AdventureCraft Add-On Guide: Spells, Dragons, Bosses, and Gear

AdventureCraft is a large survival RPG Add-On by Octovon that rebuilds Bedrock into a quest-driven adventure full of new metals, craftable spells, tameable Dragons, and a faction-filled Overworld to explore. Instead of a handful of items bolted onto vanilla, it layers a full progression on top of your normal survival world, from your first Steel tools all the way to riding a fully grown Wyvern into battle.

This guide walks you through everything the Add-On offers and the order to tackle it in. You will learn how to set up the Spell Forge, mine the new ores, beat the Add-On's boss, and tame each of the four Dragons.

Getting Started in AdventureCraft

AdventureCraft does not gate your first hour behind anything complicated, but the early game rewards players who follow the Add-On's intended path. Read your Guide, claim a starter kit that fits your style, secure the new metals, and build a spell forge. These four steps set you up for everything that follows.

Hold the AdventureCraft Add-On Guide and use the item to open a full in-world menu. It is sorted into Entities, Items and Blocks, Spellcrafting, and Structures, with detailed entries on every mob, weapon, and dungeon in the pack.

The first time you open it, you set the on-screen alignment so the book sits comfortably in view. Treat this as your encyclopedia whenever you find something new.

Use the Adventure's Starter Gear Box to choose one of five class kits: Explorer, Knight, Scoundrel, Arcanist, or Beastmaster. Each kit bundles a themed piece of armor, a weapon, a starter Spell or tool, and food to match a playstyle.

Steel Ingot

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AdventureCraft's gear ladder starts with Manganese Ore, found alongside its Deepslate variant underground. Smelt Raw Manganese into Manganese Ingots, then combine one Manganese Ingot with one Iron Ingot and one Coal on a crafting table to make a Steel Ingot.

Steel is your first real upgrade over vanilla Iron, with far better durability, so build a full set of Steel tools and armor before venturing into dungeons.

Arcane Forge

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Mining also turns up Runestone Ore, which drops glowing Runestones. Use Runestones and Gold to craft an Arcane Forge plus a few Arcane Pedestals, then craft an Arcane Forge Hammer. This little setup is the heart of the Add-On's magic system and lets you forge your own Spells. Getting it running early means you can start charging Spells the moment you find their recipes.

The Five Starter Classes

Your Gear Box choice is not permanent character progression, just a head start, but it strongly shapes your first hours. Explorer leans on mobility and mining, Knight on tanky melee, Scoundrel on daggers and poison, Arcanist on early Spells, and Beastmaster on companions and ranged tools. Pick the one whose tools you most want to use immediately.

Explorer and Knight

Explorer is built for players who want to cover ground. It ships a Manganese Chestplate, an Iron Pickaxe, a Recovery Warp Spell, a stack of Ender Pearls, a treasure map, torches, and Porridge.

It is the kit to grab if you plan to scout dungeons and Dragon nests before committing to fights. Knight is the opposite, handing you a Squire helmet and chestplate, a Stone Sword, a Shield, the Shockwave Spell, and hearty Roasted Boar to soak hits up close.

Scoundrel, Arcanist, and Beastmaster

Scoundrel is the rogue package: a Bandit Hood and Tunic, an Iron Dagger, a Bow with Arrows, three Scorpion Poison Vials for coating blades, and Golden Coins for bandit trades. Arcanist starts your magic journey early with an Elderwood Helmet, the Arcane Bolt and Verdant Growth Spells, a Reach Catalyst, and Runestones to recharge them.

Beastmaster walks the wild path, granting a Hunter's Hood, the Call of the Wild Spell, a Tusk Dagger, a Crossbow, and Seedling Seeds to grow your first plant companion.

Metals, Tools, and Gear Progression

AdventureCraft adds a clear material ladder that sits above Iron and beside Diamond. Manganese is the entry metal, Steel is the reliable workhorse, Frosted Steel is the frozen endgame tier you loot rather than mine, and Dragon Scale is the prestige set built from Dragon drops.

