Fundamental Principles - Iron's Spells Addon
by ypsilonM
Fundamental Principles, an addon for Iron's Spells 'n Spellbooks on NeoForge, adds exhaustion, critical hits and a mindful state to spellcasting.
What it does
Casting spells builds up exhaustion, shown on a bottle icon that fills as fatigue rises. The level appears in the upper left corner of the icon and the exhaustion points appear at the bottom right. Exhaustion slowly drops over time, reaches a maximum of level 4, and each level carries a total amount of exhaustion before the next one. Accumulated exhaustion lowers the output power of spells. Higher rarity spells add more fatigue, and casting a spell of the same school as the last one adds less. The burnout effect stops casting entirely, and it is acquired by staying between exhaustion levels 4 and 3 while casting.
The mod also adds a rare critical event that can strike physical hits, with only a small base chance for each landed blow and only when certain conditions apply, such as the target having less than half its maximum health. Continued hits raise a mindful state up to level 3, granting +50% mana regeneration, removing exhaustion and burnout, and giving a greater chance for such hits. The mod requires Ace's Spell Utils, Geckolib and Iron's Spells 'n Spellbooks, and it is published for NeoForge 1.21.1 with the client and server both needing it.
Key features
Exhaustion meter
Casting spells raises an exhaustion bottle icon in four levels, with points tracked in each level.
Exhaustion-based spell penalty
Accumulated exhaustion reduces spell output power, and resting at zero exhaustion clears the penalty.
Mindful state
Repeated landed hits raise a mindful state up to level 3, which adds mana regeneration and removes exhaustion.
Critical hits with debuffs
A rare physical critical hit doubles damage and applies resistance to the hitter and weakness to the target.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 3
How it compares
Reliquified Iron's Spells 'n Spellbooks is a NeoForge 1.21.1 addon, client and server, under All rights reserved and not open source. Crystal Chronicles is also NeoForge 1.21.1, client and server, under All rights reserved and not open source. Wind's Spellbooks covers Forge and NeoForge across 1.20 – 1.21.2, which reaches further than this mod's single version.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fundamental Principles - Iron's Spells Addon | NeoForge | 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2026-08-02 |
| Reliquified Iron's Spells 'n Spellbooks | NeoForge | 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2026-06-09 |
| Crystal Chronicles | NeoForge | 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2026-02-02 |
Questions
Which dependencies does Fundamental Principles need?
Does the server need Fundamental Principles?
Does Fundamental Principles work on other Minecraft versions?
What the author says
Fundamental Principles is an addon for the magic mod Iron's Spells n Spellbooks that intends to add some more features related to the magic system. In addition, there's also some new spells and mobs added to the gameplay. Its main objective is to change the gameplay of magic and also taking a focus on mage PVE/PVP.
Official listing
- Owner
- ypsilonM
- Published
- 2026-03-22
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-08-02
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15
