ThornHollow

# Thornhollow

## Grow something strange. Learn what answers.

Turn a quiet clearing into a witch's workshop. Thornhollow is an original hedge-witchcraft mod built around gardens, nature-powered shrines, brewing and chalk rites, with a guidebook that unfolds as you discover its secrets.

## From garden to coven

- **A living witch's garden:** grow magical herbs, gather unusual ingredients and cultivate rowan, alder, hawthorn and willow. Raise a hollow Great Willow home through magic.
- **A complete workshop:** render wood into vapors at the Fume Hearth, distil reagents in the Alembic, brew layered potions in the Coven Cauldron, and work with the Simmerpot and Spindle Wheel.
- **Power from your surroundings:** build a Verdant Shrine and strengthen it with nearby plants, candles and ritual offerings.
- **Draw your magic:** lay pale, ember and umbral chalk circles, offer ingredients at the Heart Sigil, and follow the grimoire's rite diagrams. Cast wand spells by tracing symbols with your gaze.
- **Friends and protections:** bind a cat, owl or toad familiar; recruit and trade with coven witches; craft protective poppets and witchweave clothing.
- **Beyond the hedge:** ride a flying besom, use paired looking-glasses, explore the Drowsing Wold, Hollowveil and Wrackhold, and face supernatural creatures and ritual bosses.
- **Curses and transformations:** discover the Duskthirst and Moonbite, their powers, drawbacks and cleansing rites.

## Getting started

Find wild herbs in forests, taiga, plains and swamps, plant their seeds and craft the **Hedgewitch's Grimoire**. Build a Fume Hearth, then set up a Verdant Shrine in a lush spot. The grimoire fills in as you progress and points you to your next experiment.

## Requirements

- Minecraft 1.20.1, Forge 47.4.x. Install on both client and server for multiplayer.
- No library mods required. JEI, Jade and Curios are supported if installed.
- Optional TarotCards: Remastered integration adds card offerings, a Fortune-Teller witch and the Rite of the Drawn Fate.

## For pack makers

Most systems are configurable in `config/thornhollow-common.toml`. Optional deity gifts for specific players can be set up in `config/thornhollow-gifts.json`; none are included by default.

## Inspiration and credit

Thornhollow is heavily inspired by **Witchery** by Emoniph, the classic Minecraft 1.7.10 witchcraft mod, and is a love letter to how it felt to play it for the first time. It is not a port, continuation or official successor: all code, art, names, recipes and systems are original and written from scratch. No Witchery code or assets are used. If you loved Witchery, we hope this captures some of that magic.