Getting started

Leylines is an Iron’s school addon for NeoForge 1.21.1. Install it with Iron’s Spells ’n Spellbooks, GeckoLib, and TerraBlender. TerraBlender is required for the Crimson Thicket biome.

You do not start with a staff. The loop opens with one spell.

First night

1. Find a Charge Leyline scroll. Chests have about a 12% chance to inject one. Iron’s spellcasting mobs can drop one too (about 8%, plus looting).
2. Wait for night. Chat will say “A leyline pillar has manifested nearby…” when a temporary pillar spawns 80–100 blocks out. They last about twelve minutes and only appear at night by default.
3. Walk to the violet Leyline Pillar. Stand within twelve blocks and cast Charge Leyline three times (40 mana, 5s cooldown). The pillar opens a Leyline Rift.
4. Clear the waves. Stay within sixty blocks of the rift or it collapses. Finish for loot, XP, and a 25% chance at a Ley Crystal.

Items you will hold

Charge Leyline scroll

The gate. Rare Iron’s scroll, one level only. Channels into a nearby pillar. No pillar in range → cast fails with “No chargeable leyline pillar nearby.”

Ley Crystal

Uncraftable. 25% drop when you clear a rift, or buy from a Nightborn Elf for 12 Ancient Mana. School focus for Leyline casting. Recipe ingredient for the Codex and Staff.

Leyline Codex

10-slot SpellBook. +10% Leyline Spell Power, +200 max mana. Fire resistant. Craft: amethyst shards and leather around a Ley Crystal (ALA / LCL / ALA).

Ley Staff

Iron’s staff. +15% Leyline Spell Power, +100 max mana, +5% spell power. Craft: Ley Crystal over an amethyst block over a stick.

Ancient Mana

Nightborn currency. Break an Ancient Mana Cluster (1–2, or the block with silk touch). Spend it on crystals, random Leyline scrolls, and Scarlet Aspen saplings.

If you only craft the staff and never leave base at night, you are playing half the mod. Pillars are the world half.