Life effects
Healing and growth. Life mends allies, cleanses poisons and makes plants grow.
27 life effects you can craft or find in the usual way. Life also has runes of the world, fused runes and innate runes: see their own pages.
Read Reading Life Magic for the illustrated journal of actual healing, repair, gardens and living ward responses.
Bramble
Tier I · Life · Helps you and your allies · 6 mana · needs any Cord
Thorns for 10 seconds: the next 4 things that hurt you from within 4 blocks take 3 damage and are shoved away.
How to get it: Craft: a Blank Rune, Sweet Berries and Cactus. The recipe is shapeless: any layout, any crafting grid.
Modifiers that work on it: Amplify, Extend, Frugal, Overcharge, Execute, Trial Key, Kindled, Unstable, Kindred, Thirst, Belated, Steady, Magnetic, Sowing, Furrowing, Fertile, Torchset, Ore Sensing, Sunlit, Fleecing
Dew Drink
Tier I · Life · Helps you and your allies · 4 mana · needs any Cord
For 10 minutes, rain or water feeds you a hunger point every 15 seconds.
How to get it: Craft: a Blank Rune, Glass Bottle and Lily Pad. The recipe is shapeless: any layout, any crafting grid.
Modifiers that work on it: Frugal, Kindred, Steady, Magnetic, Sowing, Furrowing, Fertile, Torchset, Ore Sensing, Sunlit, Fleecing
Dye Wash
Tier I · Life · Works on the world · 3 mana · needs any Cord
Recolours up to 16 wool, glass, terracotta, concrete or candle blocks around the point to the dye in your other hand. One dye per 8 blocks.
How to get it: Craft: a Blank Rune, Red Dye, Yellow Dye and Blue Dye. The recipe is shapeless: any layout, any crafting grid.
Modifiers that work on it: Widen, Frugal, Focus, Steady, Magnetic, Sowing, Furrowing, Fertile, Torchset, Ore Sensing, Sunlit, Fleecing
Glimmer
Tier I · Life · Works on the world · 2 mana · needs any Cord
Grows glowing lichen over the block that was hit and up to 4 around it: a light that stays.
How to get it: Craft: a Blank Rune, Glow Lichen. The recipe is shapeless: any layout, any crafting grid.
Modifiers that work on it: Widen, Frugal, Focus, Steady, Magnetic, Sowing, Furrowing, Fertile, Torchset, Ore Sensing, Sunlit, Fleecing
Grow
Tier I · Life · Works on the world · 4 mana · needs any Cord
Bone-meals the block that was hit and everything around it, and young animals there grow up.
How to get it: Craft: a Blank Rune, 2x Bone Meal. The recipe is shapeless: any layout, any crafting grid. Also found: Dungeons; Mineshafts.
Modifiers that work on it: Amplify, Frugal, Overcharge, Execute, Trial Key, Kindled, Unstable, Thirst, Belated, Steady, Magnetic, Sowing, Furrowing, Fertile, Torchset, Ore Sensing, Sunlit, Fleecing
Harvest
Tier I · Life · Works on the world · 3 mana · needs any Cord
Harvests grown crops around the block hit, and replants them.
How to get it: Craft: a Blank Rune, 2x Wheat Crops. The recipe is shapeless: any layout, any crafting grid. Also found: Dungeons; Mineshafts.
Modifiers that work on it: Widen, Frugal, Focus, Steady, Magnetic, Sowing, Furrowing, Fertile, Torchset, Ore Sensing, Sunlit, Fleecing
Heal
Tier I · Life · Helps you and your allies · 12 mana · needs any Cord
Restores 8 health (4 hearts; repeats within one cast heal less). What the target can’t use becomes a shield of up to 2 hearts for 10 seconds.
How to get it: Craft: a Blank Rune, Glistering Melon Slice. The recipe is shapeless: any layout, any crafting grid. Also found: Fished from open water; Dungeons; Mineshafts.
