Feathers & Winds

Gryphons + Alchemy — A magical fusion of flight and element bending.

High above the clouds, true strength lies not in power, but in the bond between a rider and their gryphon. Master the ancient arts of alchemy of Fire, Water, Wind, and Earth, ride into battle and soar through the sky, and if your companion should ever fall, know that even death itself can be defied.

📖 Overview

Feathers & Winds brings true gryphons and a deep aether alchemy system into Minecraft, with cylinder and catalyst work inspired by Mabinogi. Tame a companion, use what they leave behind in new recipes, and build the workstation that can bring them back if the sky takes them.

Most mods never add a real gryphon. This one does.

Lone alchemist or full aviary. The fantasy is the same: earn the bond, take the air, bend the elements.

✨ Key Features

• Tamable Gryphons — find them in the mountains, earn trust, and take to the sky
• Hippogryphs & Demigryphs — breed and raise the rest of the bloodline
• Aether Alchemy — Fire, Water, Wind, and Earth through cylinders, catalysts, and new stations
• The Bond — hunger, trust, wounds, mini-games, and gear.
• Defile Death — a fallen gryphon drops a heart. That is not the end of the story
• Skills & Runestones — passive abilities that a gryphon can have just like skills that will slowly make any gryphoneer become a legend
• A World Worth Flying Over — Gryphon Highlands, Crystal Rift, Cinderspring Basin, and aeries in vanilla villages

🦅 Gryphons

Too many dragons. Too many “gryphons” that are just horses with extra polygons. These ones nest, fight, and remember whether you fed them or mistreat them.

Taming is not a victory screen. You play with them, clean the nest, treat wounds, and watch trust rise — you build a bond.

• Wild gryphons spawn in mountain biomes and the Gryphon Highlands
• Multiple variants / colors
• Tame with raw horse meat, raw rabbit, or a rabbit foot
• Saddle, harness, armor, inventory, and mini-games
• If they die, they drop their heart. Revival is possible yet it is not free

🧪 Alchemy

Load a cylinder. Pick an element.

• Aether Cylinder and Guard Cylinder — Fire burns, Water washes over, Earth ruins a day, Wind throws the problem off a cliff
• Catalysts — turn that shot into healing, a meteor, a storm, blizzard, or something that should still be dead return to life
• Alchemy Table, Aether Altar, Alchemy Belt — synthesis, fragmentation, and a belt that keeps your crystals on you while keeping some free inventory space

This is not vanilla brewing with extra bottles. Fail the work and you lose the ingredients. Land it, and the highlands open up.

📥 Installation

1. Install the required mod loader: NeoForge (Minecraft 1.21.1)
2. Download Feathers & Winds
3. Drop the .jar file into your mods folder
4. Install the required dependencies listed below

Recommended companion mods:

• GeckoLib (Required)
• Biolith (Required)
• Just Enough Items (optional)
• Curios (optional: amulet and alchemy belt slots)
• Tectonic (optional: the best way to see the biomes in my opinion)

🔧 Compatibility

• Works with most popular mods
• Known conflicts: none so far

❓ FAQ

Q: Can I use this mod in my modpack?
A: Of course, it wouldn’t be there otherwise!

Q: Do gryphons despawn?
A: Tamed mounts do not. If they are killed they will not come back on their own — that is what the heart is for.

Q: Are there commands or config options?
A: No config in 1.0.0 yet. Open to suggestion though.

❤️ Credits & Thanks

• Lünko — Creator
• Modeling by Laysquared Crafts, Oleksandra S., and fflash_. Sounds by MisterEB
• Everyone who downloads the mod ❤️