🛡️ The Forsaken Souls Expansion

Enhance your Minecraft journey with powerful equipment forged from ancient spirits! The Forsaken Souls Expansion introduces the Soul – a new core resource obtained by smelting Soul Sand or Soul Soil. Harvest these souls to forge durable tools, compress them into heavy Soul Ingots, or channel them into dark magic to craft functional Spawn Eggs and Monster Spawners!

The Soul Armor is perfectly balanced to bridge the gap between Diamond and Netherite gear, while providing unique utility to aid your survival.

---

⚒️ How it Works

• 🧪 Harvesting Spirits: Start by smelting Soul Sand or Soul Soil in a standard furnace to extract a Soul.

• 🥚 Spawn Eggs: Combine 8 Souls with a specific mob-drop ingredient in the crafting table to create its respective Spawn Egg.

  !Crafting recipe for a spawn egg using 8 souls and a mob item.

• Monster Spawners: Combine 1 Soul with 4 Netherite Ingots and 4 Chains to forge a functional Monster Spawner.

  !Crafting recipe for a monster spawner using netherite, chains, and a soul.

• 🪙 Soul Ingots: Compress 9 individual Souls into 1 heavy Soul Ingot to upgrade your equipment.

  !Crafting recipe for a soul ingot using 9 souls.

• ⚔️ Intuitive Blacksmithing: Crafting tools and armor follows standard vanilla layouts. Just substitute vanilla components with your new Soul Ingots.

  !Crafting recipe for the soul chestplate using the basic layout.

• 🏆 Progression: Unlock a brand-new set of custom in-game advancements as you master the power of souls.

---

💎 Featured Items

Here is a showcase of the complete armory, toolset, and core items added by this expansion:

!All new soul items including the full armor set, tools, and materials.

🔍 Spoilers (Click to preview Equipment Stats & Craftable Mobs)

Soul Armor Stats & Set Bonus

• Full Set Bonus:

  • Permanent: Resistance I
  • While Sneaking: Fire Resistance I
  • If in the Nether: Upgrades to Resistance II

• Soul Helmet: 3 Armor / 2.5 Armor Toughness

  !Stats of the soul helmet

• Soul Chestplate: 8 Armor / 2.5 Armor Toughness

  !Stats of the soul chestplate

• Soul Leggings: 6 Armor / 2.5 Armor Toughness

  !Stats of the soul leggings

• Soul Boots: 3 Armor / 2.5 Armor Toughness

  !Stats of the soul boots

---

🥚 List of all 34 Craftable Spawn Eggs

You can forge spawn eggs for the following entities using 8 Souls + their signature drop:

• Armadillo, Bee, Blaze, Breeze, Chicken, Cod, Cow, Creeper, Enderman, Ghast, Glow Squid, Guardian, Horse, Iron Golem, Magma Slime, Nautilus, Phantom, Pig, Pufferfish, Rabbit, Salmon, Sheep, Shulker, Skeleton, Slime, Spider, Squid, Tropical Fish, Turtle, Villager, Warden, Wither Skeleton, Wolf, Zombie.

---

⚠️ IMPORTANT REQUIREMENTS

This datapack requires its corresponding Resource Pack to display textures correctly. Without it, items will appear as default vanilla objects or broken textures.

• 💡 Note on Recipe Previews: Due to technical engine limitations, looking up a recipe in the recipe book without owning the required Soul Ingots in your inventory will temporarily display the underlying vanilla placeholder block instead of the custom texture.

  !Crafting recipe of the soul chestplate without ingots in the inventory.

---

🛠️ Installation

1. Datapack: Place the .zip file into your world/datapacks folder.
2. Resource Pack: Place the .zip file into your resourcepacks folder and enable it in-game.

• 💡 Note: Ensure you download both files. You can find them under the Versions tab inside your preferred release:

!This image shows where to download the Datapack and Resource Pack (Versions tab).

---

⚙️ Compatibility & Technical Notes

• Expansion Compatibility: Fully compatible with my Armor & Tools Expansion.

• 🚨 CRITICAL SECURITY NOTE FOR SERVER ADMINS: To achieve custom textures, this pack utilizes sensitive vanilla technical blocks with custom item_models:

  1. The Soul is based on the Jigsaw Block.

  !The soul item is based on the jigsaw block.

  2. The Soul Ingot is based on the Repeating Command Block.

  !The soul ingot is based on the repeating command block.

  Both items cannot be placed down in Survival Mode. However, please exercise extra caution regarding Creative Mode access, world-editing tools, or specific plugins that force block placements to completely prevent any potential player exploits.

---

📝 Behind the Scenes

• This project is a modernized, standalone adaptation of a feature originally developed for a private Minecraft server between late 2024 and 2025 (for versions 1.21.3–1.21.4).
• Originally intended to debut as a modular piece inside the Armor & Tools Expansion Part 2, it has been fully overhauled and released independently for players who want to master the art of soul-crafting.