Please view the Getting Started Guide for Witchery before reading this guide.
Voodoo
Getting Started
Voodoo is a very standard form of witchcraft, which is performed with Poppets. These can be bound to players or creatures to cast spells on them. To begin Voodoo, you will want a large amount of Wool, Spanish Moss, String, Bone Needles, and any materials needed for the desired poppet. To begin, you will want to create the basic poppet. You can create the basic poppet with the following crafting recipe:
After you have at least one of these, decide on the poppet you would like to create. An explanation of each poppet is included in the guide, farther down this section.
Taglocks
Next, you will need to collect taglocks. Taglocks represent the creature or player which magic is to be performed. These are useful in other witchcrafts, such as rituals and rites. The most basic way to collect taglocks is using the Taglock Kit item. To collect the taglock using the kit, use it directly on the entity, or on a bed in which they have slept. You can also collect them with Blood Roses and Leech Chests. You can create Taglock Kits using the following recipe:
Poppets
Binding poppets
Binding poppets is a very simple process. For all poppets, apart from Vampiric, you just combine a taglock kit with the poppet in a crafting table. This will generally be shapeless. However, Vampiric Poppets require two taglocks. The first poppet is bound to the victim, the second to the "parasite", in reference to parasitic relationships, or the beneficiary. Both taglocks should be crafted with the poppet at the same time. The tooltip of the resulting poppet should indicate what it will create.
Protection Poppets
The majority of poppets are used to protect beings. They do this by taking an effect instead of a bound creature. For the effects to occur, the poppet must be in the player's inventory, or placed in a Poppet Shelf. There are nine types of protection poppets, all serving different purposes. Poppet Shelves will be explained further in the guide.
Earth Protection
The Earth Protection Poppet is used to protect a bound creature from lethal falls. The poppet will be destroyed after its first successful protection. Wearing a full suit of Witch Hunter armor will disallow the player from using this poppet. Earth Protection Poppets can be created using the following recipe:
Water Protection
The Water Protection Poppet is used to protect a bound creature from lethal drowning. The poppet will be destroyed after its first successful protection. When it is successfully used, it will restore the player's health to 5 hearts, or 10 health points, and they will be given the Water Breathing effect for a couple of seconds.Wearing a full suit of Witch Hunter armor will disallow the player from using this poppet. Water Protection Poppets can be created using the following recipe:
Fire Protection
The Fire Protection Poppet is used to protect a bound creature from lethal fire damage. The poppet will be destroyed after its first successful protection. When it is successfully used, it will restore the player's health to 5 hearts, or 10 health points, and they will be given the Fire Resistance effect for a couple of seconds. Wearing a full suit of Witch Hunter armor will disallow the player from using this poppet. Fire Protection Poppets can be created using the following recipe:
Hunger Protection
The Hunger Protection Poppet is used to protect a bound creature from lethal starvation. The poppet will be destroyed after its first successful protection. When it is successfully used, it will restore the player's health to 5 hearts, and their hunger will be completely restored. Wearing a full suit of Witch Hunter armor will disallow the player from using this poppet. Hunger Protection Poppets can be created using the following recipe:
Tool Protection
The Tool Protection Poppet is used to protect a bound creature's tool from breaking. The poppet will be destroyed after its first successful protection. Right before the creature's tool would break, its durability will be completely restored. Wearing a full suit of Witch Hunter armor will disallow the player from using this poppet. Tool Protection Poppets can be created using the following recipe:
Armor Protection
The Armor Protection Poppet is used to protect a bound creature's armor from breaking. The poppet will be destroyed after its first successful protection. Right before the creature's armor would break, its durability will be completely restored. Wearing a full suit of Witch Hunter armor will disallow the player from using this poppet. Armor Protection Poppets can be created using the following recipe:
Voodoo Protection
The Voodoo Protection Poppet is used to protect a bound creature from Voodoo and Vampiric poppets. When a creature would normally take damage from one of these poppets, it will instead be redirected to the Voodoo Protection Poppet's 1000 durability. Though 1000 may seem like a lot of hit points, the two black magic poppets often deal a lot of damage towards the Voodoo Protection Poppet. Wearing a full suit of Witch Hunter armor will disallow the player from using this poppet. Voodoo Protection Poppets can be created using the following recipe:
Poppet Protection
The Poppet Protection Poppet is used to protect a bound creature from the effects of the Curse of Corrupt Poppet. When a Voodoo Protection Poppet would normally be destroyed from the curse, it will instead be redirected to the Poppet Protection Poppet's 1000 durability. Though 1000 may seem like a lot of hit points, the curse often deals a lot of damage towards the Poppet. Wearing a full suit of Witch Hunter armor will disallow the player from using this poppet. Poppet Protection Poppets can be created using the following recipe:
Death Protection
The Death Protection Poppet is used to protect a bound creature from any lethal force. The poppet will be destroyed after its first successful protection. Right before the creature would die, their health will be restored to 5 hearts. Wearing a full suit of Witch Hunter armor will disallow the player from using this poppet. Death Protection Poppets can be created using the following recipe:
Black Magic Poppets
Like almost all magical concepts from Witchery, there is a darker side to poppet magic. This is in the form of black magic poppets. Witchery adds two black magic poppets: Voodoo and Vampiric. They can be bound as described in the above section.
Voodoo
The Voodoo Poppet is used to throw the bound being around violently. Sneak+using this weapon with Bone Needles in your inventory will stick them in the poppet, causing minor damage. Holding the poppet underwater may cause the linked player to begin taking drowning damage. The final way to damage the player using Voodoo is lava. Using the Poppet on a lava block will set the linked player on fire. It has a durability of 1000, but takes damage very quickly.
Vampiric
The Vampiric Poppet is used to redirect damage from one being to another. Both of these creatures must be bound with Taglock Kits, and the binding process is specifically described above. It has a durability of 1000, but takes damage very quickly.
Poppet Shelf
The Poppet Shelf is used in Witchery magic to simply store poppets, as well as to allow them to perform voodoo. Put the poppets into the internal inventory by opening the UI. Other items may be stored in this as well, but only poppets will be shown visually in-world. It has 9 storage slots. Any poppets that are placed in the shelf will still be allowed to perform magic, and this even works inter-dimensionally. Additionally, they count as chunk loaders; the vertical chunk that they are in will be loaded at all times. Poppet shelves can be created using the following recipe:
See also
- All Guides
- Getting Started with Witchery
- Performing Circle Magic and Infusions in Witchery
- Performing Symbol Magic in Witchery
- Conjurations and Fetishes with Witchery
- Mutational Magic with Witchery