoy your adventure!

Technical Details

• Developer: Sergey Pekarchik (with testing and creative support by Tima Pekarchik)
• Supported NeoForge versions: 1.21.1, 1.21.4, 1.21.5 and 1.21.6
• Texture resolution: 32×32
• Supported languages: English, Belarusian, Russian

💡 Optional Visual Enhancement

To enjoy full visual fidelity of helmets with transparent glass,
we recommend using the client-side mod Shoulder Surfing Reloaded. It allows proper rendering of semi-transparent blocks in first- and third-person views.

(Licensed under MIT — freely shareable and fully compatible.)

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🧩 Related Mods

The Block of Angel mod is fully compatible with the following mods by the same author:

• 🌟 Pouch & Paper — introduces compact forms of tradeable resources for easier storage and trading:
  • paper (stackable and block form),
  • ink and glow ink (bottled),
  • leather (bundled),
  • seeds (in pouches),
  • feathers (as compact packs).
  Includes the Burnt Paper Block — crafted by setting a Paper Block on fire. It attracts creepers and repels bees, perfect for traps and moody builds.

• 🔧 EnchantOnce — a minimalistic but powerful rework of enchanting and repairing.
  Fixed XP costs, enchanted book duplication, material-based repairs, and perfect gear cloning — all with vanilla-style mechanics.
  Fully supports custom gear and enchantments from The Block of Angel.

• 🧭 Compass Cleaner — adds a minimalist recipe to reset a Lodestone Compass to a regular Compass.
  Ideal for tidying up obsolete compasses after you lose or remove their lodestone targets.

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☕ Support Development

If you enjoy the mod and would like to support future updates and new features, you can support me here:
Buy me a coffee on Ko-fi!

Your support means a lot and helps me dedicate more time to creating new content and improving the mod! ❤️

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