Astral Sorcery — Guide

Getting Started

The first steps are about learning the sky, not fighting or mining for power.

Explore and find a shrine or Rock Crystal Ore. Sky shrines generate in the world and contain the first crystals and marble. Rock Crystal Ore is found underground and drops Rock Crystals, the backbone of the whole mod.
Craft the Astral Tome. This is your guidebook; it unlocks new pages as you progress through knowledge tiers (Discovery, Attunement, Constellation, Radiance).
Build a Telescope. Use it at night to look at the stars. When you can see a constellation's stars, drag star-to-star to trace its pattern in the Tome and permanently discover that constellation.
Discover your first constellations. Early constellations like Discidia, Armara, Vicio, Aevitas, and Evorsio unlock recipes and become targets for attunement later.
Build a Luminous Crafting Table. Place it under the open night sky so it can gather ambient starlight, then use it to craft the mod's advanced items and upgrade toward the larger Starlight Altars.

From here the loop is: watch the sky, discover more constellations, gather more starlight, and build bigger altars and crystal networks.

Constellations are the heart of Astral Sorcery. Each one has a star pattern, a colour, and a theme, and must be discovered before you can use it.

Discovering: build a Telescope (early) or an Observatory (later, sees more constellations), watch the night sky, and trace a constellation's stars in the Astral Tome. Once traced it is known forever and appears in your "Known constellations" list.
Bright / major constellations (such as Discidia, Armara, Vicio, Aevitas, Evorsio) are the ones you can attune yourself to.
Dim and faint constellations (such as Lucerna, Mineralis, Horologium, Octans, Bootes, Fornax, Pelotrio, and more) are used for crafting, attuned crystals, and rituals rather than self-attunement.
The Astral Tome organizes everything into knowledge tiers - Discovery, Attunement, Constellation, Radiance - and unlocks new recipes and pages as you advance, so it doubles as your progression tracker.

Undiscovered constellations show up as **??? ** placeholders until you trace them, encouraging you to keep watching the sky over many nights.

Starlight is moved and stored through a network of crystals and blocks.

Collector Crystals - placed crystals that gather starlight and can be linked to altars and other network blocks to power them. Linking several collectors into a network lets you feed altars and rituals from a distance.
Rock Crystals & Celestial Crystals - the raw crystals of the mod. They have properties like size, purity, and cutting that determine how much starlight they carry and how efficiently. Celestial Crystals are the upgraded form.
Growing & cutting crystals - crystals can be grown in Liquid Starlight and cut/refined to improve their stats, and attuned to a constellation to change what they do. Attuned crystals are what you place on Ritual Pedestals.
Lenses & relays - starlight can be redirected and focused through lens blocks to route power exactly where you want it in a build.

Building an efficient starlight network is the mid-game engineering puzzle of the mod.

Liquid Starlight is the mod's special fluid, tied directly to crystal growth and crafting.

Lightwell - a block that slowly produces Liquid Starlight from a crystal placed in it. This is the main renewable source of the fluid.
Growing crystals - dropping a Rock or Celestial Crystal into a pool of Liquid Starlight lets it grow in size over time, and combining fluids can create new items and materials.
Chalice - a fluid container that can store and move fluids within the starlight network, used to buffer and transport Liquid Starlight for larger setups.

Managing Liquid Starlight is how you scale up crystal quality, which in turn powers everything else.

One of the mod's signature systems lets you attune yourself to a constellation for permanent character progression.

Attunement Altar - a large multi-block structure where you attune yourself to a major constellation (for example Discidia for offense, Armara for defense, Vicio for movement, Aevitas for life, Evorsio for utility). Your choice sets the theme of your perks.
The Perk Tree - after attuning, open the Astral Tome's Perk Tree, a huge radial web of hundreds of nodes. You spend accumulated experience to travel outward through the tree, unlocking permanent bonuses.
Perk effects - nodes grant stat bonuses, resistances, extra reach, life, damage, and special abilities tied to your constellation, plus utility nodes such as Gem Sockets that let you slot bonus effects.
Experience - perk experience is earned through play; the further you travel the tree, the more powerful and specialized your character becomes.

Self-attunement turns Astral Sorcery into a long-term character build system, not just a crafting mod.

Rituals project a constellation's power over a large area around a pedestal.

Ritual Pedestal - place an attuned crystal on it to activate a ritual keyed to that crystal's constellation.
Effects - depending on the constellation, a ritual can accelerate crop and tree growth, harm hostile mobs, grant regeneration or other buffs to nearby players, and more. Each major constellation has its own ritual effect.
Range & boosting - rituals affect a wide radius and can be strengthened with better crystals and supporting blocks (such as focusing lenses), letting you cover farms, bases, or mob areas.

Rituals are the "automation" payoff of the mod: once set up, they passively apply a constellation's effect to everything around them.

Build your base under open sky. Starlight gathering depends on a clear view of the night sky - roofs, torches, and low altitude all hurt your starlight income.
Watch the sky often. Constellations are only visible on some nights; keep a Telescope handy and check regularly to discover them faster.
Grow and cut your crystals. Higher size, purity, and cutting mean far more starlight - invest in Liquid Starlight and crystal growth early.
Pick your attunement to fit your playstyle. Discidia for damage, Armara for defense, Vicio for mobility, Aevitas for survivability, Evorsio for utility.
Spend perk experience steadily. The Perk Tree is huge; plan a route toward the bonuses you want rather than wandering randomly.
Use rituals for passive power. An attuned crystal on a Ritual Pedestal can speed up a whole farm or weaken mobs around your base while you do other things.
Read the Astral Tome. Almost every mechanic is explained there as you unlock it - it is the best in-game reference for what to build next.