aozaink

Players draw Chinese characters inside in-world handwriting input circles, and an ONNX-based recognizer identifies the glyph. Recognized glyphs are passed to event hooks, where addon mods decide what each one does. Self-cast writing modes anchor the writing to the world, so a glyph can be placed where the player is looking rather than only held in the hand.

The mod itself adds no spells, combat abilities, dungeons or progression. It provides the technical base that addon mods use for handwriting recognition as a gameplay input, and content mods define what a recognized glyph actually does. An official Java addon API lives under com.aozainkmc.api, and InkMark state records which addon mods are attached to a world or target.

Installing aozaink alone gives the handwriting system, ink staves in several material tiers, and their durability, repair and upgrade metadata, but no gameplay content. The library is required by Glyphbound: Hanzi Magic, which depends on it for its actual content. The environment is client and server, so the server and every player need the mod. aozaink is open source under the MIT License and is published for NeoForge on 1.21.1 only, with 0.1.1-alpha.1 as the latest alpha file from 2026-05-31.