Astral Sorcery is a fun mod for Minecraft that lets you harness the power of the stars for magic. I highly suggest the wiki found at https://minecraftguides.net/AS/getting%20started for a lot of information, but there are some things that can still be a little bit confusing. This post will take you through getting started, and further posts will cover later sections of the mod.

If you’re using a modpack that has an Akashic Tome (like All the Mods 3 Remix) you’ll already have an Astral Tome included. In case you have to make one, you’ll need to combine a book with a piece of parchment (four aquamarines around a piece of paper) and three aquamarines.

Regardless of whether you start with an Astral Tome or not, I suggest spending some time collecting a handful of aquamarines, as they’ll be needed for crafting various early items.

You’ll also want some marble and an ender pearl or two. As these last can be tricky to get if you’re early game, look around for shrines and seek out the hidden chests.

In large shrines, two chests can usually be found by digging underneath the shrine, as well as a large Collector Crystal (more on these later). One of the things you’ll also want to collect from these chests are the Constellation Papers.

Constellation Papers appear blank at first glance, but once placed into your inventory will reveal a constellation.

You can find five constellations this way, Evorsio, Armara, Discidia, Vicio, and Aevitas. Once you’ve found these five, the papers will remain blank when you pick them up. I suggest still collecting 11 blank pages, but this can also be left for later in your studies. By sneak+right clicking your Astral Tome, you can open a section to store your constellation papers, keeping them handy for later experiments.

Once you’ve gathered some aquamarines, marble, and an ender pearl, it’s time to start some basic crafting. Craft a vanilla crafting table and place it in the room underneath a large shrine. A beam of light will connect the Collector Crystal to the bench, allowing you to create a few necessary items. The first is a Resonating Wand and the second is a Luminous Crafting Table. The recipe for the Luminous Crafting Table requires a few types of marble, which can be made via recipes in the Astral Tome, but you can also use a chisel to create the various pillars, rune, arch, engraved, and chiseled marbles required. A chisel can also be useful if you find you need to convert marble from mod to Astral Sorcery. Once this has been crafted, you will find that another section has been created in your Astral Tome (scroll out from the Discovery section) called Exploration.

After both of these items have been crafted, find an open spot to place your Luminous Crafting Table. Many people build an open, elevated space for this, but all that is really required is space for your table to grow in size, as well as accessories to be added later, and a view of the night sky. At this point, if you are playing on a server, I suggest letting others know what you’re doing, as most of the rest of what you want to do will need to be done at night (which players tend to want to skip).

The first thing you’ll probably want to do with your wand is go looking for Rock Crystal Ore. These ores can be elusive, and the Astral Tome is a bit vague about how to find them. If you stand on the surface at night and hold your wand in either hand, you’ll be able to see globes of white light emanating from the ground. I find it’s helpful to place a marker at these spots and wait until daylight to dig (this lets you avoid mobs sneaking up on you). However you decide to search, you will want to dig down, as these ores are only found between level 5 and bedrock. I find it’s helpful to build a Tinker’s Construct Hammer, dig a 3×3 hole, then a small “shelf” in the wall where I can stand to dig another 3×3 hole, and so on. This gives me a place to stand where I won’t suddenly find myself in lava, and also lets me place torches along the way so I can see.

You can also use your wand underground to see where ores might be hiding lower down, as long as it is night. These ores have to be mined by players, a quarry or mechanical digger will not yield any crystals. There is, however, a loophole. If you have at least a Tier 2 Void Miner from the Environmental Tech mod, it will occasionally find the Rock Crystal Ore. Since this isn’t mined, you can collect it and just use a pick on the ore to get the crystals. Typically you need a mining level of obsidian (diamond pickaxe) or the ore will shatter without yielding any crystals.

At this point, you are ready to start on the Exploration section, so stay tuned for another post with more information!