Modifiers that work on it: Amplify, Frugal, Linger, Overcharge, Execute, Trial Key, Kindled, Unstable, Kindred, Thirst, Belated, Steady, Magnetic, Sowing, Furrowing, Fertile, Torchset, Ore Sensing, Sunlit, Fleecing
Luckcharm
Tier I · Life · Helps you and your allies · 4 mana · needs any Cord
Luck I for 5 minutes. Can be a passive.
How to get it: Craft: a Blank Rune, Rabbit’s Foot and Emerald. The recipe is shapeless: any layout, any crafting grid.
Modifiers that work on it: Frugal, Kindred, Steady, Magnetic, Sowing, Furrowing, Fertile, Torchset, Ore Sensing, Sunlit, Fleecing
Nourish
Tier I · Life · Helps you and your allies · 6 mana · needs any Cord
Restores 6 hunger and some saturation, and ends Hunger. Fed pets heal 6 and are ready to breed.
How to get it: Craft: a Blank Rune, Bread. The recipe is shapeless: any layout, any crafting grid. Also found: Dungeons; Mineshafts.
Modifiers that work on it: Amplify, Frugal, Overcharge, Execute, Trial Key, Kindled, Unstable, Kindred, Thirst, Belated, Steady, Magnetic, Sowing, Furrowing, Fertile, Torchset, Ore Sensing, Sunlit, Fleecing
Sign Glow
Tier I · Life · Works on the world · 2 mana · needs any Cord
Makes the writing on signs within 6 blocks glow, front and back.
How to get it: Craft: a Blank Rune, Oak Sign and Glow Ink Sac. The recipe is shapeless: any layout, any crafting grid.
Modifiers that work on it: Widen, Frugal, Focus, Steady, Magnetic, Sowing, Furrowing, Fertile, Torchset, Ore Sensing, Sunlit, Fleecing
Slime Sense
Tier I · Life · Works on the world · 2 mana · needs any Cord
Tells whether slimes can spawn underground in this chunk.
How to get it: Craft: a Blank Rune, Slimeball and Compass. The recipe is shapeless: any layout, any crafting grid.
Modifiers that work on it: Frugal, Steady, Magnetic, Sowing, Furrowing, Fertile, Torchset, Ore Sensing, Sunlit, Fleecing
Slowburn
Tier I · Life · Helps you and your allies · 5 mana · needs any Cord
Hunger drains half as fast for 10 minutes. Can be a passive.
How to get it: Craft: a Blank Rune, Bread and Charcoal. The recipe is shapeless: any layout, any crafting grid.
Modifiers that work on it: Frugal, Kindred, Steady, Magnetic, Sowing, Furrowing, Fertile, Torchset, Ore Sensing, Sunlit, Fleecing
Steedmend
Tier I · Life · Helps you and your allies · 4 mana · needs any Cord
Your mount, or the animal it touches, regenerates for 3 minutes.
How to get it: Craft: a Blank Rune, Golden Carrot and Hay Bale. The recipe is shapeless: any layout, any crafting grid.
Modifiers that work on it: Frugal, Kindred, Steady, Magnetic, Sowing, Furrowing, Fertile, Torchset, Ore Sensing, Sunlit, Fleecing
Trailblaze
Tier I · Life · Works on the world · 3 mana · needs any Cord
For 10 minutes, you leave green crumbs every 6 blocks that only you can see. Up to 40.
How to get it: Craft: a Blank Rune, Bread and Lime Dye. The recipe is shapeless: any layout, any crafting grid.
Modifiers that work on it: Frugal, Steady, Magnetic, Sowing, Furrowing, Fertile, Torchset, Ore Sensing, Sunlit, Fleecing
Checker Dye
Tier II · Life · Works on the world · 5 mana · needs a Copper Cord or better
Like Dye Wash, but only every other block, for a checkered pattern. One dye per 8 blocks.
How to get it: Craft: a Blank Rune, White Dye and Black Dye, plus 2 Lapis Lazuli and a Gold Ingot. The recipe is shapeless: any layout, any crafting grid. Also found: Living Greenhouse; Rootbound Maze.
