The Ultimate Guide to the Enchanted Witchcraft Mod in Minecraft

The Enchanted Witchcraft mod transforms Minecraft into a rich, magic-filled experience packed with herbology, brewing, altar rituals, circle magic, and even broomstick flight. Whether you are just starting out or trying to unlock the mod’s most powerful features, this guide walks you through everything step by step — from growing your first belladonna plant to casting an impenetrable dome with circle magic.

Getting Started: The Guidebook and Magical Plants

The very first thing you should craft when starting the Enchanted Witchcraft mod is the Guide of Witchcraft. This in-game book requires a few basic ingredients and, crucially, a belladonna seed.

How to Obtain Belladonna and Other Magical Plants

The mod introduces several key magical plants you will need throughout your progression: belladonna, water artichoke, mandrake, snow bell, wolfsbane, and garlic. All of these are obtained the same way — they drop from breaking tall grass and short grass in the world, giving you both the item and the seed. Once you have the seeds, plant them just as you would any other crop.

Water artichoke is a special case: it must be planted underwater and can also be eaten as food. All other starter plants follow the standard planting rules.

A Warning About Mandrakes

When you break a mandrake crop, a baby mandrake creature will pop out and must be killed. Mandrakes emit a loud, startling scream when disturbed. To protect yourself, craft and wear earmuffs before harvesting them.

The Witch’s Oven: Your First Magical Crafting Station

The Witch’s Oven is crafted entirely from vanilla Minecraft ingredients and is the first dedicated magical crafting block you will build. Place it down in your base, then attach fume funnels — also made from vanilla ingredients — to its left and right sides. Adding fume funnels to both sides will drastically improve your output yield.

A third fume funnel can be placed on top, but this only adds a decorative chimney and provides no functional benefit.

Fume Filters: Guaranteeing Successful Outputs

In addition to fume funnels, you can craft fume filters to attach to your oven. Fume filters eliminate the chance of a failed cook, guaranteeing a successful output every time. The recipe is not listed in JEI, so refer to the in-game guidebook. You will need:

Glass

Iron

An Attuned Stone (crafted from a Whiff of Magic, a diamond, and a lava bucket)

How to Use the Witch’s Oven

To operate the Witch’s Oven, place clay jars in the bottom slot. You can smelt these from soft clay jars. Then place your ingredient in the top slot. For example, inserting an oak sapling will produce wood ash and Horned One’s Exhale. Finally, add coal or a similar fuel to heat the oven.

The Distillery: Advanced Magical Processing

The Distillery is a more advanced crafting station that allows you to produce higher-tier magical ingredients using clay jars. One of its most important outputs is the Whiff of Magic, which is produced by distilling Ender Pearls, yielding both Ender Juice and Whiff of Magic.

Note that the Distillery itself requires an Attuned Stone to build, which in turn requires a Whiff of Magic. This creates a progression loop. Here is how to break it:

Use the Witch’s Oven to produce a Whiff of Magic by cooking a Rowan Sapling.

Use the Whiff of Magic to craft an Attuned Stone.

Use the Attuned Stone to build the Distillery.

The Distillery also draws power from a nearby Altar during operation, which we will cover in detail below.

Rowan Saplings and Plant Mutation

To get a Rowan Sapling, you need to mutate an oak sapling using a substance called Mutandis. This process starts with the Witch’s Cauldron.

Crafting the Witch’s Cauldron

Place a standard Minecraft cauldron and apply Anointing Paste to it. Anointing Paste requires four of the magical seeds you collected earlier. Once applied, place a campfire or fire beneath the cauldron and fill it with water. You now have a functioning Witch’s Cauldron.

Brewing Mutandis in the Witch’s Cauldron

To brew Mutandis, add the following ingredients to the cauldron in this exact order:

Mandrake Root

Horned One’s Exhale

An Egg

Once all three are added in the correct order, swirling particles will rise from the cauldron. When the swirling stops, right-click the cauldron to collect six Mutandis.

Mutating an Oak Sapling into a Rowan Sapling

Plant an oak sapling in the ground and right-click it with your Mutandis. Purple particles will appear, indicating the mutation process has begun. Next, place the following items nearby the sapling to drive the mutation:

Belladonna

Mandrake

Wolfsbane

Water Artichoke

Placing more of each item nearby will increase the speed and chance of mutation. Acacia or birch saplings can also be used instead of oak, but they are less effective. The most important thing is that the sapling must not grow into a full tree before the mutation completes. If the process seems slow, set up five to ten mutation stations simultaneously to improve your odds.

