Void Relic
Most Minecraft mods hand you a recipe and call it progression. Void Relic does something stranger and far more interesting. It hands you an object you cannot craft, cannot upgrade at a bench, and cannot rush, then asks you to build a structure, feed it, and step back. What grows out of that ritual is one of the most ambitious economy systems ever bolted onto the game.
If you have been searching for a reason to download Void Relic, the short version is this: it reads your pack's own recipes and works out what everything is worth. No value tables, no spreadsheets, no maintenance.
What Void Relic Actually Is
You do not craft the relic. You find it — inert, cold, and hinting at what it could become. From there it advances only through ritual, one tier at a time, each one paid for with a catalyst drawn from your own pack's progression. Each tier opens more of it: an aura that gathers what you break, then flight, then transmutation, then a reach wide enough that the void starts taking the living.
Nothing is granted early and nothing is given twice. The ritual altar is the only way it ever advances. Not a crafting recipe, not an upgrade slot — a structure you build, feed, and stand back from. At the top of the ramp the relic opens onto the whole economy: everything the pack knows how to value, and a bank of essence to spend on it. Attune to a target and it converts as you go.
The Part No Other Mod Does
Void Relic does not ship a value table, and it does not ask you to write one. It reads your pack's own recipes — every recipe, from every mod, including machine types nobody bothers to expose — and works out what each item is worth from what goes into it. On All the Mods 11 that comes to 2,025 items priced from 2,979 recipes, with no configuration at all. Add a mod, and its items are priced too. Nothing to curate, nothing to maintain, nothing to go stale.
The engine behind this is a separate library called Pricetag, which Void Relic requires. It is its own download, with its own public API, so any mod or pack can use the same economy without Void Relic at all. Void Relic is simply its first customer. For players who would rather skip the dependency juggling entirely, the foxygame.net launcher bundles Void Relic alongside its required libraries and keeps every version matched automatically, so the relic is ready the moment your world loads.
Machines, Essence, and Automation
Everything else in the mod runs off that single number. Essence is the liquid form of it; the machines all convert value into other value, and every one of them takes a cut. Nothing here makes something from nothing.
- Condensers turn matter into essence and back.
- Furnaces, pulverizers, refineries and the Singularity Forge run the ore chain at 2x, 3x and 4x.
- Miners pull from the ground, dynamos turn essence into power, collectors gather what falls, and the Void Heart sits at the end of it.
Machines that produce a result only ever extract from their output slot, so pipes and hoppers cannot reach in and steal the inputs back. JEI integration is complete: every machine shows its own category with everything the pack can put through it, the way the vanilla furnace does. Not a single generic recipe entry. The Essence Nexus bridges the whole economy into Applied Energistics 2 and Refined Storage, so transmutation becomes just another crafting pattern. Ask your ME system for something it cannot craft, and it will spend essence on it instead.
World Events: When the Void Gets Bored
Left alone, the void gets on with things. Roughly once a day it looks for something to do, and if the moment suits it, it does it. Most of the time it finds nothing — each of these waits for its own occasion, so the gap between them is longer than a day and never the same twice.
- The Hush — the colour drains out of the world, the fog closes in, and nothing new is born. It is the warning, and something else always follows.
- Wisp Night — at dusk the ground starts to glow until morning. Wisps are thickest above what is buried underneath, so a vein under your feet becomes a column of light.
- Essence Rain — a storm that was already coming falls as essence instead of water. Anything open to the sky fills while it falls.
- The Tear — a crack opens in the sky, widens over a few minutes, and closes. It hangs at a fixed point, so it is somewhere: you can turn towards it and walk under it, and everyone online sees the same one.
- Mirrors — at night, silent figures appear where you have been and walk the walks you walked earlier. Translucent, faceless and entirely harmless.
Every one of them can be switched off individually in config/voidrelic-common.toml under worldEvents, along with a master switch and how often the void bothers to look. Essence Rain is the one you can prepare for. The Essence Catcher is an open basin that catches essence and nothing else — 4,000 mB, 2 mB/t under open sky, no power, and completely inert in ordinary rain.
Endgame Gear and the In-Game Guide
A full set of tools, weapons and armour that do not break and do not care what a block is made of. The sword, the breaker, the eater, the tiller, the longbow and four pieces of armour, with switchable tool modes for precision or area work. Their tooltips show ∞ rather than a number. Endgame gear that reports "+12 attack damage" looks like junk next to a modded weapon rolling four digits, and that number was never the point of it.
Void Relic ships with a complete in-game guide — over twenty pages covering the ore, the economy, every machine, the ritual altar, the events and the endgame. It is craftable from the start, and you should never need a wiki again once you have it. The guide is hosted by GuideME, which is a required dependency for exactly this reason. If you run Applied Energistics 2, it is already in your pack.
How to Install Void Relic for Minecraft
Void Relic for Minecraft targets NeoForge, and you should check the mod page for the exact supported Minecraft versions before you start, since the build moves with the current release cycle.
Required dependencies, all separate downloads:
- Pricetag — the value engine. The mod will not load without it.
- Curios API (15.x) — genuinely required, not merely supported. The relic implements Curios' accessory interface in its own class.
- GuideME — hosts the in-game guide. It is a small library, and if you run Applied Energistics 2 you already have it.
Optional additions include JEI for the per-machine recipe categories and Applied Energistics 2 or Refined Storage for the Essence Nexus bridge. ProjectE is not required. If it is present, values are shared both ways. If it is not, the economy works exactly the same.
Install on both client and server. You may include Void Relic in any modpack, public or private, free or monetised, provided the pack is distributed through an official platform that downloads the mod from its official source. Remember to include Pricetag too, or the pack will not start.
Void Relic stands on two MIT-licensed projects, with thanks: AvaritiaNeo by AquaThree, whose infinity and neutronium artwork was recoloured for the solidified block, chest, ingot, tool and armour textures, and ProjectE-Integration by TagnumElite, which supplied the item value data unmodified. Created and maintained by DNomad.
Final Thoughts
Void Relic is not a mod you finish in an afternoon. It is a slow burn that rewards patience, punishes shortcuts, and quietly rewrites how you think about the value of everything in your pack. If you want an economy that maintains itself and a relic that earns every tier it unlocks, this is the one to build your next world around.