Manganese: The Starting Metal

Manganese Ore appears underground in both Stone and Deepslate forms and needs a Stone-tier pickaxe or better. Each ore drops Raw Manganese, which you smelt into Manganese Ingots. Manganese tools and armor perform around the Iron level, so they are a fine stopgap, but their real purpose is feeding the Steel recipe.

Steel: The Reliable Workhorse

Steel is the tier you will live in for most of the mid-game. You make Steel Ingots by combining one Manganese Ingot, one Iron Ingot, and one Coal, so it costs no extra mining trips beyond your normal Iron runs.

Steel Chestplate

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Steel armor offers a meaningful jump over iron at eighteen total protection, and Steel tools carry the same durability as Diamond gear, making them excellent value. Steel weapons and tools can also damage Ghosts, which most weapons cannot.

Frosted Steel and Dragon Scale: The Endgame

Frosted Steel is not mined at all. You loot Frosted Steel gear and nuggets from the Frostborn faction in icy biomes, then melt spare gear into Nuggets and recombine nine nuggets into an Ingot.

A full Frosted Steel set hits twenty protection and the highest durability in the pack, and wearing it slows anything that strikes you. Dragon Scale, dropped by the four Dragons, matches that protection and crafts into a set, sixteen colored display blocks, and the strongest sword in the Add-On.

Best Weapons in AdventureCraft

AdventureCraft splits its arsenal into fast daggers, heavier swords, and a handful of unique weapons. Daggers swing quickly and can be coated in poison, swords trade speed for raw damage, and the rarest blades carry built-in effects. The table below ranks the standout melee options by damage and durability so you can see where each one fits.

Steel Sword

Frosted Steel Sword

Dragon Scale Sword

Soul Binder

Damage

6

7

9

8

Durability

1004

1874

2032

2032

Special Effect

Hits Ghosts

Slows on hit

Sets on fire

Knockback ability

Source

Crafted

Crafted

Crafted

Lord Tromos drop

Dragon Scale Sword: The Top Blade

The Dragon Scale Sword is the strongest weapon you can build, dealing nine damage with diamond-beating durability and setting every target it hits on fire for a few seconds.

It crafts from two Dragon Scales and a stick, so it is locked behind taming or killing Dragons, but it is worth the trip. Its fire effect stacks with your normal hits, making it brutal against the Frostborn and other crowds.

Dragon Scale Sword

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Soul Binder: The Boss Reward

The Soul Binder is the only Epic-rarity weapon in the pack and drops exclusively from Lord Tromos, the Add-On's boss.

It deals eight damage with the same massive durability as the Dragon Scale Sword and carries a custom attack animation plus a knockback ability on a short cooldown. Because it is loot only, it is more a trophy and a status weapon than a crafting goal, but it hits hard enough to main.

Daggers and Poison Coating

Daggers come in every material tier and swing far faster than Swords, trading a little damage for speed. The Frosted Steel Dagger leads the pack at six damage and applies Slowness on hit, while the Diamond Dagger matches its damage with less durability. The cheap Tusk Dagger, crafted from a Boar Tusk, is a great early option for Beastmaster players.

Iron Dagger

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Steel Dagger

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Tusk Dagger

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What makes daggers special is poison coating. Hold a dagger, place a Scorpion Poison Vial in your offhand, and use the blade to coat it for twenty-five hits. A coated dagger inflicts a strong lingering poison on every strike, perfect for whittling down tanky foes. When the coating runs out the dagger reverts, and you can wash it off early in a filled cauldron.

Best Armor Sets and Their Bonuses

Armor in AdventureCraft is about more than raw protection numbers. Several sets grant a full-set bonus that only activates when you wear all four pieces, and those bonuses can matter more than a point or two of defense.

Choosing the right set for a situation, fire resistance for Dragons or regeneration for exploring, is a real part of the strategy.

Dragon Scale: Fire Immunity

A full Dragon Scale set is the best all-round armor at twenty protection, and while you wear the complete set it keeps you under constant Fire Resistance. That makes it the obvious choice for the Nether, for lava-heavy mining, and for fighting the fire-breathing Wyverns. It pairs naturally with the Dragon Scale Sword for a themed endgame loadout.

