Magebloom

Magebloom is a magical flower in Ars Nouveau that’s grown as a crop, and it’s the only way to get Magebloom Fiber. Magebloom Fiber is needed for all of the mage armor, Blank Parchment, Threads and a lot of other recipes in the mod, so most players end up with a small Magebloom farm fairly early on.

Mageblooms don’t grow anywhere in the world, as the seeds have to be made in the Enchanting Apparatus. They’re grown the same way as Wheat or Carrots once you’ve got the seeds though, and they also give a nice bit of extra Source to an Agronomic Sourcelink while they’re growing.

Getting Magebloom Seeds

A Magebloom Seed is made in the Enchanting Apparatus, by putting any kind of seeds in the middle, like Wheat Seeds, with four Source Gems on the Arcane Pedestals around it. The recipe doesn’t cost any Source, so it’s only the four Source Gems that you’ll need for each one.

Magebloom Seed

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Magebloom Seeds are planted on Farmland like any other crop, and they need light and water in the same way. Bone Meal works on them as well, which is handy for getting your first few Mageblooms quickly, before you’ve got enough seeds to make a proper farm.

Harvesting Mageblooms

When a Magebloom is fully grown, breaking it gives you one Magebloom. The part that catches people out is that it doesn’t drop any seeds on its own, so without anything else you’ll lose the seed every time you harvest one, and you’d have to make another one in the Enchanting Apparatus.

The way around this is Fortune, as breaking a fully grown Magebloom with a Fortune tool gives you a chance at some seeds back, and more Fortune means more seeds. Breaking one before it’s fully grown just gives you the seed back, so it’s never wasted, but it also won’t give you a Magebloom.

Each Magebloom is crafted into four Magebloom Fiber, and four Magebloom Fiber can be made into a Magebloom Block, which is mostly used for building. The Magebloom Block can also be crafted back into a Magebloom if you need one, and a Magebloom can be crafted into Pink Dye as well.

What Magebloom Fiber Is Used For

Magebloom Fiber is used in more recipes than almost anything else in Ars Nouveau, so it’s worth keeping a stack of it around. The biggest use is mage armor, where every piece needs four of them in the Enchanting Apparatus, so a full set of armor takes 16 Magebloom Fiber, or four Mageblooms.

Recipe	Magebloom Fiber
Any mage armor piece	4
Blank Parchment	8, around a piece of Paper
Blank Thread	Used in the recipe
Warding Thread	8
Magebloom Block	4
Repository Catalog	1, with a Repository
Alteration Table	Used in the recipe
Wixie Hat	Used in the recipe

The Magebloom flower itself is also used in a few recipes, like the Magic Capacity and Spell Power Threads, as well as the Whirlisprig Charm. It’s also brewed into Potions of Spell Damage, which make your spells hit harder while the potion lasts.

Mageblooms and Source

Mageblooms count as a magical plant for the Agronomic Sourcelink, which means they give more Source each time they grow a stage than a normal crop does. So a Magebloom farm next to an Agronomic Sourcelink does two jobs at once, as it keeps you stocked up on Magebloom Fiber while also filling up your Source Jars.

The Source page goes through how much each kind of plant is worth to the Agronomic Sourcelink. It’s worth remembering that growth from Bone Meal doesn’t count, so you’ll only get Source from the Mageblooms that grow on their own.

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