This same mutation process applies to growing Hawthorn trees, Alder trees, Spanish Moss, Glintweed, Ember Moss, and Blood Poppies — each requiring their own specific surrounding items as detailed in the guidebook’s Herbology section.

The Altar: Powering Your Magical Operations

The Altar is the central power source for the Enchanted Witchcraft mod. It is crafted in a 3×3 arrangement (three blocks wide, three blocks tall) and stores magical power that is consumed by the Distillery, the Witch’s Cauldron, circle magic rituals, and more.

Increasing Altar Power with Flowers and Plants

The altar draws power from natural energy in the plants, flowers, and trees placed nearby. Adding more diverse flora around your altar will increase its power pool significantly. Here are the best sources to focus on:

Enchanted Witchcraft mod trees (Rowan, Alder, Hawthorn) — these provide significantly more power than vanilla trees

Vanilla Minecraft trees (oak, spruce, birch, jungle, cherry) — each unique species adds power

Enchanted Witchcraft flowers such as Glintweed and Water Artichoke

Vanilla Minecraft flowers

Crops: pumpkin, melon, beetroot, garlic

Pitcher Plants (found via Sniffers) — extremely high power contribution

With a well-planted garden of mixed mod and vanilla flora, you can realistically reach 7,760 altar power — which is more than enough to unlock everything in the mod, as the highest power requirement at the time of filming is 7,000.

Upgrading Altar Recharge Rate

To increase how quickly your altar recovers power, attach one of the following upgrades directly to the altar block. You can only use one of each type:

Torch — adds 0.5 recharge rate

Minecraft Candle — adds 1.0 recharge rate

Candelabra — doubles (×2) the recharge rate

The Candelabra is the recommended upgrade as it is easy to obtain and provides the greatest benefit.

Skull Upgrades for Power Capacity

Placing skulls on your altar increases both its power capacity and recharge rate:

Skeleton Skull — +1 power capacity and recharge

Wither Skeleton Skull — +2

Player Head — +2.5 to +3

To make skull farming easier, craft the Arthana — a simple blade that causes skeletons to drop their skull when killed with it. With a wither skeleton skull placed on the altar, your power pool can jump to well over 1,500 immediately.

The Chalice Upgrade

The Chalice multiplies your altar’s power capacity by ×1. Craft it from gold and an Attuned Stone, then fill it using Redstone Soup — brewed in the Kettle, which we cover next.

Brewing: The Kettle and the Witch’s Cauldron

Brewing in Enchanted Witchcraft is split between two vessels: the Kettle (a smaller cauldron variant) and the full Witch’s Cauldron. Different recipes require different amounts of altar power. Key brews include:

Redstone Soup — requires 1,000 altar power; brewed in the Kettle; used to fill the Chalice upgrade

Flying Ointment — used to infuse broomsticks; requires 3,000 altar power in the Witch’s Cauldron

Drop of Luck — required as an ingredient in Redstone Soup; requires 7,000 altar power

Key Brewing Ingredients to Know

Several ingredients require specific methods to obtain:

Tongue of Dog — dropped by wolves; use the Arthana sword to obtain it

Wool of Bat — dropped by bats; use the Arthana sword

Creeper Heart — dropped by creepers

Quick Lime — smelt calcite (a vanilla Minecraft block) in a furnace

Gypsum — produced in the Distillery using Quick Lime and Foul Flames (a byproduct of cooking saplings in the Witch’s Oven); also yields Oil of Vitriol as a bonus output

Gypsum and Oil of Vitriol are important ingredients for crafting ritual chalk, which is required for circle magic.

Circle Magic: Rituals and Spells

Circle magic is one of the most powerful and versatile systems in the Enchanted Witchcraft mod. It allows you to perform rituals and spells by drawing chalk circles on the ground, placing specific items inside them, and activating them with your altar’s power.

Crafting Ritual Chalk

Ritual chalk is crafted in the Witch’s Cauldron and requires up to 3,000 altar power depending on the chalk type. There are multiple colours of chalk, and each colour is required for specific rituals as detailed in your guidebook.

Setting Up a Circle Magic Ritual

To perform a ritual, follow these steps:

Place the Golden Chalk at the center of your ritual site.

Draw one or more chalk circles around it using the appropriate chalk colours — your guidebook specifies the exact layout for each ritual.

Place the required items around the glyphs (not on top of them).

Right-click the Golden Chalk to begin the ritual.

The ritual will absorb the items and, once complete, produce the desired output. If a ritual fails, check that you have used the correct chalk colours, placed the correct items, and that your altar has sufficient power.

