Sortilege
by Lyof
Sortilege lets players craft staffs that fire an instant particle beam, with enchantments and brewing tweaks that extend vanilla systems.
What it does
Staffs are made from any of the six vanilla tool materials. Each tier changes the range, damage and maximum number of targets. A staff sits between melee swords and ranged bows: its beam travels instantly, ignores gravity and damages anything in its path until it hits a block or can no longer pierce.
Staffs go on cooldown after each use instead of needing a charge, though a charge can be set in the configuration. Their beams deal magic damage. A dedicated set of staff enchantments and the curse Ignorance add stat boosts and costs. Antidotes are a new potion type made by brewing Glow Ink into a non-instant potion, and they remove the effect when drunk. Every feature is configurable.
Sortilege requires SolLib. Enchantment Descriptions is optional and adds descriptions for the enchantments. Servers that run it need every player to install it too. Files cover 1.19.2 – 1.21.1 for Fabric and Forge, and the custom license means the code is not open source, though the source code is public.
Key features
Beam staffs
Staffs fire a particle ray that hits every target in its path, with range, damage and target count set by tier.
Staff enchantments
Potency, Stability, Chaining, Wisdom and Unbreaking adapt the staff, with levels up to 5.
Push and pull beams
Two enchantments push foes away or pull them toward the player, each with two levels.
Overcharging with lapis
Lapis Lazuli clicked on a staff adds a second durability bar and stops the staff from using experience while present.
Antidote potions
Brewing Glow Ink into a non-instant potion creates an antidote that clears the matching effect when drunk.
Gallery
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
1.21.x1 of 1 version with builds
1.20.x6 of 6 versions with builds
1.19.x3 of 3 versions with builds
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 1
Required by 1 mod
Questions
Does Sortilege need SolLib?
Does Sortilege have to be installed on the server?
Which versions does Sortilege support?
In the catalog
Sortilege is one of 7,216 Magic mods on ModsFinder, and one of 3,630 Magic mods for Fabric. 32,366 mods support Minecraft 1.21.1.
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What the author says
Sortilege is an attempt at making these 3 aspects, as well as other magical components of Minecraft, work better, together. To achieve that goal, it offers a handful of small utility tweaks and extra features, all fully configurable. While magic mods usually ignore Vanilla's system to make their own, this one rather…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/sortilege
- Owner
- Lyof
- Published
- 2024-05-06
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-10-09
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15