Dragon Scale Chestplate

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Frosted Steel: Slow Your Attackers

Frosted Steel ties Dragon Scale for the highest protection and adds a defensive twist: anything that hits you gets slowed, and the slow grows stronger the more Frosted Steel pieces you wear. With the full set, attackers are hit with a heavy Slowness that makes it easy to back off and reset a fight. It is the best set for surviving swarms of Frostborn or Bandits.

Frosted Steel Chestplate

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Elderwood and Hunter Bonuses

Elderwood armor is a mid-tier crafted set that quietly heals you with Regeneration whenever you stand on natural blocks like grass, leaves, or moss, which makes it superb for long overland journeys. The Hunter set, built from Wolf Pelts and Boar Tusks, instead buffs your nearby tamed companions with Strength, Resistance, and Speed. If you fight alongside a tamed Wolf, Boar, or Dragon, the Hunter set turns your pets into a real threat.

Spellcrafting at the Arcane Forge

Spellcrafting is the centerpiece of AdventureCraft and the system most worth learning early. You build Spell items at an Arcane Forge, charge them with Runestones, and upgrade them with Catalysts. Once set up, the forge lets you turn ordinary ingredients into over two dozen different Spells across six schools of magic.

Setting Up the Forge

Place an Arcane Forge block, then set up to three Arcane Pedestals within a few blocks of it. They link together automatically, sparking with a binding effect to show the connection is live. The Forge holds the main item, usually a Book, while the Pedestals hold the ingredients. You also need an Arcane Forge Hammer, crafted from Runestone and cobblestone, to trigger the forge.

Arcane Forge Hammer

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Forging and Charging a Spell

To forge a Spell, put a Book on the Forge and the Spell's exact ingredients on the linked Pedestals, then strike the Forge with the Hammer. A correct recipe consumes the materials and produces a discharged Spell book with zero uses. To make it usable, place the discharged Spell back on the Forge with a Runestone on a Pedestal and forge again to fill it to full charge. Curse-school Spells use Cracked Runestones instead.

Each cast spends one use, and an emptied Spell becomes discharged again until you recharge it. Not every Spell can be forged from a Book, some only drop from structures or NPCs, but those are recharged the same way. If you would rather not haul ingredients around, Infusion Powder bought from mage NPCs instantly refills any discharged Spell in your inventory.

Upgrading with Catalysts

Catalysts are the upgrade layer. Place one on a Pedestal alongside a finished Spell and forge to infuse it. Power boosts damage and effect strength, Reach increases range and area, Persistence extends durations, and Retention raises a Spell's maximum uses. Each Catalyst can be applied up to three times, but a single Spell can only hold five total Catalyst levels, so you must choose how to specialize each one.

Best Spells by School

AdventureCraft's Spells fall into six schools, each with its own flavor and ingredient theme. Fire and Arcane lean offensive, Ice locks enemies down, Nature heals and traps, Curse debuffs, and Earth controls space. You can mix schools freely, so most players carry a damage Spell, a control Spell, and a utility Spell at once.

Fire and Arcane: Raw Damage

Fire is your direct-damage school. Fireball throws a ten-damage explosive that ignites whatever it hits, Meteor Shower rains a barrage over a wide area, and Charging Phoenix barrels through enemies in a fiery line. Arcane is just as deadly but more precise: Arcane Bolt fires an instant beam through everything in a line, Arcane Pulse detonates around you for ten damage plus Blindness and Nausea, and Bounce Lightning chains between nearby targets.

Ice and Curse: Control and Decay

Ice excels at slowing crowds. Ice Lance spears a single target for eight damage with a slow, Frost Nova freezes everything around you over several seconds, and Frost Orbs scatter homing ice spheres. Curse Spells wear enemies down instead of bursting them: Hex of Weakness stacks Weakness, Slowness, and Mining Fatigue, Curse of Agony deals damage over time, and Tome of the Undead raises a squad of skeletal minions to fight for you.