Modifiers that work on it: Widen, Frugal, Focus, Steady, Magnetic, Sowing, Furrowing, Fertile, Torchset, Ore Sensing, Sunlit, Fleecing
Cleanse
Tier II · Life · Helps you and your allies · 8 mana · needs a Copper Cord or better
Washes away harmful effects, fire and every elemental mark.
How to get it: Craft: a Blank Rune, Milk Bucket, plus 2 Lapis Lazuli and a Gold Ingot. The recipe is shapeless: any layout, any crafting grid. Also found: Shipwrecks; Buried treasure; Trial vaults; Living Greenhouse; Rootbound Maze.
Modifiers that work on it: Frugal, Kindred, Steady, Magnetic, Sowing, Furrowing, Fertile, Torchset, Ore Sensing, Sunlit, Fleecing
Haven
Tier II · Life · Helps you and your allies · 14 mana · needs a Copper Cord or better
Raises living leaf shutters across a 4-block haven for 8 seconds: enemies inside are shoved out once a second, and enemy projectiles glance off its boundary.
How to get it: Craft: a Blank Rune, Shield and Glistering Melon Slice, plus 2 Lapis Lazuli and a Gold Ingot. The recipe is shapeless: any layout, any crafting grid. Also found: Living Greenhouse; Rootbound Maze.
Modifiers that work on it: Extend, Widen, Frugal, Focus, Steady, Magnetic, Sowing, Furrowing, Fertile, Torchset, Ore Sensing, Sunlit, Fleecing
Lullaby
Tier II · Life · Helps you and your allies · 8 mana · needs a Copper Cord or better
You and allies within 8 blocks count as rested, so phantoms leave you be. Tells you how many are asleep.
How to get it: Craft: a Blank Rune, White Bed and Phantom Membrane, plus 2 Lapis Lazuli and a Gold Ingot. The recipe is shapeless: any layout, any crafting grid. Also found: Living Greenhouse; Rootbound Maze.
Modifiers that work on it: Frugal, Kindred, Steady, Magnetic, Sowing, Furrowing, Fertile, Torchset, Ore Sensing, Sunlit, Fleecing
Petward
Tier II · Life · Works on the world · 8 mana · needs a Copper Cord or better
Your pets within 16 blocks get Resistance I for 3 minutes.
How to get it: Craft: a Blank Rune, Bone and Shield, plus 2 Lapis Lazuli and a Gold Ingot. The recipe is shapeless: any layout, any crafting grid. Also found: Living Greenhouse; Rootbound Maze.
Modifiers that work on it: Frugal, Steady, Magnetic, Sowing, Furrowing, Fertile, Torchset, Ore Sensing, Sunlit, Fleecing
Potion Steep
Tier II · Life · Helps you and your allies · 6 mana · needs a Copper Cord or better
Good potion effects last a quarter longer, up to 45 seconds more and 8 minutes in all.
How to get it: Craft: a Blank Rune, Glass Bottle, Nether Wart and Redstone Dust, plus 2 Lapis Lazuli and a Gold Ingot. The recipe is shapeless: any layout, any crafting grid. Also found: Living Greenhouse; Rootbound Maze.
Modifiers that work on it: Frugal, Kindred, Steady, Magnetic, Sowing, Furrowing, Fertile, Torchset, Ore Sensing, Sunlit, Fleecing
Regrowth
Tier II · Life · Helps you and your allies · 10 mana · needs a Copper Cord or better
Regeneration that takes hold: I for 3 seconds, II for 3, III for 2 (about 7 health).
How to get it: Craft: a Blank Rune, Ghast Tear, plus 2 Lapis Lazuli and a Gold Ingot. The recipe is shapeless: any layout, any crafting grid. Also found: Shipwrecks; Buried treasure; Trial vaults; Living Greenhouse; Rootbound Maze.
Modifiers that work on it: Amplify, Extend, Frugal, Overcharge, Execute, Trial Key, Kindled, Unstable, Kindred, Thirst, Belated, Steady, Magnetic, Sowing, Furrowing, Fertile, Torchset, Ore Sensing, Sunlit, Fleecing
Root Carry
Tier II · Life · Works on the world · 8 mana · needs a Copper Cord or better
Two separate casts select and move one unchanged young Cinder Fern onto nearby visible soil. Selection lasts fifteen seconds; successful relocation starts a twenty-second rest. Refuses grown, changed, hidden, protected or unloaded roots.
