Expanding Spectrum Realm

Quickstart

1. Craft a Spectrum Key at a crafting table:

1. Use the key without sneaking and choose Travel to pocket realm. Follow the travel prompt to enter your own grassy starting island.
2. Use the key again to open its menu. Choose Return to Overworld when you want to leave, or expand your island with ectoplasm.
3. Explore the Overworld for graveyards and Graveyard Ghosts. Ghosts drop ectoplasm, which you’ll need to grow your realm.

You receive a Spectrum Realm Field Guide the first time you spawn. Use it to read the in-game instructions.

Overview

The mod centers on a personal pocket realm: a separate dimension reached with a Spectrum Key or Spectral Key. Build on your island, expand its boundary, and manage up to four pocket realms from the key menu.

The realm’s wider landscape is the Prismatic Meadow, with rolling grassy terrain, dirt and stone below the surface, and sandy shores. Inside the realm, movement has a lighter, floatier feel.

What It Adds

How To Use

Travel and manage pockets

Use either key without sneaking to open its menu. Choose the travel option, then confirm the trip in the travel prompt. When you’re inside the realm, the key offers a return trip to the Overworld.

Choose Manage pocket realms to select an existing pocket or create another. Each player can manage up to four; new pockets start at the smallest size.

Capture and place a structure

1. In the same dimension as the structure, sneak-use the Spectrum Key on one corner block.
2. Sneak-use it again on the opposite corner. The selected area must fit within 8 × 8 × 8 blocks.
3. Use the resulting one-use Pocket Structure Capsule on a block in your pocket realm to place the saved structure above it.

The structure must fit inside the island’s current boundary. The barrier outline shows where that boundary is.

Crafting And Obtaining

Craft a Spectral Key from an iron ingot and three ectoplasm. It opens the same pocket-realm menu as the Spectrum Key.

Silver is a rare drop when mining stone and ores. Ectoplasm can also rarely appear while mining; natural stone near an Overworld graveyard is a better place to look. Graveyard Ghosts drop ectoplasm and Active Plasm.

Craft a Silver Sword at a crafting table:

Abilities And Mechanics

• Realm expansion: The first expansion costs 4 ectoplasm; each following tier costs 4 more, up to tier 5. The island grows outward and its barrier marks the new edge.
• Realm reduction: Choose Reduce realm size in the key menu to shrink the active pocket. Move builds you want to keep inside the smaller boundary first.
• Graveyard Ghosts: These hostile fliers pursue players and can phase through up to three solid blocks. They are absent on Peaceful difficulty.
• Silver Sword: Its bonus damage applies to Graveyard Ghosts, phantoms, vexes, and ghasts.
• Lighter movement: The realm gives players a floatier feel while they are inside; the effect ends when they leave.

Progression And Strategy

Explore the Overworld to find graveyards, then defeat their ghosts for ectoplasm. The Silver Sword is a useful choice for these encounters. Save ectoplasm for the pocket you want to expand, and use the realm manager if you’d rather build in separate pockets.