Nature and Earth: Support and Space

Nature is the support school. Nature's Resurgence drops a healing zone for you and your pets, Verdant Growth surrounds you with damaging root traps, and Solar Bloom instantly grows crops while scorching nearby undead. Earth shapes the battlefield: Shockwave knocks back everything around you, Stone Guard grants you and your allies Resistance, and Echoing Howl repeatedly stuns and flings back a cluster of foes. Movement Spells like Recovery Warp and Retreat Warp round things out by teleporting you to your death point or spawn.

Taming and Raising Dragons

Dragons are the headline feature of AdventureCraft. There are four species, each found in its own habitat, and each can be tamed, raised from a baby, and eventually ridden into combat. Raising a Dragon is a real investment, but a grown Wyvern that breathes fire on command is the most powerful mount in the pack.

Finding Dragons and Their Nests

Each Dragon lives near a matching nest structure. Mountain Drakes haunt peaks and stony highlands, Plains Wyverns roost in plains and savanna, Sea Wyrms nest on the ocean floor, and Bone Wyverns are found only in Soul Sand Valleys in the Nether. The nests are the surest way to track a species down, so explore the right biome rather than waiting for one to wander past.

Taming a Wild Dragon

You can only tame a Dragon while it is sleeping or one that hatched from an egg, so approach a resting Dragon carefully. Feed it the right food and you have a strong chance to tame it, with each species preferring a specific treat. Plains Wyverns love Raw Boar Meat, Bone Wyverns want Fermented Spider Eyes, Mountain Drakes crave Emeralds, and Sea Wyrms take Pufferfish. Favorite foods tame far more reliably than fallback items, so come prepared with the correct snack.

Raising a Baby to Adulthood

Tamed Dragons start small and grow through baby, teen, and adult stages over time. Feeding a young Dragon its favorite food speeds growth considerably, so steady feeding turns a hatchling into a rideable adult much faster than waiting alone. Only adults can be saddled and ridden, and once a Dragon is fully grown, feeding it switches to healing instead of growth. To raise more Dragons, hatch the species eggs found in nests and loot.

Riding, Combat, and Dragon Armor

Saddle an adult and you can ride it: the flying Wyverns take off when you jump and dive and glide through the air, while the Mountain Drake is a heavy ground charger and the Sea Wyrm swims. In the air you can fire your Dragon's breath, a powerful fire projectile that ignites targets. Your Dragon also takes no fall damage and ignores your own hits, so you can fight freely from its back.

Dragon Armor protects your mount and upgrades through a tier ladder bought from Dragon Tamer Tephra. The chain runs from Leather up through Iron, Golden, Steel, Frosted Steel, Diamond, and finally Netherite, with the top tier cutting incoming damage by well over half. Trade up one tier at a time, feeding each piece back to Tephra with the matching metal to forge the next.

Lord Tromos and Other Elite Foes

AdventureCraft's marquee fight is Lord Tromos, an undead boss who commands the Tromos cult. Beyond him, the Giant Boar and Alpha Wolf act as tough mini-bosses that double as powerful mounts once tamed. These are the encounters that test a full kit, so save them until your gear and Spells are ready.

Finding Lord Tromos

Lord Tromos is tied to the Cultist Hideout, a dungeon found in deserts, swamps, mangrove swamps, and pale gardens. The hideout is crawling with Disciples and Summoners of Tromos that raise undead minions, so clear the cult before you commit to the boss. He carries a boss health bar and darkens the sky when the fight begins.

Phases and Attacks

Lord Tromos has six hundred health split across three phases. He starts on the ground, throwing homing fireballs, sending ice waves that deal twelve damage in eight directions, and summoning undead minions. Around the two-thirds health mark he blasts a frost nova and rises onto an ice platform above the arena, becoming stationary while raining fireballs and raising a shield that deflects your projectiles.

Below roughly thirty percent health he drops back down for a furious final phase, mixing ice waves with a chain attack that pulls you in and then explodes for heavy fire damage and knockback. Throughout the fight he heals if left alone for too long, so never stop pressuring him. He is also immune to knockback and fire, which rules out your usual crowd-control tricks.

