Archwood

Archwood is the magical wood from Ars Nouveau, and it comes from four kinds of Archwood trees that each have their own color and their own fruit. The logs are needed for quite a lot of the mod, including the Scribe’s Table, Source Jars and every ritual tablet, so it’s usually one of the first things you’ll want to go looking for.

The four trees are Blazing, Cascading, Flourishing and Vexing, and they all give the same Archwood Planks. However, the color of the log does matter for some recipes, and each tree grows a different fruit that can be eaten or brewed into a potion, so it’s worth collecting some of each kind when you find them.

Finding Archwood Trees

Archwood trees are able to spawn in any Overworld biome, but they’re pretty rare on their own, with roughly one showing up in every 100 chunks. They’re easy to spot though, as they’re a lot bigger than normal trees and the leaves are bright red, blue, green or purple, depending on which kind it is.

The best place to find them is an Archwood Forest, which is a rare biome that’s full of all four Archwood trees, and it usually shows up where a normal Forest would be. It also has glowing lights floating around, Sourceberry Bushes, and a lot of the creatures from the mod, like Starbuncles, Drygmys, Whirlisprigs and Weald Walkers.

The Four Archwood Trees

Each Archwood tree grows its own fruit on the trunk, a bit like Cocoa Beans on a Jungle tree, and eating one gives you an effect straight away. The table below shows which fruit comes from which tree, and what it does when you eat it or brew it into a potion.

Tree	Fruit	When eaten	Potion
Blazing Archwood	Bombegranate	You explode after 10 seconds	Potion of Blasting
Cascading Archwood	Frostaya	Freezes you for 30 seconds	Potion of Freezing
Flourishing Archwood	Mendosteen	Recovery for 1 minute, so healing does more	Potion of Recovery
Vexing Archwood	Bastion Fruit	Shielding for 1 minute, so you take less damage	Potion of Shielding

Every fruit fills four hunger points and can be eaten even when you’re full, although the Bombegranate is best avoided unless you want to blow yourself up. The explosion doesn’t break any blocks, but it does hurt, so it’s more useful thrown at mobs as a splash potion than eaten.

Archwood Fruit

The fruit only grows on Archwood trees that spawned naturally, as trees grown from saplings don’t come with any. You’re still able to farm them though, since each fruit can be placed on the side of its matching log, the same way you’d plant Cocoa Beans, so a Frostaya only goes on a Cascading Archwood log and a Mendosteen only on a Flourishing one.

The fruit grows through three stages on its own, and breaking it when it’s fully grown gives you three of them, whereas breaking it early only gives you one back. They also count as a magical plant for the Agronomic Sourcelink, so a few logs covered in fruit next to one gives you a bit of Source while they grow.

To brew the potions, you’ll need an Awkward Potion in a Brewing Stand with the fruit on top, which works the same way as vanilla potions. Redstone Dust makes the potion last longer and Glowstone Dust makes it stronger, and they can be turned into splash and lingering potions with Gunpowder and Dragon’s Breath as well.

Saplings and Growing Archwood

Breaking Archwood leaves gives you a 5% chance at a sapling, which goes up a little with Fortune, and they’re planted the same way as any other sapling. Archwood saplings also count as a magical plant for the Agronomic Sourcelink, and an Archwood tree growing next to one gives double the Source of a normal tree, which makes a small tree farm a decent way of making Source.

If you only have one kind of sapling, you’re able to change it into another color by crafting it with a Manipulation Essence. It goes in a loop, with a Vexing Archwood Sapling turning into a Blazing Archwood Sapling, then a Cascading Archwood Sapling, then a Flourishing Archwood Sapling and back to Vexing, so you’re able to get all four from any one of them.

What Archwood Is Used For

Any Archwood log crafts into four Archwood Planks, and the planks are used for things like the Imbuement Chamber, Archwood Slabs for Source Jars and the full set of Archwood doors, stairs and fences. There’s also an Archwood Chest and an Archwood Grate, which lets liquids and items pass straight through it to the block underneath.

The color of the log matters most for the ritual tablets, as every one of them needs a specific Archwood Log along with its other items. Flourishing Archwood is the one you’ll need the most of, since it’s used in most of the farming and nature rituals, whereas Vexing Archwood is used for the stranger ones like the Ritual of Warping, the Ritual of Binding and the Ritual of Summon Wilden.

Log	Ritual tablets that use it
Blazing Archwood Log	Sunrise, Conjure Island: Desert, Disintegration
Cascading Archwood Log	Moonfall, Cloudshaping, Sanctuary
Flourishing Archwood Log	Awakening, Burrowing, Conjure Island: Plains, Fertility, Flowering, Forestation, Gravity, Harvest, Overgrowth, Restoration
Vexing Archwood Log	Summon Animals, Binding, Challenge, Containment, Flight, Scrying, Warping, Summon Wilden

Archwood logs are also a good fuel for the Volcanic Sourcelink, as they give more Source than normal wood. Blazing Archwood Logs give the most, so if you’re planning on running a Volcanic Sourcelink, it’s worth growing a few Blazing Archwood trees nearby to keep it fed. The Rituals page goes through what each ritual does.

Weald Walkers

Weald Walkers are Archwood trees that have been brought to life, and they wander around guarding the area against monsters. They spawn on their own in Archwood Forests, but you’re also able to make your own by performing the Ritual of Awakening right next to the base of a full grown Archwood tree, which uses up the whole tree and turns it into a Weald Walker of the same color.

Every Weald Walker has 60 health and heals itself over time, and each color casts its own spell at enemies. Blazing ones set targets on fire, Cascading ones freeze them, Flourishing ones hit hard and snare them in place, and Vexing ones weaken them with Hex and Wither. They also hit hard up close, so a couple of them are able to keep a small area clear of monsters on their own.

If a Weald Walker dies, it turns into a small Weald Waddler instead of disappearing, and it’ll slowly grow back into a Weald Walker, which Bone Meal speeds up. To keep one guarding a spot, use the Dominion Wand on the Weald Walker and then on the block you’d like it to stay near.

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