How to get it: Craft: a Blank Rune, Rooted Dirt, Bone Meal and String, plus 2 Lapis Lazuli and a Gold Ingot. The recipe is shapeless: any layout, any crafting grid. Also found: Living Greenhouse; Rootbound Maze.
Modifiers that work on it: Frugal, Steady, Magnetic, Sowing, Furrowing, Fertile, Torchset, Ore Sensing, Sunlit, Fleecing
Venom
Tier II · Life · Harms enemies · 8 mana · needs a Copper Cord or better
2 damage now and 0.75 a second for 4 seconds, with Poison I: it can kill and works on undead and spiders. The poisoned pass it on, once, to up to 3 enemies within 2.5 blocks.
How to get it: Craft: a Blank Rune, Poisonous Potato, plus 2 Lapis Lazuli and a Gold Ingot. The recipe is shapeless: any layout, any crafting grid. Also found: Shipwrecks; Buried treasure; Trial vaults; Living Greenhouse; Rootbound Maze.
Modifiers that work on it: Amplify, Extend, Frugal, Linger, Overcharge, Execute, Trial Key, Kindled, Unstable, Thirst, Belated, Steady, Magnetic, Sowing, Furrowing, Fertile, Torchset, Ore Sensing, Sunlit, Fleecing
Drowse
Tier III · Life · Harms enemies · 14 mana · needs an Amethyst Cord or better
Sleepy pollen lulls each target to sleep for 6 seconds (2 on players): it can’t move or fight back, but any damage wakes it, and the blow that does deals 75% more. Bosses only grow drowsy.
How to get it: Craft: a Blank Rune, Spore Blossom and Honey Bottle, plus a Mana Crystal and a Diamond. The recipe is shapeless: any layout, any crafting grid. Also found: Ancient cities; Living Greenhouse; Rootbound Maze.
Modifiers that work on it: Extend, Frugal, Steady, Magnetic, Sowing, Furrowing, Fertile, Torchset, Ore Sensing, Sunlit, Fleecing
Hearthbond
Tier III · Life · Helps you and your allies · 16 mana · needs an Amethyst Cord or better
Bonds you and allies within 12 blocks for 3 minutes: when one drops low they regenerate, and the rest hear it. Once a minute each.
How to get it: Craft: a Blank Rune, Golden Apple and String, plus a Mana Crystal and a Diamond. The recipe is shapeless: any layout, any crafting grid. Also found: Living Greenhouse; Rootbound Maze.
Modifiers that work on it: Frugal, Kindred, Steady, Magnetic, Sowing, Furrowing, Fertile, Torchset, Ore Sensing, Sunlit, Fleecing
Restore
Tier III · Life · Helps you and your allies · 14 mana · needs an Amethyst Cord or better
Puts things back: heals 4, puts out fire, and mends 8% of every worn and held item’s durability (an item once a minute).
How to get it: Craft: a Blank Rune, Iron Ingot and Glistering Melon Slice, plus a Mana Crystal and a Diamond. The recipe is shapeless: any layout, any crafting grid. Also found: Stronghold libraries; Living Greenhouse; Rootbound Maze.
Modifiers that work on it: Amplify, Frugal, Overcharge, Execute, Trial Key, Kindled, Unstable, Kindred, Thirst, Belated, Steady, Magnetic, Sowing, Furrowing, Fertile, Torchset, Ore Sensing, Sunlit, Fleecing
Reversal
Tier IV · Life · Helps you and your allies · 28 mana · needs an Echo Cord
For 30 seconds, one killing blow is reversed: back to half health instead of dying. Once death has been cheated, nothing turns it back again for a minute.
How to get it: Never crafted. Where it comes from: Ominous vaults; Archive vaults; the Archivist.
Modifiers that work on it: Extend, Frugal, Steady, Magnetic, Sowing, Furrowing, Fertile, Torchset, Ore Sensing, Sunlit, Fleecing