Strategy and Reward

Come with a full Steel or better set, ranged options for the airborne phase, and Spells that do not rely on knockback. A coated dagger or Curse of Agony keeps damage ticking even when you have to dodge, and Stone Guard helps you tank the chain explosion. Keep moving to dodge the ice waves and clear his minions quickly so they do not overwhelm you. Defeating him drops the Epic Soul Binder, the fight's signature trophy.

Lord Tromos Drops

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Lord Tromos

Soul Binder

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Giant Boar and Alpha Wolf

The Giant Boar is a hundred-health bruiser that charges and shoves everything around it with heavy knockback. Beat it down or, better, tame it with a Boar Sigil to gain a two-seat mount you can saddle and armor. The Alpha Wolf is a fast hundred-health predator in mega taiga forests, tamed with a Wolf Sigil, that becomes a rideable war beast. Both can wear mount armor that halves the damage they take, making them durable companions for tougher content.

Enemy Factions and Where They Spawn

The overworld is divided among several hostile factions, each in its own biome with its own loot. Knowing who lives where lets you farm the right metal, sigil, or Spell ingredient on purpose instead of stumbling into ambushes. The major factions are the Frostborn, the Bandits, the Kobolds, and the Treants.

Frostborn and Bandits

The Frostborn are icy undead found in snowy biomes, ranging from basic Frostborn to spell-casting Mages, slashing Brutes, and mounted Riders. They are the only source of Frosted Steel, so farming their villages is the path to the top armor tier. The Bandits patrol forests and deserts in Fighter, Ranger, and Rogue varieties, with Rogues turning invisible mid-fight. They drop and barter Golden Coins, and wearing a full Bandit set actually pacifies them.

Kobolds, Treants, and Wildlife

Kobolds infest plains, savanna, and caves, where Scavengers steal items from your inventory and vanish, so guard your valuables around them. Treants are slow forest guardians that turn hostile if you chop logs near their villages and take extra damage from axes and fire. Rounding out the wilds are Scorpions in deserts and mesas that poison on contact, Ghosts in swamps and Soul Sand Valleys that only iron weapons can touch, and Boars and Alpha Wolves in colder woods.

Structures and Dungeon Loot

AdventureCraft scatters dozens of new structures across both the Overworld and the Nether, from faction villages to ruined temples and Dragon nests. Their chests are the main source of Catalysts, rare Spells, and the Dragon Armor ladder, so exploration pays off heavily. Tougher or rarer structures hold the best rewards.

Faction Villages and Camps

Bandit Villages in forests and deserts hold Bandit armor, Steel Daggers, Golden Coins, and a few Catalysts. Frostborn Villages on ice plains are your Frosted Steel jackpot, dropping the armor set, ingots, and the Frost Orbs Spell. Kobold Villages and Digsites in savanna and mesa biomes are full of ingots, tools, and Catalysts, while Seedling Villages in dark forests offer crops, Elderwood, and the Toxic Cloud Spell.

Crypts, Towers, and Ruins

The Abandoned Cemetery and its crypt in swamps hide Curse Spells, Soul Crystals, and the Torn Pages of the Ritual among undead guardians. The rare Trial Tower in plains is a multi-floor combat challenge packed with Dragon Armor, every Catalyst, and the Stormcaller's Wrath Spell in its treasure room. Wizard Towers guard arcane loot and Catalysts, and overgrown Ruins in jungles and meadows hold Dragon Scale and the Arcane Pulse and Bounce Lightning Spells.

Nether Sites and Dragon Nests

The Nether adds Bone Ruins in the wastes and a Dragon Shrine in crimson forests, both rich in Dragon Scale, high-tier Dragon Armor, netherite materials, and the Meteor Shower, Blazing Tornado, and Draconic Tablet rewards. The Dragon nests scattered across mountains, plains, oceans, and Soul Sand Valleys are less about chest loot and more about the Dragons themselves, since each nest is where you find and tame its species.

NPCs, Traders, and Quests

Friendly NPCs live in their own outpost structures and trade goods you cannot easily craft. Their currencies tell you who they serve: Golden Coins for the hunter and outcast traders, Runestones and Cracked Runestones for the mages, Elderwood for the Seedling villagers, and Emeralds for the farmers and fishermen. Several also sell rare Spells.