If you need to remove incorrectly placed chalk, craft a Broom and sweep the chalk away.

Example Rituals

Here are some example rituals from the guidebook to illustrate how circle layouts vary:

Waystone — Golden chalk in the center, one small white circle around it

Charging Stone — Golden chalk in the center, two concentric white circles

Iron Transposition (pulls iron ore from beneath the ground) — Purple chalk, requiring a seven-block outer circle and three diagonal blocks in purple

Waystones and Bound Waystones

Performing the Waystone ritual saves the coordinates of the ritual location into a Bound Waystone item. You can then use this Bound Waystone as an ingredient in other circle magic rituals — for example, the Impenetrable Dome ritual, which summons a protective barrier that only sneaking players can pass through, and casts it at the location recorded in the Bound Waystone.

To craft the Bone Needle required in the Waystone ritual, refer to the recipe shown in the guidebook — it is straightforward to make.

Other Circle Magic Categories

The guidebook contains many more ritual categories, including:

Brawling — uses flames to rapidly cook all raw food nearby

Fertility — a forest fertility ritual

Curses — negative effect rituals such as Blight (decays nearby flowers), sickening animals, and turning nearby villagers into zombies

Familiars — binding specific animals (such as owls) to yourself, though this feature was not yet fully implemented at the time of filming

Broomstick Flight

The Broomstick is one of the most exciting items in the mod and provides a classic means of magical transportation. To activate it, it must first be imbued with Flying Ointment, which requires 3,000 altar power to brew in the Witch’s Cauldron. Note that Flying Ointment itself requires Redstone Soup, which in turn requires a Drop of Luck (7,000 altar power) — so build up your altar first.

Once the broomstick is ready, place it on the ground and right-click to mount it. Use Jump to ascend and Sneak to descend.

Poppits: Magical Protection Charms

Poppits are charm items that provide powerful passive protection effects. There are three tiers:

Basic Poppit — crafted from standard materials

Infused Poppit — crafted at the Spinning Wheel from a Basic Poppit, an Attuned Stone, and Ender Pearl; requires altar power

Sturdy Poppit — crafted using a Hint of Rebirth and a Shield

How to Make Poppits at the Spinning Wheel

Craft a Spinning Wheel and place your chosen poppit in the top slot. Then add the required ingredients. For example, to create an Armor Poppit, you need:

Diamond Boots

Hint of Rebirth

The spinning wheel will animate and produce the finished poppit in approximately 5–10 seconds. Place your poppits near your altar, as they draw on its power to function.

Poppit Types and Their Effects

The guidebook lists several poppit types with distinct protective abilities:

Armor Poppit — restores durability when your gear breaks; when infused, also grants full Resistance for 10 seconds upon taking fatal damage

Fire Poppit — prevents death from fire; keeps you at 1 health instead of burning to death

Water Poppit — prevents death from drowning

Hunger Poppit — prevents death from starvation

Magic Poppit — prevents fatal magic damage from killing you

Void Poppit — prevents death from falling into the void

Equipment Poppit — prevents a piece of held equipment from being destroyed when it breaks

Voodoo Poppit — an offensive poppit used as an effigy; burning, drowning, or poking needles into it transfers the damage to a target player

Voodoo Protection Poppit — protects you from Voodoo Poppit attacks

Advanced Content: Mutandis Extremis and Tag Lock Keys

Once your altar reaches 7,000 power, you can brew Mutandis Extremis in the Witch’s Cauldron — a more powerful version of Mutandis that enables higher-tier plant mutations. Additionally, Tag Lock Keys are required as ingredients in several advanced recipes, so be aware you will need them as your progression continues.

Summary and Next Steps

The Enchanted Witchcraft mod is a deep and rewarding magic mod with a clear progression path. Here is a quick recap of the core progression order:

Collect magical plant seeds from tall and short grass

Brew the guidebook using belladonna

Build the Witch’s Oven and attach fume funnels

Build the Witch’s Cauldron using Anointing Paste

Brew Mutandis and mutate an oak sapling into a Rowan Sapling

Use the Rowan Sapling in the Witch’s Oven to produce a Whiff of Magic

Craft Attuned Stones and build the Distillery

Build and power your Altar with diverse flora

Upgrade your altar with a Candelabra and skulls

Brew advanced ingredients and unlock circle magic, poppits, and broomstick flight

Take your time with each stage, keep your guidebook open, and make sure your altar has enough power before attempting advanced recipes. Good luck with your witchcraft journey!

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