Crafting & Binding

Two kinds of special items can be crafted in AscendSMP: the Ability Shard, which rerolls your secondary, and the six primary ability items, which you bind to gain a primary. Every recipe below fits in a normal 3x3 crafting table.

All of these items are identified by a hidden tag, not by their name. Renaming one in an anvil is completely safe; it still works.

The Ability Shard

The Ability Shard rerolls your secondary ability. Hold it and right-click: your secondary swaps to a different random one, and the shard is consumed on success.

Primary ability items

Each primary ability has its own craftable item. Hold the item and right-click to bind it as your primary:

• If you had no primary, the new one is simply equipped.
• If you already had a primary bound, the old one is handed back to you as an item, so nothing is lost. If your inventory is full, it is dropped at your feet instead.
• To remove a primary without replacing it, open the ability menu and click the unbind button twice (the second click confirms). The item is returned to you.

For what each of these abilities actually does, see Primaries.

Blood

A redstone-and-gold recipe around a fermented spider eye.

Phase

Ender pearls surrounding an eye of ender.

Flame

Blaze rods and magma cream around a fire charge.

Thunder

Copper blocks with a lightning rod between two iron blocks.

Health

Golden healing items around a ghast tear.

Rotten

Rotten flesh packed around a zombie head.

Getting items without crafting

Admins can hand out any of these items directly with /ascend give shard or /ascend give <ability> (for example /ascend give blood). See Commands.