Mage and Dragon Traders

The Arcane Scholar takes Runestones and diamonds for Retention and Reach Catalysts plus the Arcane Pulse and Bounce Lightning Spells, while the Ashen Savant deals in Cracked Runestones for Power and Persistence Catalysts and fiery Spells like Meteor Shower. Dragon Tamer Tephra is essential for mount players, selling Saddles, an empty Dragon Orb, the Draconic Song Spell, and the entire Dragon Armor upgrade chain. All three sell Infusion Powder for quick Spell recharges.

Hunters, Farmers, and Seedlings

Hunter Griddle cooks stews and sells the Boar Sigil and Giant Boar Armor for Golden Coins, and Fenric the Outcast trades enchanted Hunter armor, the Wolf Sigil, and Alpha Wolf Armor. Goat Farmer Elda and Fisherman Marlin offer food, Goat Horns, fish, and enchanted rods for Emeralds, with Marlin even stocking the Stormcaller's Wrath Spell at high tiers. The Seedling villagers, working as Bee Keepers, Seed Collectors, and Naturalists, trade plants and seeds for Elderwood and each sell a unique Nature Spell at their top tier.

The Quest Log

Some NPCs, including Hunter Griddle and a roaming Bounty Hunter, also offer quests. Talk to an NPC to open a dialogue window where you can view and accept available tasks, then track your objective in the Quest Log. Completing a quest and returning to its giver lets you claim experience and item rewards, giving solo players a light objective system to follow alongside the open exploration.

Farming, Food, and Companions

AdventureCraft is not all combat. It adds a small farming layer, a roster of hearty foods, and tameable companions that fight at your side. These systems keep you fed and supported between battles and tie directly into the Seedling villagers and the Hunter armor bonus.

Crops and Cooking

New crops include Oats, Cabbage, Onion, and the special Seedling plant, all grown from seeds traded by the Seedling villagers. They feed into dishes like Porridge, Vegetable Stew, Meat Pie, and Sweet Oat Biscuits. A few foods carry effects worth chasing: Honeyed Porridge and Rare Mushrooms grant strong Regeneration, and the Hunter's Special Dish gives a long Regeneration buff, making them ideal pre-fight snacks.

Seedlings and Tamed Beasts

Seedlings are plant companions you grow from Seedling Seeds and command with an Elderwood Whistle, ordering nearby Seedlings to stay, follow, protect, or roam. Alongside them, you can tame Boars by breeding them with mushrooms, raise an Alpha Wolf or Giant Boar mount, and of course rear Dragons. If you wear the full Hunter set while fighting beside these companions, they gain Strength, Resistance, and Speed, turning a pack of pets into a genuine army.

Tips for Success

Build the Arcane Forge before you fight anything tough. Spells dramatically widen your options, and even a single Fireball or Frost Nova can swing an early dungeon. Since the forge only needs Runestone, Gold, and cobblestone, it is one of the cheapest power spikes in the pack and pays off immediately.

Match your armor to the threat. Wear Dragon Scale for fire and Nether trips, Frosted Steel against melee swarms, and Elderwood for long overland travel. Because the set bonuses only trigger with all four pieces, keep a spare set or two in your enderchest and swap based on where you are headed.

Carry poison and a backup plan. A poison-coated dagger trivializes high-health targets like the Giant Boar and wild Dragons, and Curse of Agony does the same at range. Pair that lingering damage with Stone Guard or a healing Spell so you can survive while the damage ticks away on its own.

Feed your Dragon constantly. Growth from feeding is far faster than waiting, so stockpile your Dragon's favorite food and feed it every chance you get. The sooner it reaches adulthood, the sooner you have a rideable, fire-breathing mount, and feeding an adult heals it after fights.

Explore for Spells you cannot craft. Powerful Spells like Stormcaller's Wrath, Meteor Shower, and Tome of the Undead only come from structure chests and NPC trades, never the forge. Make a habit of looting every Trial Tower, crypt, and Nether ruin you pass to complete your spellbook.

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